Guerrilla Economy: The Development of the Shensi-Kansu-Ningshia Border Region, 1937-1945.
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hopes of drawing China together, of greatly speeding communications, these hopes were not realized—at least not in the Republican period. The two studies reviewed here cover civil aviation in China from radically different approaches. Dr. Wiethoff s work is highly academic, a meticulous compilation of exhaustive research; in terms of detail and thoroughness, it must be the definitive work on the subject. It is also heavy going, stolid, impersonal, and bloodless. Although Wiethoff devotes much attention to the relationship of aviation to modernization and compares the role of the airplane in the twentieth century to the steamship in the nineteenth, he misses the fact that aviation—for the people who participated in it—was the new frontier, where men of courage, daring, and abandon pitted themselves against the elements and against government interference, to fly their frail machines to glory. Dr. Leary does capture the excitement and drama of aviation; his book is packed with action and human interest. Planes are constantly crashing; a parade of vivid individuals marches through the book; one plane flies with one long and one short wing. But the drama is all American; China and the Chinese barely get a look in. No Chinese sources are used, nor is any familiarity with Chinese society shown; how else could one explain the presence of characters such as Tinn King (apparently a general) and Dai Enki, whose names bear no resemblance to any known romanization.