Long has there been a need for a thorough statement of the interpretation of events in China from the viewpoint of the Chinese, "New Lamps for Old" is a bulky, well-indexed volume 70 pages, with adequate footnotes about sources, and is "successful in its effort to throw Chinese light on Chinese affairs—"The Sunday Oregonia Mr. Kotenev tells his readers the events of the last thirty years in China are "no more than the results of her titanic struggles to get rid of foreign forms of life, forced upon her by political and economic processes in Western countries and Japan." Yet "the once rigid grip of the foreigners is slipping, land there is every indication that, possibly in this generation, China will succeed in casting off the last. few links, more imaginary than real, that create in her a sense of inferiority among the other great nations of the world."—"Evening, Trans-1 Boston, Mass.
It_ is pleasant to come across a book dealing with the modern history of China which bears so marked an impression of industry combined with knowledge. Mr. Kotenev is not endeavouring to make anyone's flesh creep, nor does he set out to apotheosize ordinary mediocrities, His treatise is packed with! facts, carefully documented, and it is safe to assert that it willie am in tone who has to write ensable addition to the library of anyily News."
For a consecutive and detailed account of political mot ments in China—especially since the Revolution—this book. is the best with which we are acquainted. It can be commended to all students of the modern history of this great land as being of much value as a book of reference. It draws facts, fancies, and opinions irom multifarious sources, and_ the amount of work involved in collecting and weaving together 0 much information must have been very considerable. The author is to be congratulated on the success of his efforts to produce a realy useful historic summary—-The Shanghai sunday Times."
It is a book T cordially commend all who are interested in modern China to read. It will give them much food for thought; it will at times provoke violent disagreement, Yet it obviously represents many months of painstaking, care and study, which have not been in vain. And possibly much of the dissent it will arouse is because the author has really tried to achieve
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