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David Crook, mentioned in the article as working for the anti-POUM had a fascinating life. Apparently he apologised for the mentioned spying. https://en.wikip

David Crook, mentioned in the article as working for the anti-POUM had a fascinating life. Apparently he apologised for the mentioned spying. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Crook https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Crook https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/dec/18/guardianobituaries1 https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/dec/18/guardianobituar... Hampstead Heath to Tian An Men - The autobiography of David Crook http://www.davidcrook.net/simple/main.html http://www.davidcrook.net/simple/main.html

dmix 7y ago
Crook's books on living in Chinese communism sound interesting, I managed to buy them both used on Abebooks. I've always wanted to read what day-to-day life was like in early Communist china. I've found a lot of older Chinese people I talk to don't like talking about it or change the subject pretty quickly, which I understand, people don't like talking about being poor. The person I last talked to was a teacher in China who lived a decent middle class childhood in the 1960s and was forced to move to a rural area into poverty and made to work on a farm for a few years. Eating dinner communally with large groups of people. She often talks about her regret of not leaving to Taiwan like some of her family.
- amaccuish 7y ago
  Also look up Sidney Rittenberg [0]. He wrote a book and there's a documentary on him. He was friends with Mao and imprisoned by him. He wrote a book [1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Rittenberg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Rittenberg [1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00CPJB7H4/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00CPJB7H4/ref=dp-kindle-redirec...
  - dmix 7y ago
    Looks good, thank you. Added it to my wishlist
- emmelaich 7y ago
  Depending on how far back you want to go you could add https://www.abebooks.co.uk/book-search/title/the-small-woman/author/alan-burgess/ https://www.abebooks.co.uk/book-search/title/the-small-woman... Which is the story of Gladys Aylward, a missionary in China mostly in the first half of the century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_Aylward https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_Aylward It was made into a film "The Inn of the Sixth Happiness" featuring Ingrid Bergman. It of course took liberties with the story but I remember it being a good movie.

dmix 7y ago

Crook's books on living in Chinese communism sound interesting, I managed to buy them both used on Abebooks. I've always wanted to read what day-to-day life was like in early Communist china. I've found a lot of older Chinese people I talk to don't like talking about it or change the subject pretty quickly, which I understand, people don't like talking about being poor. The person I last talked to was a teacher in China who lived a decent middle class childhood in the 1960s and was forced to move to a rural area into poverty and made to work on a farm for a few years. Eating dinner communally with large groups of people. She often talks about her regret of not leaving to Taiwan like some of her family.

amaccuish 7y ago
Also look up Sidney Rittenberg [0]. He wrote a book and there's a documentary on him. He was friends with Mao and imprisoned by him. He wrote a book [1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Rittenberg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Rittenberg [1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00CPJB7H4/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00CPJB7H4/ref=dp-kindle-redirec...
- dmix 7y ago
  Looks good, thank you. Added it to my wishlist
emmelaich 7y ago
Depending on how far back you want to go you could add https://www.abebooks.co.uk/book-search/title/the-small-woman/author/alan-burgess/ https://www.abebooks.co.uk/book-search/title/the-small-woman... Which is the story of Gladys Aylward, a missionary in China mostly in the first half of the century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_Aylward https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_Aylward It was made into a film "The Inn of the Sixth Happiness" featuring Ingrid Bergman. It of course took liberties with the story but I remember it being a good movie.