...Lucien Bianco Li Ta-chao and the Origins of Chinese Marxism . By Maurice Meisner . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1967 . xvii , 326 pp. Plate, Bibliography, Index. $4.95. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968 1968 BOOK REVIEWS 387 late 1956 to evidence...

...Lucien Bianco The Origins of Chinese Communism . By Arif Dirlik . New York : Oxford University Press , 1989 . xiv, 315 pp. $35.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990 116 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES societal inequities but is not itself the solution...

...Chen Yung-fa Wretched Rebels: Rural Disturbances on the Eve of the Chinese Revolution . By Lucien Bianco with the assistance of Hua Chang-ming; Translated by Philip Liddell . Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Asia Center, Harvard East Asian Monographs . 2009 . 300 pp. $39.95 (cloth...

...John K. Fairbank Origins of the Chinese Revolution, 1915–1949 . By Lucien Bianco . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1971 . xiii, 208 pp. Suggested Readings, Index. $8.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972 1972 654 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES not do...

...Anna Belogurova Stalin and Mao: A Comparison of the Russian and Chinese Revolutions . By Lucien Bianco . Hong Kong : Chinese University Press , 2018 . xxv, 448 pp. ISBN: 9789882370654 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 Reflecting the author's...

... kept time presents interpretations that all scholars to be examined." will have to consider. Everything turned out all right, of course. Bianco begins with the end of the Empire It was "magnificent" that the British should and the intellectual revolution of the May 4th be the first to relieve...

... China had not always been a horrific morass of devastating poverty but had become one as a result of the "political and military disasters" of the first decades of this century. Lucien Bianco's contribution is the only chapter to use Chinese archival documentation. It aims at debunking several myths...

... of perfection to suggest improvements in a work of only 200 pages that so brilliantly summarizes this whole subject. In the failure of liberalism to survive and flourish after May 4th (page 49), Mr. Bianco sees "a logical progression from iconodasm to revolutionary radicalism," precipitated by the strident...

.... Differences from Lucien Bianco's older study, Origins of the Chinese Revolution, are more subtle. Bianco draws a more complex picture of historical causation and development. He gives somewhat more weight to economic development under the Kuomintang, and sometimes stresses cultural aspects (for instance...

...: Curzon, 2001. v, 210 pp. $45.00 (cloth). This work comprises an introductory chapter by the two editors, one on Japan by Gottlieb, four on Chinese-speaking areas by Chen, one on Korea by Jae Jang Song, and one on Vietnam by Joseph Lo Bianco. To this reviewer the most satisfying chapters are those...

...Suzanne Pepper Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 List of References Benton Gregor . 1992 . Mountain Fires: The Red Army's Three-Year War in South China, 1934–1938 . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press . Bianco Lucien . 1971...

... S. Tikhvinski). 3 See the critical remarks of L. Bianco in his review of M. Meisner's book on Li Ta-chao (JAS, February 1968). 432 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES mocracy were already operative in China during the first decade of the twentieth century. THOMAS LAREW KENNEDY Manhattanville...

... (pp. 311-24) few pub- Where Bianco's emphasis was on deepening lished later than 1971 is appended to the pres- social crises and on the revolutionary movement ent volume. led by the Chinese Communists, Sheridan's is Despite its general clarity and some unde- on political history, especially...

... an introductory chapter by the two editors, one on Japan by Gottlieb, four on Chinese-speaking areas by Chen, one on Korea by Jae Jang Song, and one on Vietnam by Joseph Lo Bianco. To this reviewer the most satisfying chapters are those on Korea and Vietnam, for they provide more informative discussions...

...) was extracted, these distinctions may have meant little. The larger fact was that poppy growing was a crucial avenue toward survival in chaotic times. Lucien Bianco's tables 820 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES on peasant resistance to Opium Eradication Campaigns (1907 49, pp. 296 99) and Opium Taxes (1896-49, pp...

... and secondary, he fills out the biographical account of P'eng P'ai. The result is "the definitive in-depth study of P'eng P'ai," as Lucien Bianco characterizes the book on its dust jacket. Second, Galbiati, an astute observer of the ways people make and change history, presents P'eng as both voluntarist...

... as a result of the "political and military disasters" of the first decades of this century. Lucien Bianco's contribution is the only chapter to use Chinese archival documentation. It aims at debunking several myths about the nature of collective rural actions. He shows, not surprisingly, that peasant...

... anarchism without first referring to Dirlik's important contribution. LUCIEN BIANCO Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Paris China's Ibsen: From Ibsen to Ibsenism. By E L I Z A B E T H E I D E . Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series 55. London: Curzon Press, 1987. 201pp. £6.50 (paper). One...

... Carrier propose various measures to reduce the number of job seekers and enlarge employment capacities. Welfare improvements are now recognized as a primary goal of economic development. These two volumes contain studies of important topics such as the one-child policy (by Lucien Bianco and Hua Chang-ming...

..." in their full sense 8 See the critical remarks of L. Bianco in his review of M. Meisner's book on Li Ta-chao (]AS, February 1968). ...