Word: clearest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accident that this one city's story parallels the story for all China since 1949. Above all else the Communists brought a unified, nation-wide program to the once broken up Middle Kingdom. Canton Under Communism in this way becomes one of the clearest, best written histories of Communist China to date. Unhappily for all but the most bleary-eyed Sinophiles, Vogel some-times buries the story in detail-the footnotes run for almost 40 pages in the back of the book. But blessed with a sociologist's concern for human suffering, he throws out lucid summaries along...
Columnist Walter Lippmann: "Quick to resent any British assumptions of superiority," but one of the "clearest-thinking journalists and among the most influential...