Orville Schell visited China recently for New Yorker . His pieces have here been gathered into a book. His topics will be familiar to any reader of the daily newspapers, but he brings to them a sharp eye for detail and a proper scepticism. My own guess is implied in the first sentence of this review, but I wouldn't lay any bets. In less than five years, freedom of trade has worked miracles.
Business livens up society, after a fashion, but it is the most corrupt kind of business imaginable.
The year is 1926. Let us keep our fingers crossed for China.