The Man Who Changed China: The Life and Legacy of Jiang Zemin

by Robert Lawrence Kuhn

Jiang Zemin's life and leadership sweep through almost eighty tumultuous years of Chinese history: Japanese occupation, Civil War, Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution, Tiananmen Square, and, more... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1400054745
• ISBN13: 9781400054749
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Crown
• Length: 720 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 2.3" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

Understanding China

This book is helpful in understanding China from a Chinese perspective. If Westerners will listen to its message with an open mind (vs. viewing the book in light of Western perceptions of China), it will improve understanding between East and West and could serve to reduce unnecessary tensions, which are frequently due to misunderstandings.

good book

Well grounded on recent history and developments in China, this book provides a healthy balance to all the negative stereotypical repetition of the same old tired fairy tales about China out there. The author shows the world it's possible to be positive about China and be objective at the same time.

Propaganda?????

It is always amazing to me that people, like bellevue from California, are so naive, that they still believe the 'Western Propaganda" about China. They do not understand the history of China, or, for that matter, the history of the world. I have studied Chinese history for many years, and have actually been to China on five different occasions, and met with hundreds of Chinese, both private and official, and one thing I know for sure, the West puts out as much "Official Propaganda" as any society. Chinese love their country. They love their government, in spite of it's periodic failures. China is rapidly becoming a world power and a world player, inspite of America's goal to dominate the world, something that China has never sought to do. This book is a valuable insight into how the Chinese view their leaders and their country's march toward a more open society. It is too bad that people like "bellevue" cannot learn anything from a different view point, but just keep their head buried in the sand. I recommend this book to anyone with an open mind who wants to know history from a different view point.