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The Nature of Chinese Politics: From Mao to Jiang. Edited by Jonathan Unger. [Armonk, NY and London: M. E. Sharpe, 2002. xvi+333 pp. Hard cover $69.95, ISBN 0-7656-0847-2; paperback $25.95, ISBN 0-7656-0848-0.]

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2003

Extract

This latest addition to publisher M. E. Sharpe's Australian National University contemporary China books series comes with a blurb that sends a powerful message of intimidation to the weary reviewer. In it, Richard Baum insists that the book's contents amount to “the distilled wisdom and insight of three generations of distinguished China specialists.” Now, who would want to risk stepping on the toes of one's daughter's, one's own and one's mother's generations in ‘the field’ by saying no?

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Book Review
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© The China Quarterly, 2003

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