Chings
Dick Wilson, 27 October 1988
Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train through China
by Paul Theroux.
Hamish Hamilton, 494 pp., £14.95, September 1988,0 241 12547 2 Show More
by Paul Theroux.
Hamish Hamilton, 494 pp., £14.95, September 1988,
Discos and Democracy: China in the Throes of Reform
by Orville Schell.
Pantheon, 384 pp., $19.95, June 1988,9780394568294 Show More
by Orville Schell.
Pantheon, 384 pp., $19.95, June 1988,
The Star Raft: China’s Encounter with Africa
by Philip Snow.
Weidenfeld, 250 pp., £14.95, June 1988,0 297 79081 1 Show More
by Philip Snow.
Weidenfeld, 250 pp., £14.95, June 1988,
Ancestors: Nine Hundred Years in the Life of a Chinese Family
by Frank Ching.
Harrap, 528 pp., £12.95, September 1988,0 245 54675 8 Show More
by Frank Ching.
Harrap, 528 pp., £12.95, September 1988,
“... real China’, each carrying different baggage and each arriving at a different part of the truth. Orville Schell’s Discos and Democracy describes China’s intellectual, artistic and political life during the year 1986. His preconception is that something noble was thrown out with Maoism, to allow all kinds of greed, selfishness, degeneracy and aping ... ”
