TY - JOUR
AU - Hurvitz, Leon
AB - 1220 Reviews of Books found in that area. Part V consists of seven studies on settlement and development in modern south China and Korea, based chiefly on field work done in recent years. Part VI contains eight papers on settlement in the Near East, including southeastern and southern Turkey, West Pakistan, and Afghanistan, again based on recent studies and field work. In these essays the author combines effectively a socioeconomic and historical and genealogical approach. His aim is to understand the formation and growth of culture and the dynamics of society. In the foreword he reminds the reader that "these papers do not always represent my present state of information, but show rather the stages in the development of efforts to see and study the data from fresh angles." Professor Eberhard is cautious in drawing definitive conclu- sions, but never fails to be stimulating. Some of his new findings, for instance, that "in medieval China parents started families at a later age than did the par- ents of the last 150 years," challenge further study. Throughout the volume the reader is conveniently supplied with notes and references (with ample Chinese characters) and thirty-one plates. At the end are a 
TI - The Practice of Chinese Buddhism, 1900–1950. By Holmes Welch. [Harvard East Asian Studies, Number 26.] (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 1967. Pp. xxii, 568. $12.50)
JF - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1086/ahr/73.4.1220
DA - 1968-04-01
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SP - 1220
EP - 1221
VL - 73
IS - 4
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