In the summer of 1937, Japanese troops occupied the campuses of Beijing's preeminent universities, Beida and Qinghua, and reduced Nankai, in Tianjin, to rubble. These were China's leading institutions of higher learning, run by men educated in the West and committed to modern liberal education. The three universities first moved to Changsha, 900 miles southwest of Beijing, where they joined forces. But with the fall of Nanjing in mid-December, many students left to fight the Japanese, who soon began bombing Changsha.

Chronicles the development of anthropology in China through four distinct phases: the wholesale adoption of Western approaches before 1949, the Soviet socialist model after the revolution, the reliance on the thought of Mao Zedong after the Sino-Soviet split in the late 1950s, and the Chinese model incorporating foreign elements that evolved during the reforms of the 1980s. Includes a glossary with pronunciation guides. Paper edition (186-2), $19.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR