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China's New Open Door and the World.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction x
I Doctor Horse
Ⅱ Lebanese-American in Motion
Ⅲ Sort of an Eternal Optimist
Ⅳ The House of Ma
Ⅴ Western Island in Beijing
Ⅵ When the Chinese Came
Ⅶ Lunch with George Hatem in Beijing, March 1976
Ⅷ Chatting with George, April 1976, Beijing
Ⅸ China Reconstructs
Ⅹ AVisit with George Hatem in Beidaihe, July 1977
Ⅺ Narcotics, Prostitutes, and Venereal Disease
Ⅻ A Visit with George Hatem in Kansas City,August 1978
ⅩⅢ "Digging Tunnels Deep".
ⅩⅣ A Second Beginning
ⅩⅤ Zhou Sufei
ⅩⅥ True Scholarship
ⅩⅦ The Return of Deng Xiaoping
ⅩⅧ Rehabilitation——China Style
ⅩⅨ A Visit with Madame Zhou Enlai
ⅩⅩ Mi Li Daifu (Dr. MUller)
ⅩⅪ Mao and His Thought
ⅩⅫ The Temple of Heaven——and Religion
ⅩⅢ Shadowed China
ⅩⅩⅣ The National Examination
ⅩⅩⅤ The Influence of the Old China Hands
Epilogue
Notes

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The People's Republic of China has yet to prove it has developed a safemeans of succession to power. In the first twenty-four years, there have beensuccessive challenges for the leadership. Mao Tse-tung has weathered allthese, and now the blurring of his physical presence into the Thought leftbehind became the apparent means of transition to his successor. The otherunanswered challenge for the Chinese government is to learn if their new"moral" man, who has accepted the rigor and demands of the initial exces-sive fervor, hard work, and puritanical behavior, can be maintained at thislevel of commitment. Initial excesses plus initial asceticism are characteris-tic of successful revolution. How much of the present Chinese model behavioris beyond normal human behavior？ Mao claims his system is molding a newmodel citizen. His success thus far is impressive; can such behavior continue？
The citizen there and here can only be appreciative, however, that atleast the options are now open for interchange and some influence upon eachother. One definition of peace is the absence of war. If only time can bebought so that the large nations.of the world can discover their dependenceon each other for food and materials, the awareness of the mutuality of de-pendence upon the earth's resources perhaps will force peace as a permanentcondition upon us.
Throughout this book, I have tried to walk the narrow line between re-porting what is good and perhaps adaptable by us in today' s China and at thesame time to make clear my awareness of the precious values which are partof our own system. I refer essentially to those factors of individual freedomwhich are so much a part of American life that we squander them as a drunksplashes from his tilted glass the very drink he enjoys. The Chinese govern-ment has demanded a commitment from the Chinese people which has notpermitted room for self-concern, personal latitude, and——what we proudlyhave——individual self- determination, or liberty.

Preface
It is a great honor for me to write a preface for the new, PFS（China Society for People's Friendship Studies） 50-book seriesunder the general title of Light on China. All these books werewritten in English by journalistic and other eyewitnesses of theevents described. I have read many of them over the seven decadessince my student days at Yenching University. With some of theoutstanding authors in this series I have ties of personal friendship,mutual regard, and warm memories dating from before the Chinesepeople's Liberation in 1949.
Looking back and forward, I am convinced that China is pur-suing the right course in building a strong and prosperous countryin a rapidly changing world with its complex and sometimes vola-tile developments.