| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0671795465 |
| 022 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD SERIAL NUMBER |
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| International Standard Serial Number |
9780671795467 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
959.3044092 Pha |
| Item number |
15 |
| 092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
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| Classification number |
959.3044092 Pha |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Phathanothai, Sirin |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The dragon's pearl |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Sirin Phathanothai with James Peck |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Simon & Schuster |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
1994 |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
336 p. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Includes index |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
In this astonishing memoir by the only foreigner ever raised inside the remote world of China's powerful and reclusive leadership, Sirin Phathanothai provides a one-of-a-kind eyewitness account of daily life among the near-mythic founders of Mao's Communist China. In 1956, eight-year-old Sirin Phathanothai and her twelve-year-old brother, Warnwai, were secretly sent as an offering of goodwill from Thailand's political elite to China's, a "living bridge" between the two countries at a time when Thailand was publicly a determined enemy of China. Politically precocious Sirin, daughter of the Prime Minister of Thailand's closest advisor, was tossed into the very center of Mao's revolutionary China as the ward of Premier Zhou Enlai. Until his death in 1976, "Zhou Bobo" (Uncle Zhou), as Sirin called him, undertook to educate her in the ways of China. One of Zhous̀ closest advisors, Liao Ghengzhi, became her "father." She came to know the legendary founders of Communist China - Zhu Deh, father of the Red army; Foreign Minister Chen Yi; and President Liu Shaoqi. Sirin encountered Mao himself during many informal gatherings and observed him in meetings with foreign visitors. The leaders' children, many of whom are prominent in China today, became her friends. Two years into her stay in China, the Thai government was overthrown and her father was jailed. Sirin and her brother assumed they would return home; instead, Premier Zhou told them, "You are now children of China." It would be years before she had any contact with her family in Thailand again. In 1966, while Sirin was attending Beijing University, the Cultural Revolution began, and the world she had come to know, and love, was torn apart. Her Japanese fiance was forced to leave the country and Sirin was made to denounce her brother and father, who had come to China carrying a message from Lyndon Johnson, over Radio Beijing. Under attack himself, Zhou could save her only by sending her into hiding deep in the heart of rural China. There, and later in a factory in Beijing, Sirin endured a life far harsher, and far more dangerous, than she had ever imagined. In 1970, fourteen years after Sirin first arrived in China for what her father had told her would be an "adventure," Zhou signed papers to get her secretly to England. Ironically, Sirin's relationship with China was just beginning. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE |
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| Information code or alphabet |
66876 |
| 600 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Phathanothai, Sirin |
| 650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Biography. |
| Geographic subdivision |
Thailand |
| 650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Realtions China |
| Geographic subdivision |
Thailand |
| 650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Relations Thailand. |
| Geographic subdivision |
China |
| 650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Social life |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Relator code |
Joint Author |
| Personal name |
Peck, James |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
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| Koha item type |
900 - 999 |