Harold Robert Isaacs (1910–1986) was an American journalist and political scientist. Isaacs went to China in 1930 and became involved with left wing politics in Shanghai and wrote The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution, of the Chinese Revolution of 1925-27, first published with a preface by Leon Trotsky. He covered World War II in Southeast Asia and China for Newsweek Magazine. In 1953 he joined the department of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In the following years he published Scratches on our Minds: American Images of China and India, American Jews in Israel and The New World of Negro Americans, among others. In 1980, he returned to China with his wife, Viola, and wrote an account of the visit, Re-Encounters in China.[1]
Selected articles and works
- Five years of Kuomintang reaction (editor) (1932)
- The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution (1938)
- New cycle in Asia : selected documents in major international development in the Far East, 1943-1947 (editor) (1947)
- Two-thirds of the world : problems of a new approach to the peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America (1950)
- Africa : new crisis in the making (1952)
- Scratches on our minds : American images of China and India (1958)
- Emergent Americans; a report on "Crossroads Africa."(1961)
- The new world of Negro Americans (1964)
- India's ex-Untouchables (1965)
- American Jews in Israel (1967)
- No peace for Asia (1947)
- Images of Asia : American views of China and India (1972)
- Straw sandals; Chinese short stories, 1918-1933 (editor)(1974)
- Idols of the tribe : group identity and political change (1975)
- Power and identity : tribalism in world politics (1979)
- Re-encounters in China : notes of a journey in a time capsule (1985)
References
- Rotter, Andrew Jon, In Retrospect: Harold R. Isaacs's Scratches on Our Minds Reviews in American History - Volume 24, Number 1, March 1996, pp. 177–188 [2]
Notes
- ↑ Obituary, New York Times, July 7, 1986
- ↑ http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/reviews_in_american_history/v024/24.1rotter.html
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American writer |
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1910 |
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1986 |
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