Volume 6, Number 12 · July 7, 1966
Contradictions
By Martin Bernal
Ideology and Organization in Communist China
by Franz Schurmann
University of California, 640 pp., $12.50
Professor Schurmann is not modest. Near the beginning of his book he writes: 'translations from Chinese, Russian and Japanese are my own, and hundreds of articles had to be read in the original Chinese with precision and at the same time extensively. It was important to interview people…and this required a fluent knowledge of Chinese as it is spoken today.' These statements, daunting to the layman, are terrifying to anyone involved with Chinese studies. Yet he is not exaggerating. Not only has the author steeped himself in contemporary Chinese sources, and read virtually all the secondary material available, but he has brought his formidable understanding of history and sociology to bear on this vitally important subject.
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