¹ The Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars (previously Newsletter of the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars) has been published quarterly by the CCAS since 1968. Part of die CCAS Statement of Purpose reads: “The CCAS wishes to create alternatives to the prevailing trends in scholarship on Asia which too often spring from a parochial cultural perspective and serve selfish interests and expansionism.”

²For a forceful presentation of the argument see Esherick, Joseph, “Harvard on China: The Apologetics of Imperialism,” Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, IV, no. 4 (December, 1972), pp. 9–16.For reservations about the argument see Andrew Nathan, “Imperialism's Effects on China,” pp. 3–8 in the same issue.Google Scholar

³Recent studies include: Myers, Ramon, The Chinese Peasant Economy: Agricultural Development in Hopei and Shantung, 1890–1949 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970); Albert Feuerwerker, The Chinese Economy, c. 1870–1911(Ann Arbor: Center of Chinese Studies, 1969);Google ScholarHou, Chi-ming, Foreign Investment and EconomicDevelopment in China, 1840–1937 (Cambridge:Harvard University Press, 1965);Google ScholarSchrecker, John E., Imperialism and Chinese Nationalism: Germany in Shantung (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971);CrossRefGoogle ScholarAdshead, S. A. M., The Modernization ofthe Chinese Salt Administration (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970);Google ScholarPerkins, Dwight H., Agricultural Development in China, 1368–1968(Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, 1969).Google Scholar