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Leading Chinese
Winston Churchill, the British Prime Minister, is reputed to have described 20th-century China as a puzzle wrapped in an enigma surrounded by a mystery. David Strand offers a less dramatic but no less revealing perspective on modern-day Chinese society. Professor Strand is the author of a forthcoming study of leadership and political order in the People’s Republic under Sun yat-Sen.
The Hundred Secret Senses
“Novelist Amy Tan discusses her latest best-seller, The Hundred Secret Senses, an evocation of sisterhood and family secrets in modern San Francisco and 19th-century China.” [Wayne Pond]
The China Trade
Jin Di talks about his translation into Chinese of James Joyce’s classic work, Ulysses. Frederic Wakeman discusses the Chinese-American slave trade during the 19th-century.
Bodies of Knowledge
Caoline Bynum discusses Fragmentation and Redemption, her book of essays about gender and the human body in medieval religion. Patricia Ebrey discusses The Inner Quarters, a study of marriage and social manners in medieval China.
Chinese-American Crosscurrents
Jing Wang discusses human rights and American popular culture in mainland China. Cho-Yun Hsu discusses political crosscurrents between China nad the United States.
The Civil Society Part 4
Eduardo Rabossi discusses human rights in Argentina. Zhang Zhilian discusses intellectuals and politics in contemporary China.
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Houses on Fire
Ariel Dorfman discusses his most recent collection of stories, My House is on Fire (Viking, 1990). Gao Xi-Qing and Jonathan Ocko discuss political reform in the People’s Republic of China.
Chinese Justice
Jonathen Ocko discusses his study of Chinese justice between the 17th and early 20th-centuries, a project entitled Pingfan, Righting Wrongs: Concepts of Justice in Late Imperial China.
Culture and Politics in Asia and the Far East
Asia and the Far East–parts of the world still little known to most Americans. Toward an understanding of two very different but important aspects of societies and cultures in Asia and the Far East, Soundings presents discussions with Donald Horowitz about ethnicity and politics in Asia and with Zhao Jinglun about social and political reform in contemporary China.