The Modernization of China and Japan by George M. BeckmannReview by: E. H. S.Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 83, No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 1963), p. 165Published by: American Oriental SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/597805 .

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BRIEF NOTICES OF BOOKS

The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Early Church. By LUCETTA MOWRY. Pp. xi, 260. Chicago: UNMER

SITY OF CHICAGO PRESS, 1962. $6.95. The relation between the community that produced the Scrolls and the early Christian Church is assessed by com- paring the positions of each group on the matter of salvation. It is a thoroughly competent treatment of a highly controversial question by one who is primarily a New Testament scholar, but who is also well informed on the Dead Sea Scrolls and the re- ligion of the early Christian centuries. (J. B. P.)

Ukiyo-e Art (Ukiyo-e geijutsu). Edited by SHIGEO MIYAO. Tokyo (Ginza Nishi, 8-9): THE JAPAN UKIYO-E SCCIETY, 1962 (first issue). A quarterly devoted to Japanese prints. Articles in English and Japanese. Subscription rate per annum: $8.50 for four issues. Color and black and white plates.

(E. D. S.)

Histoire ancienne du Tibet. By PAUL PELUOT. (Oeuvres posthumes de Paul Pelliot. Publiees des sour les auspices de l'Academie des Inscrip- tions de Belles-Lettres et avec le concours du Centre national de la Recherche Scientifique, V). Pp. ii + 168. Paris: LIRAnAIE D'AM1tRIQTJE ET D'ORIENT ADRIEN MAISSONEUVE, 1961. Pelliot was dissatisfied with the translations of Bushell from the accounts of Tibet in the Old and New T'ang Histories (published in 1880 as "The early His- tory of Tibet " in J. R. A. S., n. s. XII, 435-541), and he retranslated them in 1920. This version has now been published with the marginal notes from Pel- liot's manuscript, but unfortunately without the elaborate footnotes he had intended to use; these have unaccountably vanished. In the same volume appear his translation of an itinerary to Lhasa from Hsin T'ang shu, 40, and a Chinese-Tibetan lexicon based on MS. Pelliot 2762. There is an excellent index, and an abundance of Chinese characters. (E. H. S.)

Peace-making and the Settlement with Japan. By FREDERICK S. DUNN. Principal collaborators: ANNEMARIE SHIMONY, PEBcY E. CORBETT, BERNARD C. COHEN. Pp. xviii + 210. PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1963. The development of American atti- tudes and policies towards Japan during and after World War II, and the relation of these changes to the Cold War. (E. H. S.)

Finnish Reader and Glossary. By ROBERT AUSTERLITZ. Indiana University Publications: Uralic and Altaic Series, Vol. 15, Pp. xv + 294. Bloomington: INDIANA UNIVERSITY, and The Hague: MOUTON & Co., 1963. ". . . designed for students with some knowledge of Finnish or with training in linguistics.

Those who are interested primarily in formal grammar may even wish to use the glossary alone."

(E. H. S.)

Sound and Symbol in Chinese. By BERNARD KARLGREN.

Revised edition. (Chinese Companion Series, I).

Pp. 99. HONG KONG UNIVERSITY PRESS; OXFORD

UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1962. $1.20. Originally pub- lished in 1923, Karlgren's popular account of the Chinese language is now republished within a paper cover as the first of a new series of ". . . popular introductions to Chinese Civilization in its various aspects." (E. H. S.)

The Modernization of China and Japan. By GEORGE M. BECKMANN. Pp. 724. New York; HARPER AND

Row, 1962. $7.80. The transformation of China and Japan under the influence of Western ideas, preceded by an account of " The Traditional Society of China and Japan." Extensive bibliographical notes, a synoptic chronology of China and Japan, glossary and index. (E. H. S.)

China before the Han Dynasty. By WILLIAM WATSON. (Ancient Peoples and Places, Vol. 23). Pp. 264. New York: FREDERICK A. PRAEGER, 1961. $6.95. Chinese culture from its beginnings down to the third century B. C., based primarily on archaeo- logical remains, and emphasizing material culture, technology, and the decorative arts. (Literature, mythology and religion, and other facets of the ancient Chinese civilization, which must be studied in textual remains also, are little noted). An abundance of admirable line drawings illustrate the text, and there are many useful plates and a good bibliography. (E. H. S.)

Les jonques chinoises. By L. AUDEMARD. Four fascicles: pp. 62, 72, 92, 98. Rotterdam: MUSEUM VOOR LAND- EN VOLKENKUNDE & MARITIEM MUSEUM " PRINS HENDRIK," 1957-1962. Posthumous publica- tion of the manuscript of the late L. Audemard, Capitaine de Fr6gate in the navy of France, who served intermittently in the Far East between 1884 and 1918, especially on the Yangtze River. Fas- cicle 1: " Histoire de la jonque " (1957), in the main from the sixteenth century, with illustrations reproduced from the T'u shu chi ch'eng. Fascicle 2: " Construction de la jonque " (1959), with technical details amply illustrated, drawn from actual boats. Fascicle 3: "Ornamentation et types" (1960), in- cluding identifying banners and other insignia. Fascicle 4: "Description des jonques" (1962), an elaborate list of the names given to various kinds of vessel in the several ports of China, with their capacities, crews, etc., and an identifying list of Chinese characters. (E. H. S.)

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