phasizes those antecedents to personality development which rest in the psychological atmosphere created within the family, and in various cultural factors. All the factors that influence personality development are treated, such as heredity, maturation, learning, and the roles played by the peer group, the school, and other community agents. CHILD PSYCHOLOGY is founded upon current research and discoveries in the field.Moreover ... it is multidisciplinary, drawing upon data gathered from such diverse fields as sociology, anthropology, behavioral genetics, pediatrics, and some areas of home economics. The authors have sought to elucidate the interaction between two forces: the biological and the cultural, and to disclose the differences in capabilities and behavior among human beings that result from this interaction. has explained his world and has achieved control over the circumstances of his existence-these are the concerns of this book.

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The Abolitionof EconomicControk, 1918--1921 ',EconomicHirtmyRcuinu,xm (~943). The following abbreviations are used throughout in the footnotes: CC, chou-chih (county history); FC, fu-chih (prefectural history); HC, hsim-chih (county history); TC, t'ung-chih (provincial history) ; CP, Commercial Press; SPPY, Ssu-pu pei-yao; TSCC, Ts'ung-shu chi-ch'eng. Readen who wish to consult references in their Chinwe form are asked to get in touch with the author.' For a more detailed discussion on the nature of various categories of China's historical population data, the probable total population for various sub-periods, and factors relating to population changes, d. my PoptJotiun of China, 1368-1850: An Essay in Imtitutiaal and Economic Histmy, which will be published by the Harvard University Press in 1957. 200EARL 2'-RIPENING RICE 2 0 I the agricultural frontier from the lowlands, deltas, basins, and river valleys to the comparatively well-watered hills. Since the extent of lowlands suitable for the cultivation of indigenous late-and medium-ripening rice is rather limited, the drought-resistant early-ripening varieties in the course of time brought about a major revolution in land utilization and more than doubled the area of rice culture in China. Directly by way of doubling China's rice area and indirectly by promoting a better cropping system, the long-range effect of early-ripening rice on China's food supply and population growth was prodigious. It is the aim of this essay to explain certain technical aspects ,in China's rice nomenclature which are essential to our study, to trace the main stages in the dissemination of early-ripening rice, to discuss its various economic effects, and to appraise the role which early-ripening rice played in the economic history of early-modern China.In a country as large and varied as China there must have been a fairly large number of varieties of ric'e since the beginnings of her rice culture. The lack of systematic ancient treatises on rice makes it impossible for modern students to know more than a handful of ancient rice varieties. But enough is known to cast doubt on the generalization of the late Professor Kato Shigeshi that ' Chinese rice was originally of the early-ripening varieties '-1 Since the question whether Chinese rice was, by and large, originally of the early-ripening or late-ripening varieties is so important to our study, a short discussion of ancient Chinese rice varieties is necessary.The low plain area of Honan and the central Shensi basin were the cradle of Chinese civilization. In ancient north China rice was a less important crop than millet, perhaps the only common cereal plant indigenous to China,z and wheat. In Shzh-ching, or the Book of Odes, rice is referred to altogether six times, as compared to thirty-seven occurrences of non-glutinous and glutinous millet.3 Only in the famous peasant song 'Ch'i-yueh' isit clearly mentioned that 'in the tenth month we reap the rice'.4 Although the song of 'Ch'i-yiieh' referred to two calendrical systems, namely, th...