Volume 37, Number 7 · April 26, 1990
In A Cruel Country
By Jonathan Mirsky
Legacies: A Chinese Mosaic
by Bette Bao Lord
Knopf, 245 pp., $19.95
A Higher Kind of Loyalty: A Memoir by China's Foremost Journalist
by Liu Binyan
Pantheon, 287 pp., $22.95
'Tell the World': What Happened in China and Why
by Liu Binyan, with Ruan Ming, by Xu Gang, translated by Helen L. Epstein
Pantheon, 195 pp., $18.95
In her disturbing memoir of three and half years in Beijing, Bette Bao Lord, the author of the novel Spring Moon and wife of Winston Lord, the American ambassador until just before the Beijing killings, retells a traditional story which is wholly appropriate to Party rule in China:
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