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FLOOD TIDE IN CHINA
by C. P. FITZGERALD
Author of CHINA: A Short Cultural History
Six years ago in his book Revolution in China Professor Fitzgerald considered the circumstances and causes which had brought the Communist regime to power in China. In this book he examines the state of that country and its government after the experiment of Communist rule has been applied for six years, and the consequences of the momentous revolution of 1949 can be assessed. In 1956 he was able to return to China and travel freely over a large part of the country, meeting old friends and making many new contacts, and the experience acquired on this journey together with a continuing and close interest in the development of the Chinese Revolution have provided the evidence for the evaluations contained in this book. No one is yet in possession of sufficient confidential material to write the full history of the People's Republic of China, but in this book the author has tried to relate the recent policies of the Chinese government to the background of Chinese life and thought which no revolution, however complete and sweeping, can eliminate or ignore. Judgments passed upon the New China are made with an intimate personal knowledge of the conditions which prevailed in the first phases of the Chinese Revolution, during the past thirty years, and with the train-ing and experience of an historian of China's imperial past. The book therefore covers not only the evolution of the political and social transformations of the revolution but its effects upon literature, art and archaeology, the reform of land tenure and the rapid development of industry in the great cities. The relations between China and her neigh-bours in Asia and the Pacific are examined in the light of observed facts rather than from the standpoint of political parties of the Right or Left. Reliable evidence rather than preconceived opinions upon the nature of the Chinese Revolution is urgently required; this book attempts to provide some evidence of this quality.
