cover image China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power

China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power

Nicholas D. Kristof. Vintage Books USA, $16.95 (528pp) ISBN 978-0-679-76393-2

The husband-and-wife team of Kristoff and Wudunn, whose reporting of the Tiananmen Square massacre for the New York Times earned them a Pulitzer prize, range from Beijing to the Tibetan highlands in their illuminating look at the changes and contradictions unfolding within Chinese society. (Aug.)