China in Search of Its Future

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THE ONE CHINA BOOK THAT STOOD THE TEST OF TIANANMEN, NOW FULLY UPDATED WITH A GUIDE TO THE POWER STRUGGLES OF THE 1990S, AFTER DENG XIAOPING. "John Woodruff's book is an excellent, perceptive, up-to-date, and balanced journalist's report on the extraordinary changes that have occurred in China during the past decade of reform under Deng Xiaoping. Through both analysis and anecdotes, Woodruff illuminates trends in the countryside as well as in cities, and in a personal and extremely interesting fashion he discusses the views of a wide spectrum of groups in China. The book deserves a wide audience, including all who wish to understand the fascinating transformation occurring in China and throughout the Communist world." -A. Doak Barnett, Professor of Chinese Studies, The Johns Hopkins University "Against the unsettled aftermath of Tiananmen's tumult, John Woodruff's timely tome becomes all the more remarkable for its prescience. It stands as both a valuable and central interpretation... Tovább

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THE ONE CHINA BOOK THAT STOOD THE TEST OF TIANANMEN, NOW FULLY UPDATED WITH A GUIDE TO THE POWER STRUGGLES OF THE 1990S, AFTER DENG XIAOPING. "John Woodruff's book is an excellent, perceptive, up-to-date, and balanced journalist's report on the extraordinary changes that have occurred in China during the past decade of reform under Deng Xiaoping. Through both analysis and anecdotes, Woodruff illuminates trends in the countryside as well as in cities, and in a personal and extremely interesting fashion he discusses the views of a wide spectrum of groups in China. The book deserves a wide audience, including all who wish to understand the fascinating transformation occurring in China and throughout the Communist world." -A. Doak Barnett, Professor of Chinese Studies, The Johns Hopkins University "Against the unsettled aftermath of Tiananmen's tumult, John Woodruff's timely tome becomes all the more remarkable for its prescience. It stands as both a valuable and central interpretation of today's China and an indispensable reference for all those interested in East Asia. "Weaving incisive analysis with eminently vivid anecdotes, the author, who resided as The Baltimore Sun's correspondent during 1982-1987, provides an objective, dispassionate perspective of Deng Xiaoping's China. The deeply rooted schism between conservative Communist ideology and free-market reform, ever prevalent in modern China's psyche, is given the treatment it deserves. "Woodruff's work is both comprehensive and balanced. He is an unusually sensitive author who offers sharp and provocative insights into modern China's complexities and contradictions." -Ross Quan, Foreign Service Journal "Valuable. ..details the premonitory stirrings of the present crisis [As he] prefigures great events...Woodruff can be measured fairly highly...testimony to his faculty of observation.. .exciting.. .excellent chapters on corruption and pollution." -Christopher Hitchens, Newsday "Anyone interested in China's future should ponder Woodruff's inspection of its radical, butfragile, reforms." -Chicago Tribüné "An important book: a thoughtf ul interpretation of China-not just Beijing-during the apogee of Deng's influence." -Michel Oksenberg Vissza