Change and continuity in the world's longest surviving civilisation. Fourteen programmes presented by Richard Harris of The Times
8: Government and People
The balance of central and regional power in governing so large and populous a country as China is as much a problem today as in the past. Can there be an effective central government? What is the strength of provincial loyalty? And how cohesive is Chinese society?
Contributors:
LUCIAN PYE , C. P. FITZGERALD JOHN FAIRBANK
MICHEL OKSENBERG
A. DOAK BARNETT
ALBERT FEUERWERKER
MARK MANCALL
ENDYMION WILKINSON
ANDREW WATSON
Series producer ADRIAN JOHNSON (Rptd: Thurs. 9.15 pm, and currently printed in The Listener) Book: A Chinese View of China, 70p: see page 66 followed by an interlude