cover image China in Search of Its Future: Reform Vs. Repression, 1982-1989

China in Search of Its Future: Reform Vs. Repression, 1982-1989

John Woodruff. Carol Publishing Corporation, $8.95 (308pp) ISBN 978-0-8184-0524-2

Combining travelogue and sociopolitical analysis, Woodruff proposes that the modernizing reforms of the Deng Xiaoping era have a greater chance of enduring than Mao's revolutionary program. To what PW called an ``excellent journalistic account,'' Woodruff has added several chapters dealing with the Tiananmen Square massacre and its aftermath. Photos. (July)