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Richard Bernstein was born to a Jewish family in New York City but grew up on a poultry farm in East Haddam, Connecticut.
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Richard Bernstein: China 1945 : Mao's Revolution and America's Fateful Choice (Hardcover); 2014 Edition
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Richard Bernstein
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Harvard University.
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He writes the Letter from America column for The International Herald Tribune. He was a book critic at The New York Times and a foreign correspondent for both Time magazine and The New York Times in Europe and Asia. After graduating from Nathan Hale-Ray High School, he earned a Bachelor of Arts in history from the University of Connecticut and an Master of Arts in History and East Asian Languages from Harvard University.
In 1971, he moved to Taiwan to study Chinese.
In 1973, Bernstein joined the staff of Time magazine tasked with writing about Asia. In 1979, he opened the magazine"s first bureau in the People"s Republic of China and served as the first Beijing bureau chief
In 1982, he accepted a position with the The New York Times where he served as the United Nations Bureau Chief, Paris Bureau Chief, National Cultural Correspondent, book critic, and Berlin Bureau Chief.
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