Studies in the Social History of China and South-East Asia
Essays in Memory of Victor Purcell

Table of Contents

Foreword
Portrait of Victor Purcell
V. W. W. S. Purcell: a memoir Sybille van der Sprenkel
Part I. China:
1. Anti-imperialism in the Kuomintang 1923–1928 P. Cavendish
2. The origin of the Boxers Jerome Ch'en
3. The high tide of socialism in the Chinese countryside Jack Gray
4. The Sino-Indian and Sino-Russian borders: some comparisons and contrasts Alastair Lamb
5. Unpublished report from Yenan, 1937 Owen Lattimore
6. The use of slogans and 'uninterrupted revolution' in China in the early part of 1964 James Macdonald
7. The Optick Artists of Chiangsu Joseph Needham
Part II. South-east Asia:
8. Canton and Manila in the eighteenth century W. E. Cheong
9. Sino-British mercantile relations in Singapore's entrepôt trade 1870–1915 Chiang Hai Ding
10. The Dutch and the tin trade of Malaya in the seventeenth century Graham W. Irwin
11. Early Chinese migration into North Sumatra Anthony Reid
12. Revolution in education Kenneth Robinson
13. Sikh immigration into Malaya during the period of British rule Kernial Singh Sandhu
14. The entrepôt at Labuan and the Chinese Nicholas Tarling
15. China and South-east Asia 1402–1424 Wang Gungwu
16. Bibliography of the writings of Victor Purcell The Editors
Index.

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