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Article: Riding the silk road to China. (traveling across China)
- Article from:
- The New Leader
- Article date:
- September 21, 1987
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Riding the Silk Road in China
I WENT TO China eager to see it as wholly as I could--not merely as the Party and its political power structure and its often apparently capricious displays of authority, but as a living, growing society whose unofficial collective forces have increasingly been bringing about changes in direction. Most countries, when you reach the hinterlands, turn out to be very different from what political leaders and diplomats and the majority of foreign correspondents perceive in the ambience of the capital. China, I found, is no exception. Beijing is not any better guide to the country's whole reality than Washington is to the whole reality ...