The Man Who Stayed Behind
The Man Who Stayed Behind is the remarkable account of Sidney Rittenberg, an American who was sent to China by the U.S. military in the 1940s. A student activist and labor organizer who was fluent in Chinese, Rittenberg became caught up in the turbulence that engulfed China and remained there until the late 1970s. Even with access to China’s highest leaders as an American communist, however, he was twice imprisoned for a total of sixteen years.
Both a memoir and a documentary history of the Chinese revolution from 1949 through the Cultural Revolution, The Man Who Stayed Behind provides a human perspective on China’s efforts to build a new society. Critical of both his own mistakes and those of the Communist leadership, Rittenberg nevertheless gives an even-handed account of a country that is now free of internal war for the first time in a hundred years.
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The Man Who Stayed Behind
The Man Who Stayed Behind is the remarkable account of Sidney Rittenberg, an American who was sent to China by the U.S. military in the 1940s. A student activist and labor organizer who was fluent in Chinese, Rittenberg became caught up in the turbulence that engulfed China and remained there until the late 1970s. Even with access to China’s highest leaders as an American communist, however, he was twice imprisoned for a total of sixteen years.
Both a memoir and a documentary history of the Chinese revolution from 1949 through the Cultural Revolution, The Man Who Stayed Behind provides a human perspective on China’s efforts to build a new society. Critical of both his own mistakes and those of the Communist leadership, Rittenberg nevertheless gives an even-handed account of a country that is now free of internal war for the first time in a hundred years.
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The Man Who Stayed Behind

The Man Who Stayed Behind

by Sidney Rittenberg
The Man Who Stayed Behind

The Man Who Stayed Behind

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The Man Who Stayed Behind is the remarkable account of Sidney Rittenberg, an American who was sent to China by the U.S. military in the 1940s. A student activist and labor organizer who was fluent in Chinese, Rittenberg became caught up in the turbulence that engulfed China and remained there until the late 1970s. Even with access to China’s highest leaders as an American communist, however, he was twice imprisoned for a total of sixteen years.
Both a memoir and a documentary history of the Chinese revolution from 1949 through the Cultural Revolution, The Man Who Stayed Behind provides a human perspective on China’s efforts to build a new society. Critical of both his own mistakes and those of the Communist leadership, Rittenberg nevertheless gives an even-handed account of a country that is now free of internal war for the first time in a hundred years.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780822326670
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 04/03/2001
Pages: 496
Product dimensions: 6.16(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Sidney Rittenberg is President of Rittenberg Associates, Incorporated—a China consulting firm. He resides on Fox Island, Washington, with his wife, Yulin.

Amanda Bennett is Managing Editor of The Oregonian in Portland, Oregon and former Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal in Atlanta.

Table of Contents

Notes on Spelling and Pronunciation


Map


Introduction / Michael Hunt


Key Names

1. The Death of the Wood Fairy


2. The Famine


3. The New Fourth Army


4. In Mao’s Caves

5. High Autumn and Bracing Weather

6. My Long March


7. The Year of Darkness


8. Learning to Live


9. The Brave New World

10. Redder Than Red


11. The Golden Age


12. A Leap in the Dark


13. The Great Hunger


14. The Inner Circle


15. The Good Life


16. Arouse the Masses


17. Smash Everything Old


18. Seize Power


19. Hold Power


20. Power Prevails


21. The Ice House


22. The Dynasty Collapses


23. Coming Home

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Index


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