Books by Philip Pan
Out of Mao’s Shadow
by Philip Pan
Pan presents moving portraits of several victims of China’s corruption-tainted economic growth. He selects his vignettes from a broad array of contemporary Chinese settings, from the well-connected real estate tycoon who ordered the eviction of hundreds of Beijing residents in the run-up to the 2008 Olympics, to the unscrupulous township officials in East China who forced local women to undergo late-term abortions so they could meet their birth-control quotas. He also draws attention to the few brave souls – mostly journalists and lawyers – who at great personal risk to their careers, and occasionally to their lives, dared to unmask egregious wrongdoing by local officials and their underlings.
Interviews where books by Philip Pan were recommended
The best books on Obstacles to Political Reform in China, recommended by Richard Baum
The China specialist and UCLA professor Richard Baum (1940-2012) says that he sometimes feels genuine admiration for China’s technocratic leaders. Other days, he shakes his head at their obsessive intransigence and China’s endemic political insecurity.
