Volume 41, Number 11 · June 9, 1994
The Old Man's New China
By Perry Link
'Don't Force Us to Lie': The Struggle of Chinese Journalists in the Reform Era
by Allison Liu Jernow
Committee to Protect Journalists (16 East 42nd Street, New York City, 10017), 167 pp., $20.00 (paper)
Sowing the Seeds of Democracy in China: Political Reform in the Deng Xiaoping Era
by Merle Goldman
Harvard University Press, 426 pp., $39.95
The Rise of China: How Economic Reform is Creating a New Superpower
by William H. Overholt
Norton, 430 pp., $25.00
The Communist Party of China has regularly warned Western observers like Merle Goldman not to interfere in China's internal affairs. China, it says, has its own culturally distinctive ideas on topics like freedom, democracy, and human rights. So how could Goldman write a book about China called Sowing the Seeds of Democracy and dedicate it to her four children 'who may someday see democracy flower in China'? Isn't this cultural imperialism? Who invited her to tell China what to do?
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