Talk:Karl August Wittfogel

Controversy
It's a disservice not to mention the controversy Wittfogel's "oriental despotism" and "hydraulic society" theories generated. GrimmC (talk) 08:43, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

citations, sources
As far as I know everything is in the Ulmen volumes.--Radh (talk) 12:59, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

Bäumler
Rudi Wetzel writes in his memoirs that Ãlfred Bäumler and Karl August Wittfogel debated Hegel before 1933 (Wetzel was a communist student leader then). Wetzel later was a friend of Bahro's!--Radh (talk) 14:17, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

a new book on Wittfogel, in Japanese
Tomoaki Isii has written a book on Wittfogel in Japanese (publ. 2008).--Radh (talk) 21:56, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

Esther Schiff Goldfrank, Olga Lang
has a short German WP article (de:Esther Goldfrank). Olga Lang, born Olga Joffé, 1898 (?), in (Ekaterinoslav) in the Ukraine, then part of Russia. Died in 1992 (in the USA?). Had been a journalist and correspondent for the Soviet Labor Unions' Trud (newspaper). Met KAW in 1929, they married in 1933 (after he had divorced his first wife in 1932). They went to China, 1935-'37, she had 2 books published after World War II under the name of Olga Lang,
 * Chinese Familiy and Society, Yale UP, 1946.
 * Pa Chin and His Writings. Chinese Youth Between the Two Revolutions, Harvard UO, 1967.
 * based on her 1962 Columbia University Ph. D. The Writer Pa Chin and His Times. Chinese Youth of the Transitional Period

Horrific footnoting
I'm not sure where that style of footnoting came from in this article, but it is non-standard and makes the body damned near impossible to edit. It needs to go away in favor of the standard "ref" format of inline footnoting. Carrite (talk) 06:51, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

Publications
Would anyone be opposed to consolidating his publications (by him and about him) under one section, called Publications? Then housing the various sections as subsections, such as "Selected works (German)", "Selected works (English)", "Plays", etc. Right now it seems unevenly organized. Divine (talk) 16:15, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

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