COMPETENT AND outstanding scholars in the field of Asian studies have united together in the difficult and almost overwhelming task of compressing withhin a relatively few pages a portrayal of asia and its people.
Our discussion has already suggested that history is not a study isolated from other disciplines. The influence of the ideas of ethics and the presence of the historian's point of view really belong to philosophy. The literary excellence of a few histories gives them a place in literature. It follows that the history of historiography stands as a parallel to the history of literature and the hi…