In this episode i provide information of Jewish involvement in China and in the rise to power of Mao Zedong. The people mentioned include Robert and Jane (Sachs) Hodes, Israel Epstein, Sidney Rittenberg, Rewi Alley, Anna Louise Strong, Sidney Shapiro, Moshe (Morris) "Two-Gun" Cohen, Frank Coe, Solomon Adler and many more. I end by talking about my own experiences of China and my general analysis on China's place in the shifting global power dynamics.
Videos
Round Eyes in the Middle Kingdom: https://ia800806.us.archive.org/1/items/Round_Eyes_In_The_Middle_Kingdom_1995/Round_Eyes_In_The_Middle_Kingdom_1995.mp4
Gung Ho: Rewi Alley of China (1980): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLSQoclX_-w
Picture: Mao with Anna Louise Strong and W.E.B. De Bois
Picture: Mao with Epstein, Adler and Coe.
Picutre: Mao with Sidney Rittenberg
Books of interest:
"Making the Foreign Serve China: Managing Foreigners in the People's Republic" by Anne-Marie Brady,
"Foreigners under Mao: Western Lives in China, 1949-1976" by Beverley Hooper,
"Jewish Wayfarers in Modern China: Tragedy and Splendor" by Matthias Messmer
If anyone would like to contact me about the show, feel free to email me on [email protected]. I'm also on gab.ai @alanbuttle. Thank you.