Jonathan Mirsky
Towing the Party Line
The Man Who Changed China: The Life and Legacy of Jiang Zemin
By Robert Lawrence Kuhn
Crown Publishers 709pp $35 order from our bookshop
This biography of the ex-President of China and ex-Chairman of its Communist Party could have been written by the Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party. In fact it was written by an American stockbroker with a doctorate in anatomy and, by his own admission, business interests in China, who, unlike professional propagandists, probably believes every misleading word he writes. As he says, ‘I root for China, like a loyal fan of a local sports team.’
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