Volume 28, Number 6 · April 16, 1981
Drop by Drop
By John K. Fairbank
"Watch Out for the Foreign Guests!" China Encounters the West
by Orville Schell
Pantheon Books, 178 pp., $8.95
Orville Schell's deft reporting catches a Chinese yearning for American things and ways that many Americans will encounter in times to come. It is an aspect of Chinese life, however, that needs to be kept in a well-informed perspective, lest we mistake it for a wave of the future.
Review, 1698 words
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