Volume 51, Number 8 · May 13, 2004
The Party Isn't Over
By Jonathan Mirsky
Red Capitalists in China: The Party, Private Entrepreneurs, and Prospects for Political Change
by Bruce J. Dickson
Cambridge University Press, 187 pp., $65.00; $23.00 (paper)
Beyond Tiananmen: The Politics of US–China Relations, 1989–2000
by Robert L. Suettinger
Brookings Institution, 556 pp., $39.95
Early in the years following China's post-Mao reforms, a Chinese sociologist told Princeton's Perry Link, 'We're like a big fish that has been pulled from the water and is flopping wildly to find its way back in. In such a condition the fish never asks where the next flip or flop will bring it. It senses only that its present position is intolerable and that something else must be tried.'[1] Now that China's economy is being hugely transformed, will this bring political change? And if it happens, will the change be incremental or radical? Either way, can the Communist Party survive?
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