Weber was no sinologist and published his study of China without the benefit of a sinologist's revision of his text. As he was no pedant he freely used transliterations from the Chinese as found in English, French, German and Russian romanizations. Naturally this presented some difficulties to us. I am grateful to my sinologically trained colleague, Professor M.L. Barnet, for going over the galley proofs and checking the romanizations of Chinese names and phrases. Some fine points were kindly settled by Professor Y.T. Wang.