A journalistic tour de force, this wide-ranging collection by the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography Stilwell and the American Experience in China is a classic in its own right.
During the summer of 1972--a few short months after Nixon's legendary visit to China--master historian Barbara W.
Tuchman made her own trip to that country, spending six weeks in eleven cities and a variety of rural settlements.
The resulting reportage was one of the first evenhanded por.