Volume 36, Number 12 · July 20, 1989
The Curse of the Man Who Could See the Little Fish at the Bottom of the Ocean
By Simon Leys
Since the Beijing massacres, the question has already been put bluntly to me several times: 'Why were most of our pundits so constantly wrong on the subject of China? What enabled you and a tiny minority of critics to see things as they really were, and why did hardly anyone ever listen to you?'
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