Books in Brief: The Great Chinese Revolution: 1800-1985

The Great Chinese Revolution: 1800-1985, by John King Fairbank (Harper & Row, 396 pp., $20.95)

One opens this book with anticipation. Professor Fairbank’s basic position on Chinese developments over the years, especially since 1949, has been, “Whatever is in China, is right.”

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Richard Brookhiser

Historian Richard Brookhiser is a senior editor of National Review and a senior fellow at the National Review Institute.

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The Great Chinese Revolution: 1800-1985, by John King Fairbank (Harper & Row, 396 pp., $20.95)

One opens this book with anticipation. Professor Fairbank’s basic position on Chinese developments over the years, especially since 1949, has been, “Whatever is in China, is right.”