states in his report for October thai the total of 1,809 cases of reported crime shows an increase of 149 compared with that for September and 204 more than for the corresponding month of 1933. Arrests for crime show fan Increase as compared with Sept ember and a decrease as compared with the figures for August, 1.567 having been apprehended in October as against 1498 in September and 1,880 in August. In addition, 88. Persons were taken into custody for crimes committed in previous months. Fifty-nine persons were arrested on behalf of other authorities. have been trained in the Occidental technique of historical criticism and writing, have adopted the sclentifc methods of their Western masters. With their training in archaeology, sociology, phonetics, and the other aids to historical investigation, they enjoy as well a greater facility in the original documentation of Chinese history, which cannot be claimed eve: by the best-trained of Western sinologists.
Were Cifinese historical documents limited to a few bronze inscriptions of cuneiform incised bricks, an occasional papyrus, or a parchment, the circumseri It is, however, the task, while difficult enough, would be
very abundance and variety of' Chinese documentation which presents a problem {0 the Occidental scholar. The assyriologist with his cuneiform inscriptions, the classical epigraphist or the Egyptian papyrologue, likewise is not likely to be confronted with living representative of the ancient civilizations whom he seeks to restore! But this is the fate of the Western sinologue who Is surrounded by the direct descendants of the houses of Chou, Han, Trang and Sung And whatever recognizable phonological change may have taken place since to the sixth century AD. the ime of the earliest pronouncing' dic-Honaries, the Chinese ideograph remains substantially the same.
The problems of Chinese historiography are being faced in scientific form and approach in the principal countries of the world. An understanding of China By the West is happily synchronising with China's. own cultural transformation in direc-ions postulated by her Occidental contacts.
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