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Klappentext This 1970 memorial volume is a tribute to the scholarly interests of Victor Purcell in China and South-east Asia. Zusammenfassung This 1970 memorial volume is a tribute to the wide range of Victor Purcell's scholarly interests! especially on the Chinese people and their history and civilisation! by friends! colleagues and former pupils. It aims primarily to acknowledge his work as a scholar and focuses on insurrection! immigration and trade in China and South-east Asia. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Unpublished report from Yenan, 1937 Owen Lattimore; 6.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.
