Nostalgia for Pearl Buck's ‘the good earth’Footnote∗

This essay first appeared as the Prologue to the author's Chūgoku kindaishi kenkyū josetsu (Introduction to research on modern Chinese history; Tokyo: Keiso Book Store, 1968, 3rd printing 1972, 208 pp.), pp. 1–4. My colleague David Evans assisted me in making the translation.

The author, currently professor of history and dean of the college of liberal arts at Hiroshima University, is one of Japan's most senior Marxist scholars of China. Born in 1914, he first went to China in 1939 as a Foreign Office scholar. It was there that he began his important researches on Chinese society, which have included work on such subjects as feudalism, guilds, self‐government movements, economic history, the Chinese revolution. After the war he was active in the peace and anti‐nuclear bomb movements.

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• This essay first appeared as the Prologue to the author's Chūgoku kindaishi kenkyū josetsu (Introduction to research on modern Chinese history; Tokyo: Keiso Book Store, 1968, 3rd printing 1972, 208 pp.), pp. 1–4. My colleague David Evans assisted me in making the translation. The author, currently professor of history and dean of the college of liberal arts at Hiroshima University, is one of Japan's most senior Marxist scholars of China. Born in 1914, he first went to China in 1939 as a Foreign Office scholar. It was there that he began his important researches on Chinese society, which have included work on such subjects as feudalism, guilds, self‐government movements, economic history, the Chinese revolution. After the war he was active in the peace and anti‐nuclear bomb movements.
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