China Then: The mid-1970s adventures of an Italian correspondent Earnshaw Books and Washington for a potential

and Washington for a potential cross-Strait confrontation

From cultivating future political leaders at the end of the Cultural Revolution to the foreign-interference scandals that have shaken present-day Ottawa

and international standing in the mythical era of grandeur in its long imperial history

白是舊的痛苦尚未完全癒合，新的痛苦尚未完全裂開。無法化為完全的光或完全的黑暗的一天天。

这本访谈录是目前为止最接近波拉尼奥传记的一部作品，首次向读者揭秘作家生命的最后一段时光的种种细节。

China Then: The mid-1970s adventures of an Italian correspondent Earnshaw Books and Washington for a potentialMid 1970s Beijing was about as inscrutable as the world can get and China Then tells the story of that weird and momentous moment in history through the eyes of Italian correspondent Pier Luigi Zanatta, one of only a handful of foreign journalists living in China in those years. It was a time of great turbulence including the death of Mao, and Zanatta is a true witness to history. A talented Chinese speaking journalist, he read the tea leaves, cycled