...Daniel K. Gardner A Concordance to Chu Hsi: “Ta Hsüeh Chang Chü.” . Edited by David S. Nivison , compiled by P. J. Ivanhoe, programmed by Margaret Waters. xviii, 98 pp. Both: San Francisco: Chinese Materials Center (The Stanford Chinese Concordance Series , Vol. 1 ), 1979 . N.p...

... Studies, Inc. 1967 1967 1 JAS , XXIV ( 1965 ), 229 –43 . Citations from p. 229. 2 Act 2, scene 7 “Another part of the forest,” lines 139–66. 3 Much of the general outline below is taken from the biography of K'ang-hsi (Hsüan-yeh) by Fang Chao-ying in Eminent Chinese...

... underdeveloped countries. H . F . SCHURMANN University of California, Berkeley Chin pai-nien lai Chung i hsi shu mu-lu.a Compiled by the National Central Library, Taipei; in the series "Modern popular basic knowledge," Hsien-tai \uo-min chipen chih-shih ts'ung-shu, 5th series, T'aipei, 1958. vii, 328. Y 18. Just...

...Donald G. Gillin Abstract In the years that followed the overthrow of the Ch'ing dynasty in 1911, China was ruled by military men who set up virtually independent governments in the various provinces. This inquiry into the policies of Yen Hsi-shan, governor of die north-western province of Shansi...

...Roy Andrew Miller Hsiang-hsi Miao-tsu tiao-ch'a pao-kao . (Report on an investigation among the Miao tribe of Western Hunan). By Ling Shun-sheng and Jui Yi-fu . Shanghai : Academia Sinica , Institute of History and Philology, Monographs, Series A, No. 18, 1947 . iii + xvi + 477 p...

..., Calif. : P. D. and lone Perkins , 1948 . 502 p. $6.00. Chang Hsi and the treaty of Nanking 1842 . By Ssu-yu Teng . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1944 . xi, 191 p. $4.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1952 1952 1 Sansom George Sir...

...C. T. Hsia The Hsi-yu Chi. A Study of Antecedents to the Sixteenth-Century Chinese Novel . By Glen Dudbridge . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1970 . xii, 219 pp. Plates, Bibliography, Index. $25.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1971 1971 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Eric Widmer The First Chinese Embassy to the West: The Journals of Kuo Sung-t'ao, Liu Hsi-hung and Chang Te-yi . Translated by J. D. Frodsham . Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1974 . lxv, 222 pp. Illustrations, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $13.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Anthony C. Yu Abstract Whether the story about the Ch'ên Kuang-jui, the father of Tripitaka, belongs to the “original” version of the Hsi-yu chi (chapter 9 in modern editions of the novel) is a problem which has occupied the attention of scholars and editors for at least two and a half centuries...

...K. C. Hsiao Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1975 1975 VOL. XXXIV, No. 3 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES MAY 1975 Review Articles Biography or Autobiography?: Spence on K'ang-hsi* "This book," in the author's words, "is an excursion into the imperial world of K'ang-hsi, who...

...Mark Elvin Statesmen and Gentlemen: The Elite of Fu-chou, Chiang-hsi, in Northern and Southern Sung . By Robert P. Hymes . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1986 . xvi, 379 pp. $44.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA...

...Kwong-loi Shun Chu Hsi and the Ta-hsüeh : Neo-Confucian Reflection on the Confucian Canon . By Daniel K. Gardner . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 1986 . vii, 181 pp. Notes, Translation of the Ta-hsüeh , Bibliography, Glossary, Index. $20.00. Copyright ©...

...Anthony C. Yu Abstract To perceive more fully the particular meaning and aesthetic power of the Hsi-yu chi , it is necessary to examine more closely certain of its features hitherto ignored in criticism. One such feature is the vast amount of poetic “insertions” within the narrative. Though...

...Peter Kees Bol The Washing Away of Wrongs [Hsi yuan chi lu, by Sung Tz'u (1186–1249)]: Forensic Medicine in Thirteenth-Century China . Translated and introduced by Brian E. McKnight . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies , Science, Medicine, and Technology in East...

...Winston W. Lo Utilitarian Confucianism: Ch'en Liang's Challenge to Chu Hsi . By Hoyt Cleveland Tillman . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1982 . xvi, 227 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Glossary, Index. N.p. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1983 1983 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Lynn Struve 792 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES remains a classic of lasting value. We owe thanks to Frank Kierman for making it accessible to more readers. JEFFREY K. RIEGEL University ofCalifornia, Berkeley Passage to Power: K'ang-hsi and His Heir Apparent, 1661-1722. By SILAS Wu. Cambridge, Mass...

...Lawrence D. Kessler Embassies and Illusions: Dutch and Portuguese Envoys to K'ang-hsi, 1666–1687 . By John E. Wills Jr . Cambridge : Harvard University, Council on East Asian Studies , 1984 . (East Asian Monographs 113.) xii, 303 pp. Appendixes, Notes, Bibliography, Glossary, Index. $20...

...Lyman P. Van Slyke Warlord: Yen Hsi-shan in Shansi Province, 1911–1949 . By Donald G. Gillin . Princeton, New Jersey ; Princeton University Press , 1967 . xiv , 334 pp. Illustrations, Maps. $9.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968 1968 BOOK REVIEWS 377 ommend...

...Wang Gungwu Tsao Yin and the K'ang-hsi Emperor: Bond-servant and Master . By Jonathan D. Spence . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1966 . xiv, 329 pp. Appendices, Bibliography, Index-Glossary, Japanese and Chinese Abstracts. $7.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...N. Sivin Hsi-fang Li-suan-hsueh chih Shu-ju. (The Introduction of Western Astronomical and Mathematical Sciences into China) . By Wang P'ing . Monograph No. 17 of the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica , Taipei , 1966 . 251 pp. Index. $1.00 (cloth) 0.80 (paper). Copyright ©...