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In Australian Bush to Tiananmen Square Ross Terrillapplies his personal lens to China’s historic rise and turn from Moscow to the West. This book portrays Terrill’s correspondence with Zhou Enlai, Henry Kissinger, Guo Moruo, Chinese farmers, President Bush, students, Daoist monks, and dozens more. Chinese voices light up every paragraph as Terrill links turbulent events to his own exploration of China’s cities and villages.

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Ross Terrill for over half a century has been a leading observer and scholar of China. In this fascinating book he intersperses China's contemporary history with his own experiences... As with Terrill's many other works on China, this book is a beautifully written and enjoyable read.--Dwight Perkins, Harvard University Ross Terrill's wonderfully engaging memoir opens a fascinating window onto the momentous changes in China... Australian Bush to Tiananmen Square offers a warm hearted and informative account, at once deeply personal and decidedly analytical, by one of America's most knowledgeable China scholars.--Elizabeth J. Perry, Harvard University

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Ross Terrill is associate in research at Harvard's Fairbank Center for East Asia and author of eleven books on China and Australia.

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