caa a22 4500 388104465 CHVBK 20180307125332.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199909 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0305741000003337 doi S0305741000003337 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0305741000003337 Pye Lucian W. An Overview of 50 Years of the People's Republic of China: Some Progress, but Big Problems Remain [Elektronische Daten] [Lucian W. Pye] In the very first sentence of the first article in the first issue of The China Quarterly, Howard L. Boorman, seeking to summarize the first decade of the PRC, wrote: "The man who faces his typewriter to set down a thousand words of coherent comment on the Communist revolution in China confronts not only a massive experiment in social engineering but also the fact that his interpretation of that experiment will expose as much of the author as it does of the revolution.” Except that now it is a computer and not a typewriter, little is different for anyone who would try to summarize what is now 50 years of the PRC. True, enough time has gone by for us now to have not just the initial standard interpretations as to what transpired in China but revisions and then further re-revisions of the story, so that even though we cannot be so bold as to say that we now have the full truth, we probably are a bit closer. Copyright © The China Quarterly 1999 The China Quarterly Cambridge University Press 159(1999-09), 569-579 0305-7410 159<569 1999 159 CQY https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741000003337 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741000003337 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Pye Lucian W. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The China Quarterly Cambridge University Press 159(1999-09), 569-579 0305-7410 159<569 1999 159 CQY CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge