China Past Due
Parade at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. (Photo Mary Kay Magistad)
It’s been awhile now since China’s Communist Party was in the business of running communal kitchens and collective farms, telling people who to marry, what to study and where to work, working to monitor their thoughts and speech even as it tried to micromanage a command economy. But exactly what does or should fall within the government’s purview?
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