Karnow's Mao biography casts culture clash over China
A measured yet biased appraisal of the Cultural Revolution argues Mao fought a long public rift with Liu Shaoqi and the party. Karnow presents Mao as charismatic leader, launcher of mass campaigns, yet constrained by army and bureaucrats. The reviewer notes occasional sensationalism but calls the work readable and thought provoking.
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Han Suyin
Joan Robins
Mao
Karnow
Mao Tse-tung
China
Liu Shaochi
Liu
Communist Party
An Liu
Moscow
Porlay
Rom
Marx
Lenin
Lin
Lin Ping
Vietnam
Russia
America
Red Guards
Barnow
Ilter
Marshal Te-huai
Iit
Chu Te
Red Army
Hundred Flowers
Kamon
Red Guard
Chou En-lai
Preng
Chiang Ch'ing
Lin Piao
Peng Te-huai
Chou Enlai
Joh K. Fairbank
A Memory of Sydney and Other Books Reviewed
A memory of Sydney and related works are praised for vivid family portraits and archival value. Eugenie McNeil’s memoirs reimagine 1890s Sydney with wit and affection while Bertha Mac Smith’s editing of John Smith’s papers bridges squatter era sources. Augustus Gregory’s inland career is examined with critical balance and archival richness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bunyip
Eugenie McNeil
Hawthorn Press
Bertha Mac. Smith
Augustus Gregory
HL. Cumpsion
Roebuck Society
John Smith
Books in Demand Prices for Popular Titles
Castaneda A Separate Reality priced at 6.20 Coleman Cartoons of Australian History 5.95 Lyons Among The Carrion Crows 6.50 Old The ABC Hospital Hour Friendship Book 2.95 Thomas 200 Years of Australian Painting 10.00
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coleman
Lyons
Carrion Crows
ABC
Thomas
Onward and Upward with the Arts in Australian Culture
Geoffrey Serle’s Deserts the Prophets Come surveys Australia’s cultural production from literature to architecture up to 1965. It relies heavily on secondary sources, offers only a rudimentary theory of cultural growth, and presents most content as capsule biographies tied to social history.
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Geoffrey Serle
Australia
Rom
Heinemann
New Yorker
James McAuley
Judith Wright
A. D. Hope
A. G. Stephens
Bulletin
Brennan
Douglas Stewart
Sisser
Hope
France
The Creative Spirit in Australia review discussant critique
A critical assessment of Geoffrey Serle’s Cultural history of Australia argues the work emphasizes artworks as products of creative minds within social climates but treats conflicts and influences too briefly. The reviewer challenges scope, comparatives with Clark and Moore, and calls for document-based cultural history rather than a shallow narrative.
Pretty Lady plots murder of boorish husband in Marion Hobson tale
Esmerelda seeks a melodramatic crime to rid herself of Keith with the help of Denny, a gentle 30 year old with a childlike mind. The townwatching cast includes ailing mother and sister, as Esmerelda toys with murder by manipulating the innocent boy.
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Martin Boyd
Esmerelda
Marion Hobson
Keith
Denny
Cluthing
Rapturous portraits of Indian lineage and postwar ascent
A critical review outlines Ved Mehta’s Daddyji and Bhola Ram as pivotal figures shaping India’s modern middle class through diaspora, education, and cosmopolitan ambition. It compares Mehta’s narrative stance to British and American exchanges, noting a blend of anecdote, hindsight, and selective memory in the portrait of a Punjab lineage.
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Bhola Ram
Lalaji
Punjab
Ved Mehta
India
London
Ved
America
England
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Humphrey McQueen
Gregory
Queensland
Brisbane Courier
Times
Cumpston
Shrawsdale
Castaneda
East Row
Canberra City
Imis
Serle
Pompidou
Napoleon
H. M. Green
T. Inglis Moore
Manning Clark
Australis
Green
Moore
Clark
Lawson
Molly Perham
Abelard Schuman
Guru Nanak
Raja Todar Mal
Akbar the Great
Hisory
Directs
Daddyji
Amalak Ram
Bhein. Ram
Daddyiji
Secker and Warburg
Daddjis
Conta
Marian Babson
Collins
Ritchie Perry
Ellery Queen
Gollancz
Clive Fleton
Hodder and Stoughton
Dan’ Lees
Constable
Jonathan Dawson
Hhmm
Gavin Lyall
Jack Higgins
Deighton
Perry
CIA
Philis
Pawlson
Lyall
Micah McCall
McCall
Clive Egieton
John Tarrant
Ministry ‘of Defence
Tare Fant
Frank Sinatra
Egleton
Tarrant
Auntie
Egreton
Theatre of Cruelty
Jett Plummer
Sea Side
Scarborough
Vicarage
Plummer
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