"The term 'human rights' does not appear in its index, and it turns out that this omission was not an oversight of the indexer. Systematic nonconsideration of human rights is one of the book’s features.
"This [household or hukou] registry system, by the way, was not a Chinese invention. It was brought to China during World War II by the invading Japanese, who wanted to halt migration in order to prevent the spread of popular resistance. (The Chinese word for 'registry police' comes from Japanese.)
"A virtue of Vogel’s book is that it collects and organizes a huge amount of material on the struggles within the elite power circles in China over several decades. In these accounts we learn how Deng tried to protect his allies and how he sought to undermine his enemies; he fell, rose, fell again, then rose again to the pinnacle position in the second generation of the Communist dynasty. Vogel’s materials will be very useful to students of elite power struggles in China.
Note:
(a) VOA Chinese translates the English title of Professor Fan's review as: 原题：方励之, 真实的邓小平－－－评傅高义《邓小平与中国的变革》.
(b) Prof Fan's Review is not a blog, as it is published in print in the Nov 10 issue of New York Review of Book. See its home page (in the right lower quadrant): http://www.nybooks.com/
(c) The New York Review of Books http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Review_of_Books
(a fortnightly magazine; based in Manhattan; founded in 1963)
(d) The review states "Vogel’s book admits only two possibilities."
(f) The review says, "The rub was in Deng’s insistence on the 'Four Basic Principles.'”
rub (n):
"1a : an unevenness of surface (as of the ground in lawn bowling)
b : OBSTRUCTION, DIFFICULTY <the rub is that so few of the scholars have any sense of this truth themselves — Benjamin Farrington>
c : something grating to the feelings (as a gibe or harsh criticism)"
(g) jiegui 接轨
(h) The review remarks, "PLA takes orders only from the Central Military Commission (CMC), which is a Party organ."
orgran (n): "a subordinate group or organization that performs specialized functions <the various organs of government>"
(i) registry police 户籍警 or 户籍警察 (There is no such term in Taiwan. Early on, I guess, police in Taiwan would visit households to cross-check with official holdhold registry, but I have not observed or heard so in my entire life.)
The following are Japanese pronunciation of Kanji.
* 警察 keisatsu
* 户籍 koseki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koseki
(Introduced in the 6th century; "The modern koseki, encompassing all of Japan's citizenry, appeared in 1872, immediately following the Meiji Restoration [1868]. This was the first time in history that all Japanese people were required to have family names as well as given names.")
(j) Jean-Christophe (published 1904‒1912) is the novel in ten volumes by Romain Rolland [1866-1944; French] for which he received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915is the novel in ten volumes by Romain Rolland for which he received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915. Wikipedia
(k) And Quiet Flows the Don http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Quiet_Flows_the_Don
(l) The review maintains, "In 1820, under the Qing dynasty, the GDP of China’s largely agricultural economy was six times that of industrialized England."