China Briefing, 1981
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About the Book and Editors
China Briefing, 1981 edited by Robert B. Oxnam and Richard C. Bush
As China begins the 1980s, it faces perplexing questions, both old and new: Will the system that has evolved since 1949 accept daring political and economic reforms? Can the Chinese leadership end, once and for all, the contentious debate over the Cultural Revolution and the leadership of Mao Zedong? Can it strengthen currently frayed bonds of loyalty between a battered state and a skeptical society? What will a new administration in Washington mean to U.S.-China relations? These and other questions are addressed by China specialists in China Briefing, 1981, prepared by the China Council of The Asia Society. The annual's up-to-date reviews of the crucial issues facing China today will be of interest to all China watchers.
Robert B. Oxnam, now president of The Asia Society, directed the Society's China Council in 1975-1981 and its Washington Center in 1979-1981. Among his publications are Ruling from Horseback, Dragon and Eagle (coedited with Michel Oksenberg), and China Briefing, 1980 (coedited with Richard C. Bush).
Richard C. Bush is program associate of The Asia Society's China Council and Washington Center. He is coeditor (with Robert Oxnam) of China Briefing, 1980, and is co-compiler (with James Townsend) of The People's Republic of China: A Basic Handbook.
China Briefing, 1981
edited by
Robert B. Oxnam
and Richard C. Bush
Published in Cooperation with the China Council of The Asia Society, Inc.
First published 1981 by Westview Press
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Main entry under title:
China briefing, 1981.
Includes index.
1. China--History--1976- --Addresses, essays, lectures. I. Oxnam,
Robert B. II. Bush, Richard Clarence, 1947
DS779.2.C442 951.05'8 81-12973
ISBN 0-86531-256-7 AACR2
ISBN 13: 978-0-367-01893-1 (hbk)
Contents
, Irv Drasnin
Robert B. Oxnam
Richard C. Bush
Richard Baum
Bruce L. Reynolds
Thomas B. Gold
Deborah Davis-Friedmann
John Bryan Starr
Richard Baum is professor of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received his doctorate in Chinese politics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1970, and has written widely on China's politics and modernization. Most recently he was editor of China's Four Modernizations: The New Technological Revolution , published by ffestview Press in 1980.
Richard C. Bush is a program associate of The Asia Society's China Council and Washington Center. He studied Chinese politics at Columbia University. He is coeditor (with Robert Oxnam) of China Briefing, 1980 , and co-compiler (with James Townsendl of The People's Republic of China: A Basic Handbook .
Deborah Davis-Friedmann is a professor of sociology at Yale University. She did her graduate work at Boston University and Harvard University, specializing on the elderly in Chinese society. She did field work in both Hong Kong and China, where she was one of the first American scholars to do research since 1949. The results of her research will be published in Long Life: Aging and Old Age in the People's Republic of China , forthcoming in 1982.
Thomas B. Gold is a Harvard-trained sociologist. He was an exchange student at Fudan University in Shanghai from early 1979 to early 1980 (he has also studied in Taiwan). He has interpreted for a number of high-level Chinese delegations visiting the United States, and is currently completing his doctoral thesis on the economic development of Taiwan.
Robert B. Oxnam is president of The Asia Society. He directed The Society's China Council from 1975-81 and its Washington Center from 1979-81. He received his doctorate in Chinese history from Yale University. Among
his publications are Ruling from Horseback , Dragon and Eagle (coedited with Michel Oksenberg), and China Briefing , 1980 (coedited with Richard Bush).
Bruce L. Reynolds is professor of economics at Union College in Schenectady, New York. He holds a doctorate from the University of Michigan, and has published many articles on the Chinese economy. He did research in China during the first half of 1981.
John Bryan Starr did his graduate work at the University of California at Berkeley, where he subsequently taught for six years. His doctoral dissertation was published in 1979, under the title Continuing the Revolution: The Political Thought of Mao . During 1978-79) he was project director for a policy panel on the future of US-China relations sponsored by the United Nations Association of the United States of America. In mid-1979 he became executive director of The Yale-China Association.
