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Edgar Wright, (ed.), The Critical Evaluation of African Literature. London, Heinemann, 1973, pp. xi, 179, $ 2.75

Edgar Wright, (ed.), The Critical Evaluation of African Literature. London, Heinemann, 1973, pp.... 97 Professor Pye deals primarily with Chinese politics north of the Yangtze in the years 1920-1928. After an admirably clear and succinct historical sketch of the various coalitions and factions, he discusses such matters as the relation- ship of the warlords to the Peking government and to various segments of Chinese society, and characterizes them as essentially rational, non-ideological men trying to survive in a world of complex political uncertainty. The author's sympathetic appraisal does not focus on individual warlords (although it does offer a useful case study of Feng Yu-hsiang's Kuominchun), but instead at- tempts to understand individual behavior within a comprehensive system. In the process, Pye provides many insights into the nature of twentieth-century Chinese politics. In investigating the composition of the warlord cabinets, for example, he found that many old-style scholar-bureaucrats still were active in the 1920's, but that the Western-educated intelligentsia gradually were replacing them. Pye's analysis of the differences between Kuomintang and warlord propaganda reveals the ideological poverty of the tuchuns, one of the major reasons for their failure. The warlords also contributed to the rise of the military as an omnicompetent elite, although they did not carry the process as far as http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Asian and African Studies (in 2002 continued as African and Asian Studies) Brill

Edgar Wright, (ed.), The Critical Evaluation of African Literature. London, Heinemann, 1973, pp. xi, 179, $ 2.75

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© 1975 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0021-9096
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1568-5217
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10.1163/156852175X00172
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97 Professor Pye deals primarily with Chinese politics north of the Yangtze in the years 1920-1928. After an admirably clear and succinct historical sketch of the various coalitions and factions, he discusses such matters as the relation- ship of the warlords to the Peking government and to various segments of Chinese society, and characterizes them as essentially rational, non-ideological men trying to survive in a world of complex political uncertainty. The author's sympathetic appraisal does not focus on individual warlords (although it does offer a useful case study of Feng Yu-hsiang's Kuominchun), but instead at- tempts to understand individual behavior within a comprehensive system. In the process, Pye provides many insights into the nature of twentieth-century Chinese politics. In investigating the composition of the warlord cabinets, for example, he found that many old-style scholar-bureaucrats still were active in the 1920's, but that the Western-educated intelligentsia gradually were replacing them. Pye's analysis of the differences between Kuomintang and warlord propaganda reveals the ideological poverty of the tuchuns, one of the major reasons for their failure. The warlords also contributed to the rise of the military as an omnicompetent elite, although they did not carry the process as far as

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Published: Jan 1, 1975

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