Professor Susan Shirk's book China: Fragile Superpower Reviewed by the Economist
China: Enduring On
07/09/2007
Visiting China as a student in 1971, Susan Shirk was told by the premier, Zhou Enlai, that he “wished she was president of the United States”. She was struck, she writes, by the country's “drab poverty”. China has come a long way since then, and so has Ms Shirk. Formerly at the State Department, and now a professor at UCSD, she has had plenty of more mature encounters with China's top leaders. In her book she says what she thought of them, observing, for instance, that President Jiang Zemin had an unfortunate tendency to show off. More...
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