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...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...

... Sinologue. The journal of Lord Macartney is interesting reading and rounds out the already voluminous material on England's first and most important diplomatic mission to China. University of Colorado EARL SWISHER Biography of Yii-wen Hu. Translated and An- notated by ALBERT E. DIEN. Chinese Dy- nastic...

...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...

... that had been introduced from all over the world, indicating Shanghai's nature as a global city, similar to Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Taipei. Farrer and Field believe that a city, “like a person,” should have “a biography” (p. 7). To some extent, as they indicate in their title, they have written...

...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...

...John T. McAlister, Jr. Ho Chi Minh: A Political Biography . By Jean Lacouture . New York : Random House , 1968 . 313 pp. Index. $5.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1969 1969 BOOK REVIEWS 649 before 1940, the study of Vietnamese history is very much in its...

...Howard Spodek Shri Ram: A Biography . By Khushwant Singh and Arun Joshi . New York : Asia Publishing House , 1968 . 240 pp. $4.25. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1969 1969 BOOK REVIEWS in a mode of life centered mainly around land and agriculture. In the past...

...Charles W. Hayford Abstract Stalinists legitimized their methods by saying “you can't make omelets without breaking eggs.” Others might ask, “you broke lots of eggs, but where are the omelets?” These three biographies of Deng Xiaoping are only the most recent of biographies of epoch-making Chinese...

...Alice Stone Ilchman Sarojini Naidu: A Biography . By Padmini Sengupta . New York : Asia Publishing House , 1966 . xi, 359 pp. Illustration, Bibliography, Index. $12.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1967 1967 BOOK REVIEWS 517 frame. The diction here...

... 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 the most colorful, certainly the most...

...John K. Fairbank Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968 1968 K'ang Yu-wei, A Biography and a Symposium . Edited with translation by Jung-pang Lo . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 1967 . Published for the Association for Asian Studies. 541 pp. $14.50. 626...

...J. I. Crump Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1954 1954 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...

...Clarence H. Hamilton Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1955 1955 The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation or The Method of Realizing “Nirvana” Through Knowing the Mind, Preceded by an Epitome of Padma-Sambhava's Biography and followed by “Guru” Phadampa Sangay's...

... Chinese, Japanese and Western language bibliographies, and a first-rate index. The final volume will contain unified bibliographies as well as indexes of all previous volumes. Washington, D.C. ARTHUR W. HUMMEL Biography of Huang Cb'ao. By HOWARD S. LEVY. Chinese Dynastic Histories Translations, No. 5...

...David D. Buck Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography . By Peter Conn . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1996 . xxvi, 468 pp. $29.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 758 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES 2 with only Chinese characters...

...Ingrid Aall Amrita Sher-Gil: A Biography . By N. Iqbal Singh . New Delhi : Vikas Publishing House , 1984 . x, 190 pp. Plates, Bibliography, Index, Index of Paintings. N.p. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1986 1986 640 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES that Urdu must...

...: An Intellectual Biography. By JOEY BONNER. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1986. ix, 314 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Glossary, Index. $30.00. Wang Kuo-wei, as Joey Bonner persuasively argues, was one of the most brilliant intellectuals of the 1890s generation the first of the still-tormented moderns...

...Martin Yanuck Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1977 1977 Dictionary of National Biography . Edited by S. P. Sen . Calcutta : Institute of Historical Studies , 1972 . 4 vols. (I: lx, 480 pp.; II: lxviii, 418 pp.; Ill: lxviii, 562 pp.; IV: lxvii, 465 pp.) Lists...