cover image Mandate of Heaven: The Legacy of Tiananmen Square and the Next Generation of China's Leaders

Mandate of Heaven: The Legacy of Tiananmen Square and the Next Generation of China's Leaders

Orville Schell. Simon & Schuster, $15 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-684-80447-7

Schell examines the new cultural and economic parameters in China in the wake of the Tiananmen Square massacre and subsequent crackdown, showing a country where entrepreneurial ambition and pop-culture irony have replaced the pieties of the Mao era. (Sept.)