Monday, May 27, 2013

Reading Hayek in Beijing

5/2713.

Bret Stephens:

"...Mr. Yang went on to make his career, first as a journalist and senior editor with the Xinhua News Agency, then as a historian whose unflinching scholarship has brought him into increasing conflict with the Communist Party—of which he nonetheless remains a member. Now 72 and a resident of Beijing, he's in New York this month to receive the Manhattan Institute's Hayek Prize for "Tombstone," his painstakingly researched, definitive history of the famine. On a visit to the Journal's headquarters, his affinity for the prize's namesake becomes clear..."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324659404578501492191072734.html?mod=rss_mobile_uber_feed

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