The China Society for People’S Friendship Studies(PFS)in coopera-tion with the Foreign Languages Press(FLP)in Beijing has arrangedfor re-publication,in the series entitled Light on China,of some fifty bookswritten in English between the 1860s and the founding years of the People’SRepublic,by journalistic and other sympathetic eyewitnesses of the revo-lutionary events described.Most of these books have long been out of print,but are now being brought back to life for the benefit of readers in Chinaand abroad.