...Mi Chu Wiens Zhongguo lishi xue nianjian. [Chinese Historical Studies Yearbook] . Compiled by the Chinese Historical Association . Beijing : Renmin chuban she , 1979 , 1981, 1982, 1983. RMB $4.50 (cloth); RMB $3.35 (paper). Shixue qingbao. [Information on Historical Studies] . Compiled...

...Allan B. Cole Americans and Chinese; A Historical Essay and a Bibliography . By Kwang-Ching Liu . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 1963 . x , 211 . $4.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 BOOK REVIEWS 465 against his scholarly detractors...

...Mary C. Wright Abstract I Want to address myself to two points: why I think the study of China requires the study of its history, and why I think the proper practice of the historical profession in general requires some awareness of the history of China. I would argue that the study of change...

...W. Lawrence Highfill Buddhism In China; A Historical Survey . By Kenneth K. S. Chʻen . Princeton, N. J. : Princeton University Press , 1964 . xii, 560 . Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $12.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1965 1965 688 JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

... ), 129 –95 . English translation from the German by Rev. Lobscheid W. , The Numerical Relation of the Population of Chin, during the 4000 Years of Its Historical Existence; or, The Rise and Fall of the Chinese Population ( Hon Kong : A Shortrede & Co. , 1862 ; 2nd ed. , 1864...

...Ping-Kuen Yu Abstract China is known for a long and outstanding tradition of historical writing, but it has been only in this century that an examination of history has developed in periodicals. The earliest of these periodicals was Hsin-min Ts'ung-pao , which was published in 1902 in Yokohama...

...David Hawkes Chinese Literature: A Historical Introduction . By Ch'ên Shou-yi . New York : Ronald Press , 1961 . 665 . Index. $8.75. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1962 1962 BOOK REVIEWS 387 to the role of "small groups" as conditioners of social attitudes...

...Robert I. Crane Historians of India, Pakistan and Ceylon . Edited by C. H. Philips . Historical Writings on the Peoples of Asia. London : Oxford University Press , 1961 . ix, 504 . Index. $8.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1962 1962 Historical Writings...

...J. E. Spencer The Golden Khersonese: Studies in the Historical Geography of the Malay Peninsula Before A.D. 1500 . By Paul Wheatley . Malayan Historical Studies. Kuala Lumpur : University of Malaya Press , 1961 . xxxiii, 388 . Maps, Tables, Appendix, Bibliography, Index. 45s...

...Douglas S. Paauw Foreign Trade and Industrial Development of China: An Historical and Integrated Analysis Through 1948 . By Cheng Yu-kwei . Washington, D. C. : University Press of Washington, D. C. , 1956 . xi, 278 . Tables, Graphs, Index. $7.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Pow-key Sohn Hangul ui kiwŏn (The Origin of the Korean Alphabet, Hangŭl According to New Historical Evidence) . By Lee Sang-Beck . Publication of the National Museum of Korea, Ser. A, Vol. 3. Seoul : T'ong-Mun Kwan , 1957 . 45 . Plates, English Summary (11 pp.). Copyright ©...

...Kun Chang The Lungtu Dialect: A Descriptive and Historical Study of a South Chinese Idiom . By Søren Egerod . Copenhagen : Ejnar Munksgaard , 1956 . xix, 284 . d.kr. 70.- Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1957 1957 BOOK REVIEWS 301 meant nothing to the Chinese...

..., actual historical events. 9 Legge , I, 215 . 10 In the twenties, Ku Chieh-kang considered Yü a mythological figure who was first mentioned in the mid-Chou period. In the thirties he placed Yü much earlier, and eventually viewed him as the divine ancestor of the Hsi Jung, one...

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... of appreciation of the book's worth as a contribution to the Western literature on early Japan. J. EDWARD KIDDER, JR. International Christian University Japanese Art in the Seattle Art Museum. An Historical Sketch. By RICHARD E. FULLER. Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, i960. 195. Plates, Bibliography, (paper). Anyone...

... This work was translated into Japanese by Prof. Abematsu and published in 1959 by The Institute of Foreign Languages in Osaka. 24 This work is in Mongol, Russian, and Chinese. NEWS OF THE PROFESSION Historical Science in the Mongolian People's Republic Contributed by Sh. Bira Ulan Bator...

... in a world of political colonels, it does provide some understanding of the working of one of the unique institutions created by an imperial power. AINSLIE T. EMBREE Columbia University Levels of Economic Activity and Public Expenditure in India: A Historical and Quantitative Study. By KSHITIMOHON MUKERJI...

...Narayan R. Deshpande The Kashmir Problem: A Historical Survey . By Alastair Lamb . New York : Frederick A. Praeger , 1967 . ix, 163 pp. Map, Bibliography, Index. $5.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1967 1967 BOOK REVIEWS 735 political concerns that were...

...Albert Feuerwerker REVIEW ARTICLE From "Feudalism" to "Capitalism" in Recent Historical Writing from Mainland China Chung-kuo tzu-pen chu-i meng-ya wen-t'i t'ao-lun chi [Collected Papers on the Problem of the Incipiency of Capitalism in China]. Edited by the Chinese History Seminar of the Chinese...

... . By Clarence Burton Day . 1955 . 183 . St. John's University, Shanghai, 1879–1951 . By Mary Lamberton . 1955 . 261 . Soochow University . By W. B. Nance . 1956 . 163 . Fukien Christian University: A Historical Sketch . By Roderick Scott . 1954 . 138 . Ginling College...