Abstract

China is much in the news these days. The Cox report in Shanghai boosters say that by the mid-1990s, 20 percent of the world's construction cranes were toiling away in their particular-see page 17-~accuses it of systematically pil~ city. A glance at the futuristic city-within-a-city called the fering American high technology, notto mention classified data about nuclear weapons. On the following pages you Pudong New Area, which you see here, suggests that they may well be right. Ten years ago these skyscrapers did not will find essays that describe how the United States can exist. Today, in style and scale they rival anything in Man­ build a constructive relationship with China far into the hattan or Chicago. next century; that depict the hold-on-to-power-at-any-cost Shanghai is the "Dragon Head" of the new China, a ethos of China's leaders; that explore parallels between to­ nominally communist country that zealously promotes en­ day's hysteria regarding China and yesterday's communist trepreneurial values and cherishes the profit motive. Once witch hunts; that analyze how much of a nuclear threat so insular that commercial trade with the West was China really is; and that sort out how problems with pollu­ banned, today's China is so