The Rise of the People's Communes in China
New York: Marzani and Munsell, 1960. First Thus. Printed wrappers. 8vo. Pp. [6], 7-95. Bound in stiff mimeographed wraps. Text block age-toned, due to inferior paper. Cover with fading and edge-wear. Despite those factors, book remains well bound. Good+. Item #6545 In 1921 she moved to Russia; working as a journalist and author, Strong first visited China in 1925. She retained a strong connection to the CCP, and lived in China from the 1950s until her death, in Beijing (then Peking), in 1970. Through it all she appears to have retained a favorable view of Mao's massive social engineering, despite their failures, and despite being branded an imperialist agent by the Red Guards.
Anna Louise Strong, the youngest female to earn a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, moved to Seattle in 1916 to assist her father, a Congregational minister known as "the Red Reverend," and to engage in labor activism.
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