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's book. _Chapter Four_ p. 51: I have used here the general framework of R.L. Walker, but more upon Yang K'uan's studies. p. 52: The interpretation of the change of myths in this period is based in part upon the work done by H. Maspero, G. Haloun, and Ku Chieh-kang. The analysis of legends made by B. Karlgren from a philological point of view ("Legends and Cults in Ancient China", _The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Bulletin_ No. 18, 1946, pp. 199-365) follows another direction. p. 53: The discussion on riding involves the theories concerning horse-nomadic tribes and the period of this way of life. It also involves the problem of the invention of stirrup and saddle. The saddle seems to have been used in China already at the beginning of our period; the stirrup seems to be as late as the fifth century A.D. The article by A. Kroeber, _The Ancient Oikumene as an Historic Culture Aggregate_, Huxley Memorial Lecture for 1945, is very instructive for our problems and also for its theoretical approach.--The custom of attracting settlers from other areas in order to have more production as well as more manpower seems to have been known in India at the same time. p. 54: The work done by Kat[=o] Shigeru and Niida Noboru on property and family has been used here. For the later period, work done by Makino Tatsumi has also been incorporated.--Literature on the plough and on iron for implements has been mentioned above. Concerning the fallow system, I have incorporated the ideas of Kat[=o] Shigeru, [=O]shima Toshikaza, Hsue Ti-shan and Wan Kuo-ting. Hsue Ti-shan believes that a kind of 3-field system had developed by this time. Traces of such a system have been observed in modern China (H.D. Scholz). For these questions, the translation by N. Lee Swann, _Food and Money in Ancient China_, 1959 is very important. p. 55: For all questions of money and credit from this period down to modern times, the best brief introduction is by Lien-sheng Yang, _Money and Credit in China_, Cambridge 1952. The _Introduction to the Economic History of China_, London 1954, by E. Stuart Kirby is certainly still the best brief introduction into all problems of Chinese Economic history and contains a bibliography in Western and Chinese-Japanese languages. Articles by Chinese authors on economic problems have been translated in E-tu Zen Sun and J. de Francis, _Chinese Social History_, Washington 1956.--Data on the size of early cities have b
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