Karl August Wittfogel

From Witness, Whittaker Chambers, 1952

. . . the party took to sending around its agents to feel out my state of mind. Usually, they brought small pieces of bait. One said that the party wanted me to sit on a committee which the Central Committee was setting up to develop worker correspondence on a national scale. Another asked me to translated the two volumes of an important study of Chinese agrarian problems by Karl Wittvogel (now an anti-Communist). But the party's agent, a young Harvard or Yale man whose name I have forgotten, grew so angry discussing Communist problems with me that he lost control of his voice and his temper together and rushed off, taking the volumes of Wittvogel with him.

It would have been a privilege to translate Wittvogel. But, like all party translating, it would have been an unpaid pleasure. I could scarcely afford that any longer. I had gone back to translating for a livelihood. Soon I had all the work I could handle, and, for the first time in years, was making a living.

One of the books I translated at that time was Franz Werfel's novel, Class Reunion. . . .

New York : Random House, 1952, page 260.

Author Wittfogel, Karl August, 1896- Title Oriental despotism; a comparative study of total power Publisher New Haven, Yale University Press, [1957] Description xix, 556 p. 24cm Note Bibliography: p. 491-529 Subject Despotism Civilization, Oriental Irrigation Format Book Library UCI 3 Details/Locations Author Wittfogel, Karl August, 1896- Title Staatliches Konzentrationslager VII : eine "Erziehungsanstalt" im Dritten Reich : Roman / Karl August Wittfogel ; mit einem Nachwort von Joachim Radkau. Publisher Bremen : Edition Temmen, c1991. Description 292 p. ; 21 cm. Series DIZ-Schriften ;Bd. 4 ISBN 3926958774 Language German Subject Concentration camps -- Germany -- Fiction. Format Book Library UCI UCLA UCSD 4 Details/Locations Author Wittfogel, Karl August, 1896- Uniform Title [ Oriental despotism. Chinese] Title Dong fang zhuan zhi zhu yi : dui yu ji quan li liang de bi jiao yan jiu / Ka'er A. Weitefu zhu ; Xu shigu ... [et al.] yi ; Zou Rushan jiao ding. 东方专制主义 : 对于极权力量的比较研究 / 卡尔 A. 魏特夫著 ; 徐式谷 ... [et al.]译 ; 邹如山校订. Publisher [Peking] : Zhongguo she hui ke xue chu ban she, 1989. [Peking] : 中國社会科学出版社, 1989. Description 19, 595 p. ; 21 cm. ISBN 750040512X Language Chinese Note Translated from 1981 ed. published by Vintage Books, N.Y. Note Includes bibliographical references: (p. 521-580). Subject Despotism. Civilization, Oriental. Irrigation. Format Book Library UCLA 5 Details/Locations Author Marx, Karl, 1818-1883. Uniform Title [ Secret diplomatic history of the eighteenth century. German] Title Enth�llungen zur Geschichte der Diplomatie im 18. Jahrhundert / Karl Marx ; �bersetzt von Elke Jessett und Iring Fetscher ; herausgegeben und eingeleitet von Karl August Wittfogel ; mit einem Vorwort von G.L. Ulmen ; �bersetzung, U. Migdal. Publisher Frankfurt am Main : Suhrkamp, 1981, c1980. Description xciii, 143 p. ; 18 cm. Series Edition Suhrkamp ;1047 = n.F., Bd. 47 ISBN 3518110470 Language German Note Translation of: Secret diplomatic history of the eighteenth century. Note Includes bibliographical references. Subject Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union. Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain. Russia -- Foreign relations -- 1689-1801. Format Book Library UCB 6 Details/Locations Author Wittfogel, Karl August, 1896- Title Oriental despotism : a comparative study of total power / by Karl A. Wittfogel. Publisher New York : Vintage Books, 1981, c1957. Description liv, 556 p. ; 20 cm. ISBN 0394747011 Language English Note Reprint of the ed. published by Yale University Press, New Haven. Includes indexes. Note Bibliography: p. 491-529. Subject Despotism. Civilization, Oriental. Irrigation. Format Book Library UCLA UCSC 7 Details/Locations Title Society and history : essays in honor of Karl August Wittfogel / edited by G. L. Ulmen. Publisher The Hague [Noordeinde 41] : Mouton, c1978. Description x, 517 p. : port. ; 24 cm. ISBN 9027977763 : Language English Note English, German, or Spanish. Note Includes bibliographical references. Subject Wittfogel, Karl August, 1896- Social history. Civilization, Oriental. Marxian school of sociology. Format Book Library UCD UCI UCLA UCB UCSD NRLF UCSB 8 Details/Locations Author Wittfogel, Karl August, 1896- Title China und die osteurasische Kavallerie-Revolution / Karl A. Wittfogel. Publisher Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz [in Komm.], 1978. Description 69 p. ; 24 cm. Series Bibliotheca nostratica ;v. 3 ISBN 3447019247 : Language German Note "Ein Beitrag zu Menges' Biographie und eine Laudatio mit Fragmenten einer Autobiographie des Laudators." Note Includes bibliographical references and index. Subject Menges, Karl Heinrich, 1908- Historians -- China -- Biography. Format Book Library UCLA SRLF UCSD 9 Details/Locations Author Wittfogel, Karl August, 1896- Title Beiträge zur marxistischen Ästhetik / Karl A. Wittfogel ; hrsg. von Andreas W. Mytze. Publisher Berlin : Verlag Europäische Ideen, 1977. Description 82 p. ; 24 cm. Language German Note Contains articles previously published in various sources. Note Includes bibliographical references. Subject Communism and art. Format Book Library SRLF 10 Details/Locations Author Wittfogel, Karl August, 1896- Title Agriculture: a key to the understanding of Chinese society, past and present / Karl A. Wittfogel. Publisher Canberra : Australian National University Press, 1970 [i.e. 1971] Description 20 p. ; 21 cm. Series George Ernest Morrison lecture in ethnology ;31, 1970 ISBN 0708108121 Language English Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 17). Subject Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- China. China -- Rural conditions. Agriculture and state -- China. Format Book Library CSL UCSB UCR UCB 11 Details/Locations Author Wittfogel, Karl August, 1896- Uniform Title [ Oriental despotism. French.] Title Le despotisme oriental : �tude comparative du pouvoir total / Karl A. Wittfogel ; traduit de l'anglais par Anne Marchand ; avant-propos de Pierre Vidal-Naquet. Publisher Paris : Editions de Minuit, c1964. Description 671 p., [8] p. of plates : maps ; 22 cm. Series Arguments ;23 Language French Note Translation of: Oriental despotism. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [619]-658) and index. Subject Despotism. Civilization, Oriental. Irrigation. Format Book Library UCB 12 Details/Locations Author Wittfogel, Karl August, 1896- Title Viewer's guide to From Marx to Mao / by Karl A. Wittfogel. Publisher [Seattle] : University of Washington, c1960. Description 5l leaves ; 28 cm. Series [Telecourse] viewer's guide Language English Note Cover title: From Marx to Mao. Subject Communism -- History. Format Book Library UCLA 13 Details/Locations Author Wittfogel, Karl August, 1896- Title Oriental despotism, a comparative study of total power. Publisher New Haven, Yale University Press, 1957. Description xix, 556 p. 25 cm. Language English Note Bibliography: p. 491-529. Subject Despotism Civilization, Oriental Irrigation Totalitarianism Format Book Library UCSC UCB NRLF UCSD GTU UCD UCLA UCR CSL UCSB 14 Details/Locations Author Wittfogel, Karl August, 1896- Title Mao Tse-Tung; libertador o destructor de los campesinos Chinos? Por Karl A. Wittfogel Publisher New York : Comit� de Sindicalismo Libre de la Federaci�n Americana del Trabajo, [1955] Description 21 p. 21 cm Language Spanish Format Book Library SRLF 15 Details/Locations Author Wittfogel, Karl August, 1896- Title History of Chinese society: Liao, 907-1125 [by] Karl A. Wittfogel and F�ng Chia-sh�ng, with the assistance of John DeFrancis [and others] Publisher Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society; distributed by the Macmillan Co., New York, 1949. Description xv, 752 p. illus., maps (1 fold.) 31 cm. Language English Note "Issued as Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, volume 36 (1946)" "Published with the cooperation of the Ameican Institute of Pacific Relations." Note Bibliography: p. 675-695. Subject China -- Social life and customs. China -- History -- Five dynasties and the Ten kingdoms, 907-979. China -- History -- Song dynasty, 960-1279. Format Book Library UCSD UCD UCSC UCLA UCSB UCR UCB NRLF UCI 16 Details/Locations Author Chʻen, Han-sheng, 1897- Title Industrial capital and Chinese peasants; a study of the livelihood of Chinese tobacco cultivators, by Chen Han-Seng ... assisted by Wong Yin-Seng, Chang Hsi-Chang and Huang Kuo-kao, with an introduction by Karl August Wittfogel. Issued under the auspices of the China institute of Pacific relations and the Sun Yat-sen institute for the advancement of culture and education. Publisher Shanghai, Kelly and Walsh, limited, 1939. Description xxiii, 97 p. tables, illus. 23 cm. Language English Subject China Institute of Pacific Relations. Tobacco industry -- China. China -- Social conditions. Format Book Library NRLF 17 Details/Locations Author Wittfogel, Karl August, 1896- Title New light on Chinese society; an investigation of China's socio-economic structure, by Karl August Wittfogel. Publisher New York, International secretariat, Institute of Pacific relations, 1938. Description 41 p. 23 cm. Language English Note "The first part of this pamphlet ... has already been published in 'Pacific affairs' for March, 1938 and, in German, in 'Zeitschrift f�r sozialforschung' VII, 1938, no. 1-2."-Pref. Subject China -- Social conditions. China -- Economic conditions. Format Book Library UCB UCSC UCLA SRLF UCSB UCD 18 Details/Locations Author Wittfogel, Karl August, 1896- Title The foundations and stages of Chinese economic history. Publisher [Paris, Alcan, 1935] Description [26]-60 p. Language English Note Caption title. Xerox reproduction from Zeitschrift f�r Sozialforschung, Sonderdruck. Jahrgang 4, 1935, Heft 1, p. [26]-60. Note Bibliographical footnotes. Format Book Library UCB 19 Details/Locations Author Wittfogel, Karl August, 1896- Uniform Title [ Geschichte der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft. Japanese] Title Shimin shakaishi / Vittofōgeru cho ; Niijima Shigeru yaku. 市民社會史 / ヴィツトフオーゲル著 ; 新島繁譯. Publisher Tōkyō : Sōbunkaku, Shōwa 10 [1935] 東京 : 叢文閣, 昭和10 [1935] Description 2 v. ([27], 719, 11 p.) ; 23 cm. Language Japanese Note Translation of: Geschichte der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft. 1924. Vol 2: Hirano Yoshitarō batsu. Vol 2: 平野義太郎跋. Note Includes bibliographical references. Subject Social history. Capitalism -- History. Economic history. Format Book Library SRLF 20 Details/Locations Author Wittfogel, Karl August, 1896- Title Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft Chinas; Versuch der wissenschaftlichen Analyse einer grossen asiatischen Agrargesellschaft, von K. A. Wittfogel. Publisher Leipzig, C. L. Hirschfeld, 1931- Description v. illus., fold. map, diagr. 23 cm. Series Schriften des Instituts f�r Sozialforschung an der Universit�t Frankfurt a. M. ... 3. Bd. Language German Note Biographical foot-notes. Wittfogel, Karl August, 1896- Title Wirtschaft und gesellschaft Chinas; Publisher Leipzig, C. L. Hirschfeld, 1931. Description xxiv, 767, [1] p. illus., fold. map, diagr. 23 cm. Language German Subject Agriculture -- China. Industries -- China. China -- Economic conditions. China -- Social conditions. Format Book Library SRLF 22 Details/Locations Author Sun, Yat-sen, 1866-1925. Uniform Title [ Selections. German. 1927] Title Aufzeichnungen eines chinesischen Revolution�rs / Sun Yat Sen ; herausgegeben und eingeleitet durch eine Darstellung der Entwicklung Sun Yat Sens und des Sun-Yat-Senismus von K.A. Wittfogel. Publisher Wien : Agis-Verlag, [1927] Description 344 p. ; 22 cm. Language German Note Cover and spine title: Sun Yat Sen. Note Includes bibliographical references. Subject Sun, Yat-sen, 1866-1925. Revolutionists -- China -- Biography. China -- History -- 1912-1928. Format Book Library NRLF 23 Details/Locations Author Wittfogel, Karl August, 1896- Title Das erwachende China : ein Abriss der Geschichte und der gegenw�rtigen Probleme Chinas / Karl August Wittfogel. Publisher Wien : Agis, 1926. Description 174 p. ; 21 cm. Language German Note Includes bibliographical references and index. Subject China -- Social conditions. China -- Economic conditions. Format Book Library CRL 24 Details/Locations Author Wittfogel, Karl August, 1896- Title Geschichte der b�rgerlichen Gesellschaft, von ihren Anf�ngen bis zur Schwelle der grossen Revolution. Publisher [Wien] Malik-Verlag [1924] Description 319 p. 24 cm. Series Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft,Bd. 2 Language German Note Includes bibliographical references. Subject Capitalism. Economic history. Format Book Library NRLF UCB 25 Details/Locations Author Wittfogel, Karl August, 1896- Title Die Wissenschaft der b�rgerlichen Gesellschaft, eine Marxistische Untersuchung. Publisher Berlin, Der Malik-Verlag [1922] Description 95, [1] p. 23 cm. Series Kleine Revolution�re Bibliothek,Bd. 8 Language German