by Wendy Liu
For Those Whose Concept of China Has Frozen in the 1970s and for Anyone
Who Would Like to Know About Today's China.
16. An Afterward
For China, with a history of 5,000 years, 50 some years of the People's Republic under the Communist Party of China is but a quick curve in an
endless river. 20 of those 50 years have been under epoch-making reforms
initiated and led by the same yet a changing party. Mao Zedong China
was red. Deng Xiao-ping's China was fading red. Today's China under
Jiang Zeming is positively multi-colored. There may still be some
patches of redness here and there represented by more conservative
members within the Communist Party Central (CPC) leadership or in
the Chinese government apparatus. But China as a country on the whole
is definitely not red anymore.
The End, May 2001.
About the author:
Wendy Liu grew up in Xiant, China. She missed the normal middle school
education as a result of the Cultural Revolution, but did get a BA in
English in 1977 from Xian Foreign Languages Institute. After graduation,
she worked for the foreign affairs department of the provincial
government.
She went on to do graduate work in Beijingt International Relations
Institute, and then joined the faculty of the new Shenzhent University in
1983. There she also became a freelance writer on social issues.
In 1986, she entered the School of Social Sciences of Georgia Institute of
Technology in Atlanta, GA and received her MS degree in Technology and
Science Policy two years later. She returned to Shenzhen to work as an
editor of an economic journal published in Hong Kong. She also worked as
a consultant for China Development Institute, the first independent
think-tank in China. She has lived in Seattle since 1989 and is now an
independent China business consultant. As a freelance writer, she has also
written opinions for local as well as regional papers, on US-China relations
and issues in the news. This is the second time she is contributing to the
Chinese American Forum.(CAF)
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