Dispatch from Beijing
With Jeff J. Brown
It is a great honor for Jeff J. Brown and China Rising Radio Sinoland to interview fellow author Dr. Dongping Han, who wrote The Unknown Cultural Revolution – Life and Change in a Chinese Village (2009) https://www.amazon.com/Cultural-Revolution-Chinese-Dongping-published/dp/B00Y2QZ6NY/ and https://www.amazon.cn/The-Unknown-Cultural-Revolution-Life-and-Change-in-a-Chinese-Village-Han-Dongping/dp/1583671803/
Born in 1955 rural Shandong, China, Confucius’ home province, he experienced revolutionary, communist China hands-on and from the ground up. He grew up on a collective farm, and starting working with villagers when he was nine years old during the weekend and school vacations. After high school, he returned to his village to work full time. He worked in the fields for a while, and then was recruited to operate a lathe in the village’s industrial enterprise. He was also the manager of the collectively owned village factory for four years. Dongping went to college in the spring of 1978, the year Deng Xiaoping introduced China’s well known economic reforms. More recently, for the last 17 years, he has been a professor at Warren Wilson College, North Carolina. He is also guest professor at Hebei University, China.
Spend a marvelous and enchanting 90 minutes with someone who can say, “I was there, I did it!”, as Dongping shares his very compelling and revealing life stories and experiences, during China’s much demonized Great Leap Forward (1958-61) and Cultural Revolution (1966-76). You will learn about a China that the West has ferociously propagandized, censored and distorted. Dongping’s firsthand testimony is must listening and reading for anyone who wants to truly understand how our geopolitical and economic world has worked, since China’s liberation in 1949.
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As promised in the interview, here is the trilogy written by Dongping Han, Mobo Gao and Hao Qi, entitled Remembering Socialist China, 1949-1976. Jeff hopes to also interview Mobo Gao and Hao Qi. Stay tuned,
http://rupe-india.org/59/introduction.html
Jeff J. Brown—TGP’s Beijing correspondent— is the author of 44 Days (2013), Reflections in Sinoland – Musings and Anecdotes from the Belly of the New Century Beast (summer 2015), and Doctor WriteRead’s Treasure Trove to Great English (2015). He is currently writing an historical fiction, Red Letters – The Diaries of Xi Jinping, due out in 2016. In addition, a new anthology on China, China Rising, Capitalist Roads, Socialist Destinations, is also scheduled for publication this summer. Jeff is commissioned to write monthly articles for The Saker and The Greanville Post, touching on all things China, and the international political & cultural scene
In China, he has been a speaker at TEDx, the Bookworm Literary Festival, the Capital M Literary Festival, the Hutong, as well as being featured in an 18-part series of interviews on Radio Beijing AM774, with former BBC journalist, Bruce Connolly. He has guest lectured at international schools in Beijing and Tianjin.
Jeff grew up in the heartland of the United States, Oklahoma, and graduated from Oklahoma State University. He went to Brazil while in graduate school at Purdue University, to seek his fortune, which whet his appetite for traveling the globe. This helped inspire him to be a Peace Corps Volunteer in Tunisia in 1980 and he lived and worked in Africa, the Middle East, China and Europe for the next 21 years. All the while, he mastered Portuguese, Arabic, French and Mandarin, while traveling to over 85 countries. He then returned to America for nine years, whereupon he moved back to China in 2010. He currently lives in Beijing with his wife, where he writes, while being a school teacher in an international school. Jeff is a dual national French-American.
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