Experimental Blog #66

Comments on "Tide Players" - The Movers and Shakers of a Rising China by Jianying Zha

In the "Epilogue" to her book Jianying Zha, who was born in 1960, quotes from an earlier book that she wrote in 1995, "Tiananmen may represent the tragic last gasp of the radical, revolutionary approach to changing China. The currant path requires its own human toll and a good deal of compromise and deferment. Yet many believe that, in the long run, this way of change will bring more substantial gains at a lower cost of human sacrifice."
She also writes about books by other authors with titles such as, "Farewell, Revolution" and "Farewell, Mao Zedong". In this book Jianying Zha also writes, "Gradual, incremental adjustment rather than drastic change is the wiser and probably fairer way to go". {Actually, she was refering to the world wide financial crises in 2008.}