Out of the Gobi"A personal history of China in its Mao and post Mao periods written by one of Chinas brightest people. Worth reading and, more importantly, understanding the 'great leap forward'!" Dianne Feinstein, U. S. Senator for California "This is no ordinary memoir. It is the engrossing, vivid personal story of someone buffeted by the tides of China's tumultuous emergence from poverty to power in the space of a few decades. Weijian Shan's journey from rural