Friend of China - The Myth of Rewi Alley
Series: Chinese worlds; Chinese worlds
Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780203221075
Subjects: Intellectuals; Rewi Alley; China; New Zealanders; Biography
Description: This study is a radical and controversial analysis of the life and works of Rewi Alley utilizing both Chinese materials and previously unpublished materials from western sources. Rather than a biography as such, it is a revisionist history.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of plates; Acknowledgements; Introduction; A New Zealand childhood; Shanghailander; The humanitarian; Rewi's school; The 'Faustian choice'; Friend of China; Peking's man; New Zealand's asset; Internationalist; Epilogue; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index.