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A friend of China

by Joyce Milton · 1980

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A biography of the author and foreign correspondent who spent more than 10 years in China where she became one of the first outsiders to interview Mao Tse-tung and travel with units of his guerrilla armies.

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biographybiographyMore like thisLess of thistraveltravelMore like thisLess of this
Themes
journalistsjournalistsMore like thisLess of this
Setting
20th century20th centuryMore like thisLess of thisChinaChinaMore like thisLess of thisUSAUSAMore like thisLess of this
Audience
childrens
Length
short · 126 pages

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