Having come from China, I often hear people complain about the lack of intellectual, unbiased, and profound accounts of present-day China. These complaints are not unwarranted, as the past ten years of changes in China have been so dramatic, so fundamental, and so unpredictable that only the word “revolution” can fully describe their nature. Deng Xiaoping knew, in his wisdom and foresight, that the reforms into which he was leading China were in every respect comparable to the first revolution into which Mao led the nation. Daily happenings in China have proven that Harry Harding’s book, entitled China’s Second Revolution, is aptly named.
Xi-Qing Gao