Margaret MacMillan is Provost of Trinity College in the University of Toronto, and Warden-elect of St Anthony's College, Oxford. Her Peacemakers, which covered the Paris Conference of 1919, won numerous awards including the BBC4 Samuel Johnson Prize, and was a bestseller on both sides of the Atlantic.
In 1972 Nixon amazed the world by going to China. The first trip ever by a US President marked the end of deep freeze in Sino-American relations that started with the Communist takeover in 1949. It was an immense gamble but a brilliant stroke of policy, which changed the international balance of power for ever. With China onside Nixon might get out of Vietnam; US knowhow could help Mao recover from his disastrous Cultural Revolution; most of all, each would have backup against the increasingly aggressive Soviet Union. In the longer term, though, was Nixon the supplicant to China, and has the US been at a disadvantage ever since? Will the twenty-first century see co-operation or China challenging American dominance?
This is a fascinating history enacted by extraordinary players: Nixon himself, red-baiter, shrewd statesman, and disgraced politician; Mao, frail, erratic, ruthless; the twin Machiavellis Kissinger and Chou En-lai; brittle, unhappy Pat Nixon; and Mao's wife Jiang Qing, the small-time Shanghai actress become scourge of Chinese cultural arts. And the countries themselves: Communist China, contemptuous but fearful of the outside world, the USA, rich and powerful, and both seeing themselves as models for humanity. The gap between them was huge and still exists today.
發表於2024-12-23
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1972年2月21日是一個對於中美關係來說很重要的日子,這一天的到來是遲早的,但是當那天真的到來時,所有人依然是驚訝的。而這個事件背後發生的一係列詳細故事,知道的人少之又少,這本由瑪格雷特麥剋米蘭所著的《當尼剋鬆遇上毛澤東》詳細的記錄瞭當時所發生的細節,給讀者呈現...
評分在上世紀七十年代初,美國總統尼剋鬆到中國訪問,消息一齣,震驚世界。這一段曆史話題,一直是很多人津津樂道,非常想詳細瞭解的。 《當尼剋鬆遇上毛澤東:改變世界的一周》這本書裏,非常詳細的對中美破冰之旅進行全方位的解密,這是跨越瞭太平洋的握手。 1972年2月21日上午11...
評分作者的寫作手法,很有畫麵感,能夠把人帶迴到那個曆史時刻,仿佛自己已經穿越到當時,自己也是一名小隨從,在現場見證瞭這樣意見跨時代意義的曆史事件。內容很詳實,從前期的籌備工作,到確定下日期,到訪問的如期進行,訪問的過程,談話的內容,晚宴現場,到後期的觀光,到送...
評分 評分圖書標籤: 毛澤東 政治 曆史 Nixon Mao China 美國 尼剋鬆
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