News from the Old Country

Jonathan Spence

  • Qian Mu and the World of Seven Mansions by Jerry Dennerline
    Yale, 192 pp, £18.00, March 1989, ISBN 0 300 04296 5

At once the simplest and the hardest question one can ask if one studies China is ‘What does it mean to be Chinese?’ The question has real immediacy as the multilayered Chinese communities in Hong Kong and Taiwan, South-East Asia and Australia, Western Europe and the United States, try to make sense of what the Chinese Communist Government has just done to hundreds of its own young people.

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