Ebook: Two Innocents in Red China

Cover page; title page; copyright page; contents; introduction; a note on the first english edition; translator's note; preamble; 1. in which the expedition nearly sinks in the thames; 2. london to peking; 3. from the people 's palace to the palace of the emperors; 4. a visit to peking prison; 5. the chinese minorities; 6. the north-east, pride of new china; 7. one factory after another; 8. how to make doctors and steel; 9. all the chinese work; 10. a few thousand visitors; 11. industry and culture in the service of the state; 12. shanghai revisited; 13. a factory, a commune, and a capitalist.;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 Hébert's sardonic look at a third world country's 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.