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Volume 38 - Issue 2 - February 1979

Book Reviews—China

Foreigners in Formosa, 1841–1874. By George Williams Carrington. San Francisco: Chinese Materials Center, Inc. (Asian Library Series No. 6), 1977. xiv, 308 pp. Notes, Tables, Maps, Bibliography, Index. $12.50.

China's Quest for Railway Autonomy, 1904–1911: A Study of the Chinese Railway-Rights Recovery Movement. By En-han Lee. Singapore: Singapore University Press, 1977. xxii, 316 pp. List of Chinese and Japanese Names and Terms, Map, Tables, Bibliography, Index. $15.95.

The Dewey Experiment in China: Educational Reform and Political Power in the Early Republic. By Barry Keenan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press (Harvard East Asian Monographs 81), 1977. xii, 335 pp. Appendixes, Notes, Bibliography, Glossary. N.p.l.

Militarism in Modern China: The Career of Wu P'ei-fu, 1916–39. By Odoric Y. K. Wou. Folkestone, Kent: Dawson and Sons [for] Australian National University Press. Studies of the East Asian Institute, Columbia University, 1978. 349 pp. Notes, Figures, Appendixes, Bibliography, Index. $22.50.

The Broken Wave: The Chinese Communist Peasant Movement, 1922–1928. By Roy HofheinzJr. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: Harvard University Press (Harvard East Asian Series No. 90), 1977. x, 355 pp. Maps, Notes, Tables, Appendixes, Bibliography, Index. $ 16.50.

Civil War in China: The Political Struggle, 1945–1949. By Suzanne Pepper. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978. xxiv, 472 pp. Map, Tables, Selected Bibliography, Notes, Index, Appendixes. $18.50.

Urban Change in China: Politics and Development in Tsinan, Shantung, 1890–1949. By David D. Buck. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1978. xvi, 296 pp. Notes, Illustrations, Appendixes, Selected Bibliography, Character List, Index. $15.00.

Careers in Shanghai: The Social Guidance of Personal Energies in a Developing Chinese City, 1949–1966. By Lynn T. WhiteIII. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978. xiv, 249 pp. A Note on Romanization, Tables, Abbreviations, Acknowledgments, Maps, Bibliography, Notes, Index. $13.50.

China: The Impact of Revolution. Edited by Colin Mackerras. Hawthorn, Australia: Longman Ltd., 1976. 273 pp. Index, Chronology, Glossary. $14.50.

Mao's China: A History of the People's Republic. By Maurice Meisner. New York: The Free Press (The Transformation of Modern China Series), 1977. xiv, 416 pp. Map, Selected Bibliography, Index. $17.95.

Mao and the Perpetual Revolution. By Franz Michael. Woodbury, New York: Barron's, 1977. xvii, 326 pp. Editor's Foreword, Author's Preface, Chronology, Plates, Epilogue, Appendix, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $9.95.

The Chinese Military System: An Organizational Study of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. By Harvey W. Nelsen. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press; and London: Thornton Cox Publishers, 1977. xiv, 266 pp. Tables, Charts, Maps, Appendix, Notes, Selected Bibliography, Index. $ 18.00; £10.

Technology and Communist Culture: The Socio-Cultural Impact of Technology Under Socialism. Edited by Frederic A. Fleron Jr New York: Praeger (Praeger Special Studies in International Politics and Government), 1977. xii, 518 pp. Notes, Tables, Figures, Index. $27.50.

Fundamentals of Political Economy. (A translation of Cheng-chih ching-chi chi-ch'u chib-shih). Edited by George C. Wang. White Plains, N. Y.:M. E. Sharpe, Inc., The China Book Project, 1977. xxx,506 pp. Notes. $27.50.

Wang Kuo-wei's Jen-chien Tz'u-bua: A Study in Chinese Literary Criticism. Translated with an introduction by Adele Austin Rickett. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1977. xv, 133 pp. Bibliography, Index. N.p.l.

Lu Hsün's Vision of Reality. By William A. LyellJr. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976. x, 355 pp. Plates, Appendix, Bibliography, Index. $14.50.

Chinese Shadows. By Simon Leys. New York: The Viking Press, 1977. xvi, 220 pp. Critical Bibliography, Index. $10.00.

The Execution of Mayor Yin and Other Stories from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. By Chen Jo-hsi. Translated from the Chinese by Nancy Ing and Howard Goldblatt. Introduction by Simon Leys. Bloomington, Indiana, and London: Indiana University Press, 1978. xxviii, 220 pp. $8.95.

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