...Orville Schell BOOK REVIEWS ASIA GENERAL 307 and finds that there is a large dry season benefit in moving to MV, irrigation, and higher fertilizer levels, but that in the wet season irrigation alone is the biggest yield booster, with MV and fertilizer adding only a modest amount. The section...

...Benedict Stavis Discos and Democracy: China in the Throes of Reform . By Orville Schell . New York : Pantheon , 1988 . xii, 384 pp. $19.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 148 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Discos and Democracy: China in the Throes...

...John H. Knoblock Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968 1968 The China Reader: Communist China . By Franz Schurmann aND Orville Schell . New York : Random House , 1967 . xix , 667 pp. Chronology, Bibliography. $7.95. The China Reader: Republican China...

..., Inc. 1989 1989 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER ASIA 149 Such shortcomings have obvious roots. First, Schell's travels and contacts are largely limited to Beijing-Shanghai intellectuals and young people. Second, Schell has overestimated the degree to which Maoist culture displaced traditional values...

... books: and Meisner's book is a good one. It should remain for a long time to come the book on Li Ta-chao's thought. LUCIEN BIANCO Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris The China Reader: Imperial China. BY FRANZ SCHURMANN AND ORVILLE SCHELL. New York: Random House, 1967. xxv, 322 pp. Chronology...

...: University of Hawaii Press, 1968. xviii, 367 pp. Plates, Maps, Abbreviations, Bibliography, Index. $11.50. SCHURMANN, FRANZ AND IRVILLE SCHELL, Imperial China: The Decline of the Last Dynasty and the Origins of Modern China, The 18th and 19th 448 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Centuries. (The China Reader.) New...

... as much as China's. Orville Schell is fascinated by the pervasive "public" nature of life in China; he notes the devotion to the group and the suppression of overt sexuality and fashion consciousness. Ironically, Schell himself has recently described the sudden emergence of a widespread urban subculture...

.... 1966 1966 558 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES time to be integrated into text and excellent bibliography, and that the literature on the theory of systematic conflict, especially Schelling, had been mooted. But perhaps that is asking for a new book when we should be grate- ful to have such a polished one...

..., Jack Gerson] Schafer, The Vermilion Bird: Tang Images of the South [John Alexander Pope] Schurmann and Schell, The China Reader: Imperial China [John H. Knoblock] Schurmann and Schell, The China Reader: Republican China [John H. Knoblock] Schurmann and Schell, The China Reader: Communist China [John H...

... European and Japanese counterparts, but how, with no concrete commercial imperative, it turned into a psychodrama. Rather than growing out of any clear definition of real American interest, it instead became an expression of the egos and fantasies of ill-informed American leaders. ORVILLE SCHELL Bolinas...

... parallels between the Johnson administration's strategy for coercing North Vietnam and the ideas developed by theorists such as Schelling and Kahn." About one-half of the book (pp. 19-212), then, is devoted to a reconstruction of pertinent aspects of the historical record during this period, especially...

... Autonomous Region (TAR), and Amdo and Kham, which now are part of Qinghai and Sichuan provinces. As Orville Schell's "Foreword" notes, the book refrains from polemic and nostalgia, which characterize much of the popular literature on Tibet. Instead it addresses core issues in understanding the region. One...

... "communism as a state ideology and a way of life." The anthology covers essentially the same time period as the second and third volumes of the Franz Schurmann and Orville Schell anthology, The China Reader. While The China Reader gives primary emphasis to Western interpretations and analyses of develop- ...

... the Western challenge and the Chinese response, and the volume under review deals with the events that led China to embrace "communism as a state ideology and a way of life." The anthology covers essentially the same time period as the second and third volumes of the Franz Schurmann and Orville Schell...

... that Susanne Rudolph's interesting essay on Gandhi's psychology had been published in 558 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES time to be integrated into text and excellent bibliography, and that the literature on the theory of systematic conflict, especially Schelling, had been mooted. But perhaps that is asking...

... for coercing North Vietnam and the ideas developed by theorists such as Schelling and Kahn." About one-half of the book (pp. 19-212), then, is devoted to a reconstruction of pertinent aspects of the historical record during this period, especially those relating to the decisions made in Washington. He...

...: Countries do not seem to move back and forth between these two conditions but remain one or the other. Manion illustrates this with a Schelling-like model of public servants and citizens who choose to behave corruptly. As the number of of cials believed to be corrupt increases and the number of citizens who...

... of Qinghai and Sichuan provinces. As Orville Schell's "Foreword" notes, the book refrains from polemic and nostalgia, which characterize much of the popular literature on Tibet. Instead it addresses core issues in understanding the region. One such issue is how Tibetan cultural unity has been engendered...

... Studies, Inc. 1966 1966 558 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES time to be integrated into text and excellent bibliography, and that the literature on the theory of systematic conflict, especially Schelling, had been mooted. But perhaps that is asking for a new book when we should be grate- ful to have...