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Illuminating. Shocking. Compelling. Harvard Professor Ross Terrill, a friend of Rupert Murdoch, advised Richard Nixon and US Senators and was a prize-winning China expert, whom nobody knew was gay, and for over 40 years kept an intimate and sexually explicit diary. This is the first volume. Ross Terrill was a leading expert on China and the author of several award-winning books which have appeared on the New York Times bestseller list. His...

In Australian Bush to Tiananmen Square Ross Terrillapplies his personal lens to China's historic rise and turn from Moscow to the West. This book portrays Terrill's correspondence with Zhou Enlai, Henry Kissinger, Guo Moruo, Chinese farmers, President Bush, students, Daoist monks, and dozens more. Chinese voices light up every paragraph as Terrill links turbulent events to his own exploration of China's cities and villages.

Terrill has written a fascinating study of Tawney. Opening with an elegant biographical sketch, he moves on to an evaluation of his thought and its importance in the socialist tradition. This section is a well-done and critical reminder that Tawney's humanistic socialism still has validity as a framework for social and political action.

This is the most complete and authoritative account of the childhood and tumultuous life of Jiang Qing, from her early years as an aspiring actress to her marriage and partnership with Mao Zedong, the controversial years of power after Mao's death, her final years of disgrace and imprisonment, and her suicide in 1991.

A new society and economy has blossomed in post-Mao China, but an old state holds it back. This book addresses the question central to China today: Is the Peoples Republic of China, whose politics is a hybrid of Chinese imperial tradition and Western Marxism, willing to become a modern nation or does it insist on remaining an empire?

This is the most comprehensive and authoritative biography to date of Mao Zedong, enriched by much new information only recently made available in China.