A Note from the Editor

摘要

This issue of The China Quarterly is a watershed in being the last to include a Quarterly Chronicle and Documentation. The Chronicle was ".. .designed to provide a narrative, backed by documentation, of the major events of the preceding three months. In preparing it, the editorial board has as far as possible avoided comment" (Issue 1, March 1960). Its success in providing an enduring, illuminating and judgement-free record of developments in China over the last half century is not in doubt, and that success owes much to the work of its compilers - during the 1960s and early 1970s by the Editorial Board as a whole, in the mid and late 1970s by Brian Hook, Dick Wilson and Michael Yahuda, in the early 1980s by Gerry Segal and Tony Saich, and between 1982 and 2009 by Robert Ash.