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mately 1,350 families are investigated; in the control community, about 575 families. He compares their standards of living, broadly interpreted to include food, shelter, clothing, occupation, health, education, family, and religion. While change is shown or implied in these chapters, there is a separate introductory chapter on &dquo;Social Change&dquo; containing a miscellany on Chinese reformers’ ideas, &dquo;material progress,&dquo; education, and religion. A chapter on &dquo;Social Organization and Enterprise&dquo; considers public safety in the three communities, and the development of two wellknown urban ports, Amoy and Swatow. The viewpoint avowed by the author in this study is that men are affected by natural, socioeconomic, and &dquo;psychic or imaginary&dquo; (here, religious) environments; their collective endeavor to adapt themselves to these is shown in their mode of living; and Dr. Chen considers his chief emphasis as being upon &dquo;the analysis of societal factors and forces which shape, maintain, and modify the mode of living.&dquo; If this frame of reference could have been used to integrate and synthesize his materials better, it is to be regretted that he did not have the time and the facilities to do it. The American editor should have caught some minor defects. There are no maps; numerous deities mentioned can mean nothing to occidental readers without glossary notes; the statistical intervals in important parallel tables are not the same; there is