Population and progress in the Far - East

This is my third attempt in the past thirty years to examine population changes and their relations to the development of popula tion pressures. I have been particularly interested in those portions of the world where the growth of population pressures seemed likely to contribute significantly to political tensions. The second of my major efforts and the present one were both actually begun as revisions of the preceding essays in the expectation that mere revision would be sufficient to enable me to contribute to a more realistic discussion of the role of population changes in creating such pressures. In both cases it became clear as work progressed that so many significant changes demographic, economic, political, and social-had taken place that an essentially new essay was needed, even though the central theme re mained much the same-the theme being that population changes are intimately and organically related to numerous other social changes (using this latter phrase broadly) which tend to determine the inten sity of the feeling of population pressure.