...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...

...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...

...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...

...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 ©...

...Robert J. Krompart T'ang-tai fan-chen yu chung-yang kuan-hsi chih yen-chiu . (Study of the Relationship between the Regional Commanders and the Central Government During the T'ang Dynasty, A.D. 618–907). By Shou-nan Wang . 1020 pp. Taipei : distributed by Taiwan Commercial Press , 1969...

...Hyobom Pak Chiang-hsi ssu-wei-ai chih chien-li chi chʻi peng-hui, (1931–1934) . By Po-i Tsao . (The Rise and Fall of the Chinese Soviet in Kiangsi, 1931–1934). Taipei : East Asian Institute of National Chengchi University , 1969 . With English summary. 690 pp. n.p. Copyright ©...

...Michael Gasster The Dragon Empress: The Life and Times of Tz‘u-hsi, Empress Dowager of China, 1835–1908 . BY Marina Warner . New York : The MacMillan Company , 1972 . 271 pp. $12.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1974 1974 304 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Paul A. Cohen Hsi-liang and the Chinese Revolution . By Roger V. Des Forges . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1973 . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1974 1974 466 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Treadgold's conclusion is culture-bound in the most obvious...

...Matthew Levey The Natural Philosophy of Chu Hsi, 1130–1200 . By Kim Yung Sik . Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, 235. Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society , 2000 . xii, 380 pp. $30.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 840...

... 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...

...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...

... 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...

... in the northwestern province of Shansi, where, beginning in 1932, the warlord Yen Hsi-shan undertook to modernize the underdeveloped economy of his domain by carrying out a “provincial Ten-Year Plan of Economic Reconstruction,” or Shan-hsi sheng-cheng shih-nien chien-she chi-hua . I have chosen to call Yen's scheme...

...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...

...L. Carrington Goodrich Jesuit adventure in China during the reign of K'ang Hsi . By Eloise Talcott Hibbert . New York : Dutton , 1941 . x, 298 p. $5.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1942 1942 1 Published in England under the title of K'ang Hsi...