From Library Journal
Chinese journalist Yi and his American co-author Thompson have written a well-informed review for nonspecialist readers of the Chinese democracy movement that ended so tragically. They correct the U.S. media view of these events--noting for example, that by democracy most Chinese students meant greater government accountability, not a Western-style political system. Highly critical of Deng Xiaoping and the Chinese hardliners, the authors see the idealistic students as the harbingers of a new and more humane Chinese democratic socialism. For more on Deng Xiaoping's reform plans, see James M. Ethridge's China's Unfinished Revolution , reviewed in this issue, below.--Ed. They also have written a very interesting section on the role of the press, have included some of the most important documents from both sides, and supply a useful chronology. For all general collections.
- Steven I. Levine, Duke Univ., Durham, N.C.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Steven I. Levine, Duke Univ., Durham, N.C.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
