our times a year (p. 384). It is somewhat unfortunate also that the authors did not make use of the official election statistics issued either by the Business Offices of the two Houses of the Diet or by the Local Autonomy Agency. There are occasionally significant differences between these and the earlier unofficial versions apparently used here. Finally, it might be suggested that the chapter on local government would be improved by some attention to the spate of amalgamations of villages and towns which has so drastically altered important organizational and fiscal aspects of the local scene in the course of these last two years. These are minor matters, however, which detract very little from the careful accuracy of the work as a whole. Scholars should be aware, of course, that the rate of obsolescence on certain parts of a book of this type is very high. Japan is now well embarked upon her "reverse course," the current euphemism for her attempt to undo or appreciably alter many of the Occupation-imposed changes. This affects in particular the structure, powers, legal relationships and administrative patterns and actions of government. Every month brings fresh and significant changes, and it now seems probable that these may culminate within the next few years in one or more series of amendments of the so-called "MacArthur Constitution." As these changes occur, numerous passages of legal and descriptive material in this study, of course, become outmoded. This is inevitable for a book of this kind. The Japanese situation is remarkable only in terms of the pace and complexity of the changes which are occurring.
{"title":"Modern Japan: A Brief History.","authors":"Arthur E. Tiedemann","doi":"10.2307/2941936","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/2941936","url":null,"abstract":"our times a year (p. 384). It is somewhat unfortunate also that the authors did not make use of the official election statistics issued either by the Business Offices of the two Houses of the Diet or by the Local Autonomy Agency. There are occasionally significant differences between these and the earlier unofficial versions apparently used here. Finally, it might be suggested that the chapter on local government would be improved by some attention to the spate of amalgamations of villages and towns which has so drastically altered important organizational and fiscal aspects of the local scene in the course of these last two years. These are minor matters, however, which detract very little from the careful accuracy of the work as a whole. Scholars should be aware, of course, that the rate of obsolescence on certain parts of a book of this type is very high. Japan is now well embarked upon her \"reverse course,\" the current euphemism for her attempt to undo or appreciably alter many of the Occupation-imposed changes. This affects in particular the structure, powers, legal relationships and administrative patterns and actions of government. Every month brings fresh and significant changes, and it now seems probable that these may culminate within the next few years in one or more series of amendments of the so-called \"MacArthur Constitution.\" As these changes occur, numerous passages of legal and descriptive material in this study, of course, become outmoded. This is inevitable for a book of this kind. The Japanese situation is remarkable only in terms of the pace and complexity of the changes which are occurring.","PeriodicalId":369319,"journal":{"name":"The Far Eastern Quarterly","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1956-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114155955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Japan—Land and Men. An Account of the Japanese Land Reform Program—1945–51 . By Laurence I. Hewes Jr., Ames: Iowa State College Press, 1955. ix, 154. Bibliography, Maps, Illustrations. $4.00.","authors":"Kurt W. Steiner","doi":"10.2307/2941939","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/2941939","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":369319,"journal":{"name":"The Far Eastern Quarterly","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1956-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123602474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
for example, the Jehol "T'ang" painting is an early Sung copy (Sire"n says, Sung. Early Chinese Painting, I [1933], 66. Bachhofer, eighth century. Burlington Magazine [Nov. 1935], 189-191. Sullivan, possibly Ming. Artibus Asiae XVII [1954], 94); or that of two "Five Dynasties" Deer are "perhaps" Yuan; or why and how a short bamboo handscroll by Kuan Tao-sheng was "probably improved by" her husband, Chao Meng-fu. Umehara's is a direct report on a bit of Japanese wartime archaeology. This, along with a recent article on a Manchurian find at Laio-yang (Fairbank and Kitano, Artibus Asiae XVII [1954], 238-264) does much to illuminate Han discoveries at that time. The two tombs described here—212 excavated as early as 1934, and 219 excavated in 1942—are of a well-known Lolang type, but made remarkable by a woman's coiffure, a still-tied silk sash, and for the first time a cross-bow complete with bow. From a mirror, dating in the first century B.C. seems likely. In such a complicated area as nomadic art, it is valuable to have Max Loehr's scholarly concentration on a single motif. By following out the stag form the author concludes that the Transcaucasian stag motif "originated in the setting of the Tagar-Maiemir phase" in the Minusinsk (Siberia) and Altai regions. Most interesting to the Far Eastern scholar is the obvious conclusion that China could have no significant part in this (contrary to Karlgren's and Ghirshman's inference from analysis of dagger material). China's indifference to the animal is animal in Shang and Chou art precludes such origins. The Ordos is not an outpost of China but an outpost of the Steppe. Schuyler Cammann's article is a wide and careful summary of past research with the addition of latest findings. No one is better qualified to tell us of these matters, and in effect we are given a view of China's expanding world concretely and enduringly portrayed in bronze, from the early (Chou) circles of heaven, that only open a small center for communication to the earth below, through the more elaborate concepts of heaven and earth that are Han and T'ang, Taoist and Confucian, or even Buddhist and Manichaean. But the line is continuous, all examples presenting ideas of enduring cosmic harmony. Soame Jenyns' work on late Ming and early Ch'ing ceramics is a lively and convincing bit of historical writing. For the general historian it is of special interest for his outline of trade with Europe at this time; and, to return to painting, it is a reminder that this was exactly the time when some of the great "retired" artists were working. Interestingly, according to the author, these wares "abound in some of the most spirited and sensitive drawing in the whole field of Chinese ceramics."
例如，热河“唐”画是宋早期的复制品(“宋”)。早期中国画，I[1933]， 66。巴赫霍夫，八世纪。《伯灵顿杂志》[1935年11月]，189-191页。沙利文，可能是明。中国农业科学(英文版)[1994];或者说是两个“五代”鹿都是“也许”元;或者宽道生的一幅短竹手卷为什么以及如何“可能被”她的丈夫赵孟夫“改进”。梅原的书是对日本战时考古的直接报道。这一发现，以及最近一篇关于满洲人在辽阳发现的文章(Fairbank和Kitano, Artibus Asiae XVII[1954]， 238-264)，在很大程度上阐明了当时汉族的发现。这里描述的两座古墓——212座早在1934年发掘，219座早在1942年发掘——是著名的洛朗类型，但引人注目的是一个女人的发型，一条仍然系着的丝绸腰带，以及第一次有弓的十字弓。从镜子上看，可能是公元前一世纪。在游牧艺术这样一个复杂的领域，马克思·洛尔的学术专注于一个主题是很有价值的。通过对雄鹿形态的追踪，作者得出结论，外高加索雄鹿母题“起源于米努辛斯克(西伯利亚)和阿尔泰地区的塔加尔-迈埃米尔时期”。对这位远东学者来说，最有趣的是显而易见的结论，即中国可能在其中没有重要作用(与Karlgren和Ghirshman从匕首材料分析中得出的结论相反)。中国在商周艺术中对动物是动物的冷漠排除了这样的起源。鄂尔多斯不是中国的前哨，而是草原的前哨。Schuyler Cammann的文章对过去的研究进行了广泛而细致的总结，并添加了最新的发现。没有人比他更有资格告诉我们这些事情，实际上，我们从早期(周氏)的天界中，通过汉代和唐代，道家和儒家，甚至佛教和摩尼教的更复杂的天地概念，具体而持久地描绘了中国不断扩大的世界。但这条线是连续的，所有的例子都表明宇宙的持久和谐。Soame Jenyns关于明末清初陶瓷的著作是一部生动而令人信服的历史著作。对于一般的历史学家来说，他对当时与欧洲的贸易概况特别感兴趣;回到绘画上来，它提醒我们，这正是一些伟大的“退休”艺术家在工作的时候。有趣的是，根据作者的说法，这些瓷器“在整个中国陶瓷领域中充满了一些最生动、最敏感的绘画”。
{"title":"The New Japan: Government and Politics . By Harold S. Quigley and John E. Turner. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1956. viii, 456. Appendices, Index. $5.00.","authors":"R. E. Ward","doi":"10.2307/2941935","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/2941935","url":null,"abstract":"for example, the Jehol \"T'ang\" painting is an early Sung copy (Sire\"n says, Sung. Early Chinese Painting, I [1933], 66. Bachhofer, eighth century. Burlington Magazine [Nov. 1935], 189-191. Sullivan, possibly Ming. Artibus Asiae XVII [1954], 94); or that of two \"Five Dynasties\" Deer are \"perhaps\" Yuan; or why and how a short bamboo handscroll by Kuan Tao-sheng was \"probably improved by\" her husband, Chao Meng-fu. Umehara's is a direct report on a bit of Japanese wartime archaeology. This, along with a recent article on a Manchurian find at Laio-yang (Fairbank and Kitano, Artibus Asiae XVII [1954], 238-264) does much to illuminate Han discoveries at that time. The two tombs described here—212 excavated as early as 1934, and 219 excavated in 1942—are of a well-known Lolang type, but made remarkable by a woman's coiffure, a still-tied silk sash, and for the first time a cross-bow complete with bow. From a mirror, dating in the first century B.C. seems likely. In such a complicated area as nomadic art, it is valuable to have Max Loehr's scholarly concentration on a single motif. By following out the stag form the author concludes that the Transcaucasian stag motif \"originated in the setting of the Tagar-Maiemir phase\" in the Minusinsk (Siberia) and Altai regions. Most interesting to the Far Eastern scholar is the obvious conclusion that China could have no significant part in this (contrary to Karlgren's and Ghirshman's inference from analysis of dagger material). China's indifference to the animal is animal in Shang and Chou art precludes such origins. The Ordos is not an outpost of China but an outpost of the Steppe. Schuyler Cammann's article is a wide and careful summary of past research with the addition of latest findings. No one is better qualified to tell us of these matters, and in effect we are given a view of China's expanding world concretely and enduringly portrayed in bronze, from the early (Chou) circles of heaven, that only open a small center for communication to the earth below, through the more elaborate concepts of heaven and earth that are Han and T'ang, Taoist and Confucian, or even Buddhist and Manichaean. But the line is continuous, all examples presenting ideas of enduring cosmic harmony. Soame Jenyns' work on late Ming and early Ch'ing ceramics is a lively and convincing bit of historical writing. For the general historian it is of special interest for his outline of trade with Europe at this time; and, to return to painting, it is a reminder that this was exactly the time when some of the great \"retired\" artists were working. Interestingly, according to the author, these wares \"abound in some of the most spirited and sensitive drawing in the whole field of Chinese ceramics.\"","PeriodicalId":369319,"journal":{"name":"The Far Eastern Quarterly","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1956-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116253377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
complex scale, comparable conflicts between the desire of officials in underdeveloped countries for help and their shame at fully revealing the scope of the needs of their countrymen; fear, misunderstanding, indifference, and opposition among the beneficiaries; problems of communication in cooperative ventures; conflicts of authority and jurisdiction; problems of decision-making and of the execution of decisions; and, above all, the delicate interactions between the particular part of the economy or culture directly and immediately affected by technical aid, and other components. While each of these case histories presents failures, each also offers successes. The programs of the land reform in Taiwan, of the hookworm campaign in Ceylon, and of the introduction of democratic employment practices in Japan represent large measures of success. The reasons for both failures and successes are illuminating. The editors and contributors are to be commended for their initiative and competence in carrying through this project.
{"title":"United States relations with Southeast Asia : with special reference to Indochina","authors":"Miriam S. Farley","doi":"10.2307/2941957","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/2941957","url":null,"abstract":"complex scale, comparable conflicts between the desire of officials in underdeveloped countries for help and their shame at fully revealing the scope of the needs of their countrymen; fear, misunderstanding, indifference, and opposition among the beneficiaries; problems of communication in cooperative ventures; conflicts of authority and jurisdiction; problems of decision-making and of the execution of decisions; and, above all, the delicate interactions between the particular part of the economy or culture directly and immediately affected by technical aid, and other components. While each of these case histories presents failures, each also offers successes. The programs of the land reform in Taiwan, of the hookworm campaign in Ceylon, and of the introduction of democratic employment practices in Japan represent large measures of success. The reasons for both failures and successes are illuminating. The editors and contributors are to be commended for their initiative and competence in carrying through this project.","PeriodicalId":369319,"journal":{"name":"The Far Eastern Quarterly","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1956-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131038510","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"We the Judges: Studies in American and Indian Constitutional Law from Marshall to Mukherjea . By William O. Douglas. New York: Doubleday, 1956. 480. Index. $6.00.","authors":"Lawrence F. Ebb","doi":"10.2307/2941948","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/2941948","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":369319,"journal":{"name":"The Far Eastern Quarterly","volume":"161 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1956-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125946304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
of potential philosophic interest. He in fact appears not to sense what a presentation of his subject would have to be like in order "to claim for it a place in world philosophy," as he hopes. There is no attempt to treat the ideas even of one man in such a way as to show their interconnections or inconsistencies. Instead of analysis, the author prefers a simple combination of quotation and paraphrase: the fascinating argument between Mencius and Kao Tzu as to the identity of "life" and "nature," for example, is given to us without comment, as if the structure of the argument, its point, the meanings of the essential terms, and the lightness of Mencius' position, were all self-evident. If this is, unfortunately, a fairly conventional procedure, we find Mr. Liu conventional also in his larger omissions. Confucian thought after Wang Yang-ming he finds to be "centuries of dreary scholarship," and largely skips it. One hears little or nothing of Confucian views of history or of the arts. It would be a mistake to suppose from the foregoing that the author's attitude toward his subject is one of indifference, however. He shows a strong loyalty to Confucius and Confucianism, and ordinarily uses "orthodox" as a term of praise. On a recent (though now defunct) controversial issue, he takes a firm stand, opposing K'ang Yu-wei and his party's attempt to make Confucianism a religion; and throughout the book, his sympathies and interpretations are generally of the ku-wen variety. Considered simply as history, again the book leaves much to be desired. Some initial attention is given to the non-philosophical substance of history, but this is not continued in any adequate way. In supplying detail of a certain kind, Mr. Liu does better, for he appears frequently to be using Chinese sources. One is apt, therefore, at times to run across a piece of information not previously encountered (thus his account of K'ang Yu-wei's Ta t'ung shu contains some items which are not found in Fung Yu-lan's and Professor Bodde's much longer History of Chinese Philosophy). If one should chance on something new, however, there are ample indications that one would do well not to cite this work. (Consider the acceptance without qualification of the Confucian authorship of the Ch'un ch'iu; or the assumption of the genuineness of the K'ung An-kuo Book of History; or the mysterious remarks about Yen Yuan). This reviewer feels that the time is past when a book on Chinese philosophy as casual, unreflective, and uncritical as this can be justified. In view of its inexpensive mode of publication, which will enable it to reach many thousands of readers, it is particularly unfortunate that it could not have been more satisfactory.
{"title":"Chinese Spirit-Medium Cults in Singapore . By Alan J. A. Elliott. Monographs on Social Anthropology, No. 14 (New Series), Department of Anthropology, The London School of Economics and Political Science. London, 1955. 179.","authors":"W. Eberhard","doi":"10.2307/2941931","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/2941931","url":null,"abstract":"of potential philosophic interest. He in fact appears not to sense what a presentation of his subject would have to be like in order \"to claim for it a place in world philosophy,\" as he hopes. There is no attempt to treat the ideas even of one man in such a way as to show their interconnections or inconsistencies. Instead of analysis, the author prefers a simple combination of quotation and paraphrase: the fascinating argument between Mencius and Kao Tzu as to the identity of \"life\" and \"nature,\" for example, is given to us without comment, as if the structure of the argument, its point, the meanings of the essential terms, and the lightness of Mencius' position, were all self-evident. If this is, unfortunately, a fairly conventional procedure, we find Mr. Liu conventional also in his larger omissions. Confucian thought after Wang Yang-ming he finds to be \"centuries of dreary scholarship,\" and largely skips it. One hears little or nothing of Confucian views of history or of the arts. It would be a mistake to suppose from the foregoing that the author's attitude toward his subject is one of indifference, however. He shows a strong loyalty to Confucius and Confucianism, and ordinarily uses \"orthodox\" as a term of praise. On a recent (though now defunct) controversial issue, he takes a firm stand, opposing K'ang Yu-wei and his party's attempt to make Confucianism a religion; and throughout the book, his sympathies and interpretations are generally of the ku-wen variety. Considered simply as history, again the book leaves much to be desired. Some initial attention is given to the non-philosophical substance of history, but this is not continued in any adequate way. In supplying detail of a certain kind, Mr. Liu does better, for he appears frequently to be using Chinese sources. One is apt, therefore, at times to run across a piece of information not previously encountered (thus his account of K'ang Yu-wei's Ta t'ung shu contains some items which are not found in Fung Yu-lan's and Professor Bodde's much longer History of Chinese Philosophy). If one should chance on something new, however, there are ample indications that one would do well not to cite this work. (Consider the acceptance without qualification of the Confucian authorship of the Ch'un ch'iu; or the assumption of the genuineness of the K'ung An-kuo Book of History; or the mysterious remarks about Yen Yuan). This reviewer feels that the time is past when a book on Chinese philosophy as casual, unreflective, and uncritical as this can be justified. In view of its inexpensive mode of publication, which will enable it to reach many thousands of readers, it is particularly unfortunate that it could not have been more satisfactory.","PeriodicalId":369319,"journal":{"name":"The Far Eastern Quarterly","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1956-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122966403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
as the invention of the barometer (p. 297); the dates of the production of the woodblocks of the Tripitaka are assigned in the chronology to the invention of movable metal type (p. 297) (This invention he notes three times in his book [pp. 65, 66, 297] and all three dates are different, none correct. The correct date is not ascertainable but it was sometime before 1239.); the encyclopedia which he mentions (p. 66) as consisting of 112 volumes (chuan) is a confusion of two encyclopedias of 55 and 57 chuan each; the Honggildong-jon was not written by the celebrated monk Kasan, but by H6 Kyun (p. 76); the compilation of Oreui [Five Ceremonies] was finished three hundred years before the date mentioned (p. 77); the Japanese attempts to eliminate Chinese influence by means of fomenting a political coup occurred in 1884, not in 1824 (p. 158); and Pak Y6ng-hyo was not sent to Japan before 1879, but in 1882 (p. 165). There are language errors also. The author is not sure of his Sino-Korean readings, i.e., Milo Pong for Piro-bong (p. 8), Eijo for Y6ngjo (p. 15), Yang and Ying for Yang and Yin (p. 28), Song Sol for Song Si-y61 (p. 77), Pak Young Ho for Pak Y6ng-hyo (pp. 165, 332), Lee Tong Hi for Yi Tong-hwi (pp. 166, 181, 333), Kim Pu Ki for Kim Pu-sik (p. 347), etc. Indeed his lack of any system of romanization of Korean words makes it hard for the reader to keep track of anything. His bibliography of books in the Far Eastern languages is weak and it is evident that the author is unfamiliar with them. Incorrect information about the language in which some books are written, incorrect titles and numbers of volumes, and so on are numerous. The book was apparently designed to be supplementary to Dr. George McCune's Korea Today, but comparison can only be invidious. If the author's aim was to enlist sympathy for a divided Korea and its prospects for "tomorrow," he might have succeeded better by limiting himself to postwar topics with which he personally was familiar. The author seems, frankly, not familiar with his native culture from native sources.
如气压计的发明(第297页);《大藏经》木版的生产日期在年表中被指定为金属活字的发明(第297页)(他在他的书中三次提到这项发明[第65页，第66页，第297页]，这三个日期都不一样，没有一个是正确的。准确的日期无法确定，但应该是在1239年之前的某个时间。他提到的百科全书(第66页)有112卷(川)，是两本分别为55卷和57卷的百科全书的混淆;《洪吉洞传》不是由著名僧人噶山所著，而是由H6 Kyun所著(第76页);《五礼》的编纂比上述日期早了300年(第77页);日本企图通过煽动政治政变来消除中国的影响发生在1884年，而不是1824年(第158页);朴永孝不是1879年以前被派往日本的，而是1882年(第165页)。也有语言错误。作者不确定他的汉韩文读法，即米罗·蓬(第8页)、Eijo(第15页)、Yang和Ying(第28页)、Song Sol(第77页)、Pak Young Ho(第165、332页)、Lee Tong Hi(第166、181、333页)、Kim Pu Ki(第347页)等。事实上，他没有任何韩国语的罗马化系统，这让读者很难记住任何东西。他对远东语言书籍的参考书目很少，很明显作者对它们并不熟悉。关于某些书所使用的语言的错误信息，不正确的书名和卷数等等都是数不胜数的。这本书显然是为了补充乔治·麦库恩博士的《今日韩国》而设计的，但比较起来只会令人反感。如果作者的目的是争取人们对分裂的朝鲜及其“明天”前景的同情，那么他可能会更成功地将自己的篇幅限制在他个人熟悉的战后话题上。坦率地说，作者似乎并不熟悉他的本土文化。
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