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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 February 2009
This article is a report on the conference on historiography in Communist China convened by The China Quarterly at Ditchley Park near Oxford, September 6–12, 1964. Many of the papers will appear in forthcoming issues of this Journal and will be published in book form next year. Professor Feuerwerker served as chairman of the conference, Mr. Kahn as its rapporteur.
* This report represents in general form and without specific acknowledgment of individual contributions to the discussions a consensus of views expressed at the conference. The authors alone of course are responsible for the form those views take here.
1 Quoted in Jen-min Jih-pao (People's Daily), 06 18, 1963.Google Scholar We have not been able to see the original articles by Liu, some of which appeared in the Canton bi-monthly Hsueh-shu Yen-chiu (Academic Studies), No. 1, 1962; Nos. 2, 3, 1963.Google Scholar
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