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[0] checkbox [#] position [cover] cover [title] title Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World [author] author MacMillan, Margaret [isbn] isbn 140006127X [isbn13] isbn13 9781400061273 [asin] asin [num pages] num pages 404 pp [avg rating] avg rating 3.76 [num ratings] num ratings 536 [date pub] date pub Jan 01, 2006 [date pub (ed.)] date pub edition Mar 05, 2007 [rating] Lucas's rating 3 of 5 stars [my rating] my rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars add to shelves [notes] notes Notes are private! [recommender] recommender none [comments] comments 0 [votes] votes 0 [read count] # times read 1 [date started] date started not set [date read] date read Oct 30, 2008 [date added] date added Oct 01, 2008 [date purchased] date purchased [owned] owned [purchase location] purchase location [condition] condition [format] format Hardcover [29] actions view [review] 
review Any history book that claims to be about a single small span of time of course expends half of the book on context, events years before and after. The Any history book that claims to be about a single small span of time of course expends half of the book on context, events years before and after. The time span is a good device that gives the book a focus, and also provides a reason to repeatedly step back from the bigger picture and add details like the type of candy provided by the Chinese hosts to Nixon. Zhou is apparently pronounced very close to 'Joe', as in 'Zhou the premier of the People's Republic of China'. I liked the examination of all the relationships with countries on the borders of China, their alignment with the Soviet Union or China or the United States- Pakistan, India, Vietnam, Japan, and the Koreas are the most prominent. The most humorous part of this book is an anecdote about a group of U.S. reporters on their last day in their hotel in China: after Barbara Walters left her room to check out, her colleagues piled their dirty underwear on her bed. As the group was leaving a room attendant came running after her to give her a laundry bag thinking she had forgotten its contents... ...more
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