Volume 10, Number 6 · March 28, 1968
The Great Wall
By John K. Fairbank
The Red Guard: A Report on Mao's Revolution
by Hans Granquist, translated by Erik J. Friis
Praeger, 159 pp., $5.95
China in the Year 2001
by Han Suyin
Basic Books, 267 pp., $5.95
China Looks at the World, Reflections for a Dialogue: Eight Letters to T'ang-lin
by François Geoffroy-Dechaume, Translated from the French by Jean Stewart, with an Introduction by Paul Mus, a Foreword by the Rt. Hon. Philip Noel-Baker
Pantheon, 237 pp., $4.95
China is so distant, big, and complex that each Marco Polo nowadays tells a different tale. The authors of the three books under review—a cool Swedish journalist, a passionate Chinese true-believer, and a philosophical Frenchman—give very different impressions of Chairman Mao's revolution. Unencumbered by first-hand contact ourselves, we Americans can judge only at second-hand whether Mao's China is working or in deep trouble, expansionist or merely defensive. These questions will become even more interesting if China tries to keep us over the barrel in Vietnam by coming into the war herself.
Review, 3317 words
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