...Karen Kane Pribumi Indonesians, the Chinese Minority and China: A Study of Perceptions and Policies . By Leo Suryadinata . Kuala Lumpur : Heinemann Educational Books (Asia) Ltd , 1978 . xi, 227 pp. Tables, Appendixes, Bibiliography, Indexes. $39.95. The Chinese Minority in Indonesia...

...Robert H. Brower Japanese Literature in Chinese. Vol. I: Poetry and Prose in Chinese by Japanese Writers of the Early Period . Translated by Burton Watson . New York : Columbia University Press (Translations from the Oriental Classics), 1975 . 130 pp. Appendix. $9.00. Japanese...

...Derek J. Waller The Chinese Communist Movement 1921–1937. An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Materials in the Chinese Collection of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace . By Chün-tu Hsüeh . Stanford : The Hoover Institution , 1960 , viii, 131 pp. Hoover Institution...

...Paul F. Cressey Under the ancestors' shadow: Chinese culture and personality . By Francis L. K. Hsu . New York : Columbia University Press , 1948 . xiv, 317 p. $3.75. The golden wing: a sociological study of Chinese familism . By Lin Yueh-Hwa . New York : Oxford University...

...Roswell S. Britton Chinese bronzes. A descriptive and illustrative catalogue of Chinese bronzes acquired during the administration of John Ellerton Lodge . Compiled by The Staff of the Freer Gallery of Art. Washington : Smithsonian Institution , 1946 . 108 p., 50 plates. $5.00...

... it convenient to use. It is, in short, like a fine stone, well-cut and then mounted in an appalling setting. Unfortunately, it is easier to have a stone reset than to have a book reorganized. BRIAN E. M C K N I G H T University of Hawaii Chinese Theater in the Days of Kublai Khan. By JAMES I. CRUMP. Tucson...

...John de Francis BOOK REVIEWS 447 the more surprising in a volume as magnificently printed and as richly provided with plates as the one under review. ROBERT HEINE-GELDERN The American Museum of Natural History Conversational Chinese. BY SSU-YU TENG. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1947...

...L. Carrington Goodrich 406 THE FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY The Chinese language, BY R. A. D. FORREST. London: Faber and Faber Ltd., 1948. 352 p. 355. Mandarin primer; an intensive course in spoken Chinese. BY YUEN REN CHAO. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1948. 335 p. $6.00. Character text...

... examples of the “sojourn work” that has gone into making mobile, multiethnic populations abroad into Overseas Chinese. The first example deals with recent official attempts to project the People's Republic of China's multiethnic vision of Chinese-ness beyond its national borders. The second highlights...

...Arthur E. Link Indo-Chinese Relations: A History of Chinese Buddhism . By Chou Hsiang-Kuang . Allahabad : Indo-Chinese Literature Publications , 1955 . vii, 264 . Appendices. R. 15. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1956 1956 BOOK REVIEWS 133 Hence Concerning...

...William Acker Chinese household furniture . By George N. Kates . New York and London : Harper and Brothers , 1948 . xiii , 125 p. $6.00. Four thousand years of China's art . By Dagny Carter . New York : The Ronald Press , 1948 . xix , 358 p. $7.50. Introduction...

...Lewis Hodous A short history of Chinese philosophy . By Fung Yu-Lan . Edited with an introduction by Derk Bodde . New York : Macmillan , 1948 . xx, 368 p. $5.00. BOOK REVIEWS 499 A short history of Chinese philosophy. By FUNG YU-LAN. Edited with an introduction by DERK BODDE. New...

...Marilyn Lake Making Chinese Australia is a stirring read as well as a deeply researched and innovative contribution to late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Australian and international history. It is path-breaking scholarship and sure to become a classic in its field. More...

...Clarence H. Hamilton 412 THE FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY erlane or one of his successors. "Whoever he may have been we shall just call him the Tartar." (p. 69.) The spelling of Chinese terms is intriguing, coming apparently from Chinese through Italian and Latin into English. Sianfu is called "Li-ngau...

...Shao Chuan Leng BOOK REVIEWS 199 sources of revenue. It has been the basis for foreign loans to the Chinese republic and, later, a source of income for the war lords of the 1916-1927 era. The author's colorful career was not limited to his valuable work for the Chinese government. He played...

... to show how many problems are raised when the institutional data, given by the author, are subjected to a functional approach. We are grateful to the author for supplying us with these data, so necessary for further research. University of California WOLFRAM EBERHARD Fabric of Chinese Society: A Study...

...Meribeth E. Cameron Traditional Chinese tales . Translated by Chi-Chen Wang . New York : Columbia University Press , 1944 . 225 p. $2.75. Contemporary Chinese stories . Translated by Chi-Chen Wang . New York : Columbia University Press , 1944 . 242 p. $2.75. Copyright ©...

...Peter S. H. Tang Readings in Chinese Communist Documents: A Manual for Studies of the Chinese Language . By Wen-Shun Chi . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press . 1963 . xvi, 478. $9.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 BOOK REVIEWS...

...E. A. Kracke, Jr. The Chinese Gentry: Studies on Their Role in Nineteenth-Century Chinese Society . By Chung-Li Chang . Introduction by Franz Michael. Seattle : University of Washington Press , 1955 . xxi, 250 . Tables, Figures, Bibliography, Index, Glossary. $5.75. Copyright ©...

...O. Edmund Clubb Reactions in Communist China: An Analysis of Letters to Newspaper Editors . By Charles K. A. Wang . Technical Research Report No. 33. xi, 115 . Some Basic Conceptions and Rules of Conduct of Chinese Communism . (Initial Collation towards the Conceptual and Operational...