This study is a radical and controversial analysis of the life and works of Rewi Alley utilizing both Chinese materials and previously unpublished materials from western sources. Rather than a biography as such, it is a revisionist history, re-examining what we know and understand about one of the most famous, or indeed infamous, foreigners in modern China: Rewi Alley, who arrived in China in 1927 from New Zealand and lived there for the rest of his life. Alley was regarded as a great humanitarian and internationalist. Later he became an outspoken 'foreign friend' of the Chinese regime and prolific propagandist on the new China. This book examines the myth and reality of his life, using them to explore the role of foreigners in China's diplomatic relations and their sensitive place in China after 1949, laying bare the important role of China's 'foreign friends' in Chinese foreign policy.
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'Alley's inner world, the world he grew increasingly wary of sharing either in conversation or in letters, can only be imagined. This book lays the ground for enabling us to begin to penetrate this world... She (the author) has opened up the path for a clearer and more balanced understanding of one of the most colourful and remarkable lives ever lived by a New Zealander.' - The Listener
'Before this book, almost everything that New Zealanders (journalists, politicians, academics) had written about Alley was hagiographic drivel...it would be nice to think that Brady's temperate, reasonable and well-documented book does provoke at least some red faces.' - The Dominion Post
'Before this book, almost everything that New Zealanders (journalists, politicians, academics) had written about Alley was hagiographic drivel...it would be nice to think that Brady's temperate, reasonable and well-documented book does provoke at least some red faces.' - The Dominion Post
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Rewi Alley was a man who became a myth in his own lifetime. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
other foreign friends, current political line, commemorative activities, interview with the author, foreign supporters Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Zealand, Rewi Alley, Cultural Revolution, Shirley Barton, Deng Xiaoping, People's Republic, Korean War, Zhou Enlai, Communist China, Gansu Province, Courtney Archer, Gang of Four, Chinese Communist Party, Edgar Snow, Peace Committee, Willis Airey, Mao Zedong, International Settlement, Pip Alley, United States, World War, Alan Alley, George Hatem, George Hogg, Alec Camplin New!
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Rewi Alley was a man who became a myth in his own lifetime. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
other foreign friends, current political line, commemorative activities, interview with the author, foreign supporters Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Zealand, Rewi Alley, Cultural Revolution, Shirley Barton, Deng Xiaoping, People's Republic, Korean War, Zhou Enlai, Communist China, Gansu Province, Courtney Archer, Gang of Four, Chinese Communist Party, Edgar Snow, Peace Committee, Willis Airey, Mao Zedong, International Settlement, Pip Alley, United States, World War, Alan Alley, George Hatem, George Hogg, Alec Camplin New!
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- Young New Zealanders (New Zealand now) in Back Matter
- Worlds Apart by Arnold Wong in Back Matter
- New World by Warwick Collins in Back Matter
- Political Pilgrims: Western Intellectuals in Search of the Good Society by Paul Hollander on page 97
- Christopher And His Kind by Christopher Isherwood on page 19
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