Wu Jisong Looks at the World -- Snowy Northern Europe

Author: Wu Jisong
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: In this travelogue, I document the history of my family's foreign affairs, starting from my uncle's journey to Japan in 1917, my father's travel to Britain in 1936, my relatives' move to the Soviet Union in 1958, and ending with my flight to France in 1979. It spans 85 years, nearly a century, a century worth recording. This century is unprecedented in human history for its dramatic upheavals and earth-shaking changes. It is the only century in which humanity has experienced two world wars. In this century, the world's most powerful nation shifted from Britain to the United States; in this century, the Soviet Union emerged as a social state, yet its 74-year history ended abruptly; in this century, China transformed from a humiliated, impoverished feudal country into a dignified and powerful socialist nation; and in this century, the continents of Asia, Central and South America, Africa, and Australia truly ended colonial rule.