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In the Eye of the Beholder NOTES FROM CHINA, by Joan Robinson. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1964. 38 pp. This pamphlet by the distinguished English economist reached DISSENT with a...
...To the seriously interested reader I suggest that he read the recent issues of that splendidly informed English publication, the China Review, published in London...
...When two great modern nations, liberated from Imperialist domination, meet at a frontier for the first time, a new situation is created...
...The sentiment, the valor, the comedy, and the lustiness—all of it is here, and well introduced...
...The Wobblies REBEL VOICES: An I. W. W. anthology, edited, with introductions, by Joyce L. Kornbluh...
...The contents of the anniversary number are particularly rich...
...Get it...
...To show the I.W.W...
...Our editor referred it to this reviewer as the only member of the DISSENT editorial board who was once in China (briefly...
...which qualifies him about equally with Miss Robinson who, according to the blurb, "makes no claim to be an expert on New China...
...xii-419 pp., oversize...
...The work is divided into two sections: Part one is the Chinese Point of View...
...The Chinese side offered to negotiate and meanwhile proposed a demilitarized strip between the two armies, to prevent clashes from occurring...
...They have of course emerged stronger than ever: they al ways do...
...Sample: "They [the Chinese] use the ideological style in public pronouncements, I suppose, because they think it is the right thing to do...
...Illus...
...The Party, evidently, is not able to push the people anywhere that it cannot persuade them to go...
...This pamphlet by the distinguished English economist reached DISSENT with a letter from the Monthly Review requesting our appraisal...
...Here he will learn what really motivated the Chinese regime in reorganizing the commune system...
...There are no police on the communes, and the lads are learning rifle shooting in the militia...
...not in its present sadness, but in its grandeur...
...By setting up advanced posts behind the Chinese positions they invited retaliation, and finally launched an offensive, in October 1962, to which the Chinese were obliged to reply in force...
...This book is not...
...Troubadours of justice and dignity (as Civil Rights workers are today...
...The Rebel Girl" carries her flag on the cover of a song sheet...
...Many "problems left over by history" have to be settled...
...The Wobblies, and their place in labor history may be a matter of dispute...
...interesting how song is so essen...
...We recommend it to all DrssENr readers...
...In Part two, "The People's Coln• munes," the author calmly acknowledges the total change (including liquidation and reorganization) which the communes have undergone during the past few years...
...Let our author speak for herself: The Chinese story of the border question is easier to follow than the Indian version...
...Rebel Voices is a perfect gift for the young militant who needs to know there was a yesterday to get a perspective on tomorrow...
...In the Eye of the Beholder NOTES FROM CHINA, by Joan Robinson...
...Finally, the very last paragraph of Miss Robinson's work...
...Block"—warriors and fools...
...Why discuss or "review" this marvelous collection...
...In addition to the usual articles of specialized interest (Colin Clark on Economic Growth in China, a study of Population Statistics by Leo A. Orleans, etc...
...Here are Frank Little, Joe Hill, Ralph Chaplin, Arturo Giovannitti in the flesh of their words and deeds...
...There is no finer magazine in the English language devoted to the problems of China and the Orient in general than this consistently interesting and informative review...
...12.50...
...Reference is again made to my overworked grandmother...
...What an absolutely splendid idea...
...As my grandmother used to say, if you'll believe that...
...March, 1965, $1.50 per copy, $6.00 per year...
...Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press...
...Lumberjacks, bindle stiffs, Bill Haywood, Wesley Everest, the ineffable "Mr...
...To record the Wobblies not merely as a page of history past, but to show them as they were, and in their own words...
...the problem, Miss Robinson, is to discover the truthful one...
...Particularly fascinating is a brilliant tour de force by Ezra Vogel entitled "From Friendship to Comradeship: The Change in Personal Relations in Communist China...
...They were maudlin and militant, sometimes malicious—and sometimes mad...
...Give it...
...Glow when you can, Paul Bunyans of mining town or lumber camp, they acted larger than life...
...Turn its pages...
...The China Quarterly has succeeded in presenting critical scholarship in a badly neglected field...
...there is a valuable section on China and the Bomb (articles by Morton Halperin, William R. Harris), and a more general section on Fifteen Years of Communist China with reflective articles by Benjamin Schwartz, A. M. Helpern and Geoffrey Hudson...
...Recommended The China Quarterly, January...
...tial a part of both movements...
...The Indian "version" is just as "easy" to follow...
...The Indian side would do nothing but reiterate their territorial claims, which, however far-fetched, they insisted on regarding as indisputable and sacrosanct...
...Weep when you must...
...Warmest congratulations to The China Quarterly, which has just completed five years of publication...
...But they struck sparks, and ignited passions of comradeship that proudly echo in these pages...
...After explaining about the Chinese attitudes toward Stalin, Khrushchev and the United States, plus a brief summary of the Tibet problem, Miss Robinson tackles India...
...strikers' children in Lawrence, Mass., hold a sign, "Some day we shall remember exile...
...Write to: The China Quarterly, Ilford House, 133 Oxford Street, London, Wl, England...
...Which, I suppose, is a perfectly acceptable reason, if only one thinks of it...
Vol. 12 • April 1965 • No. 2
