TY - JOUR
AU - Hornbeck, Stanley K.
AB - Bell:. Tibet, Past and Present are full of fact and suggestion. In the chapter on Shinto there is given the key to an understanding of the great dilemma which confronts the Japanese governing classes. The author observes, "it is certain that to­ day (1924) Shinto amongst the masses is not entirely fulfilling the ex· pectation of the government" (p. 292), but" if Shinto were modified to fit democracy it would be destroyed" (p. 294). For those who wish to distinguish between the true and the false in statements concerning the Far East, especially China, and in the news which emanates therefrom, the reviewer would emphatically recommend pages 313-314; for those who ask" When will China settle down?", pages 109-114; for an ex­ ample of the author's keen appraisal of contemporary literature, the foot­ note on page 156. Notwithstanding its somewhat journalistic character and its national­ istic bias, this book presents a wealth of information and its theorizing is stimulating and suggestive. It may well take precedence in the hands of the general reading public over certain volumes whose authors, more careful perhaps with regard to the trees, have seen the Far East forest in less sympathetic and accurate perspective 
TI - Tibet, Past and Present. By Sir Charles Bell, K.C.I.E., C.M.G. (Oxford: Clarendon Press; London and New York: Oxford University Press. 1924. Pp. xiv, ...
JF - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1086/ahr/30.4.827
DA - 1925-07-01
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SP - 827
EP - 828
VL - 30
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
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