Article: The China Fantasy: How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression.(Book review)

The China Fantasy: How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression. By James Mann. New York: Viking Press, 2007. 127 pages. $19.95. Reviewed by Richard Halloran, onetime lieutenant of airborne infantry and formerly a correspondent in Asia for The New York Times.

In good journalistic fashion, James Mann gets right to the point in this slim volume, saying it is about "the views of China that prevail in Washington and the other leading capitals of Europe and Asia and in corporate headquarters around the globe." Formerly a correspondent for the Los Angeles Times in Beijing and then Washington, Mann writes: "One might think that the problems of China's political ...

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