This volume is the third of a number in which are being
published the results of research carried on by faculty and
research scholars working at Yale University in the field
of Foreign Area Studies. In 1953 there was published The
Multi-State System of Ancient China by Richard L. Walker and in 1954 there has been published The Russian Hexam-
eter by Richard T. Burgi. Subsequent volumes will include
studies in the various disciplines, both Humanities and So-
cial Sciences, in respect to East Asia, Southeast Asia and
the Soviet Union. The undersigned are acting as general
editors for the purpose of securing and approving the best
possible results of research in these fields at Yale. In the
various disciplines or areas to which the special skills of
this committee do not directly apply, it is planned to se-
cure supplementary advice from both inside and outside
the University. In this way it is hoped that in the next sev-
eral years a number of studies now completed, or which
are in an advanced state of development, may be made
available to the scholarly world.

David Nelson Rowe,
Chairman, Editorial Committee
Professor of Political Science

William S. Cornyn,
Associate Professor of
Burmese and Slavic Languages

Karl J. Pelzer,
Professor of Geography

Yale University
June 1954

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