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Blurb: “Why did the Chinese turn-against the Western democracies?...
Why did they become Communists?
In nontechnical language, H. G. Creel introduces us to a China of unending poverty, oppression and war, a China searching for a way to live with other people without being irritated by them, without being swallowed by them. Taking us behind the great philosophies that helped mold the thinking of the largest mass of mankind in the world, the eminent Far East scholar shows us the mistakes that lost for us the friendship of a proud and sensitive people.
"There exists nowhere else such a well-written presentation of the main trends in Chinese thought in so brief a space.... This is a book which can be understood by those who have never read anything else about China."
—NEW YORK TIMES
H. G. CREEL is Professor of Chinese Literature and Institutions at the University of Chicago. Formerly with the Military Intelligence Service, War Department General Staff, in charge of political intelligence on the Far East, his scholarly works in.
-clude THE BIRTH OF CHINA and CONFUCIUS: THE MAN AND THE MYTH. CHINESE THOUGHT: FROM CONFUCIUS TO MAO TSE-TUNG was published in the hardcover edition by The University of Chicago Press.”