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278 tion is so endemic, how valid and reliable are published indicators of political structural and performance variables? How does one gauge the extent and impact of corruption? These and a host of similar questions urgently need answers. University of Maryland College Park, U.S.A. JOSEPH P. SMALDONE Dilip Basu, Nineteenth Century China : Five Imperialist Perspectives, Selections by and edited with an introduction by Rhoads Murphey, Michigan Papers in Chinese Studies No. 13, Ann Arbor, Center for Chinese Studies, The University of Michigan, 1972, pp. 82, n.p. From the Public Records Office in London, Dilip Basu has selected five documents drawn up by Englishmen in East Asia between 1817 and 1848. Rhoads Murphey, who edited the materials, points out that none of the state- ments "represents what might be called the main stream in the sense that each was overtaken or contradicted by events" (p.i.). But those materials, with the authors' misjudgements and misstatements, should not be neglected as authen- tic expressions of the British view of China during the first half of the nineteenth century. Along with the writings of more perspicacious Englishmen, they delineate the perimeters within which British policy decisions were made while the Canton
Journal of Asian and African Studies (in 2002 continued as African and Asian Studies) – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1977
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