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Title: The Tyranny of History: The Roots of China's Crisis by W.J.F. Jenner ISBN: 0-7139-9060-0 Publisher: Penguin USA Pub. Date: 01 December, 1992 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Why China will never be what we'd like it to be
Comment: Jenner speaks as one who knows China, cares deeply about it, and has come to understand how it is handicapped by its culture. These handicaps affect it at all levels: family and local community as well as the highest levels of government. His verdict: don't expect a free, democratic, flexible society to develop there anytime soon. Western values (even the best of them) have had and will continue to have trouble being accepted in this land of Confucian conservatism. This book is probably not for those with little knowledge of Chinese culture and history. The impact of what Jenner says comes from knowing enough already to grasp the truth of what he says.

Rating: 5
Summary: A sad but well informed report on China's reality
Comment: The virtue that this book has for me is that it had helped me a lot in better understanding the Chinese culture and traditions and, at the same time, the book offers a wide and valorative review of different aspects of Chinese life. The tirany of History is not just a title for a book. It seems to be too a permanent experience for millions of Chinese and other related peoples, who seem to be caught in a circular history. In particular, this book is a denunciation of some aspects of traditional Chinese culture and history that deny individuals their rights, freedoms and vital possibilities. It is an explanation of why China seem now to be so much opened to the world and how simplistic are assumptions that the Chinese leadership have realized the virtues of market economy and that the economic reforms carried out in the People's Republic are conducive automatically to a democratic regime in the future by the very evolution of society.