Traces long-term trends in China, considering whether current developments favour the emergence of a pluralistic civil society or the preservation of State-controlled society, either in its Marxist-Leninist guise or in a modernizing authoritarian reincarnation.
An expansion and recasting of the observations made by 9 members of the Yomiuri Task Force who visited Communist China in 1966 and 1967
Presents the events subsequent to World War II in various nations of Asia
Presents four translated documents, dated between December 1975 and October 1977, that reveal the existence of wide ideological controversy. Taken together, these four documents present a picture of extraordinary political vitality in China and contribute to our understanding of ideological currents and factions in China.
Tells of a fleet of Chinese treasure ships and seven epic voyages between 1405 and 1433