CHINA IN SEARCH OF ITS FUTURE Years of Great Reform 1982-87 <i> by John Woodruff (University of Washington Press: $19.95; 218 pp.) </i>

“White House advisers ought to tear out the book’s last two chapters, ‘Students in the Streets’ and ‘Will China Make It?’ and stick them in their boss’ weekend reading file the next time he goes off to Kennebunkport.”