Playing the China Card Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World By Margaret MacMillan Random House. 432 pp. $27.95. Reviewed by Valentin Chu Author, “Ta Ta, Tan Tan...
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Mao's Nemesis in New York Henry R. Luce, Time and the American Crusade in Asia By Robert E. Herzstein Cambridge. 346 pp. $32.00. Reviewed by Valentin Chu Author, "Ta Ta, Tan Tan (Fight...
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A Traveler's Notebook The China Paradox By Valentin Chu Communism in China is dead, but the Communist Party is thriving. That is the stunning paradox of the prosperity one sees while...
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POWER STRUGGLE IN PEKING The Madame Mao Melodrama by VALENTIN CHU The events surrounding the precipitous downfall of Chairman Mao Tse-Tung's widow, Chiang Ching, are part of a continuing...
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Capturing the Mind MASS PERSUASION IN COMMUNIST CHINA By Frederick T. C. Yu Praeger. 186 pp. $5.00. Reviewed by VALENTIN CHU Author, "Ta Ta, Tan Tan— Fight Fight, Talk Talk" In the mass...
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The Famine-Makers a report on why china is starving By Valentin Chu In the third century ß. c. the ruler of a Chinese kingdom suffering from a severe famine sought advice from the sage...
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Communist China's First Decade It will be ten years come October that the Chinese Communists completed their sweep of the mainland, proclaimed the "People's Republic/' and so propelled China into...
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