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Losing the New China: A Story of American Commerce, Desire and Betrayal, by Ethan Gutmann (Encounter, 253 pp., $25.95)
EVERY once in a while comes a book to stir your slumber, and this is one. It is about the New China, and just how new it is--how decent or promising. Ethan Gutmann set out to work in Beijing full of enthusiasm. (This was in the late 1990s.) He was a believer in "the power of free enterprise to transform societies," and, besides, he had "the China bug." He was not a naif, mind you. He disregarded the "China optimists," who "pointed to the incremental evolution of the ruling Communist Party as if this justified unrestrained engagement," and also ...
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