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Chinese Politics in the Late Deng Era

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2009

Lucian W. Pye
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Review Essay
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The China Quarterly , Volume 142 , June 1995 , pp. 573 - 583
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Copyright © The China Quarterly 1995

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1. The central argument of the anti-reforms, Mao-was-right book, Looking at China Through a Third Eye by an anonymous author is that China's peasants need to be shackled to the land because whenever they have become restless it has been a disaster for the country, but today even as autocratic a government as the book seems to idealize would not be able to put the genie back into the bottle.

2. Americans should be able to appreciate the problem Chinese leaders have in doing anything about their state-owned enterprises (which are of course huge welfare operations involving not just support for non-productive “workers” but which also provide housing, schools, health care and retirement support) because Americans have a similar problem with respect to Social Security.