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Article: The great Chinese revolution: 1800-1895.
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- National Review
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- February 27, 1987
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The Great Chinese Revolution: 1800-1985,
by John King Fairbank (Harper &Row, 396 pp., $20.95)
ONE OPENS this book with anticipation.Professor Fairbank's basic position on Chinese developments over the years, especially since 1949, has been, "Whatever is in China, is right.' This has led him into certain grotesque judgments (e.g., "the Maoist revolution is, on the whole, the best thing that has happened to the ...