LONG MARCH, THE - AN ACCOUNT OF MODERN CHINA

A justly celebrated, masterly, first hand account of China in the middle of the 20th century by one of France's most brilliant post war writers. Simone de Beauvoir, author of The Second Sex, garrulous intellectual, novelist, existentialist, companion to Jean-Paul Sartre and lover of Nelson Algren (see Beloved Chicago Man -- Phoenix Press), describes China at a period of enormous transition from a democratic to a socialist revolution. Her observations make stirring reading and provide a brilliant and accessible introduction to the peoples and cultures of modern China.