Volume 45, Number 13 · August 13, 1998
Democratic Vistas?
By Jonathan Mirsky
China's Transition
by Andrew J. Nathan
Columbia University Press, 313 pp., $27.50
Democratization in China and Taiwan: The Adaptability of Leninist Parties
by Bruce J. Dickson
Clarendon Press/Oxford University Press, 276 pp., $69.00
The Political Economy of Corruption in China
by Julia Kwong
M.E. Sharpe, 175 pp., $24.95 (paper)
Beyond Beijing: Liberalization and the Regions in China
by Dali L. Yang
Routledge, 199 pp., $65.00
In August 1980 Deng Xiaoping laid down the Communist Party's view of democracy. It continues to cripple China and is used both inside the country and by its apologists abroad to avoid the issue of repression. Deng said:
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