Volume 44, Number 1 · January 9, 1997
China: The Defining Moment
By Jonathan Mirsky
The Legacy of Tiananmen: China in Disarray
by James Miles
University of Michigan Press, 379 pp., $29.95
The evolution of the People's Republic of China since its founding in 1949 has been tumultuous and bloody, and marked by the suffering of millions. It has been anything but peaceful. Yet it is precisely the prospect of 'peaceful evolution,' which in Peking has the special meaning of the undermining of Party authority by Western 'bourgeois liberalism,' that worries Chinese leaders. This explains why in 1992 Deng Xiaoping, already so infirm of speech that only his daughters could understand him and retransmit his utterances to a wider audience, said,
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