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China Review International: Vol. 1, No. 2, Fall 1994 that appear in the book. The author offers no explanation as to why the Press chose not to provide a glossary. 2.Wan Kuang-chi, Han fu t'ung-lun (Ch'eng-tu: Pa-shu shu-she, 1989), pp. 309-316. 3.See Chung-kuo ku-tien wen-hsüeh yen-chiu nien-chien: 1984 (Shanghai: Shanghai Ku-chi ch'u-ban she, 1987), p. 8, Perry Link. Evening Chats in Beijing: Probing China's Predicament. New York: W W Norton & Company, 1992. xiv, 321 pp. Hardcover $24.95. "Chats" can cover anything under the sun and "evening chats" even more so. The main title of this book suggests that its readers are in store for some lighthearted, lively, and entertaining stuff. This, however, is only half fhe truth. The other, more important half is conveyed by fhe subtitle: Probing China's Predicament, which necessarily calls for serious, intense thinking and qualified scholarship. It is to the author's credit that he manages to fuse the two qualities in one book. The fusion is evident throughout the whole book, but first of all it is manifested in the very choice of the main title itself: Evening Chats in Beijing. For several reasons the deceptively lighthearted tide carries a heavy and even
China Review International – University of Hawai'I Press
Published: Mar 30, 1994
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