Excerpt from Agricultural Libraries Information Notes, Vol. 12: October 1986 West met East recently as Director Joe Howard and Sarah Thomas, Chief, Technical Services, traveled to the peopte's Republic of China for a 2-week study and lecture tour. Ah invitation from the Tibrary of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (caas) prompted the trip, which was also sponsored, in part, by the usda Office of International Cooperation and Development. Upon their arrival in Beijing, the group was met by Dr. Liu Yuxiang, Deputy Director of the caas library and Pan Shuchun, Exchange Librarian, who had previously spent 5 months at nal as an intern. Ms. Pan served. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.