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October 2006 |
THROUGH A GLASS DARKLYAmerican Views of the Chinese Revolution by William Hinton Through a Glass Darkly is William Hinton’s final book. It draws on a lifetime of immersion in contemporary Chinese politics and society, beginning with the seven years he spent in China, working mainly in agriculture and land reform, until 1953. On his return to the United States in that year, Hinton first encountered the distortions and misrepresentations of the Chinese Revolution that he examines in this book. Moving from large questions to concrete details, often drawn from his own experiences, Hinton brings everyday life in revolutionary China graphically to life. In a time when the distorted views first developed by U.S. critics of the Chinese Revolution are often propagated by the new Chinese elite themselves, Through a Glass Darkly has more than just historical relevance. For anyone wishing to understand present-day rivalries between the United States and China, Hinton shows how these began. This is a fitting completion of the work of a great scholar and revolutionary. Praise for William Hinton’s groundbreaking, Fanshen (more than 400,000 copies sold): “A vivid and compelling ‘grass-roots’ account of life.”—Benjamin Schwartz, New York Times Book Review “An epic; one of the most important books about China which has been written since the Revolution. . . . For anyone who wants to understand anything about the Chinese revolution of our time, the reading of this book is an absolute necessity.”—Tribune (London) Foreword: Why Write
This Book? PART ONE: On Land
Reform PART TWO: On Household
Economy Spin Interlude IV: The
State versus Household Economy (II) PART THREE: On Culture
PART FOUR: Morality,
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