8 JULY 1978, page 23

Leper-kings

Richard West Cambodia Year Zero Francois Ponchaud (Allen Lane £6.50; Penguin 95p) When I first went to Cambodia in 1963, it struck me as simply the pleasantest country in the......

Class Crunch

John Scott Chinese Shadows Simon Leys (Penguin 80 P) Mao's China Maurice Meisner (Free Press £13.50) A Dutch journalist, Mijnheer J. T. Barendrecht, has nicely described the......