THE STANDARD READER
The Standard Reader Books in Brief The Coming Collapse of Ch na, by Gordon G. Chan (Random House, 320 pp $26.95). When, in the ear 1970s, Soviet dissiden Andrei Amalrik wrote Will the Sov Union...
...Covering a range of issues—sexual harassment, family leave, women's athletics, affirmative action—The Feminist Dilemma provides a comprehensive critique of the practical program of feminism...
...In The Feminist Dilemma, Diana Furchtgott-Roth and Christine Stolba explain why...
...When, in the ear 1970s, Soviet dissiden Andrei Amalrik wrote Will the Sov Union Survive Until 1984?, he wa wrong about the date, but right abou the collapse...
...A 1999 report showed that 89 percen had distorted their profit-and-loss statements in the previous year...
...In "about five years," the combination of economic collapse, outrage at the Communists' corruption, and nationalistic anti-Han rage in Tibet and Xinjiang, will combine to bring about in China the process of collapse that characterized communism's demise in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union...
...Outside observe put that figure at closer to 70 percen When China joins the World Trac Organization next year, Chang note large segments of China's agricultural economy will succumb to international competition, creating massive unemployment: tens of millions of angry, perhaps desperate indigents...
...Furchtgott-Roth and Stolba convincingly expose these spurious rationalizations and reveal the aims of American feminism, and the surprising, often quiet, means that feminists have employed to achieve them...
...Stranger things have happened...
...What if China's Communists transform themselves into an ultra-nationalist party, popular—at least initially—because of tough nationalist stances on Xinjiang, Tibet, and Taiwan...
...The collapse of the empire in 1911 brought to power a Hawaiian-educated Chinese Christian called Sun Yat-sen...
...Have you ever noticed how the debate over affirmative action usually turns on issues of race, rather than sex, even though women are the principal beneficiaries of preferential treatment...
...The result is that affirmative action for women is seldom openly debated...
...Chang's reporting and writing is often pithy and funny...
...Democrats know that the case for "gender" preferences is extraordinarily weak...
...Stanley Kurtz...
...Republicans are afraid of losing the "women's vote...
...He wasn't a good politician, but he is still admired by both Chinese Communists and anti-Com-munists—which suggests there is hope for a less apocalyptic end than Chang predicts...
...Now Gordon Chang, American lawyer who has worked China for two decades, has written acerbic analysis of China's economi social, and political problems—and predicted that within five years Chin will collapse into post-Communi fiefdoms, possibly as the result of ec nomic upheaval, possibly as the result of war with Taiwan, which Chan thinks China will lose...
...He offers an insider's account of business negotiations, and he notes the rise of heterodox belief systems with the Falun Gong and China's burgeoning Christian house-church population...
...Where he is not as persuasive is in spelling out how China's collapse is likely to occur...
...The end will not be pretty...
...Although most Americans support equal opportunity for women, few favor state-imposed androgyny...
...A Bank of China report indicates that percent of Chinese bank loans are non-performing...
...Under a less pessimistic scenario, a rump group of Communist leaders might bring forth a Chinese Gorbachev...
...China's leaders," Chang writes, "have not been able to recognize what the rest of the world already knows: socialism, with or without 'Chinese characteristics,' does not work...
...Chang focuses on the economic problems facing Beijing—especial the impending bankruptcy of many of China's state-owned enterprises...
...David Aikman The Feminist Dilemma: When Success Is Not Enough, by Diana Furchtgott-Roth and Christine Stolba (AEI, 228 pp., $25...
...But socially engineered androgyny is exactly what comparable worth, subsidized childcare, and a host of other feminist sponsored initiatives are all about—sold as remedies to the "wage gap" and "glass ceiling...
...There will be blood, because the Chinese Communist party, born of struggle, will not yield with grace...
Vol. 7 • February 2002 • No. 20
