Books: Chinese Banquet

A REVOLUTION IS NOT A DINNER PARTY: A FEAST OF IMAGES OF THE MAOIST TRANSFORMATION OF CHINA by RICHARD H. SOLOMON 199 pages. Anchor Press/Doubleday. $9.95.

This ingenious attempt to explain the mysteries of Chinese politics to Western readers has two unusual features. First, Richard Solomon, a China analyst with the National Security Council, and his collaborator Talbot W. Huey, a political science teacher at the University of Massachusetts, have assembled a kaleidoscope of photographic images for which their lucid text serves as a kind of continuous caption. The result is an intentionally...

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