This is the second in the series of four review articles which Dr. Tan Chung is writiug for us.
In our last issue we published the first essay on the Opium War. Two other essays on the Reform
Movement (1898) and the Boxer Uprising (1899-1900) are to follow. In this essay, Dr. Tan
discusses some important and controversial issues about the study of the Taiping Movement,
keeping in view both the Communist Chinese perspective and Western scholarly views. Through
out the essay, he freely compares the Chinese and English language corpuses of Taiping histo
riography for the benefit of our readers who are interested in the history of the Taiping Move
ment. — EDITOR.