Live Breaking News & Updates on Liu Ch

It can be embarrassing for a China scholar like me to read Eileen Chang’s pellucid prose, written more than sixty years ago, on the early years of the People’s Republic of China. How many cudgels to the head did I need before arriving at comparable clarity? My disillusioning first trip to China in 1973? My reading of the devastating journalism of Liu Binyan in 1980? ....

Chang Li , United States , Ko Shan , Ding Ling , Wikimedia Commons , Karen Kingsbury , Su Nan , Zhang Qianfen , Eileen Chang , Mao Zedong , Marianne Moore , Liu Binyan , George Orwell , Dai Qing , United States Information Service , Remnant Feudal Forces , National People Congress , Nobel Peace , Communist China , Naked Earth , Rice Sprout Song , Poor Farmers , Middling Farmers , Bad Elements , Korean War , Sun Shines ,