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â€œWhat freedom the Chinese people now enjoy has come only because individuals have demanded and fought for it, and because the party has retreated in the face of such pressure,â€ Pan writes. The dream of a completely free society, however, has not yet accompanied a free marketâ€"despite the growing efforts of everyday men and women fighting the system. Through detailed and illuminating interviews with artists, journalists, entrepreneurs, and peasants, Pan reveals a country filled with local government corruption, human rights violations, and collusion between the Party and the private sector. While Panâ€™s exposÃ© on China left a few critics feeling hopeless, most took away a more optimistic message about Chinaâ€™s future. In either event, they agreed thatOut of Maoâ€™s Shadowachieves â€œthe immediacy of first-rate reportage and the emotional depth of field of a novelâ€ (New York Times).
Copyright © 2004 Phillips & Nelson Media, Inc.--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.

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ISBN-10: 1416537066
ISBN-13: 978-1416537069
Author: Philip P. Pan
Genre: Nonfiction
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

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review by TStocksl. April 01, 2011

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China: Souled out to Communism?

I recently spent two weeks in Beijing after working with a team of half-dozen or so co-workers there for five years via phone, email, and instant message. The trip was an eye-opener. One of my most important moments was having a lively discussion about "The Social Network", the Oscar-winning movie about the founding of Facebook. My co-worker had seen the movie, and had apparently read some about the history as well, and had some interesting opinions about … more

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review by Robin_Uncapher. July 02, 2010

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Troubling and valuable insights into the New China

There were parts of Out of Mao's Shadow that reminded me of those ambiguous shadow pictures that look like one thing one minute, and then, when you look again, become something else. In Out of Mao's Shadow Phillip Pan covers a lot of ground, the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese government's rewriting and coverup of history, SARS, the AIDS scandal and most of all, the rise of the New China. The rise of the New China is on our minds lately for the obvious reason that the "sleeping … more

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