...¢. Chung-kuo tsao-ch'i te lun-ch'uan ching-ying [The initial development of steamships in China] ., By Lü Shih-ch'iang . Nan-kang, Taiwan : The Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica , 1962 . Special Publication Series. 312. Chronological table, Bibliography. 80¢. Copyright © Association...

...Y. P. Mei Two Chinese Philosophers: Ch'eng Ming-tao and Ch'eng Yi-ch'uan . By A. C. Graham . London : Lund Humphries , 1958 . 45s. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1959 1959 BOOK REVIEWS 79 Nine Songs to describe the dancing or posturing of the shamaness...

...Samuel C. Chu Abstract In the latter decades of the nineteenth century, a number of Chinese officials acted as agents of modernization in their own regions of authority. The achievements of such men as Li Hung-chang and Chang Chih-tung are well known. The work of Liu Ming-ch'uan in Taiwan, however...

...Robert H. G. Lee Wang cheng-ch'üan ti k'ai-ch'ang yü shou-ch'ang . (The Beginning and End of the Drama of the Wang Regime), Vols. 1–4. By Chu Tzu-chia (pseudonym). Hong Kong : Ch'un-ch'iu tsa-chih she , 1959 –61. 178 , 202, 212, 225. HK$2.50 ea. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...John D. Mitchell Body and Mind in Harmony. T'ai Chi Ch'uan—An Ancient Chinese Way of Exercise to Achieve Health and Tranquility . By Sophia Delza . New York : David McKay , 1961 . vii, 184 . Appendix, Illustrations. $3.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1962...

...P. M. Yap Abstract The evolution of China into a modern nation-state has seen few episodes more meaningful than the Taiping Rebellion occurring in the latter half of the last century. In the leader of this rebellion, Hung Hsiu-ch'üan, there is much that is of special interest to the sociologist...

...Inez de Beauclair Songs and Stories of the Ch'uan Miao . By David Crockett Graham . Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Vol. 123 , No. 1. Smithsonian Institution , 1954 . xi, 336 . 24 plates, bibliography, appendix and index. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Joshua Fogel Mirovozzrenie kitaiskogo myslitelia XVII veka Van Chuan'-shania. [The Weltanschauung of the Chinese thinker of the seventeenth century, Wang Ch'uan-shan] . By V. G. Burov . Moscow : Nauk , 1976 . 222 pp. 76 kopeks. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1979...

...Madeleine Zelin A Complete Book Concerning Happiness and Benevolence: Fu-hui ch'üan-shu, a Manual for Local Magistrates in Seventeenth-Century China, by Huang Liu-hung . Translated by Djang Chu . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 1984 . xvi, 656 pp. Glossary, Index. $37.50...

...E-tu Zen Sun Wan-Chʻing Ti Shou-Hui K'uang-Ch'üan Yün- Tung (The Late Chʻing Movement for the Restoration of Mining Rights) . By Li En-han . Monograph No. 8 of the Institute of Modern History; Academia Sinica. Taipei : 1963 . 371 pp. n.p. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

... and the Response to Imperialism: The Peking- Mukden Railway, 1895–1911,” Ch'ing-shih wen-t'i , II , 1 ( 1969 ), p. 45 . 5 See the useful article, Chu Samuel C. , “Liu Ming-ch'uan and Modernization of Taiwan,” Journal of Asian Studies , XXIII , 1 ( 1963 ), pp. 37 – 53...

...Kung-ch'uan Hsiao Abstract Arthur Henderson Smith, writing near the end of the previous century, characterized the Chinese village organization as “the self-government of the small communities” and asserted that “the management of the village was in the hands of the people themselves.” His...

...Jung-pang Lo Abstract On page 278 of my article, “The Controversy Over Grain Conveyance During the Reign of Qubilai Qaqan, 1260–94,” which appeared in the May 1954 Number of the Far Eastern Quarterly (13.3), I translated Hsing Ch'uan Fu Ssu as the Ambulatory Office for Ch'uan-chou. It should...

...Yuan Chung Teng Abstract Reverend Issachar Jacox Roberts was, as far as is known, the only Western teacher ever to instruct Hung Hsiu-ch'üan, the leader of the Taiping Rebellion. Aware of his special relationship with Hung, Roberts was for many years enthusiastic about Hung's undertakings...

... of Posts and Communications ( Yu-ch'uan pu ); during and after the revolution of 1911–12 Yuan depended on them and their communications and financial network of influence for support of his presidency of the Republic. Thus Liang and the Communications Clique represented the non-military side of Yuan Shih...

...Tien-Wei Wu Abstract In his review of Mr. Chiang Yung-ching's Bo-lot'ing yü Wu-Han cheng-ch'üan [Borodin and the Wu-Han Regime], Professor C. Martin Wilbur has said that “the Chung-shun Gunboat Incident of March 20, 1926, is treated hastily and categorically, simply as a plot of the Communists...

... , 1955 ), pp. 4 – 7 , 111–58. 2 Wang Chih-ch'un, “Ch'uan-shan hsien-sheng nien-p'u” [A chronological biography of Ch'uan-shan] in Ch'uan-shan hsüeh-pao [Journal of Ch'uan-shan], Nos. 1–8 (1915–17), and Hsi-t'ang Chang , Wang Ch'uan-shan hsüeh-p'u [Wang Ch'uan-shan's works...

...Ramon H. Myers Chung-kuo ching-chi-shih yen-chiu (Studies in Chinese economic history) . By Ch'uan Han-sheng . Hong Kong : Hsin-ya yenchiu-suo ch'u-pan , 1976 . 3 vols. I: 395 pp.; II: 308 pp.; III: 316 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $36.00 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies...

...Ramon H. Myers Han Yeh P'ing kung-ssu shih-lüeh . (A Brief History of the Hanyehping Iron and Coal Mining and Smelting Company). By Ch'uan Han-sheng . Hong Kong : The Chinese University of Hong Kong , 1972 . 339 pp. HK $24.00. Chung-kuo ching-chi shih lun-ts'ung . (Collected...

.... In conclusion it should be remarked that this is an important contribution to Mongolistics and comparative folk-lore studies. NICHOLAS POPPE University of Washington Songs and Stories of the Ch'uan Miao. By DAVID CROCKETT GRAHAM. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Vol. 123, No. 1. Smithsonian Institution...