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Confucian China and its Modern Fate. Vol. Ill: The Problem of Historical Significance. By Joseph R. Levenson. [London: Rout-ledge & Kegan Paul, 1965. 180 pp. 25s.]

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

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Copyright © The China Quarterly 1967

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1 Trotsky was especially fond of drawing the analogy between Bonapartism and Stalinism. He intended it to be a devastating critique of Stalin. Others may take it as a slur on Napoleon.

2 Schwartz, Benjamin, “Stalinism or ‘Chineseness’” Problems of Communism, 0910, 1966, p. 18Google Scholar .

3 For an incisive critique of “functionalist” approaches to the study of Chinese communism, see Schwartz, Benjamin, “Modernisation and the Maoist Vision,” The China Quarterly, No. 21 (0103, 1965), pp. 319CrossRefGoogle Scholar .