News from the Old Country
Jonathan Spence, 14 September 1989
Qian Mu and the World of Seven Mansions
by Jerry Dennerline.
Yale, 192 pp., £18, March 1989,0 300 04296 5 Show More
by Jerry Dennerline.
Yale, 192 pp., £18, March 1989,
“... what the Chinese Communist Government has just done to hundreds of its own young people. Professor Dennerline offers one of the subtlest, most sensitive and closely-reasoned attempts to answer the question that I have ever seen. The fulcrum for his story is the Chinese historian and philosopher Qian Mu (formerly Romanised as Ch’ien Mu), who lived in China ... ”
