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...Ross Terrill Deng Xiaoping . By Uli Franz . Translated by Tom Artin. New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich , 1988 . xii, 340 pp. $21.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 828 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES problem of centralization versus decentralization...

...Ross Terrill A Critical Introduction to Mao . Edited by Timothy Cheek . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2010 . xxi, 369 pp. $90.00 (cloth); $27.99 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 This rich volume is less an “Introduction” to Mao...

...Stephen R. MacKinnon Madame Mao: The White-boned Demon . By Ross Terrill . New York : Simon and Schuster, Touchstone Book . 1992 edition, with new postscript by author. 452 pp. $13.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 180 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Michael Schaller The China Difference: A Portrait of Life Today inside the Country of One Billion . Edited by Ross Terrill . New York and London : Harper and Row (The Asia Society), 1979 . xiv, 335 pp. Map, Photos, Index. $12.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

... by Roxane Witke, entitled Comrade Chiang Ching. It is in the use of interviews that Terrill is most original. His interviewing technique raises the credibility of his version of the Jiang Qing story above the level of the loose gossip in the shihua literature. The contrast with Witke's work is interesting...

...Terrill E. Lautz Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1980 1980 The United States and China in the Twentieth Century . By Michael Schaller . New York : Oxford University Press , 1979 . vii, 199 pp. Map, Illustrations, Selected Additional Readings, Index. $9.95. BOOK...

...Terrill E. Lautz V. K. Wellington Koo: A Case Study of China's Diplomat and Diplomacy of Nationalism, 1912–1966 . By Pao-Chin Chu . Hong Kong : Chinese University Press , 1981 . xiii, 211 pp. Glossary, Bibliographical Notes, Selected Bibliography. HK$87. Copyright © Association...

... the scandalous official revelations which accompanied the fall and trial of the Gang of Four and the arrival of the post-Mao era in which "new" leadership went to great lengths to separate themselves from the excesses of the earlier period. Ross Terrill's book is one of the more successful studies that attempt...

... The Center for Chinese Research Materials of the Association of Research Libraries, located at 1527 New Hampshire Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036, has reproduced a number of post-Cultural Revolution publications brought back by such visitors to China as Ross Terrill, John Fairbank, Anderson Shih. Chi...

... of earlier works on Mao by Jerome Chen, Stuart Schram, and Lucian Pye; lacking the storytelling charm and grace of more recent journalistic efforts by Ross Terrill and Dick Wilson; and lacking the humanistic perspective ofJohn Starr, Soo has produced a dense, stiff little book that seeks, in the author's...

... acting on behalf of himself and his family. Ross TERRILL Harvard University Western Chou Civilization. By C H O - Y U N H S U and KATHERYN M. L I N DUFF. Early Chinese Civilization Series. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988. xxiv, 421 pp. $45.00. Western Chou Civilization is a hybrid work that draws...

..., 1981. lxi, 978 pp. N.p. Sun Yat-sen has Harold Schiffrin, and Mao Zedong has Stuart Schram and Ross Terrill. Chiang Kai-shek, however, has had no biographer of comparable ability. The title of the book under review promises much, but the book itself most definitely does not fill the bill. It originated...

... with John King Fairbank, James Michener, John and James Thomson, Ross Terrill, Jane Rabb, Peter Conn, and many others, move the story along while covering the many facets of Buck's life. Such a diverse life might not be easy to capture, but the video's producers have succeeded remarkably well as Buck's...

... is attributed to her aid in the 1930s to an actress who once got a part Chiang Ch'ing wanted. East Wind, West Wind is a well-constructed video of a life lived to the fullest. Narrated by Eva Marie Saint, the interviews with John King Fairbank, James Michener, John and James Thomson, Ross Terrill, Jane Rabb...

.... It usefully draws our attention to the career of a distinguished Chinese diplomat and lays the groundwork for a broader study of Republican period foreign affairs, a field that can easily bear more attention. TERRILL E. LAUTZ Yale-China Association Chuang-tzu: The Seven Inner Chapters and Other Writings from...

... Stuart Schram and Ross Terrill. Chiang Kai-shek, however, has had no biographer of comparable ability. The title of the book under review promises much, but the book itself most definitely does not fill the bill. It originated as a daily feature that was serialized for over two years (1974 1976...

... , 341 –47. New York : Kluwer Academic Plenum Publishers . Taylor Jay . 2009 . The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China . Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press . Terrill Ross . 2006 . “ The Bad Man School of History .” Claremont...

... limitations. But as a forceful, provocative summary it will make instructive reading for students, scholars, and general audiences alike. TERRILLE. LAUTZ The Asia Society From Ming to Ch'ing: Conquest, Region, and Continuity in SeventeenthCentury China. Edited by JONATHAN D. SPENCE and JOHN E. WILLS, JR. New...

... Understanding of Modern China [MICHAEL H. HUNT] FEUCHTWANG, HUSSAIN, and PAIRAULT (eds Transforming China's Economy in the Eighties, Vol. 1: The Rural Sector, Welfare, and Employment. Vol. 2: Management, Industry and the Urban Economy [WEN-JEN HSIEH] FRANZ; ARTIN (trans Deng Xiaoping [ROSS TERRILL] GARVER...

.... Lacking the biographical richness of earlier works on Mao by Jerome Chen, Stuart Schram, and Lucian Pye; lacking the storytelling charm and grace of more recent journalistic efforts by Ross Terrill and Dick Wilson; and lacking the humanistic perspective ofJohn Starr, Soo has produced a dense, stiff little...