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Discos And Democracy: China In The Throes Of Reform

Orville Schell
Reviewed by Donald S. Zagoria
Fall 1988
Discos And Democracy: China In The Throes Of Reform
Orville Schell
Pantheon
1988
384 pp.
$19.95
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A vivid, if somewhat sensationalized, account of the transformation of Chinese society since Mao's death. It describes student demonstrations and the purging of dissident intellectuals from the party, and it offers tantalizing glimpses into the new worlds of Chinese bodybuilding, advertising, disco and cosmetic surgery.

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