"Cross-cultural vision" produces here an arresting contribution to the empirical study of symbol elaboration in politics. It is to be hoped that other scholars concerned with the historical and comparative study of ideology will be no less imaginative and exploratory. Professor Chang is in residence this year at the East Asia Institute of Harvard University.
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