Volume 38, Number 10 · May 30, 1991
The Myth of Mao's China
By Jonathan Mirsky
China Misperceived: American Illusions and Chinese Reality
by Steven W. Mosher
A New Republic Book/Basic Books, 260 pp., $19.95
In China Misperceived Steven Mosher strikes back at the profession, clan, or family of China watchers that cast him out. The official reasons have never been made public, although his university, Stanford, hinted at academic misconduct when it dismissed him. It is widely believed in American and British academic circles, however, and Chinese threats gave substance to this belief, that Mosher's real crime, publicly accusing the Chinese government of economic incompetence and forcing women to have abortions, had threatened to undermine Sino-American scholarly relations. Beijing demanded Mosher's academic disgrace as the price for its allowing American social scientists to continue even limited research in China. Stanford has denied that this demand had a part in its decision.
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