Book Reviews : Revolution and Chinese Foreign Policy. By PETER VAN NESS. (Berkeley: Univer sity of Califiornia Press, 1970. Pp. 266. $6.50.)

• Author: John F. Copper
• DOI: 10.1177/106591297002300428
• Published date: 01 December 1970
• Date: 01 December 1970
• Subject Matter: Articles

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versy of the sixties or of the Indian-Japanese incompatibilities, and the reader is
bound to be struck by the profundity of his observations and simplicity of the lan-
guage in which they are presented.
Despite his consistent adherence to the canon of objectivity and emotional
detachment, the reader will also detect some fleeting evidence of his deep human
sympathy for Japanese and other Asians alike, as in his description of the Japanese
contributions to a damning project in Malaysia. I have seldom, if ever, found this
kind of unadorned personal sympathy, understanding, and commitment in the
writings of American specialists on Japan and Asia or Japanese on Southeast Asia.
I disagree with several of the author’s specific observations. For example,
I consider as an unnecessary and unwarranted oversimplication his statement that
the &dquo;critical frame of reference&dquo; of Japanese intellectuals is still &dquo;heavily influ-
enced by German historicism and Marxism,&dquo; or that the conservative leaders of the
Liberal-Democratic...