China and East Asia: September 2002

Waiting for China's Lech Walesa

By: Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom

Description: "Has the Chinese body politic finally been infected by what Beijing officials have sometimes dubbed the 'Polish disease' . . . ? Could China's 2002 turn out to be like Poland's 1981, a turning-point year when cleansing fevers (to invert the medical metaphor) began to take effect?"

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