reviewed by Anton Graham Over the past few years, there have been many books by foreigners on China, but very few by Chinese writers. Frank Ching's Ancestors helps to redress…
THE HONGKONG CRISIS by Gregor Benton, Pluto Press, A$9.95 If the subject -- the future of Hongkong -- was not so serious, this book would be a joke. As it…
Chairman mao's massive mausoleum in the centre of Peking was re-opened yesterday with several rooms given over to exhibits of other communist leaders, in line with strongman Teng hsiaping's policy…
When the communist Chinese armies marched into shanghai in 1949, they were determined to destroy that city's huge and important foreign business community, and destroy it they did. The centre…
China's paramount leader, Deng Xiaoping has finally decided that Maoist radicals are no longer the major threat to the communist party's rule -- the target is now western political and…
For the past five years, China's paramount leader, Deng Xiaoping has been working to construct a political system which will make power struggles a thing of the past, provide for…
Britain and China resumed their talks on the future of Hongkong here last week, as the colony's five million residents looked north helplessly wondering what their present and future masters…
"Your excellency the australian ambassador and wife, ladies and gentlemen, comrades and friends, on behalf of the peking city light industrial import-export corporation, i would like to welcome you all,"…
by Anton Graham What happens to disgraced former members of the chinese politburo? do they get sent home? are they jailed? No. if the experience of chen yonggui is anything…
by Anton Graham The machinations over the recent "resignation" of china's de facto head of state ye jianying are a delightful reminder that chinese politics are just as convoluted and…