Volume 35, Number 17 · November 10, 1988
Roots of Revolution
By John K. Fairbank
Ancestors: 900 Years in the Life of a Chinese Family
by Frank Ching
Morrow, 528 pp., $22.95
Half of Man Is Woman
by Zhang Xianliang, translated by Martha Avery
Norton, 253 pp., $17.95
The books by Frank Ching and Zhang Xianliang are vastly different in content, aim, and style, as opposite as yang and yin. Yet each casts light on the Cultural Revolution. Considered together, they may even begin to explain it.
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