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FORTY YEARS OF CHINA watching preceded Barbara Tuchman's six week visit to China in the summer of 1972. Behind her were two Pulitzer Prizes, the most recent for Stillwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945. Her authority as a pre-communist China expert lend weight to her insight into the tenacious Chinese riddle and she agreed to record her observations and impressions for the Associated Press and Harper's magazine. Notes From China consists of these and another previously published essay, the speculative "It Mao Had Come to Washington...
...Tuchman's "notes" cover nine topics ranging freely from keeping the revolution red to keeping the countryside green. The essays flow smoothly from one to another, together they form a cohesive work, filled with perceptive observations. But as a collection, they assume a greater purpose. She gropes for that single flash of insight that would make sense of the rhetoric and the horror stories that filter through Hong Kong to Sunday supplements of American newspapers, that frighten many Americans and bewilder the rest. That flash of insight is absent...
...Tuchman finds herself approaching this gap with a few bridges, and little confidence in those she has. At points Notes From China is about the dilemma of a journalist reporting on China, not the country itself. Ultimately, she discovers that while she has at long last been admitted to China, she is still studying it from a considerable distance...
...time Pulitzer Prize winner Barbara Wertheim Tuchman '33 (General Nonfiction 1963--The Guns of August and 1972--Stillwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945 came through Radcliffe at a time when women weren't allowed on The Crimson A alter J. Bate'39. Abbott Lawrence Lowell professor of the Humanities, who won the Pulitzer for Biography in 1964 (John Keats) was too busy studying undergraduate to comp for The Crimson. And obviously with a certain amount of snobbery, Joseph Pulitzer Jr. '36, didn't bother to comp...
Nobel-prizewinning Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn may be too celebrated to imprison, but there are other ways for the Kremlin to harass rebellion. The Soviets have just thrown a smokescreen over Solzhenitsyn's novel, August, 1914, by publishing 100,000 copies of Barbara Tuchman's 1962 history of the same period, The Guns of August. (Mrs. Tuchman, who was neither consulted nor paid, said the Soviet tactic was "absurd" because "Solzhenitsyn and I come to much the same conclusions.") As another harassment the Russian Supreme Court undertook to review Solzhenitsyn's 1971 divorce decree from his first wife...