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China Yesterday And Today

China Only Yesterday. By Innes Jackson. (Faber and Faber. 9s.) Chinese Evergreen. By Victor Purcell. (Michael Joseph. os. 6d.) Japan's Gamble in China. By Freda Utley. (Seeker......

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Tufts book is a tiresome and rambling attempt at a biographical study. It fills 584 pages ; at least two-thirds of them are irrelevant to the subject. There is no index (and,......