美学者：习近平更似蒋介石

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VOA Chinese, May 24, 2016.
www.voachinese.com/content/chine ... 160524/3344436.html

, which is based on

James Carter and Jeffrey Wasserstrom, To Understand China's President Xi Jinping, Don't Look to Mao Tse-tung, Look to Chiang Kai-shek. Los Angeles Times, May 24, 2016 (op-ed).
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/o ... 524-snap-story.html

Quote:

"Xi's party may still include the word 'Communist' in its name, but the country is far more consumerist than it was in Mao's day. * * * [Xi's] disgust with ill-gotten riches, that only Chiang confronted.

"In 1946, Chiang's Republic of China was one of the 'Big Five' Allies that had just defeated the Axis powers * * * Bankrolled by the United States and free, after more than a decade, of Japanese invaders, China seemed poised to take its place near the top of the global order.  Seventy years later, many point to China as the next superpower.

"Corruption, however, could stand between China and great-power status — as it did 70 years ago.

Note:
(a) For China Weekly Review, see 中国名人录
https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国名人录
("1917年6月9日，汤姆斯·密勒（T.F.Millard）在上海创刊《密勒氏评论报》（英语：Millard's Review），读者主要是在华外侨、中国政界和知识分子，海外读者亦多，在美国、欧洲和中国有一定的影响力。1919年，《密勒氏评论报》由约翰·比尔·鲍威尔（John Bill Powell）接管，英文名改为《中国每周评论》（The China Weekly Review），其子约翰·威廉·鲍威尔隨後繼任主編")

The en.wikipedia.org does not have a page for China Weekly Review.
(b) Theodore H. White and Annalee Jacoby, Thunder Out of China. William Sloane, 1946.