Volume 26, Number 3 · March 8, 1979

The New Two China Problem

By John K. Fairbank
Chinese Economy Post-Mao, A Compendium of Papers Volume 1: Policy and Performance States, November 9, 1978.
printed for the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United

US Government Printing Office, 880 pp., $7.00

The Future of China: After Mao
by Ross Terrill

Dell, 331 pp., $4.95 (paper)

China Since Mao
by Charles Bettelheim, by Neil G. Burton

Monthly Review Press, 130 pp., $2.50 (paper)

China: The People's Republic, 1949-1976
by Jean Chesneaux, translated by Paul Auster, by Lydia Davis

Pantheon Books, 255 pp., $4.95 (paper)

The Case of the Gang of Four: With First Translation of Teng Hsiao-ping's "Three Poisonous Weeds"
by Chi Hsin

Cosmos Books (Hong Kong), 295 pp., $3.95 (paper)

Teng Hsiao-ping: A Political Biography
by Chi Hsin

Cosmos Books (Hong Kong), 273 pp., $3.95 (paper)

Political Imprisonment in the People's Republic of China
An Amnesty International Report

Amnesty International Publications, Random House, 171 pp., $3.95 (paper)

Opposition and Dissent in Contemporary China
by Peter R. Moody

Hoover Institution Press, 342 pp., $14.95

Feminism and Socialism in China
by Elisabeth Croll

Routledge & Kegan Paul, 363 pp., $20.00

As we enjoy the Chinese-American honeymoon this time, it seems fitting that we look before and after. Knowing the periodic Marxist inebriation to be expected of one partner and the whilom anti-red frigidity of the other, can we expect it to last? Have Jimmy Carter and Teng Hsiao-p'ing tied a permanent knot or just begun another cycle in a love-hate relationship? Can the Chinese revolution and the American happening settle down together?



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