Volume 25, Number 12 · July 20, 1978
The Real China
By Frederic Wakeman
The Execution of Mayor Yin and Other Stories from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
by Chen Jo-hsi, translated by Nancy Ing, by Howard Goldblatt, with an introduction by Simon Leys
Indiana University Press, 220 pp., $8.95
Six years ago Richard Nixon paid his first visit to the People's Republic of China. His handshake with Mao Tsetung—the two men profiled by the photographer's flashbulb against the door of the Chairman's book-lined study—set the seal on a new era in Sino-American relations.[1] In 1960, during his televised debates with John F. Kennedy, Nixon had warned his 'fellow Americans' that China's appetite for global conquest was insatiable.
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