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Harold Robert Isaacs (1910–1986)

Author of The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution

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Works by Harold Robert Isaacs

The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution (1951) 97 copies, 1 review

Images of Asia : American views of China and India (1972) 35 copies

Idols of the Tribe: Group Identity and Political Change (1975) 27 copies

American Jews in Israel (1967) 21 copies

The new world of Negro Americans. (1963) 19 copies

No Peace for Asia (1947) 10 copies

India's ex-Untouchables (Studies / Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for International Studies) (1966) 10 copies

Re-Encounters in China: Notes of a Journey in a Time Capsule (1985) 9 copies

Straw Sandals, Chinese Short Stories, 1918-1933 (1974) 8 copies

Scratches on Our Minds: American Images of China & India (1958) 2 copies

Documents on the Comintern and the Chinese Revolution, 1. Notes on a Conversation with H. Sneevliet, The Chinese Question, 2(A) (8th) Plenum of the Exec. Cttee, May 1927, Subcttee… 2 copies

Jimmy Carter's peanut brigade 1 copy

Journal of Third World Studies (2004) 1 copy

Deseg: Change Comes to a Boston School (a report of an inquiry made for the Citywide Coordinating Council - Boston) 1 copy

Idols of the Tribe Group: Identity and Political Change (Hardcover) (Chinese Edition) (2015) 1 copy

Power and Identity: Tribalism and World Politics (Headline Series) (1979) 1 copy

New cycle in Asia : selected documents on major international developments in the Far East, 1943-1947 1 copy

The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution, Rev. ed. 1 copy

Associated Works

Language Loyalties: A Source Book on the Official English Controversy (1992) — Contributor — 24 copies

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1930s (2) America (2) Asia (5) China (37) Chinese history (5) Chinese literature (2) Chinese Revolution (4) Comintern (2) communism (6) culture (2) ethnicity (2) fiction (3) history (21) India (5) Lu Xun (2) Modern Chinese Literature (2) nationalism (2) New York (2) non-fiction (4) political (2) political science (2) political theory (2) politics (7) race (2) revolution (3) short stories (2) sociology (3) Southeast Asia (2) to-read (4) Vietnam (3)

Common Knowledge

Legal name: Isaacs, Harold Robert
Other names: 伊罗生
 Yi Luosheng
Yisakesi, Haluode
Birthdate: 1910-09-13
Date of death: 1986-07-09
Gender: male
Education: Université Columbia (1929)
Occupations: professor
Sinologue
journalist
Organizations: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Professor, 1953)
Newsweek (war correspondant, 1940 | 1945)
Columbia Broadcasting System (journalist, 1940)
New York Times (journalist, 1929)
Academy of Arts and Sciences
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
Place of death: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Associated Place (for map): USA

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The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution (Second Revised Version) by Harold Isaacs

Department of History
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Anisfield-Wolf Book Award

The new world of Negro Americans. (Winner – Nonfiction – 1964)

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Leon Trotsky Introduction

Arnold Isaacs Foreword

René Viénet Translator

Statistics

Works: 18
Also by: 1
Members: 247
Popularity: #92,309
Rating: 3.9

Reviews: 1
ISBNs: 25
Languages: 2

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China Quarterly obituary

New York Times, Obituary

Marxist account of Isaacs' political evolution

BNF, Ressources sur l'auteur (French)

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