IN PRESENTING this book I hope to fill a gap that exists in the present body of literature about Kyoto, between superficial trav- el pamphlets and scholarly, annotated reference works. I found when I went to Kyoto myself that there was no single book be- tween these areas which answered my questions about the tem- ples and other historic buildings I saw; nor was there a book to help me select w…
There has been, and will be for some time to come, a good deal written on the China of the past half decade, for the changes during that time have been both fundamental and dramatic. This record, based in the main on my notes of travels during the 1966-71 period, takes us into factory, school, forest and commune in many parts of the hinterland. As cities and towns are now much more than before …