Google Books' search-index of Stroud's 2023 book locates 'Hu Shih' and 'Ching-Sze Wang' by page number, but finds no hit for Keenan, Behuniak, or Schwartz

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Querying Google Books' search-inside feature against the scanned pages of Scott R. Stroud's 2023 book (hosted "by permission of University of Chicago Press") for five distinctive terms produced a differentiated pattern. "Hu Shih" returns a hit on page 279; the exact phrase "Ching-Sze Wang" — Jessica Ching-Sze Wang's distinctive middle name, attached to her 2005 Dewey-in-China scholarship — returns a hit on page 278. Queries for "Barry Keenan," "Behuniak," and "Benjamin Schwartz" each returned no page hit, defaulting instead to Google Books' generic "Front Cover" landing view — the tool's behavior when a search term is not found anywhere in its index of the scanned text. Per claim-stroud-2023-book-back-matter-is-notes-then-index-no-standalone-bibliography, the book's 312-page length and table of contents place pages 278-279 inside the "Notes" section, consistent with an endnote citing Wang's work near a mention of Hu Shih.

This is page-hit evidence, not a verbatim quote: Google Books' static response to a non-interactive fetch reports only the page number, not the snippet text, so the exact wording on pp. 278-279 is [unverified-quote — needs direct read]. It is also not proof of absence for the three negative queries — search-inside coverage is not guaranteed complete, and a citation could use different phrasing (an initial, a title-only reference) an exact-phrase query would miss. What the evidence supports at its actual tier: a positive, page-located signal for Wang and a negative signal for the other three named scholars — suggestive corroboration that the book cites at least some China-side Dewey scholarship, and Wang specifically, but not a confirmed bibliographic citation. See question-stroud-2022-article-and-2023-book-china-scholarship-citations for what would close this out.