Division recommended the book as a tool for researchers in the area of modern Chinese history. The review section of Choice, a periodical published by the Association of College and Research Libraries, recommended the book to "undergraduate and graduate students, particularly students with Chinese-language capabilities majoring in Asian studies." American Reference Books Annual recommended the book, writing "the bibliography is drawn from commonly available publications and rare archival documents in all major libraries and archives, East and West, known to the compilers." The editors of Prescriptions for Saving China: Selected Writings of Sun Yat-sen, in the Bibliographic Note section, praised the work as "the definitive bibliography of works, in all languages, about Sun." The Storm Clouds Clear Over China: The Memoir of Ch'en Li-fu, 1900-1993 received positive reviews. In 1994, Choice recommended the memoir as "a necessary book for college, university, and large public libraries. Upper division undergraduates and above." A year later, The China Quarterly reviewer wrote that "the footnotes and bibliography alone are very useful, and are well worth recommending to graduate students and scholars just beginning to move into the field. …It is important work that ought to be included in the libraries of specialists on Republican China." Lucien Bianco wrote a review of memoir for the French scholarly journal Revue Bibliographique de Sinologie in 1995. In 1996, The Journal of Asian Studies called it "an important book that will revive many discussions, confirm many opinions, and provide historical source material for research. It is also an important firsthand account for teachers' use." Teaching For nearly half a century Sidney H. Chang was a professor at California State University, Fresno. Professor Chang taught a two-part lecture course on modern Far East pre- and post-1949, a critical turning point in world affairs. He also taught a graduate seminar on the Chinese Rebellions and Revolutions. He taught an undergraduate lecture course on East Asian civilizations, and later an introductory lecture course on American history from Reconstruction to the present. Diplomatic career Professor Chang represented the Republic of China on Taiwan government as director of the Far East Trade Service Center in Frankfurt am Main, West Germany, from 1984 to 1985. His lecture, "The Sources of Chinese Tradition and the Thinking of Chinese Businessmen," presented at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum was published jointly by the Bundesstelle für Außenhandelsinformation, Köln, and Deutsches Wirtschaftsbüro Taipei, in 1984. On behalf of the Taiwan government,