Volume 43, Number 20 · December 19, 1996
The Risks of Witness
By Jonathan D. Spence
Troublemaker: One Man's Crusade Against China's Cruelty
by Harry Wu
Times Books, 328 pp., $25.00
With this, the third book that Harry Wu has published about China's forced-labor prison camp system, we can see that he has been moving on a discernible trajectory, one that has taken him from the world of reality to the world of appearance. In this, we might observe, he seems to mirror the temper of the times, and especially our current approaches to politics and to foreign policy.
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