...Homer H. Dubs Records of the Grand Historian of China, translated from the Shih Chi of Ssu-ma Ch'ien . By Burton Watson . 2 vols. New York : Columbia University Press , 1961 . 563 + 543. Index. $20.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1963 1963 BOOK REVIEWS 205...

...June Dreyer Educational Theory in the People's Republic of China: The Report of Ch'ien Chün-jui . Commentary and translation by John N. Hawkins . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1971 . 123 pp. including notes and bibliography, n.p. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Earl Swisher An Embassy to China; being the Journal Kept by Lord Macartney During his Embassy to the Emperor Ch'ien-lung, 1793–1794 . Edited with an Introduction and Notes by J. L. Cranmer-Byng . Hamden, Connecticut : Anchor Books , 1963 . xvi , 421 . Index. $7.50. Copyright ©...

...Ronald C. Miao The Poetry of T'ao Ch'ien . BY J. R. Hightower . New York : Oxford University Press , 1970 . x, 270 pp. $11.25 Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1971 1971 Review Articles The Poetry of T'ao Ch'ien. BY J. R. HIGHTOWER. New York: Oxford University...

...Sidney Chang Wo-te ch'ien pan-sheng (My First Half Life) . By Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi . Hong Kong : Went'ung Book Co. , 1964 . 3v., 542 . Illustrations. H. K. $6.60. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1966 1966 758 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES only intensify...

...Ramon H. Myers Chia-wu chan-ch'ien chih T'ai-wan mei-wu (Coal Mining in Taiwan Prior to the Sino-Japanese War of 1895) . By Huang Chia-Mu . Taiwan : Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica , May 1961 . Map. $0.80 (paper, $0.50). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

.... Professor Soper is to be congratulated for having prepared this remarkable and useful work. Metropolitan Museum of Art ASCHWIN LIPPE Chinese Ceramics from the Prehistoric Period through Ch'ien Lung: a Loan Exhibition from Collections in America and Japan. Los Angeles County Museum. March 14 to April 27. Los...

...J. K. Fairbank Ta-chung chi, ya-p'ien chan-cheng ch'ien Chung-Ying chiao-she shih-liao . [Historical materials concerning Sino-British relations before the Opium War; English caption inside back cover, “A Collection of Letter Writings. Appeals and Ordinances.”] Hsü Ti-Shan Ed., Shanghai...

...Dennis T. Hu Abstract Wei-ch'eng ; (hereafter referred to by the translated title Fortress Besieged ) by Ch'ien Chung-shu (1910?—) has been hailed as the most “carefully wrought novel in modern Chinese literature” and “perhaps also its greatest.” Despite such distinction, however, neither this work...

...Judith A. Whitbeck The Emperor's Four Treasuries: Scholars and the State in the Late Ch'ien-lung Era . By R. Kent Guy . Harvard East Asian Monographs 129. Cambridge, Mass .: Harvard University Press , 1987 . x, 289 pp. $23.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988...

...Derk Bodde Syma Tsyan, Istoricheskie Zapiski (Shi Tsi). [Ssu-ma Ch'ien, Historical Records (Shih Chi)] . Translated from Chinese, with introduction and commentaries, by R. V. Viatkin . Moscow : Nauka Publishing House , 1984 . (Department of History, Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R...

...Susan Mann Jones Shanghai Old-Style Banks (Ch'ien-Chuang), 1800–1935 . By Andrea Lee McElderry . Ann Arbor : Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan , 1976 . 230 pp. Appendix, Bibliography, Glossary. $3.00 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1977 1977 BOOK...

...C. T. Hsia Ssu-ma Ch'ien's Historiographical Attitude As Reflected in Four Late Warring States Biographies . By Frank Algerton Kierman, Jr. Wiesbaden : Otto Harrassowitz . vi, 127 . Index of Place-names and Map, Bibliography, Index. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Edward T. Ch'ien Abstract As Harry Harootunian has noted, Metzger's Escape from Predicament represents an attempt to transpose the Weberian project onto the Chinese scene, even though its announced aim is to challenge and provide an alternative to Weber's interpretation of Chinese religion...

...Jonathan Spence Abstract In a recent essay on “Some Mid-Ch'ing Views of the Monarchy,” Harold Kahn announced that he was moving past “the one-dimensional, simple cliché” and “the two-dimensional, complex stereotype” to add a third dimension so that he could show Ch'ien-lung as “a composite figure...

... under Ch'ien-lung; that the great biographical dictionary, Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period , was prepared; that Fairbank and Teng were working on the Ch'ing documents and on the tributary system, and Michael on early Manchu military and political organization.1 But the Pacific War and the events...

... of the population in recent centuries trace to one or the other of die two Ch'ing series—die local reports ordered by the emperor Ch'ien-lung in 1741, or the survey that began in 1909 and ended with the revolution in 1911. The results of the registration of 1953–1954 are consistent with the first Ch'ing activity...

..., at the head of the Ch'ien-t'ang estuary, and turn southeastward to terminate at the treaty port of Ningpo. Traversing the coastal areas of Kiangsu and Chekiang provinces, a fertile and well-populated region, the economic possibilities of this railway had been long recognized by the British. After...

... of the soil (Tai Chia-hsiang 1986); the role of sun, bird, and other totems in Neolithic and Shang belief (Hu Hou-hsüan 1977; Allan 1981; Tu Chin-p'eng 1992; Wu Hung 1985; Paper 1986; Ch'ien Chihch'iang 1988; Juyü 1991; Wang Chi-huai 1992; Xiong Chuanxin 1992; Chang Teshui 1993; Chang Wen 1994; Wang Lu-ch'ang...

... 1962 ), 622 . 2 Shih-chi , Ch. 17 (Peking edition of Shih-chi hui-chu k'ao-cheng , Commercial Press, 1955 ), 3 – 5 ; Ch. 19. 3–4. Hereafter cited as SC. Ch'ien Han-shu , Ch. 14 (Po-na pen ed.), 2a – 3 b . Hereafter cited as HS . Yü-ch'üan Wang , “ An Outline...