Transactions of the Korea Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society.Review by: P. H. C.The Far Eastern Quarterly, Vol. 11, No. 3 (May, 1952), pp. 425-426Published by: Association for Asian StudiesStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2049607 .

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BOOK REVIEWS 425

Elementary Chinese with Romanization and Exercises on Speaking and Writing. By SHAU WING CQIAN. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1951. xxxi, 468 p. $7.50.

This is a much-improved version of the author's earlier Chinese Reader for Beginners. It presents enlarged lessons, makes more extensive and more ac- curate use of transcription (Wade) of the material in characters, and provides somewhat more extensive notes. The new introduction is full of useful informa- tion. A clever innovation is the use of a dot under a character to indicate the neutral tone. As in the earlier work, the stroke order is indicated for all char- acters. All in all, Professor Chan is to be congratulated for reworking his reader into a textbook with many commendable features.

JOHN DE FRANCIS The Johns Hopkins University

A Short History of the Chinese People. By L. CARRINGTON GOODRICH. New York: Harper and Brothers, revised edition, 1951. xv, 288 p. $3.50.

This scholarly account of the backgrounds of Chinese civilization, written by one of our able authorities on Chinese history, is a revised edition of an earlier work first published in 1943. It covers the whole of Chinese history, beginning with the prehistoric period and concluding with the conquest of China proper by the Communists.

With its emphasis on the people and their civilization-their means of live- lihood, religious and moral ideas, government, literature, and fine arts-this book provides an appreciative understanding of major currents in Chinese his- tory, philosophy, culture, and politics.

P.H.C.

Transactions of the Korea Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. Volume XXXII. Seoul, Korea, 1951. 97 p. $2.00.

The greater part of this volume of the Transactions is devoted to studies by the late Helen B. Chapin. The studies here printed include:

1. "Palaces in Seoul" with four maps and five appendices. 2. "Pu Yo, One of Korea's Ancient Capitals."

The editor in an appreciation gives the following sketch and evaluation of Dr. Chapin's work.

Dr. Chapin went to Korea as Advisor to the National Museum and as Asiatic Arts and Monuments Specialist for the Department of the Army in 1946. She was already a scholar of distinction. A graduate of Bryn Mawr, Dr. Chapin had worked in the Boston Museum of Fine Art's Department of Chinese and Japa- nese Art. Later she served as secretary to the American Consul at Shanghai, and subsequently as English Secretary to the Japanese National Research Bureau in connection with the Pan Pacific Science Congress in Tokyo. Dr.

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426 FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY

Chapin travelled in the Far East from 1929 to 1932 on a research fellowship from Swarthmore College, and in 1933 served as acting curator of the Japanese collections at the College University Library. She was the author of many articles in learned journals: Asian Horizon, Artibus Asiae and The Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. Her books included Poems from the Chinese and A Collection of Translations, with a preface by the late Laurence Binyon. In 1937, the Eucalyptus Press published a collection of her poems Echoes. She also edited a small periodical Leaves from a Western Garden.

During her two years in Korea, Dr. Chapin rapidly became the foremost liv- ing Western authority on Korea's Buddhist art. She was deeply schooled in Buddhism and the traditions of its art throughout the Far East; it is doubtful whether any other western scholar brought at once the insight and the first- hand experience she did to the study of Korean temples and their objects. Tireless in the pursuit of Korea's National Treasures, she succeeded in visit- ing probably the majority of these in South Korea and wrote learned notes on their condition and significance. She had planned to produce the first authori- tative work on Korean Buddhist iconography and to write a new History of Korean Art. Her death thus leaves most important gaps in the study of Korean art which there seems to be no immediate prospect of filling.

P.H.C.

The Korean Minority in Japan, 1904-1950. By EDWARD W. WAGNER, with a foreword by EDWIN 0. REISCHAUER. New York: International Secretariat, Institute of Pacific Relations, 1951. v, 108 p., mimeographed. $1.50.

This study is appraised by Professor Edwin 0. Reischauer as "thorough and judicious." The treatment is historical in approach beginning with a summary account of the early aspects of Korean migration to Japan, 1904 to 1937. Sub- sequent chapters deal with the Korean minority in Japan 1937 to 1945, with the post-war period 1945 to 1948, with the role of the Koreans under the Ameri- can Occupation, and finally with the Korean minority since 1948. The study is comprehensive in scope touching such subjects as: Korean labor, the role of the Japanese government, causes of Korean discontent, relations of the Koreans with the Japanese people, repatriation, the Korean League and its suppres- sion, etc.

P.H.C.

The Reds Take a City: the Communist Occupation of Seoul with Eyewitness Accounts. By JOHN W. RILEY, JR. and WILBUR SCHRAMM. New Bruns- wick: Rutgers University Press, 1951. xiv, 210 p. $2.75.

In their retreat from Seoul in September, 1950, the Reds loft behind evidence of their most powerful weapon: the master plan for the complete and continuing conquest of an entire population. Each individual who survived the 90 days of Red occupation bore the mark of that plan.

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