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The Long March: An Account of Modern China

The Long March: An Account of Modern China

by SimonedeBeauvoir (Author)

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    Paperback 2001

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Synopsis

Of this book, Simone de Beauvoir said, 'I have tried to evaluate all the knowledge gained at first-hand, by actually seeing places and talking with people, in terms of China's past and in the perspective of the changes to come in the future. Only when one grasps its future does this country become clear - neither a paradise nor an infernal ant hill, but a very real part of the world where people who have just broken the chains of a hopeless cycle of an animal existence are fighting hard to build a human world.'

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 528
 Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 18 Oct 2001
ISBN 10: 1842123998
ISBN 13: 9781842123997
Book Overview: One of the greatest writers of the 20th century On honest account of China - Beauvoir did not let her socialist ideals cloud her judgement A detailed and invaluable journey through Maoist China

Author Bio
Simone Lucie-Ernestine-Marie-Bertrand de Beauvoir was born in 1908. She was a French writer and feminist, a member of the intellectual fellowship of philosopher-writers who have given a literary transcription to the themes of Existentialism. She is known primarily for her treatise Le Deuxieme Sexe, 2 vol (The Second Sex) a scholarly and passionate plea for the abolition of what she called the myth of the 'eternal feminine.' This seminal work became a classic of feminist literature. Schooled in private institutions, de Beauvoir attended the Sorbonne, where, in 1929, she passed her agregation in philosophy and met Jean-Paul Sartre, beginning a lifelong association with him. Her novels expound the major Existential themes, demonstrating her conception of the writer's commitment to the times, in addition to treating feminist issues, de Beauvoir was concerned with the issue of ageing, which she addressed in Une Mort tres douce (1964; A Very Easy Death). She died in 1986.