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Due to the author's lack of training in philosophy proper, the last chapter "attitude towards Time and Change" is not adequately intensive and critical. About Persian culture, he pays no attention to Prof. S. H. Nasr's prolific writings. He does not know that both (space) and (time) were etymologically derived from the technology of weaving. Quotations from the German philosopher Paul Tillich require exact citation and rigorous critical comment, particularly his words: "In Chinese literature there are fine records of the past but no expectations of the future. I am afraid that Chinese thinkers are inclined to be excessively optimistic towards human nature and romantically idealistic towards human future." As
As to
to printing errors, "ephemenies" on p. 116 should be "ephemeries".
WONG YUK
The Magic Wok, Philip Paxton, South China Morning Post Ltd, Hong Kong, 1982, 220 pages + 70 pages of illustration.
To complete the fine series of photograph books relating to Hong Kong issued by the South China Morning Post Ltd this year comes this superb Chinese cookbook; the book of the TV show.
Like all South China Morning Post photograph books the reproduction, colour separation, and razor-sharp definition of the 70 full page and 30 half-page illustrations is of the highest quality. Equally good is the real Hong Kong character of the dishes shown, neither "adapted" for gwai-lo taste, nor forming an uneasy Cantonese-northern amalgam. To be recommended.
P. H. HASE
China of the Beaten Track: How to do it on your own, B. Schwartz, South China Morning Post Ltd, Hong Kong 1982, 247p, inc Bibliography
The cover of this book announces:
You don't need to join a group to go to China. Backpackers can roam the country for $5 a day, and those willing to pay more can travel first-class without a guide. China Off the Beaten Track tells how.
This is to claim more for this guide than it can produce. It was prepared following a six month tour of China, and the rather
358
BOOK REVIEWS
Due to the author's lack of training in philosophy proper, the last chapter "attitude towards Time and Change" is not adequately intensive and critical. About Persian culture, he pays no attention to Prof. S. H. Nasr's prolific writings. He does not know that both (space) and (time) were etymologically derived from the technology of weaving. Quotations from the German philosopher Paul Tillich require exact citation and rigorous critical comment, particularly his words: "In Chinese literature there are fine records of the past but no expectations of the future. I am afraid that Chinese thinkers are inclined to be excessively optimistic towards human nature and romantically idealistic towards human future." As
As to
to printing errors, "ephemenies" on p. 116 should be "ephemeries".
WONG YUK
The Magic Wok, Philip Paxton, South China Morning Post Ltd, Hong Kong, 1982, 220 pages + 70 pages of illustration.
To complete the fine series of photograph books relating to Hong Kong issued by the South China Morning Post Ltd this year comes this superb Chinese cookbook; the book of the TV show.
Like all South China Morning Post photograph books the reproduction, colour separation, and razor-sharp definition of the 70 full page and 30 half-page illustrations is of the highest quality. Equally good is the real Hong Kong character of the dishes shown, neither "adapted" for gwai-lo taste, nor forming an uneasy Cantonese-northern amalgam. To be recommended.
P. H. HASE
China of the Beaten Track: How to do it on your own, B. Schwartz, South China Morning Post Ltd, Hong Kong 1982, 247p, inc Bibliography
The cover of this book announces:
You don't need to join a group to go to China. Backpackers can roam the country for $5 a day, and those willing to pay more can travel first-class without a guide. China Off the Beaten Track tells how.
This is to claim more for this guide than it can produce. It was prepared following a six month tour of China, and the rather
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