Jonathon Spence discussed his book [Treason By the Book], published by Viking. The book looks at an 18th century conspiracy by Chinese school teachers against their Manchu emperor. The emperor ...

Treason by the Book Jonathan D. Spence. Viking Books, $24.95 (300pp) ISBN 978-0-670-89292-1. In 1728, Emperor Yongzheng of China received a message from a distant subordinate advising that treason ...

DARE CALL IT TREASON (344 pp.)—Richard M. Watt—Simon & Schusfer ($5.95). Seasoned soldiers, baaing like sheep, flatly refused to fight. At Soissons, the men of the 370th Infantry ...