Sifting the sediments; China, past and present.

From: The Economist (US) | Date: May 20, 2006 | Copyright information

EVENTS in China, says Peter Hessler, are like splashes of foam on the surface of a great sea change. Even the significance of happenings that were hugely important at the time--the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989, for example, or the angry anti-American protests after the bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade in 1999--seems to become less certain over time. So how to understand things? Luckily for his readers, Mr Hessler, a former Peace Corps volunteer teacher and now Beijing correspondent of the New Yorker, has stepped off the treadmill of events-driven journalism to ...

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