7 JULY 1973, Page 31

D. J. Waller

THE • GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS OF COMMUNIST CHINA

. .a book jam-packed with judiciously selected information. Its significant advance over similar past attempts to outline the subject is that it grafts on to the perspective of China over the past 100 years the cataclysmic events of the recent Cultural Revolution and the Ninth Congress of the Party held in April 1969. . . If I were now • embarking for the first time on the journey I made in 1967 from Hong Kong to Peking by train to take up a news assignment in the Chinese capital, I should be glad to have Dr Waller's book with me for the purpose of 'reading in' during the thirty-eight hour journey.' Anthony Grey/Spectator Second edition— thoroughly revised £2.50 hardback, 90p paperback Hutchinson University Library