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... and Commodities of the Qing Period]. Draft manuscript held at Ming-Qing Archives, National Palace Museum, Taibei. HBZL Hu bu zeli [Regulations and precedents of the Board of Revenue]. 1874 . HDSL Da Qing huidian shili [Collected statutes and precedents of the Qing dynasty]. 1886 (1899...

...Samuel Wright Abstract This paper examines the values that informed the actions of two polities in seventeenth-century Bengal, the Nadia Raj and the Malla dynasty, through a close analysis of their temple inscriptions—a form of royal laudation or praśasti . Focusing on this inscriptional record...

...Michael G. Chang State versus Gentry in Early Qing Dynasty China, 1644–1699 . By Harry Miller . New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2013 . ix, 174 pp. $85.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014  2014 Although this compact study may be read independently...

...Yugen Wang Drifting among Rivers and Lakes: Southern Song Dynasty Poetry and the Problem of Literary History . By Michael A. Fuller . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2013 . xi, 538 pp. $59.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015  2015...

...Woodbridge Bingham Financial Administrations under the T'ang Dynasty . By D. C. Twitchett . Cambridge, England : The University Press , 1963 . xii , 373 . Appendices; Maps. $18.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 298 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Financial...

...Lawrence D. Kessler Abstract The ch'ing dynasty (1644–1911) was the last and most successful of the dynasties of alien rule in China. “The key to its success,” noted Professor Ping-ti Ho, “was the adoption by early Manchu rulers of a policy of systematic sinicization.” The integration of the Manchu...

... THE FOUNDING OF THE MING DYNASTY Edward L. Dreyer University of Miami IN A RECENT REVIEW in this journal, a work titled Ming-hsing yeh-chi (Unofficial account of the rise of the Ming) by Chang Ta-t'ung (preface dated 1626) was mentioned.1 A microfilm copy of this work is in the possession of the Ming Bio...

... (Tokyo, i960) and Nihon kodai kokka no kenkyū (Tokyo, 1965). 5 Ishii Ryōsuke, Tennō (Tokyo, 1950) is probably the best general history of the dynasty, and the periodization used in that work has been adopted here in distinguishing “archaic” from “ancient.” 6 Rizō Takeuchi...

...David M. Farquhar The Historiography of the Chin Dynasty: Three Studies . By Hok-lam Chan . Wiesbaden : Franz Steiner Verlag , 1970 . vi, 189 pp. Bibliography, n.p. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972 1972 BOOK REVIEWS 391 is common though not universal...

...Chang Te-Ch'ang Abstract This author will attempt to present a preliminary study of the economic aspects of the Imperial Household ( Nei-wu-fu ), which played a unique role during the Chʻing Dynasty in the grand strategy of the Manchu rule over China. The fact that this vital area of Chʻing history...

...Key P. Yang Studies in the Agrarian History of the Late Yi Dynasty . [Agrarian Revolution and the Intellectual Change, with Emphasis on the Peasant Economy in the Changing Phase of Social Structure] by Kim Yong-sŏp . Seoul : Ilchogak , 1971 . 2 v. 2,500 won. Copyright ©...

...Alfred Kuo-liang Ho Abstract The Grand Council, Chün-chi-ch'u, which functioned mainly as a secretarial and consultative agency to the Emperor, was the most important institution of the Ch'ing Dynasty. The Grand Councilors, Chün-chi Ta-chen, had daily audience with the Emperor to assist him...

...Harold C. Hinton Abstract Until the middle of the nineteenth century, when internal disorder and the impact of Western influences began to work striking changes in the structure of Chinese governmental finance, the revenue of the Ch'ing dynasty may be divided into five main categories. The first...

...Nicholas Poppe History of the Eastern Mongols During the Ming Dynasty from 1368 to 1634 . By D. Pokotilov . Part II, Addenda and Corrigenda by Wolfgang Franke. Studia Serica Monographs. Editors: Wen Yu and Wolfgang Franke . Series A, No. 3. Chengtu and Peiping , 1949 , 95 p...

...Ssŭ-Yü Teng Slavery in China during the former Han dynasty, 206 B.C.–A.D. 25 . By C. Martin Wilbur . Anthropological Series , Vol. 34, Field Museum of Natural History , Chicago , 1943 . 490 p., n. p. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1943 1943 408 THE FAR...

...William Samolin Account of the T'ù-hü-hún in the History of the Chin Dynasty . Translated and Annotated by Thomas D. Carroll . Institute of East Asiatic Studies, University of California. Chinese Dynastic Histories Translations, No. 4. Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California...

...Ch'ang-tu Hu Abstract Traditionally, Chinese dynasties were characterized by the maintenance of a highly centralized bureaucracy whose prime objective was the preservation of central control over all important aspects of national life. The degree of effectiveness of the bureaucracy determined...

...Howard S. Levy Hou-Han shih-huo chih ch'ang-pien [Compilation of an Economics Section for the Later Han Dynasty] . By Su Ch‘eng-Chien . Shanghai : Commercial Press , 1947 . 3 , 2, 117. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1956 1956 1 Consult Yang Lien-sheng's...

...James F. Cahill The Arts of the T'ang Dynasty . Catalog of a Loan Exhibition Organized by the Los Angeles County Museum from Collections in America, the Orient and Europe. Los Angeles : Los Angeles County Museum , 1957 . 133 . Foreword, Introduction by Henry Trubner, Curator of Oriental...

...Lara C. W. Blanchard All in all, Empresses, Art, and Agency represent a major contribution to the fields of Chinese art history and women's studies. The author's thorough research has unearthed a wealth of information about the imperial women of the Song dynasty, and this, along with her...