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The Man Who Stayed Behind de Sidney Rittenberg

The Man Who Stayed Behind

Autor Sidney Rittenberg
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 apr 2001

Imaginați-vă un tânăr militar american, trimis de armata S.U.A. în China anului 1945, care decide să nu se mai întoarcă, devenind singurul cetățean american acceptat în cercul intim al conducerii comuniste chineze. The Man Who Stayed Behind nu este doar o biografie, ci rezultatul unei relații simbiotice și dureroase între Sidney Rittenberg și o țară aflată în plină metamorfoză violentă. Descoperim aici nu un observator detașat, ci un om care a trăit Revoluția Chineză din interior, de la discuțiile cu Mao Zedong și Zhou Enlai, până la izolarea cruntă din celulele regimului pe care îl susținuse. Textul curge cu o intensitate cinematică, amintind de structura unui roman istoric de anvergură, unde scenele de idealism revoluționar sunt brutal întrerupte de realitatea detenției solitare. În aceeași familie cu Voices Carry de Ying Ruocheng, acest volum adaugă o perspectivă occidentală unică, transformând experiența străinului „asimilat” într-o analiză profundă a mecanismelor puterii. Dacă Ying Ruocheng descrie supraviețuirea prin umor și stratageme în timpul Revoluției Culturale, Sidney Rittenberg ne oferă cronica unei transformări identitare radicale, unde loialitatea este testată prin decenii de închisoare. Această lucrare ocupă un loc central în opera autorului, oferind contextul biografic necesar pentru a înțelege filosofia sa de viață expusă în Manage Your Mind. Dacă în scrierile sale ulterioare Sidney Rittenberg pune accent pe reziliență și echilibru mental, aici vedem exact „cuptorul” în care au fost forjate aceste trăsături. Este o lectură densă, de aproape 500 de pagini, susținută de fotografii de arhivă care ancorează narațiunea în realitatea crudă a secolului XX.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822326670
ISBN-10: 0822326671
Pagini: 496
Ilustrații: 16 b&w photographs
Dimensiuni: 232 x 153 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.7 kg
Ediția:Paperback.
Editura: Duke University Press

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Recomandăm această carte celor pasionați de istoria politică și de destinele umane excepționale care sfidează barierele ideologice. Cititorul va câștiga o înțelegere rară, din interior, a Chinei lui Mao, văzută prin ochii unui american care a refuzat să plece. Este un exercițiu fascinant de memorie istorică despre cum idealismul se lovește de pragmatismul brutal al puterii, oferind lecții valoroase despre reziliență și iertare.

Despre autor

Sidney Rittenberg (1921–2019) a fost o figură unică în diplomația informală dintre S.U.A. și China. Lingvist și intelectual american, a trăit în China timp de 35 de ani, devenind un apropiat al liderilor Partidului Comunist Chinez. În ciuda celor 16 ani petrecuți în închisorile chineze sub acuzații false, a rămas un promotor al înțelegerii dintre cele două culturi. După revenirea în Statele Unite, a devenit un consultant respectat pentru marile corporații și profesor la University of North Carolina, fiind considerat unul dintre cei mai importanți interpreți ai realităților chineze pentru Occident.

Descriere scurtă

The Man Who Stayed Behind is the remarkable story of Sidney Rittenberg, an American student activist and labour organiser who joined the military, became fluent in Chinese, was sent to China by the U.S. military in the 1940s, became caught up in the turbulence that engulfed that country, and remained there until the late 1970s. Here he tells how he argued dogma with Mao Zedong, mused philosophy with Zhou Enlai, and danced with Mao's wife, Jiang Qing. But he also gives a harrowing account of his struggle over madness and despair in prison during six years in solitary confinement on trumped-up spy charges. A decade later he was sent back to be confined alongside other political prisoners who fell afoul of the dominant faction during the Cultural Revolution. There is also the touching love story of Rittenberg's Chinese wife, Yulin, who pledged to wait for ten years for the man she loved. Both a memoir and a documentary history of the Chinese revolution from 1949 through the Cultural Revolution, The Man Who Stayed Behind provides a human perspective on China's efforts to build a new society. Critical of both his own mistakes and those of the Communist leadership, Rittenberg offers both a compelling personal story and a poignant and thought-provoking exploration of some of the most profound political and moral issues of the twentieth century.

Recenzii

From reviews of the cloth edition: "[The Man Who Stayed Behind] reads like a riveting historical novel. But there's no fiction here . . . it's Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, the Long March, solitary confinement, despair, romance, and redemption. Sidney Rittenberg's story is a classic."- Mike Wallace, CBS-TV 60 Minutes "I found The Man Who Stayed Behind hard to put down. No American has ever merged as fully, hopefully-and disastrously-with Communist China as Rittenberg did for four decades from the 1940s. The book is lively, poignant, and revealing. Rittenberg offers a window on Beijing politics that anyone seriously interested in China's recent past and likely future should read."- Ross Terrill, author of China in Our Time "Rittenberg has written a modern day Pilgrim's Progress, in which he wanders through thirty-five years of Chinese power struggles with his idealism-or perhaps naivete-astoundingly intact."- Russell Watson, Newsweek "Sidney Rittenberg has had one of the most remarkable lives of anyone I have ever met. The story of his life is not only a fascinating and valuable witness to one of the greatest historical upheavals of [the twentieth] century, but is a vivid testimony to the power of good in the midst of evil."-Billy Graham "An extraordinary and revealing account of how someone was swept into the Chinese Communist movement and stayed with it through its many blunders, excesses, and cruelties. . . . A fascinating autobiography-honest, moving, chilling, and quite illuminating."- Dr. Michel Oksenberg, Former National Security Council Aid on China Policy "For more than a decade, I have been recording Chinese stories of hope, imprisonment, and disillusion. Nowhere is that story told more poignantly, honestly, or compellingly than in this book. . . . [It] is fascinating, excruciatingly honest, painful to read, and destined to be a classic in the literature of gods that have failed."- Anne F. Thurston, the Boston Globe "The gripping saga of an expatriate whose extraordinary experiences left him without illusions about Marxism-but with his personal ideals triumphantly intact."- Kirkus Reviews "Rittenberg lived a strange life, but he is not a stranger. Seen from the inside, his 'life of perks, privilege, and deluded complicity' makes sense. In the ultimate test of good autobiography, we see with a shock how it could have been us."- Andrew J. Nathan, the Washington Post "In a class by itself . . . . This story is off the wall, amazing, unbelievably funny and sad. . . . What I want to know is: Where are the miniseries people?"- Carolyn See, the Los Angeles Times "The Man Who Stayed Behind hooked me from start to finish. These are rare, tragic, sometimes startling insights into Mao's China at its self-destructive worst. Whether you sympathize with Sidney Rittenberg or not (and there will be times when you have doubts) he was there as history was made and unmade, and became part of its scar tissue. His prison portrait of Madame Mao as the shrieking harridan of the Red Terror will stay with me a long time. And his own personal story is an amazing tale in its own right."- Sterling Seagrave, author of The Soong Dynasty "There is nothing like an eyewitness account to heat up historical events. . . . A fascinating, fast-paced read. . . the personal story-about one man's failure to build a better world, about a stranger's futile efforts to be accepted by a distrustful culture, about dreams proved false and nightmares come true-is rivetting."- Nick Gallo, Seattle Weekly "A gripping story about an idealistic young American who freely cast his lot with the Chinese revolution only to be struck down by that revolution at the floodtide of its success. . . . One lives with him through inhuman cruelty and the mindless horror of sixteen years of solitary confinement."- Leonard Woodcock, First American Ambassador to China
From reviews of the cloth edition: "[The Man Who Stayed Behind] reads like a riveting historical novel. But there's no fiction here ... it's Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, the Long March, solitary confinement, despair, romance, and redemption. Sidney Rittenberg's story is a classic."- Mike Wallace, CBS-TV 60 Minutes "I found The Man Who Stayed Behind hard to put down. No American has ever merged as fully, hopefully-and disastrously-with Communist China as Rittenberg did for four decades from the 1940s. The book is lively, poignant, and revealing. Rittenberg offers a window on Beijing politics that anyone seriously interested in China's recent past and likely future should read."- Ross Terrill, author of China in Our Time "Rittenberg has written a modern day Pilgrim's Progress, in which he wanders through thirty-five years of Chinese power struggles with his idealism-or perhaps naivete-astoundingly intact."- Russell Watson, Newsweek "Sidney Rittenberg has had one of the most remarkable lives of anyone I have ever met. The story of his life is not only a fascinating and valuable witness to one of the greatest historical upheavals of [the twentieth] century, but is a vivid testimony to the power of good in the midst of evil."-Billy Graham "An extraordinary and revealing account of how someone was swept into the Chinese Communist movement and stayed with it through its many blunders, excesses, and cruelties... A fascinating autobiography-honest, moving, chilling, and quite illuminating."- Dr. Michel Oksenberg, Former National Security Council Aid on China Policy "For more than a decade, I have been recording Chinese stories of hope, imprisonment, and disillusion. Nowhere is that story told more poignantly, honestly, or compellingly than in this book... [It] is fascinating, excruciatingly honest, painful to read, and destined to be a classic in the literature of gods that have failed."- Anne F. Thurston, the Boston Globe "The gripping saga of an expatriate whose extraordinary experiences left him without illusions about Marxism-but with his personal ideals triumphantly intact."- Kirkus Reviews "Rittenberg lived a strange life, but he is not a stranger. Seen from the inside, his 'life of perks, privilege, and deluded complicity' makes sense. In the ultimate test of good autobiography, we see with a shock how it could have been us."- Andrew J. Nathan, the Washington Post "In a class by itself ... This story is off the wall, amazing, unbelievably funny and sad... What I want to know is: Where are the miniseries people?"- Carolyn See, the Los Angeles Times "The Man Who Stayed Behind hooked me from start to finish. These are rare, tragic, sometimes startling insights into Mao's China at its self-destructive worst. Whether you sympathize with Sidney Rittenberg or not (and there will be times when you have doubts) he was there as history was made and unmade, and became part of its scar tissue. His prison portrait of Madame Mao as the shrieking harridan of the Red Terror will stay with me a long time. And his own personal story is an amazing tale in its own right."- Sterling Seagrave, author of The Soong Dynasty " There is nothing like an eyewitness account to heat up historical events... A fascinating, fast-paced read... the personal story-about one man's failure to build a better world, about a stranger's futile efforts to be accepted by a distrustful culture, about dreams proved false and nightmares come true-is rivetting."- Nick Gallo, Seattle Weekly "A gripping story about an idealistic young American who freely cast his lot with the Chinese revolution only to be struck down by that revolution at the floodtide of its success... One lives with him through inhuman cruelty and the mindless horror of sixteen years of solitary confinement."- Leonard Woodcock, First American Ambassador to China

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"["The Man Who Stayed Behind"] reads like a riveting historical novel. But there's no fiction here . . . it's Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, the Long March, solitary confinement, despair, romance, and redemption. Sidney Rittenberg's story is a classic."--Mike Wallace, CBS-TV "60 Minutes"