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Liu (international management, Portland State U., Oregon) demonstrates that intellectual dissidence not only has existed in China since ancient times, but remains a powerful force for change today. The characteristics of Chinese dissident that has appeared historically and periodically since the founding of the People's Republic, she says, owes much to Chinese Confucian tradition and endless political struggles for power. The book is double spaced. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)