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Some January Titles: Is the U.S. True to Its Friends: A View from the Former Ambassador of Free China (Acropolis, $14.95), by James Shen—the Republic of China’s last ambassador, whose appointment was terminated in 1979 when the Carter Administration severed its diplomatic and defense ties with Taipei— concludes in the negative.

Thomas Mann’s Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man (Ungar, .$29.50), translated by Walter D. Morris, is the last of the German novelist’s major works to be published in English. Written during World War I, the book is an interesting defense of German culture, which Mann considered vastly superior to the rational, thoroughly politicized, cultures of the West, epitomized for him by France.

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Some January Titles: Is the U.S. True to Its Friends: A View from the Former Ambassador of Free China (Acropolis, $14.95), by James Shen—the Republic of China’s last ambassador, whose appointment was terminated in 1979 when the Carter Administration severed its diplomatic and defense ties with Taipei— concludes in the negative.

Thomas Mann’s Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man (Ungar, .$29.50), translated by Walter D. Morris, is the last of the German novelist’s major works to be published in English. Written during World War I, the book is an interesting defense of German culture, which Mann considered vastly superior to the rational, thoroughly politicized, cultures of the West, epitomized for him by France.