Abstract
A SURVEY of the use which one fifth of the world's population makes of its land must be a stupendous undertaking, by any standard. Where, in addition, there are few trustworthy statistical data to hand, and where land utilization lias been subjected for hundreds, and in places for thousands, of years to the complex influences of unrecorded history, the difficulties of completing such an undertaking within reasonable time appear almost insuperable. Whatever may be the ultimate judgment on the value of Prof. J. L. Buck's survey, one cannot but admire the courage with which he has carried out the work and the thoroughness with which the statistical data have been collected and sifted. Land Utilization in China: a Study of 16,786 Farms in 168 Localities, and 38,256 Farm Families in twenty-two Provinces in China, 1929–1933. By Prof. John Lossing Buck. Pp. xxxii + 494 + 28 plates. 21s. net. Atlas. Pp. xii + 146. 21s. net. Statistics. Pp. xv + 474. 42s. net. (Nanking: University of Nanking; London: Oxford University Press, 1937.) 63s. the set.
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