Opening Up: China in the Seventies

A visit to China today betrays little of the atmosphere, the feeling of excitement that enveloped the country in those heady days just after the death of Mao in the early days of Deng Xiaoping’s reforms.

Check out China in the early 1970’s and 80’s .
A meeting with Deng Xiaoping.
Early China writings from the Far Eastern Economic Review.
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Trouble in the Eighties: a personal footnote

Tiananmen  Diary

What was permissible and what was not in the China of the early 1980’s was much different from today.
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One of the most emotional times of a reporters career and another sad and disgraceful chapter in Chinese history.
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Tibet: Now and Then

Notes from the Nineties

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It is the chuckle of laughter that you notice first when meeting his Holiness Dalai Lama. Yet Given The Sad Tale of his homeland Tibet, there would seem little to be cheerful about.
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