Volume 9, Number 7 · October 26, 1967
Puritanism Chinese-Style
By Martin Bernal
China, the Other Communism
by K.S. Karol
Hill & Wang, 480 pp., $7.95
Specialists in the USSR and East Europe have both helped and hindered modern Chinese studies. Many scholars such as Benjamin Schwartz came to the serious interpretation of Chinese Communism from Slavic studies. On the other hand, less sensitive East Europeanists have imagined that their training gave them a unique understanding of modern China. When some Sinologists proposed that the Sino-Soviet Alliance might not last, Professor Beloff, for example, claimed that he knew better than did 'students of China alone who have made inadequate study of communism in its original setting.' On the Left there has been a related hazard, the temptation for men disillusioned with the Soviet Union to shift their utopia eastward. Without any attempt to study the country itself they simply picture China as what the Soviet Union should have been.
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