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Orville Schell's China Journey

Asia In-Depth

CHAPTER

The Famine in Tiwan

As a young student of chinese, what was your sense of who ma was and what he was doing in china? Well, you know, i think my generation was very, very influenced by edgar snow. He's the american journalist who went to visit mao and everyone else before they came to power. I used to ride my fike down to the presidential palace and then put his tie on and go in. And jankashek would have tea parties for the foreign studens. There were only about 12 of us, ten or 12 of us there at the time. That was sort of interesting. It turned out that they did have it nailed to rights.

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