FOR nearly a decade visitors to China who have returned to write about their findings have promoted their books as being about the "real China." The implication is that what others have been ......View free preview
PEKING The scene is the recent presentation ceremony for China's equivalent of the Academy Awards, just revived for the first time since the Cultural Revolution....View free preview
When he visited New York a month ago to speak at a conference organized by the Chase Manhattan Bank, Bo Yibo, China's Deputy Prime Minister, was at pains to explain to 150 or so leading United States executives that his country's current reassessment of i...View free preview
HONG KONG, Dec. 26--In Shanghai, a group of former capitalists has pooled its resources to form a construction company that advertises that it will build factories for new joint ventures anywhere in China....View free preview
PEKING--At a diplomatic reception not long ago, an American correspondent encountered the general who is serving as deputy president of the 35-judge court that last week began the trial of China's radicals, including Jiang Qing, Mao Zedong's widow....View free preview
CHICAGO, June 6--In a reversal of their positions in the book world in the last few years, China is making a great leap forward, and the Soviet Union appears fairly subdued at the American Booksellers' Association's annual trade exhibition here....View free preview
Not long ago, a 40-year-old bureaucrat in China's sports ministry was discovered having an affair with a woman not his wife. Until then he had been considered a respectable man, a success story in Chinese terms....View free preview
PEKING, July 16--To earn foreign exchange for its modernization program, China has begun exporting workers for construction projects in the Middle East....View free preview
PEKING, Aug. 25--In China, old rulers never fade away, they just die in office or get purged in power struggles. That is, until the National People's Congress convenes on Saturday....View free preview
This spring, China suddenly seemed less interested than it had been in foreign trade. Newspapers carried stories about Chinese trade negotiators packing their bags and going home, about China supposedly cancelling contracts it had already signed. In May a...View free preview