China in the throes of the Revolution is depicted with power and sincerity in "White Sun" by Adam Brand ' (Hutchinson, London, 7/6).
The title, of course, refers to the Kuomintang emblem, but the novel is not primarily historical—it is rather a psychological story for which revolutionary China serves as a vast and interesting background. The types are varied: idealists, schemers, business pioneers, simple-minded followers, glamorous women, the conservative, the Westernized, the ignorant, educated the Poets, actors, students, coolies their parts in the tal drama unfolded before the reader's eyes. Personal triumph and tragedy exist side by side with political ambition, political intrigue, political frustration, the life or death of a cause. Among the chief figures are Lin, whose ideals are pure and practical; Chao, the foreign-educated man of big business and admirer of women; the honest and faithful Chang, whose hero Lin; is Natasha, beautiful and inscrutable; Wu the scoundrel; and a vast number of others who are drawn into the maelstrom of events. - The author in-that his character 'e all fictitious, and undoubtedly they are; yet y possess traits which those niliar with China during the last generation will recognize as typical of men in public life—a fact which lends a ome authenticity to th book. Altogether, the auth a deep knowledge of people and her institutions. He further presents his kaleidoscopic material in such a simple manner a appeal to the general reader as much as to the "China hand.""—v-m.
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