Charlotte Y. Salisbury (1914–2012)
Auteur de Russian Diary
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de Charlotte Y. Salisbury
Mountaintop Kingdom: Sikkim. 2 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Salisbury, Charlotte Y.
- Nom légal
- Salisbury, Charlotte Young
- Date de naissance
- 1914-03-12
- Date de décès
- 2012-04-25
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Weston, Massachusetts, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Salisbury, Connecticut, USA
- Études
- Winsor School
Dobbs School - Professions
- travel writer
model - Relations
- Young, Benjamin Loring (father)
Salisbury, Harrison (husband) - Organisations
- John Robert Powers
- Courte biographie
- Charlotte Y. Salisbury was born in Weston, Massachusetts, in 1914. She was the mother of four children: Charlotte Boyer Parkinson, Ellen Rand, Rosina Rand, and Curtis Rand. She married Allston Boyer in 1934; they had a daughter Charlotte. After divorcing Boyer, she married her second husband John A. Rand and they had three children: Ellen, Rosina, and Curtis. In 1955, she married New York Times foreign correspondent Harrison Salisbury. She was the author of a number of books detailing her life while living abroad while married to Salisbury . These include Asian Diary (1967), Russian Diary (1974), Tibetan Diary (1981), and Long March Diary: China Epic (1986). She died at the age of ninety-eight on April 25, 2012 in Salisbury, Connecticut.
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 6
- Membres
- 52
- Popularité
- #307,430
- Évaluation
- 2.7
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 5
Admitted to traveling through China in 1972, the Salisburys, Charlotte and Harrison, were among the first visitors since 1966, the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, which in fact had not finished while they were there. During this six week trip, they visited various big cities, such as Beijing, Shanghai, Wuhan, Changsha and Xi'an, as well as rural areas and the revolutionary base at Yan'an. They were welcomed and met by Prime-Minister Zhou Enlai and Soong Qing-Ling, which exemplifies that they were not ordinary travellers. Harrison Salisbury was a respected journalist who often reported from Communist countries and who opposed the Vietnam War very early on.
China in 1972 was a baffling experience, even to seasoned travellers, and the cultural differences were still towering.
Charlotte Y. Salisbury's China Diary is rather tame and not very spectacular. It duly describes the plodding on their journey, recording mostly minor details. At the end of the book a list of "Do's and Don'ts for traveling in China" is included.… (plus d'informations)