... by the Ming shih ^ifi.-1 A few years ago Professor J. J. L. Duyvendak of Leyden introduced into the T'oiing pao (35 [1940], 289-328) an analysis of the two sets held by Cambridge University and the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, made 1 The Ming shih is a work of 332 chiian, plus table of contents...

... of his time to mastering the writing of "eight- 1Wang Ting-an, Tseng Wen-cheng-kung ta-shih chi [Major Events in the Life of Tseng Kuo-fan]. (n.p.: Hung-pao Book Company, 1917), chiian 1: la; TWCK, Vol. V, Nien-p'u [Chronological Biography], 4- 2 H o I-hun, Tseng Kuo-fan p'ing-chuan [A Biography...

... University Press , 1956 ), Table A, pp. 9a – 9b . Hinton gives the figure for Kiangsi at 997,472 shih while the CHTC gives 922,860 shih (chiian 83: 10). As Hinton's figure is based on Tsai-ling's Ch'in-ting hu-pu ts'ao-yün ch'üan-shu [Board of Revenue compendium on grain transport], (1876), I...

..., and universal salvation unmediated by religious professionals. Another striking characteristic is that they possessed their own scriptures known as pao-chiian (precious volumes). These texts, believed to have been divinely revealed to sect founders, are characterized by "simple classical language interspersed...

...), chiian 11. 2 For example, Albert Feuerwerker, China's Early Industrialization (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1958), pp. 31-40; Mary C. Wright, The Last Stand of Chinese Conservatism (New York: Atheneum, 1966), pp. 148-195; Huan Chang Chen, The Economic Principles of Confucius and His School (1911...

.... More than once the reader is shocked by Shen's warnings of what is to come: "I could not know, then, that hidden within those covers [of her draft poems] were the reasons for her early death!" Mrs. Black has translated amost all of chiian one (concerning wedded bliss) and three (hardships), and most...

... from HPTL (CL ed chiian 3. See also: HTSL, chuan 158. I g CH'ING POPULATION REPORTS 405 placards and registers were aspects of regulation and the determination of rights and responsibilities, not techniques for statistical reporting. Gradually, though, the size and mobility of the population involved...

..., no. 15, 14 January, 1905, FO 405/154 (Confidential Print), 9O-o.2fT. 4 Yang-shon-yiian tsou-i chi-yao [Selected mc- morials of Yuan shih-k'ai compiled by Shcn Tsu-hsicn (1937), chiian 26:1, 7a; Kuo T'ing-i, Chin-tai Chung-litio shih-shih pk-chik [Chron- ology of modern Chinese history], (Taipei, 1963), p...

... has translated amost all of chiian one (concerning wedded bliss) and three (hardships), and most of chiian two (joys of leisure), omitting part of the discussions of literature (less interesting) and of gardening (more interesting, and more could well have been included). From chiian four, the travels...

... translations from Chu-hung's works, including a complete translation of a pao-chiian (morality book), The Record ofSelf-Knowledge. The book is lavishly and carefully produced, with superb illustrations. In the book, the author has included two valuable translations that did not appear in her dissertation...

... of the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644),” in Beasley and Pulleyblank, Historians , pp. 68–73. 19 Yang, “Organization,” p. 53. 20 Yang, “Organization,” p. 53 and note 21 below. 21 Liu Ch'eng-kan, comp., Ming-shih li-an , 9 chiian (1915), 1: 6. See also Wright, “Sui Yang-ti,” pp. 61–65...

...&ffe3C~$k [Rpt. Taipei: Ta-hung 1990}, pp. 137-44). The appendix argues that cbiian 5 of the Mu T'ien-tzu chuan is misplaced and belongs in the first chiian of the text. But since the author admits that she "can offer no concrete example of how a reconstructed first chiian might look with elements...

.... 60; Tung-hua hi, Ch'ien-lung reign, 1:1; Ch'ing-shih (The Ch'ing history), 8 vols. (Taipei, 1961), V, 3496 97; Huang-shih ssu-p'u (Four biographical registers of the Ch'ing imperial house), 4 chiian, comp. T'ang Pang-chih (Shanghai, 1923), 1:8b~9b; Arthur W. Hummel, ed., Eminent Chinese oj the Ch'ing...

... the biography of K'ang-hsi (Hsiian-yeh) by Fang Chao-ying in Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period, ed. Arthur W. Hummel, 2 vols. (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1943-44), I, 327-31, and from related biographies in the same work. * Ch'ing-shih lieh-chuan, 80 chiian in 10 vols. (Taipei, 1962 reprint...

... of a pao-chiian (morality book), The Record ofSelf-Knowledge. The book is lavishly and carefully produced, with superb illustrations. In the book, the author has included two valuable translations that did not appear in her dissertation; selections from Record of the Exalted Acts of the Buddhist Monks add...

... professionals. Another striking characteristic is that they possessed their own scriptures known as pao-chiian (precious volumes). These texts, believed to have been divinely revealed to sect founders, are characterized by "simple classical language interspersed with vernacular constructions, the alternation...

... to the examples given below. Use Arabic numerals for volume and chiian numbers, and indicate whether quoting from volume or chiian by use of vol. or ch. preceding the Arabic numeral. When citing a book in a Western language by a Chinese or Japanese author reproduce the author's name, whether correctly romanized...

...: (1) works used and (2) reference works. The Chinese works of which only the titles are listed totaled thirty-nine and (exclusive of those which are divided into ts'e and p'ien) they comprise 1,817 chiian. Of these unused works, the Ch'ing-shih kao (1927), the Ch'ing Te-tsung ching huang-ti shih-lu...

...." The last line alludes to several historical figures whose prowess in archery enabled them to shoot with either hand. These included Tzu-nan, grandson of Duke Mu of Cheng (Tso-chuan, Chao-kung 1st year); Tung Cho (d. A.D. 192, Fan Yeh, Hou Han shu, chiian 102); Hsiao Ying, Prince of Lin-ch'uan (d. A.D. 489...

... Hummel, II, 890; Pu-te-i, shang-chiian , 8b–9b; Pi-hsieh chi-shih, chüan-shang , 9b. 20 Pu-te-i, shang-chüan , 16a–16b; Pi-hsieh chi-shih, chüan-shang , IIb. 21 Hsūn was convinced that a dynasty which wedded itself to the foreign religion, Buddhism, was destined to be short-lived...