Volume 18, Number 3 · February 24, 1972
Getting to Know You
By John K. Fairbank
The New York Times Report from Red China
by Tillman Durdin, by James Reston, by Seymour Topping, with photographs and additional articles by Audrey Topping, edited with an Introduction by Frank Ching
Quadrangle Books, 367 pp., $6.95
China Returns
by Klaus Mehnert
Dutton, 322 pp., $10.00
The Revenge of Heaven: Journal of a Young Chinese
based on the journal of Ken Ling, with interviews by Dr. Ivan London, by Miriam London
Putnam, 413 pp., $8.95
The Nixon-Chou summit cannot fail because both parties are in trouble. The fact that Chairman Mao has had to get rid of his number-two man twice in succession—Liu Shao-chi'i in 1968 and Lin Piao in 1971—suggests the opposite of calm omnipotence at the top in Peking. Mr. Nixon's troubles at home and abroad seem commensurate. They all suggest a Sino-American detente, perhaps an entente, at least an increase of contact such as a hot line and news exchanges.
Review, 3957 words
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