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The Second Long March: Memoir from a Witness to China's Transformation

Patti Isaacs

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In 1981 newlyweds Patti Isaacs and her Italian husband Federico Gauss Rescigno traveled to China, a place she’d grown up fearing, to work for a year in the ancient capital of Xi’an. Returning 24 years later, Patti reunited with old friends, worked with China’s younger generation, and found a city transformed. Her stories are snapshots of a span of years when a city under communism—slow, agrarian, and egalitarian—became a fast-paced metropolis of 8 million.

Illustrated with maps and “before and after” photos, The Second Long March chronicles changes that had occurred in her life, the lives of her former students, and the country itself in its rise as a global economic power. She presents events for those seeking to understand them through the eyes of ordinary people.

Format:: Paperback

Pages:: 392 pages

Publication:: 2022

Publisher:: Atmosphere Press

Edition:

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 1639883169

ISBN13:: 9781639883165

kindle Asin:: B0BD2ST8S3

The Second Long March: Memoir from a Witness to China's Transformation

Patti Isaacs

4.62/5 (11 ratings)

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In 1981 newlyweds Patti Isaacs and her Italian husband Federico Gauss Rescigno traveled to China, a place she’d grown up fearing, to work for a year in the ancient capital of Xi’an. Returning 24 years later, Patti reunited with old friends, worked with China’s younger generation, and found a city transformed. Her stories are snapshots of a span of years when a city under communism—slow, agrarian, and egalitarian—became a fast-paced metropolis of 8 million.

Illustrated with maps and “before and after” photos, The Second Long March chronicles changes that had occurred in her life, the lives of her former students, and the country itself in its rise as a global economic power. She presents events for those seeking to understand them through the eyes of ordinary people.

Format:: Paperback

Pages:: 392 pages

Publication:: 2022

Publisher:: Atmosphere Press

Edition:

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 1639883169

ISBN13:: 9781639883165

kindle Asin:: B0BD2ST8S3

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