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REVIEWS OF THE 1970 EDITION:
”The author is an anthropologist who was born in China, did graduate work in England and the U. S. as well as field work in China, and has been teaching here - a perhaps unique set of competences for writing this book. Professor Hsu is not addressing himself to anything so simple as Sino - American political relations; he has set himself the profound task of comparing two civilizations that he knows intimately. He demonstrates their radical dissimilarities and the advantages and disadvantages of each with a lucid, calm, down-to-earth approach. His language is simple and free of professional jargon, and, using these cultures to criticize each other, he illuminates both. Though Professor Hsu writes with professional exactness and scientific restraint, his personality comes through - an acute, sensitive thinker and a man of very good will.” --- The New Yorker
”This work is a rare combination of scientific and down-to-earth language, of objective analysis and philosophy, overlain with a concern for the future of all men, and a recognition of the need for understanding between the people of two great cultures.” --- Library Journal
FRANCIS L. K. HSU is a professor of anthropology and director of the Center for Cultural Studies in Education at the University of San Francisco. For many ears he was chairman of the Department of Anthropology at Northwestern University, and in 1977 - 1978 he served as president of the American Anthropological Association. His works include Under the Ancestors\’ Shadow, Iemoto: The Heart of Japan, Kinship and Culture, and Moving a Mountain: Cultural Change in China (with Godwin Chu).
