[Peace-discuss] The US & China

[Carl G. Estabrook]

"...the problems China faces are serious. Some are demographic,  
reviewed in Science, the leading U.S.science weekly. The study shows  
that mortality sharply decreased in China during the Maoist years,  
'mainly a result of economic development and improvements in education  
and health services, especially the public hygiene movement that  
resulted in a sharp drop in mortality from infectious diseases.' This  
progress ended with the initiation of the capitalist reforms 30 years  
ago, and the death rate has since increased."


On Feb 13, 2012, at 9:37 PM, Carl G. Estabrook wrote:

> [The Obama administration is desperate to provide Americans with a  
> new hate-object in China, to cover over their shilling for the 1%  
> and corresponding failure to improve the declining economic position  
> of most Americans. (Note the fraudulent bank-fraud deal this week -  
> very much in the banks' interest and not that of the public.) As  
> generally in their service to power, academics step forward to  
> provide a propaganda cover. Here's an important dismantling of  
> recent academic writing on China.  --CGE]
>
> "Books about China, popular and scholarly, continue to pour off the  
> presses. In this ever expanding literature, there is a subdivision  
> that could be entitled ‘Under Western Eyes’. The larger part of it  
> consists of works that appear to be about China, or some figure or  
> topic from China, but whose real frame of reference, determining the  
> optic, is the United States. Typically written by functionaries of  
> the state, co-opted or career, they have as their underlying  
> question: ‘China – what’s in it for us?’ Rather than Sinology  
> proper, they are Sino-Americana. Ezra Vogel’s biography of Deng  
> Xiaoping is an instructive example. Detached for duties on the  
> National Intelligence Council under Clinton (he assures the reader  
> that the CIA has vetted his book for improper disclosures), Vogel is  
> a fixture at Harvard, where the house magazine hails Deng Xiaoping  
> and the Transformation of China as the ‘capstone to a brilliant  
> academic career’..."
>
> The rest of the article is at http://www.lrb.co.uk/v34/n03/perry-anderson/sino-americana
>
>
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