56 SOCIAL SCIENTIST 26 Sec, for example : Edgar Snow, Red Star Over China, Penguin Books, London; 1973; Jack Bcldcn, China Shakes the World, Monthly Review Press, New York, 1970; William Hinton, Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village, Monthly Review Press, New York, 1966. 27 A kang is a raised platform made of mud bricks, constructed so that the flue from a fire runs under it and warms it* 28 ^China's Price Policy Explained*', Hsinhua News Bulletin, July 24, 1978, pp 14-15. See also the discussion of this issue by John Gurley, op cit., especially pp 230-263 29 Ibid. 80 Apart from specialist reports and evaluations by periodically visiting teams of foreign medical men, scc:J S Horn, ^Away With All Pests...:9 An English Surgeon in Peopled China, Paul Hamlyn, London, l969;Creating a New Chinese Medicine and Pharmacology, Foreign Languages Press, Peking, 1977; Maria Antonietta Macciocchi,. op "cit., "Medicine in China" Ch 10; Wilfrid Burchett with Rewi Alley, op ci' ^China's Health" Ch 14.