Volume 12, Number 11 · June 5, 1969
Still Mysterious
By John K. Fairbank
To Change China: Western Advisers in China 1620-1960
by Jonathan Spence
Little, Brown, 293 pp., $7.95
China and the West
by Wolfgang Franke, translated by R.A. Wilson
University of South Carolina, 166 pp., $5.95
Within mainland China today the ratio of Westerners to Chinese is probably no greater than it was in Marco Polo's time seven hundred years ago. Sinoforeign contact is so minimal that it almost meets the old Taoist stay-at-home ideal, 'to live hearing the dogs bark in the next village but never go there.' Peking and Washington indeed monitor each other's barking, but they meet only in Poland. How long can China and the USA, set as they are behind their respective defenses of Mao-inspired manpower and electronic super-weapons, continue to grow in population and in power and yet coexist in peace?
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