ANNE THURSTON
Since the death of Mao Zedong in
1976, China's moribund communist
dynasty has been at least par-
tially revived. But as Deng
Xiaoping, architect of the restor-
ation, approaches his 89th year,
China finds itself on the brink of
a most uncertain future. Anne
Thurston, a veteran China-watcher
recently returned from the
People's Republic, looks at the
puzzles and contradictions of
the present for clues to where Asia's
greatest dragon may head.
communism ha...
ANNE THURSTON
Since the death of Mao Zedong in
1976, China's moribund communist
dynasty has been at least par-
tially revived. But as Deng
Xiaoping, architect of the restor-
ation, approaches his 89th year,
China finds itself on the brink of
a most uncertain future. Anne
Thurston, a veteran China-watcher
recently returned from the
People's Republic, looks at the
puzzles and contradictions of
the present for clues to where Asia's
greatest dragon may head.
communism ha...
The field of contemporary China studies has never been short on punditry, but recent years have witnessed an out-pouring of essays and books on the current Chinese condition. The Beijing massacre of 1989 alone produced over 30 books on the 50 days that shook the world. Most of the grow- ing Tiananmen bookshelf consists either of descriptive accounts by foreign eyewitnesses or of emotional autobiographies by Chinese dissidents now exiled abroad. The best analy- sis of the origins and events of...
PETE-R F. DRUCKER
Since ancient times, new knowledge and new
inventions have periodically remade human societies.
Today, however, knowledge is assuming greater importance
than ever before. Now more essential to the wealth of
nations than either capital or labor, Peter Drucker argues
here, it has already created a "postcapitalist" society
and promises further transformations on a global scale.
n only 150 years, between about 1750 and capitalism into Capitalism. Instead of...
OF THE
BY PETE-R F. DRUCKER
Since ancient times, new knowledge and new
inventions have periodically remade human societies.
Today, however, knowledge is assuming greater importance
than ever before. Now more essential to the wealth of
nations than either capital or labor, Peter Drucker argues
here, it has already created a "postcapitalist" society
and promises further transformations on a global scale.
n only 150 years, between about 1750 and capitalism into Capitalism. In...
Futurology tends to make scholars queasy. They generally prefer to leave the forecast- ing trade to science-fiction scribblers, free- lance prognosticators, and other untenured sorts. Social scientists somberly agree that their work must have "predictive value," but actual predic- tions, apart from economists' exercises in number crunching, are few. It is unique, then, to find some- body from the scholarly world who not only has tried his hand at prediction but is in a position to act:...
"If America is wrong, Jefferson is wrong," an early biographer wrote. "If America is right, Jefferson is right." This year, on his 250th birthday, it would appear that Jefferson was wrong. Many
historians of late have found the third U.S. president guilty of racism and other sins that besmirch the national character. Gordon Wood, by contrast, argues that Jefferson has never been an apt mirror of America. He was a representative figure of his day whose words haunt us because, unlike him, they transcend his own time.
irst of all I think it is desirable to put "curl up with a book." I despised them. I aside some time for reading-per- have never curled. My physique is not formed haps an evening, or an hour, or half for it. It is a matter of legend that Abraham an hour, or even 15 minutes, but a Lincoln read lying on his stomach in front of time in which to read and do nothing else and the fire; you should try that in order to under- pay no attention to anything but the book. stand the extraordinary...
concourses of today's airports on our way to catch a plane, how many of us pause to think that we are about to undertake an essentially aesthetic and moral experience? Yet only 60 years ago Western culture, high and low, celebrated aviation in just such terms. Hollywood's big studios glamourized the miracle of flight in a spate of star- studded films. Charles Lindbergh acquired the divine sobriquet "the new Christ." And the Modernist architect and aty planner Le Corbusier proclaimed...
sigmund Freud was well-established
but far from famous when he re-
ceived a letter in December 1908
from G. Stanley Hall, a noted Ameri-
can psychologist and the president of Clark
University, inviting him to give a series of in-
troductory lectures on psychoanalysis. The
52-year-old physician would be one of sev-
eral distinguished speakers at a ceremony
marking the 20th anniversary of the Worces-
ter, Massachusetts, institution. It was an excit-
ing opportunity for Freud, but he...