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Whether this second stage of the second revolution can fulfill Deng's dream of hauling China out of its still desperate backwardness into the 20th century by the time the century ends is anyone's guess. It got off to a somewhat rocky start, and is encountering more opposition than the first, rural stage did. But if it should succeed, the transformation would have profound and enormous consequences throughout the world...
This ambitious scheme has got off to a somewhat stumbling and chaotic start. State bankers at the end of 1984 overused their new authority and went on such a wild lending spree that the People's Bank of China, the country's central bank, had to tell them to stop. Factory bosses, in contrast, widely complain that they are still waiting for confirmation from local party and government officials that they can begin exercising the new freedoms they supposedly were granted at the start of 1985. For the first time, Deng is proposing to crimp seriously the powers and privileges...
...example is Jin Ping Mei (The Golden Lotus), a highly erotic literary classic from the Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1368-1644). Mao would let it be seen only by party officials of ministerial rank or higher. Wei Junyi, head of the People's Literature Press, prepared an expurgated edition for somewhat wider distribution, put it off during the campaign against spiritual pollution, and finally let it be printed in 1985 for distribution to writers and scholars, who snapped up 10,000 copies immediately at $6.65 per copy...
...fact, Black's new store is thriving. After half a dozen years of rebuilding a somewhat depleted faculty, raising women's enrollment to 39% and lifting its endowment substantially, the Columbia Law School is at a peak that Black fully intends to maintain and possibly elevate. In so doing, she will also be striving toward another, more personal goal. "Now," she says, "I would like to help persuade society that it should not be as difficult as it is for women to succeed at home and at work both...
Samson's exasperation at these self-important triflers and their chirping Oxbridge accents is funny and justified, but it is also somewhat obsessive. He cannot stay away from the subject. He mentions an American agent who dresses too well, and this reminds him of Dicky Cruyer's kind: "The public-school senior staff at London Central spent just as much money on their Savile Row suits' and handmade shirts and Jermyn Street shoes, but they wore them with a careless scruffiness that was a vital part of their snobbery. A real English gentleman never tries; that was the article...