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Two Innocents in Red China
Author(s): Pierre Elliot Trudeau (Author), Jacques Hebert (Author), Alexandre Trudeau (Introduction), I M Owen (Translator)
- Publisher: Greystone Books,Canada
- Publication Date: 17 Jan. 2008
- Language: English
- Print length: 215 pages
- ISBN-10: 1553652541
- ISBN-13: 9781553652540
Book Description
In the spirit of his father, Alexandre Trudeau revisits China to put a ground-breaking journey into a fresh, contemporary context. In 1960, Pierre Trudeau and Jacques Hébert, a labour lawyer and a journalist from Montréal, travelled to China in the midst of the Great Leap Forward. In 1968, when Two Innocents in Red China, Trudeau and Héberts sardonic look at a third world countrys first steps into the rest world, was released in English, Trudeau had become prime minister of Canada. ?It seemed to us imperative that the citizens of our democracy should know more about China, Trudeau wrote in the foreword. Four decades later, Chinas emergence as an economic and military heavyweight beckoned Trudeaus journalist son Alexandre to retrace his fathers footsteps and add additional material to the book. The result is a thought-provoking new perspective on the Canadian classic that helped open China to the world.
