China Yesterday and Today

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China Yesterday and Today

By Jean Highland (Editor)
Jon Livingston (Editor)
Molly Joel Coye (Editor)

ISBN: 9780553238761, 0553238760

Publisher: Bantam Books

Year: 1984

Language: English

Synopsis

Rich , authoritative and fascinating, here is an extraordinary study of China from Imperial times to the startling 1980s. Intimate personal accounts, articles by the most eminent Western observers, and writings by the Chinese themselves provide a penetrating, panoramic years of Chinese society, culture and history.

This edition alsocontains the latest information on today's China, including Deng Xiaoping on "The FOur Modernizations;" Fox Butterfield on daily life in the 80s; Ruth and Victor W.Sidel on China's population problems; John K.Fairbank on the enduring urban/rural dilemma; as well as viewpoints on such divergent topics as art, eduction, human rights, the role of women and foreign policy by such respected CHina authorities as Ross Terrill, Theodore H.White, Edgar Snow, C.P.Fitzgera;d and more.

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