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ii8 China Review International: Vol. 3, No. 1, Spring 1996© 1996 by University ofHawai'i Press complete and balanced narrative ofevents, and its analysis shines in restoring to the students a subjectivity that subsequent recriminations have tended to obscure. But this is a case in which the details matter, for it is only out of the details that the meaning of the whole can emerge. Not until all the truths ofthe suppression are fully established can its victims be laid to rest. Timothy Brook University ofToronto Timothy Brook is a professor ofhistory specializing in Ming social history, wartime collaboration, and contemporary human-rights issues. m Theresa C. Carino and Aileen S. P. Baviera, editors. Black Cat, White Cat: An Inside View ofReform and Revolution in China. Quezon City: Philippine -China Development Resource Center, 1993. v, 140 pp. Paperback $12.00, isbn 971-91251-2-8. This booklet consists of six presentations and a verbatim report of forum discussions at a September 1992 conference on China organized by the Philippine-China Development Resource Center. The papers were given by two Chinese scholars and four China-based foreign expatriates and deal with social transformation in China in the post-Mao years. According to the editors, the volume addresses three key questions: (1) Is China still socialist? (2) How fares the reform project? And (3) what valuable lessons from the Chinese experiment can be extracted for the Philippines? (p. ii). Disappointingly, neither of the first two questions is sufficiently answered. None of the panelists addresses the third question, nor does it arise in the open forums following each presentation. In fact, the questions reveal that the audience had a less than basic understanding of China. Each paper in this volume touches on a different subject, and each is extremely short considering the complexity and significance of the respective topics. For example , William Hinton's treatment oftopics ranging from the world situation to the success, necessity, and status quo of the Chinese revolution and to the future of China is only twelve pages long. The longest paper runs only thirteen pages. What is included, on the other hand, does have some value in its own way. Because none of the panelists has a government background, and all engage China at the grassroots level, their deliberations—in spite of the total absence of documentation—do offer the reader some very preliminary ideas about the other Reviews 119 five subjects covered. The five subject areas are: the impact ofreforms on women in China (by Wu Qing), education and the production ofproductive labor (by Stephen Ting), health care for the rural populace (by Li Enlin), Christianity in China in the reform years (by Philip L. Wickeri), and life for the urban poor in China (by Jaime FlorCruz). The most striking commonality among all the entries is a tendency to offer sweeping conclusions, many times in one-line sentences, without bothering to build a substantive case. Thus, one cannot help thinking that their views seem to be oriented toward lazy journalists waiting for a quick and clean headline or quotation. In short, the volume provides a very, very preliminary introduction to the impressions ofpost-Mao socialism in China by a handful ofnongovernmental field specialists. It is readable but falls far short ofwhat its title promises to offer. Daojiong Zha University ofMacao DaojiongZha is an assistantprofessor ofgovernment and public administration specializing in Chineseforeign policy studies. Hungdah Chiù, editor. Chinese Yearbook ofInternational Law and Affairs. Volume 12 (1992-1994). Baltimore and Taipei: Chinese Society ofInternational Law. iii, 847 pp. Hardcover $28.00, isbn 0-925153-95-8. This collection, an assortment of articles, book reviews, and other items, is an annual production ofthe Chinese Society ofInternational Law, which is the Chinese (Taiwan) Branch of the International Law Association. To avoid confusion, this learned body must be distinguished from an association which bears the same name and is based in Beijing, People's Republic of China. To a large extent, this volume resembles its predecessors, reading more like a diplomatic annual ofthe Taiwan government, with a sprinkling ofacademically oriented pieces on international law and relations. Ofthe seven articles contained in it, two (by Frederick F. Chien and Hungdah Chiù, respectively) reflect...

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