...Gerald W. Berkley P'eng P'ai and the Hai-Lu-feng Soviet . By Fernando Galbiati . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 1985 . 373 pp. Bibliography, Index. $45. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1986 1986 816 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES ency" attributed...

... [Cheng's] collection), ed. Peking National Library, 1963 , part 4, 78a –b. 5 Modern editions have Li-chiang Temple. 6 Op. cit. , 50. 7 Because of this lack of literary value, both the author of P'eng P'eng's biography in Hummel and James J. Y. Liu in his study of knight...

... appointment as Minister of National Defense to succeed the disgraced P'eng Te-huao in 1959—notwithstanding the fact that Mao Tse-tung had in 1935 composed a well-known poem praising only P'eng's valor during the battle. True, history is historiography and historiography is politics in the People's Republic...

...P'eng-Yüan Chang Abstract The expansion of political participation is generally recognized as an essential aspect of modernization. China's twentieth-century experience certainly fits this model. Yet we are far from understanding the processes by which participation expanded in China—especially...

... ASIA 1055 Peng Te-huai: The Man and the Image. By JURGEN DOMES. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1985. xii, 164 pp. Photograph, Notes, Select Bibliography, Index. $25. P'eng Te-huai (Peng Dehuai) is most remembered not for his distinguished career as a Chinese Communist military commander...

...Germaine A. Hoston The Chinese Communist Party in Power . By P'eng Shu-Tse . New York : Monad Press , 1980 . 508 pp. Appendix, Notes, Acknowledgments, Glossary, Index. $9.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1983 1983 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER ASIA 145...

... with the Party even if they suffered severe persecution at its hands. This of course is especially true of those with comparatively simple natures: P'eng Te-huai is one such" (p. 134). Domes' closing chapter analyzes "personal images as an instrument of Party politics" and compares P'eng the official villain...

... and varied materials in this volume should prove useful reading for specialists in the fields of party history and military history and, perhaps above all, for graduate students inclined in those directions. WILLIAM KIRBY Washington University at St. Louis The Chinese Communist Party in Power. By P'ENG SHU...

... of the soil (Tai Chia-hsiang 1986); the role of sun, bird, and other totems in Neolithic and Shang belief (Hu Hou-hsüan 1977; Allan 1981; Tu Chin-p'eng 1992; Wu Hung 1985; Paper 1986; Ch'ien Chihch'iang 1988; Juyü 1991; Wang Chi-huai 1992; Xiong Chuanxin 1992; Chang Teshui 1993; Chang Wen 1994; Wang Lu-ch'ang...

...: Harvard University Press, 1977). In 1984 Robert Marks added even more information in Rural Revolution in South China: Peasants and the Making of History in Haifeng County, 1570-1930 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press). Now we have Fernando Galbiati's book. Hofheinz chose to emphasize the role P'eng...

... of the 1920s. Some of the pieces are valuable and rather well told, particularly the story of P'eng P'ai and the Haifeng peasant movement, which appears in the last of the three parts into which the volume is somewhat uncertainly divided. But the book hardly claims our attention as a history of the era, much...

... is P'eng Chen, a party apparatchik who was no intellectual but who acted (probably) as a patron for most of the others discussed; the last chapter is David Ownby's discussion of the 1980 argument among educated young Chinese, who are not establishment, on the meaning of life. The other persons discussed...

... of the world. They are arranged in a spectrum from most establishment to least. The first figure is P'eng Chen, a party apparatchik who was no intellectual but who acted (probably) as a patron for most of the others discussed; the last chapter is David Ownby's discussion of the 1980 argument among educated...

... and brutally straightforward account of the power struggles that have rocked China in the 1960's a delight, inasmuch as it renders the perplexing events in China sensible and comprehensible. The insertion of biographical sketches of various political actors such as Mao, Liu Shao-ch'i, Lin Piao, P'eng Chen...

... on the government to regulate labor, whether farm labor or working labor, in order to give adequate supply to the army. The surplus was later released for sale to the people, and the government of farmers and laborers thus became a government of merchants.8 And P'eng Tse-i makes the suggestion that the equalization...

... Society ,” The Journal of Asian Studies , 44.2 : 271 –92. Tsang Cheng-Hwa . 1992 Archaeology of the P'eng-hu Islands . Taipei, Taiwan : Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica . Wang Shih-Ch'ing . 1994 . Ch'ing-tai T'ai-wan She-hui Ching-chi (Society and economy...

...-kuo chin-tai ssu-hsiang shib-lun [Historical studies on modern Chinese thought] ( Taipei : Hua-shih ch'u-pan-she , 1977 ), pp. 55 , 434; P'eng-yüan Chang , Liang Ch'i-ch'ao yii Min-kuo cheng-chih [Liang Ch'i-ch'ao and the politics of the Republican period] ( Taipei : Shih-huo ch'u...

... Ibid., 5a. Ying-ch'ang lay west of present-day Ching-p'eng hsien in western Jehol province. 3 TTSL III, 1021 . 4 Sei Wada , “Mindai no Mōko to Manshū” [“Mongolia and Manchuria in the Ming”], Tōashi Ronsō ( Tokyo , 1943 ), p. 307 . 5 A famous exception...

... to Tseng Kuo-fan's army Remittance to P'eng Yu-lin's river Remittance to Pao Ch'ao's army fleet 6,150,000 taels* 1,060,000 taels 750,000 taels** Total 7,960,000 taels" I am aware of the fact that after May, 1864, only half of Kiangsi's likin was sent to Tseng Kuo-fan. * Liu K'un-i's memorial gives...

... that the Taiwanese would have more welcomed the American occupation of “Formosa” than its restoration to China. See T'icn-ts'ai Liu , “P'ing P'êng Ming-min hui-i-lu: Tzŭ-yu-ti tzu-wei” (A Taste of Freedom: A Review of P'êng Ming-min's Memoirs), in Ming Pao Yueh-k'an (Ming Pao Monthly), No. 83 ( Hong Kong...