TY - JOUR
AU - Falk, Stanley L.
AB - Reviews of Books Andrew James Nathan's pioneering study of the CIFRC points to one of the gaping holes in our knowledge of twentieth-century Chinese history. The piece­ meal approach to modernization represented by the CIFRC and like organizations and their general character as privately operated, missionary influenced, joint Sino-Western (chiefly American) endeavors seem oddly irrelevant when seen from the vantage point of the present. Given the magnitude of China's problems, the temptation is strong to infer that this irrelevance was true of the twenties and thirties as well, and perhaps this is one reason why so little serious attention has been devoted to the history of philanthropy in Republican China. Based almost entirely on foreign sources, more often than not the publications of the CIFRC itself, Nathan's monograph provides a useful microscopic profile of the CIFRC from the inside looking out-its organization, personnel, finances, policies, activities. The whole question of relevance, however, tends to be slighted. One gets little sense of what the commission's accomplishments were in terms of the totality of China's needs, where it stood in comparison with other organiza­ tions engaged in similar activities, or how it was viewed by the Chinese them­ selves. The author 
TI - The Ledo Road: General Joseph W. Stilwell's Highway to China. By Leslie Anders. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 1965. Pp. xv, 255. $5.95.)
JO - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1086/ahr/71.2.644
DA - 1966-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/the-ledo-road-general-joseph-w-stilwell-s-highway-to-china-by-leslie-jGPLCT5MkU
SP - 644
EP - 645
VL - 71
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -