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The Taiping Rebellion and the Western Powers . By S. Y. Teng. New York: Oxford University press, 1971. 413 pp. Bibliography, Index. $17.75.

In 1966 Franz Michael published his The Taiping Rebellion, volume I., a general history based on long research and extensive documentary translation. In 1971 appeared his volume II., The Taiping Rebellion, Documents and Comments, a 726 page collection of 200 documents in English translation. The promised appearance of volume III, which will contain the remaining 190 documents, fourteen supplements, and an extensive bibliography, will see in print practically all discoverable Taiping writings of any importance. Meanwhile, in 1967 Vincent Y. C. Shih produced his The Taiping Ideology Its Sources, Interpretations, and Influences, an exhaustive 500 page analysis. The Rebellion, it is estimated, has been the subject of almost two thousand articles and books by both Westerners and Chinese and a favorite topic for Chinese Communists. In the face of so much activity and authoritative publication, the appearance of another general survey in English of the movement requires justification. Thirty years of specialized interest in the Rebellion, evidenced by his articles for Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period, his New Light on the History of the Taiping Rebellion (1950), his Historioggraphy of the Taiping Rebellion (1962), and his Nien Army and Their Guerrilla Warfare (i960) entitled Ssu-yii Teng, University Professor of History at Indiana University, to produce and justify a new general treatment. To balance the wealth of specialized articles and special viewpoints, Teng promises in his Introduction a balanced interpretation and a new synthesis which will give extra space to the causes and effects of the Rebellion, its political and social institutions, and especially its relations with foreign powers. The last item has apparently affected the choice of the title. To call this book The Taiping Rebellion and the Western Powers is really misleading, for only six of the seventeen chapters deal with Westerners or Western nations. But in the text the author well fulfills the promises made to the reader. To begin, he has systematized and summarized available data to a degree beyond 395