Foreword; Portrait of Victor Purcell; V. W. W. S. Purcell: a memoir Sybille van der Sprenkel; Part I. China: 1. Anti-imperialism in the Kuomintang 1923–1928 P. Cavendish; 2. The origin of the Boxers Jerome Ch'en; 3. The high tide of socialism in the Chinese countryside Jack Gray; 4. The Sino-Indian and Sino-Russian borders: some comparisons and contrasts Alastair Lamb; 5. Unpublished report from Yenan, 1937 Owen Lattimore; 6. The use of slogans and 'uninterrupted revolution' in China in the early part of 1964 James Macdonald; 7. The Optick Artists of Chiangsu Joseph Needham; Part II. South-east Asia: 8. Canton and Manila in the eighteenth century W. E. Cheong; 9. Sino-British mercantile relations in Singapore's entrepôt trade 1870–1915 Chiang Hai Ding; 10. The Dutch and the tin trade of Malaya in the seventeenth century Graham W. Irwin; 11. Early Chinese migration into North Sumatra Anthony Reid; 12. Revolution in education Kenneth Robinson; 13. Sikh immigration into Malaya during the period of British rule Kernial Singh Sandhu; 14. The entrepôt at Labuan and the Chinese Nicholas Tarling; 15. China and South-east Asia 1402–1424 Wang Gungwu; 16. Bibliography of the writings of Victor Purcell The Editors; Index.