China Review International, Volume 1, Number 1, Spring 1994, pp.81-82 (Review)

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199-page book, there are only seventy-six notes altogether and little more thantwo pages of bibliography.

Compared with the first two books, the volume edited by Des Forges et al. isless hampered by stylistic problems and factual errors. Nevertheless, it also showssigns of being hastily collected. The scholarship of the articles in Des Forges's col-lection is uneven. Moreover, out of the sixteen essays in the collection, eight hadalready been published elsewhere. Michael J. Berlin's essay has only three notes.Wang Xiaodong's cites only four sources in the notes. In sum, these three vol-umes can be viewed as fruitful, yet premature, attempts at explaining Tiananmenhistorically and theoretically. They are certainly worth reading, but not as defini-tive studies.

Shiping HuaUniversity of Hawai'i

Cheung Chiu-yee. Nietzsche in China (1904-1992): An Annotated BibliographyThe Australian National University, Faculty ofAsian StudiesMonographs, New Series, no. 19. Canberra: The Australian National Uni-versity, 1992. 145 pp.

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Cheung's bibliography is an updated and expanded version of the one containedin his 1987 work Nicai yu Lu Xun sixiangfazhan (Nietzsche and the developmentof Lu Xun's thought [Hong Kong, 1987] ). Cheung's new compilation includes atotal of 535 entries. Part 1 lists 100 entries of Chinese translations ofNietzsche'sworks, while part 2 lists 435 publications on Nietzsche by Chinese authors inHong Kong, Taiwan, and China. In addition, 5 entries of parodies and 41 entriesof works on Nietzsche and China published outside China, mainly in Japan, areincluded in the two appendixes.

All the entries are arranged chronologically, and in part two the entries aredivided into nine periods of one decade each. The publication data of each entryare furnished in both English and Chinese. The romanization of Chinese charac-ters is in pinyin and the characters are in simplified form. The usefulness ofCheung's annotations, in English, is that they not only give brief summaries butalso, in many cases, provide cross-references among the titles included.

Cheung's introduction (pp. i-xx) is a concise summary of the historical de-velopment of the treatment of Nietzsche by Chinese scholars, taking into consid-eration the broad political backgrounds in various stages of Chinese history. Italso provides clues to some entries excluded by the compiler, which is certainlyhelpful to those users of the compilation who want to go one step further.

This bibliography appears to be a highly informative and easy-to-use

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resource book for those researching howWestern philosophers like Nietzschehave influenced the thought of contemporary Chinese scholars.

Daojiong ZhaUniversity of Hawai'i

Congress of the United States, Joint Economic Committee, editor.China's Economic Dilemmas in the 1990s: The Problems ofReforms,Modernization, and InterdependenceArmonk, NewYork: M. E. Sharpe, 1992. xiv, 954 pp.

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China's Economic Dilemmas in the 1990s is a valuable contribution to the schol-arly analysis of China's modernization efforts. The 954-page collection of papersfeatures eminendy readable works on virtually every topic important to reformin China, from the power structure and political succession issues to economicreforms and international interactions. Contributors run the gamut from promi-nent political scientists and economists (Harry Harding, Dwight Perkins, RobertDernberger) to less well-known but often equally engaging authors. BusinessmanJames Stepanek, for example, draws upon firsthand experience in writing an in-sightful and humorous piece on "why ten years of reform have left China's bigstate factories unchanged."

The essays are categorized into (generally) well-rounded sections, each pref-aced by a concise overview of the contributions in that section. Issues covered in-clude the political context, economic reforms, social and human factors, agricul-ture, industry, science and technology, military affairs, and "interdependence"(international affairs). Of particular note is the attention given to topics fre-quently overlooked or treated in far less depth: family planning, the brain drain,social security, environmental policies, and specific industrial sectors (aviation,telecommunications, and energy).

Most of the chapters were penned during the post-June Fourth period ofdoubt over the future of reform in China. The authors' cautious tone may seemanachronistic in light of the current renewed commitment to a "socialist marketeconomy," but their warnings about the foundations of China's politicaleconomy are by no means obsolete. Much analysis remains pertinent to prob-lems that China will confront well into the decade. Naughton's essay on inflation,for example, scrutinizes this recurrent critical economic issue for China. TheWebb-Tuan and Sicular articles offer differing views ofwhy progress in China'sagricultural sector has stagnated since 1984. Their review of policies at the root ofagriculture's problemsfrom budgetary pressures to urban biasis valuable inpointing out what underlies the rumblings coming from China's countryside.