Volume 20, Number 17 · November 1, 1973
In Chinese Prisons
By John K. Fairbank
Prisoner of Mao
by Bao Ruo-wang (Jean Pasqualini), by Rudolph Chelminski
Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 318 pp., $8.95
China Behind the Mask
by Warren Phillips, by Robert Keatley
Dow-Jones Books, 151 pp., $2.95 (paper)
A Chinese View of China
by John Gittings
Pantheon, 216 pp., $1.95 (paper)
In the global community of the postcold war world, freedom of individual expression is becoming a universal problem like food and energy. It is at issue on the Watergate and other fronts in the United States, and on the Sakharov-Solzhenitsyn front in Moscow, but will there be any Chinese Sakharovs? China is achieving technological development without political expression for the individual technician. The degree of individual freedom to be expected in the world's crowded future is more uncertain in China than in most places because the Chinese are so well organized and so anti-individualist in custom and doctrine. Are they going to prove individualism out of date?
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