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

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)