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Book Reviews 229 risse (works which Mao has probably never read) about that strictly European concept of the transcendence of alienation. But Mao, by a different route, has come to essentially the same point. La Trobe University Bundoora, Australia R. F. PRICE BOOK REVIEWS Owen Lattimore, History and Revolution in China. Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series. Lund, 1970. Charles Bettelheim, Cultural Revolution and Industrial Organization in China. New York : Monthly Review Press, 1974. Roderick MacFarquhar, The Origins of the Cultural Revolution. 1. Contradictions Among the People 1956-1957. New York : Columbia University Press, 1974. These three books are about as dissimilar in content, style and purpose as one can imagine, yet each has a distinctive value of its own, even if this differs considerably from book to book depending upon the reader's interest and light. The slimest of the three volumes is Owen Lattimore's work. It is also the least valuable, having value only because of the author's deserved scholarly reputation. It is of interest to know of his interpretation of an event such as the Cultural Revolution since he interprets on the basis of high intelligence, per- ceptiveness and long years of rich scholarship and experience, 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

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Brill
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© 1976 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0021-9096
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1568-5217
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10.1163/156852176X00379
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229 risse (works which Mao has probably never read) about that strictly European concept of the transcendence of alienation. But Mao, by a different route, has come to essentially the same point. La Trobe University Bundoora, Australia R. F. PRICE BOOK REVIEWS Owen Lattimore, History and Revolution in China. Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series. Lund, 1970. Charles Bettelheim, Cultural Revolution and Industrial Organization in China. New York : Monthly Review Press, 1974. Roderick MacFarquhar, The Origins of the Cultural Revolution. 1. Contradictions Among the People 1956-1957. New York : Columbia University Press, 1974. These three books are about as dissimilar in content, style and purpose as one can imagine, yet each has a distinctive value of its own, even if this differs considerably from book to book depending upon the reader's interest and light. The slimest of the three volumes is Owen Lattimore's work. It is also the least valuable, having value only because of the author's deserved scholarly reputation. It is of interest to know of his interpretation of an event such as the Cultural Revolution since he interprets on the basis of high intelligence, per- ceptiveness and long years of rich scholarship and experience,

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Journal of Asian and African Studies (in 2002 continued as African and Asian Studies) – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 1976

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