China Then: The mid-1970s adventures of an Italian correspondent Earnshaw Books the author of Waiting deepens

the author of Waiting deepens his portrait of contemporary Chinese society while exploring the perennial conflicts between convention and individualism

From cultivating future political leaders at the end of the Cultural Revolution to the foreign-interference scandals that have shaken present-day Ottawa

白是舊的痛苦尚未完全癒合，新的痛苦尚未完全裂開。無法化為完全的光或完全的黑暗的一天天。

but social and historical phenomena as well

China Then: The mid-1970s adventures of an Italian correspondent Earnshaw Books the author of Waiting deepensMid 1970s Beijing was about as inscrutable as the world can get and China Then tells the story of that weird and momentous moment in history through the eyes of Italian correspondent Pier Luigi Zanatta, one of only a handful of foreign journalists living in China in those years. It was a time of great turbulence including the death of Mao, and Zanatta is a true witness to history. A talented Chinese speaking journalist, he read the tea leaves, cycled