China's Intellectuals: Advise and Dissent: 0000 (Interpretations of Asia) - Tapa blanda

In her marvelously lucid, drily witty, and extremely insightful [book]...Prof. Merle Goldman guides us campaign by cam-paign through the murky waters of...Chinese history, care-fully pointing out at every turn the ways in which the political and intellectual realms (separable in theory but not in practice in contemporary China) have been related to one another...A truly masterful treatment of a complex and important subject. Boston Globe Fascinating...Goldman does a superb job of unraveling the tangled skein of political intrigue to show how ostensibly academic discussions among writers, philosophers, and his-torians actually have been political debates on the question, Whither China?...Goldman's book will undoubtedly find the wide audience it deserves as a first-class treatment of a complex and important subject. New Republic An engrossing and powerfully documented analysis of the difficulties and dangers that Chinese writers experienced when they attempted to challenge Communist party orthodoxies. New York Review of Books As tightly organized, as clearly presented and as carefully documented a history of the country's slide into the Cultural Revolution as we are likely ever to read. Asian Wall Street Journal A highly valuable book...Her book touches issues of general and even universal concern. It deserves to be read by a wide audience. American Historical Review

Suppression and thaw have marked the course of communism in China. Merle Goldman traces that shifting pattern over the last decades of Mao's regime, linking it to the unique role of the intellectual in government. Her engrossing account of the relations between the intellectuals and the governing elites provides a map of understanding to some recent events in the turbulent history of the People's Republic.