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China: A Reality Check: Truth and lies in the Asian behemoth.(a visit to China leaves the impression that the dictatorship remains firmly established)
This summer I spent six weeks in China with my family, traveling all over the country, visiting with friends, relatives, and ex-students. (My wife is mainland-Chinese with a large extended family, and I taught college in China in the early 1980s.) We mainly stayed in the homes of these people-in Beijing, in the Manchurian city of Changchun, in Xi'an, Chongqing, Wuhan, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Hong Kong.
For me the trip was a useful reality check. I have been writing about China for twenty years: two novels and countless articles in the press. Most of this has been based on remote observation: Since leaving China in 1983, I have visited the country only at long ...
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