...Lowell Dittmer To Embrace the Moon: An Illustrated Biography of Mao Zedong . By Ed Hammond . Berkeley : Lancaster-Miller , 1980 . 175 pp. Map, Photographs. $14.95 (cloth); $8.95 (paper). Coming of Grace: An Illustrated Biography of Zhou Enlai . By Ed Hammond . Berkeley : Lancaster...

...Margaret W. Fisher Jawaharlal Nehru: A Biography . By Frank Moraes . New York : Macmillan , 1956 . x, 511 . Map, Appendix, Bibliography, Index. $6.75. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1957 1957 1 See the article by Fisher Margaret W...

...Ainslie T. Embree Rabindranath Tagore. A Biography . By Krishna Kripalani . New York : Grove Press , 1962 . 147 . Bibliography, Index. $8.75. Social Thinking of Rabindranath Tagore . By Sasadhar Sinha . New York : Asia Publishing House , 1962 . xiv , 198 . Index. $6.75...

...Hsin-pao Chang Biography of Yü-wen Hu . Translated and Annotated by Albert E. Dien . Chinese Dynastic Histories Translations No. 9. Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1962 . 165 . $2.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1963 1963 BOOK...

...Ray T. Smith, Jr. The Right Honourable V. S. Srinivasa Sastri: A Political Biography . By P. Kodanda Rao . Bombay, London, and New York : Asia Publishing House , 1963 . xix , 476 . Rs. 28. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 BOOK REVIEWS 325 more in his...

...David S. Nivison Abstract Any historian approaching the subject of traditional Chinese biography may be confident of at least one fact: he will be overwhelmed. The sheer volume of this material available in the Chinese sources is exceedingly large. In discussing Chinese historical writing...

...William Ayers Abstract Biography in the People's Republic of China is not exempt from the ubiquitous slogan: “politics in command.” It is a highly purposeful craft, but rarely, if ever, is its primary purpose to portray an individual personality for his own sake, to inform objectively...

...John A. Garraty Abstract These papers throw a great deal of light upon the history of biography. There are a number of striking similarities between Chinese biography and that which developed in the Western world. These similarities, at least until recent times, do not seem to have resulted from...

...Burton Watson Tō Emmei den m [A T'ao Yüan-ming Biography] . By Yoshikawa Kōjirō n . Shinchō sōsho series. Tokyo : Shinchō , 1956 . 187 . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1957 1957 418 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES One or two misreadings of common characters...

...E. G. Pulleyblank Biography of An Lu-shan . Translated and annotated by Howard S. Levy . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1961 . East Asia Studies, Institute of International Studies, University of California. Chinese Dynastic Histories Translations No. 8. Map, Bibliography...

...John P. Haithcox Krishna Menon: A Biography . By T. J. S. George . New York : Taplinger Publishing Co., Inc. ix, 267 . Who's Who, Bibliography, Index. $5.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1966 1966 142 at least an introduction, in an engaging way laying...

...W. H. Morris-Jones Nehru. A Political Biography . By Michael Brecher . New York : Oxford University Press , 1959 . xvi, 682 . Illustrations, Maps, Bibliography, Index. $8.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1960 1960 BOOK REVIEWS 369 litical and social life...

... for American political scientists. Rothermund has the advantage of not having an axe to grind or if he does, it is invisible. AGEHANANDA BHARATI Syracuse University Sarojini Naidu: A Biography. BY PADMINI SENGUPTA. New York: Asia Publishing House, 1966. xi, 359 pp. Illustration, Bibliography, Index. $12.00...

... concessions in Shanghai. For a detailed discussion, see my book Chinese Intellectuals and the West ( Chapel Hill , 1966 ), Chap. 13. Tu Yueh-Sheng (1888-1951): A Tentative Political Biography Y. C. WANG O F ALL the political personalities in the era between 1928 and 1949, Tu Yuehsheng was perhaps...

...J. I. Crump Biography of Su Ch'o . Translated and annotated by Chauncey S. Goodrich . Institute of East Asiatic Studies, University of California. Chinese Dynastic Histories Translations, No. 3. Berkeley : University of California Press , 1953 . 116. $2.00. Copyright © Association...

... by an Epitome of Padma-Sambhava's Biography and followed by "Guru" Phadampa Sangay's Teachings, according to English Renderings by Sardar Bahadur 5. W. Laden La, and by the Lamas Karma Sumdhon Paul Lobzang Mingyur Dorje, and Kazi DawaSamdup. Introductions, Annotations and Editing by W. Y. EVANS-WENTZ...

...H. F. Schurmann Biography of Huang Ch'ao . By Howard S. Levy . Chinese Dynastic Histories Translations, No. 5. Berkeley : University of California Press , 1955 . 144 . Maps. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1955 1955 560 FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY rest easily without...

...Stanley Wolpert Sir Pherozeshah Mehta, a Political Biography . By Homi Mody . New York : Asia Publishing House , 1963 . (Reprint of first edition of 1921) xviii, 400 , Illustrations, Index. $16.75. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1966 1966 BOOK REVIEWS 359...

...Stanley Wolpert Mahadev Govind Ranade: A Biography . By T. V. Parvate . New York : Asia Publishing House , 1965 . xi, 326 , Bibliography, Index. $10.75. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1966 1966 BOOK REVIEWS 575 and provides inadequate justification...

...K. C. Hsiao Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1975 1975 VOL. XXXIV, No. 3 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES MAY 1975 Review Articles Biography or Autobiography?: Spence on K'ang-hsi* "This book," in the author's words, "is an excursion into the imperial world of K'ang-hsi, who...