Sino-Americana
Perry Anderson, 9 February 2012
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
by Ezra Vogel.
Harvard, 876 pp., £29.95, September 2011,978 0 674 05544 5 Show More
by Ezra Vogel.
Harvard, 876 pp., £29.95, September 2011,
The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China
by Jay Taylor.
Harvard, 736 pp., £14.95, April 2011,978 0 674 06049 4 Show More
by Jay Taylor.
Harvard, 736 pp., £14.95, April 2011,
“... what’s in it for us?’ Rather than Sinology proper, they are Sino-Americana. Ezra Vogel’s biography of Deng Xiaoping is an instructive example. Detached for duties on the National Intelligence Council under Clinton (he assures the reader that the CIA has vetted his book for improper disclosures), ... ”
