Archive for Steven W. Mosher
China in the New Millennium: Market Reforms and Social Development
In June 1997 the Cato Institute sponsored an academic conference in Shanghai, along with Fudan University’s Center for American Studies. The government signed off on the event and, for the most part, the Chinese participants carefully avoided sensitive political topics. Not so the irrepressible Cato crowd. James Dorn, Cato’s vice president for academic affairs, reminded [...]
1Nov1999 | Steven W. Mosher | 0 comments | ContinuedHungry Ghosts: Mao’s Secret Famine by Jasper Becker
The Free Press • 1996 • 352 pages • $24.50 Steven Mosher is the president of the Population Research Institute, and is the author of A Mother’s Ordeal: One Woman’s Fight Against China’s One-Child Policy. Some of the darkest chapters in recent human history have been written in the People’s Republic of China. From the [...]
1Dec1997 | Steven W. Mosher | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Fight for Beijing
Steven W. Mosher is director of Asian studies at The Claremont Institute in Montclair, California. His latest book is China Misperceived: American Illusions and Chinese Reality (Basic Books, 1990). Two years ago this month the Beijing regime sent troops and tanks to crush China’s pro-democracy movement. Here is an eyewitness account of those days of [...]
1Jun1991 | Steven W. Mosher | 0 comments | Continued-
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