Watching China Change
Author | : Robert C. Cosbey |
Publisher | : Between The Lines |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2001 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781896357430 |
ISBN-13 | : 1896357431 |
Rating | : 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Between May, 1976, while Mao was still alive, and 1997, when Deng Xioaping died, was a time of tremendous change in China: from the "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution" to the affluent eighties and nineties, from socialism to what looks like unrestrained capitalism, and from a mysterious country wrapped in isolation to one of the key players in modern international affairs. It's a dramatic story that involves a fifth of the human race and impinges on the rest. "I am moved to get down on paper my memories and observations about my twenty-five year experience with China. Neither a eulogy nor an exposé, just as honest an account as I can make it of the China I saw and experienced."