A Reporter's Odyssey In Unseen China
LEAD: John Burns's exit escapade says more about the frustrations and bitterness of being a reporter in China than about China itself.
John Burns's exit escapade says more about the frustrations and bitterness of being a reporter in China than about China itself.
Academic specialists in China routinely move into Chinese institutions of learning for a year or more and do not suffer the kind of surveillance or restrictions that prominent reporters and diplomats do. Hope ahead lies in training programs such as the Hopkins-Nanjing Center, in which American graduate students, fluent in Chinese, can study the institutions and organizations of China before setting out to analyze current events there.  BARRY KEENAN  Department of History  Denison University  Granville, Ohio