Harold Robert Isaacs

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Harold Robert Isaacs was an American journalist and political scientist. Born in 1910 in New York City, Harold Isaacs began his newspaper career covering church sermons for The New York Times while still a junior at Columbia College. He worked his way across the Pacific as a bellhop on a luxury liner and as a wiper in the engine room of a freighter. Isaacs went to China in 1930 and became involved with left wing politics in Shanghai and wrote The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution, of the Chinese Revolution of 1925-27, first published with a preface by Leon Trotsky. He covered World War II in Southeast Asia and China for Newsweek Magazine. In 1953 he joined the department of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In the following years he published Scratches on our Minds: American Images of China and India, American Jews in Israel and The New World of Negro Americans, among others. In 1980, he returned to China with his wife, Viola, and wrote an account of the visit, Re-Encounters in China.

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Scratches on our minds
Representative edition published 1997
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Idols of the tribe
Representative edition published 1997
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Re-encounters in China
Representative edition published 1985
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Power and identity
Representative edition published 1979
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Straw Sandals, Chinese Short Stories, 1918-1933
Representative edition published 1979
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Straw sandals; Chinese short stories, 1918-1933
Representative edition published 1974
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Images of Asia
Representative edition published 1972
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American Jews in Israel
Representative edition published 1967
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No peace for Asia
Representative edition published 1967
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India's ex-Untouchables
Representative edition published 1965
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The new world of Negro Americans
Representative edition published 1963
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Emergent Americans; a report on "Crossroads Africa."
Representative edition published 1961
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The tragedy of the Chinese revolution
Representative edition published 1961
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Scratches on Our Minds
Representative edition published 1958
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Meiguo de Zhongguo xing xiang (Xi fang shi ye li de Zhongguo xing xiang)
Representative edition published 1999
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No Peace for Asia
Representative edition published 1967
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Re-encounters in China
Representative edition published 1955
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How to deal with genuine revolution
Representative edition published 1952
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Two-thirds of the world
Representative edition published 1950
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Draft survey of materials relating to communism in China, 1927-1934
Representative edition published 1948
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New cycle in Asia
Representative edition published 1947
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