Books, Arts & Manners: China, Outside and In

China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power, by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn (Times Books, 501 pp., $25)

The Private Life of Chairman Mao: The Memoirs of Mao’s Personal Physician, by Dr. Li Zhishui (Random, 628 pp., $30)