Reviews

THE PEACEFUL ATOM IN FOREIGN POLICY. Arnold Kramish. For the Council on Foreign Relations. New York, Harper and Row, 1963. Pp. xi + 276. $5.50.

POWER AND THE PURSUIT OF PEACE: THEORY AND PRACTICE IN THE HISTORY OF RELATIONS BETWEEN STATES. F. H. Hinsley. Cambridge University Press, 1963. Stg. 40/‐.

THE HIDDEN FORCE. F. W. Godwin, R. N. Goodwin and W. F. Haddad (eds.) New York, Harper & Row, 1963, Pp. 203.

POLITICS AND ECONOMICS. Lord Robbins, London, Macmillan & Co., 1963. Pp. x + 231. Australian price 41/6.

STRATEGY AND TACTICS OF SOVIET FOREIGN POLICY. J. M. Mackintosh. London, Oxford University Press, 1962. Pp. 332. Australian price 37/6d.

THE BOMBAY MUNICIPAL CORPORATION: AN ELECTION STUDY. B. A. V. Sharma and R. T. Jangam. Bombay, Popular Book Depot, 1962. Pp. x + 170. Rs. 10.

THE NIGERIAN FEDERAL ELECTION OF 1959: POLITICS AND ADMINISTRATION IN A DEVELOPING POLITICAL SYSTEM. K. W. J. Post. Oxford University Press for the Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research, London, 1963. Pp. xi + 286. Australian price 76/6d.

INDIA AND AFGHANISTAN: A STUDY IN DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS 1876–1907. D. P. Singhal. Brisbane, University of Queensland Press. Pp. 216. Australian price 55/6d.

SOUTHERN EUROPEANS IN AUSTRALIA. Charles A. Price. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1963. Pp. xvi + 342. Australian price 59/6d.

THE METHOD AND STATISTICS OF ‘SOUTHERN EUROPEANS IN AUSTRALIA’. Charles A. Price. Canberra, Research School of Social Sciences, The Australian National University, 1963. Pp. viii + 125. Australian price 27/6d.     

Interpreting Enterprise,State, and Society: A Critical Review of the Literature in Modern Chinese Business History, 1978–2008

This article offers a critical review of literature in the area of modern Chinese business history from 1978 to 2008. It focuses on four interconnected topics: (1) the evolution of industrial capitalism, (2) the adoption of corporate hierarchies and/or social networks, (3) the change of financial institutions and monetary system, and (4) the development of state-owned industries and the formation of the (central) state enterprise system. The review reveals not only significant growth of the field of modern Chinese business history over the last three decades but also the existence of major gaps. The article concludes by considering the implications of its findings for understanding the political economy of business enterprises and enterprise systems in different national and historical contexts.     

Apparitions of Desire: Clive van den Berg and the Art of Historical Unknowability

This paper considers the art of South African artist, Clive van den Berg. Van den Berg has long been engaged in a careful exploration of landscapes and their capacity to bear traces of what is no longer known, often in ways that question the archive fever of contemporary historians and cultural activists. In a variety of media – from fire‐installations to oil pastel, from light and wood to acrylic, in video and in mono‐print – he has probed the history of eros and its relationship to the violences of apartheid, simultaneously citing the aesthetic traditions of the Italian Renaissance and Southern Africa. The paper both describes and explicates the aesthetico‐political ambition of the artist's work as it has developed over the last decade, in the aftermath of apartheid's dismantling.     

Publications briefly noted

PAUL W. LEWIS and BAI BIBO (PIU BO), compilers. Haqniq Doqtnoq Doq'yul. Hani Sayings. Kunming: Yunnan Nationalities Press, 1999. RMB25, paper.

ANDREW COBBING (based on an original study by Inuzuka Takaaki). The Satsuma Students in Britain: Japan's Early Search for the ‘Essence of the West’. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon, 2000. 201 pp. Introduction, plates, glossary, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. £45.00, hardcover.

PETER H. HOFFENBERG. An Empire on Display: English, Indian, and Australian Exhibitions from the Crystal Palace to the Great War. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. 418 pp. Appendices, notes, bibliography, index. US$50.00, hardcover.

MASAKO GAVIN. Shiga Shigetaka, 1863–1927: the Forgotten Enlightener. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon, 2002. 233pp. Glossary, introduction^ appendices, notes, bibliography, index. £45.00, hardcover.

JOY HENDRY. The Orient Strikes Back: a Global View of Cultural Display. Oxford: Berg, 2000. 257pp. Introduction, bibliography, index. US$19.50, paper.