... JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES MAY 1980 Hsiin Tzu on the Mind: His Attempted Synthesis of Confucianism and Taoism LEE H. YEARLEY Interpretations of Hsiin Tzu usually fail to recognize the full range of his synthetic endeavor. This failure often leads to interpretations which both view him through the spectacles...

... OF ASIAN STUDIES Lu Hsiin and His Predecessors. By V. I. SEMANOV. Translated and edited by CHARLES J. ALBER. White Plains, N.J.: M. E. Sharpe, 1980. xxvii, 175 pp. Appendix, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $25. According to Professor Charles Alber, the editor and translator of this volume, V. I. Semanov's Lu...

... of the bandit who supported the lowering gate had a special significance for Lu Hsiin, who had loved this sort of legend as a child, long before he took a scholarly interest in the history of Chinese fiction. When he wrote the following passage in an essay in 1919, five months after the Fourth of May, I...

...Lin Yü-sheng BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 365 Lu Hsiin's Vision of Reality. By WILLIAM A. LYELL, JR. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976. x, 355 pp. Plates, Appendix, Bibliography, Index. $14.50. Although scholars have long recognized Lu Hsiin as the giant of modern Chinese literature, there has...

... center of gravity lies elsewhere. N. SIVIN University of Pennsylvania Hsiin Yiieh and the Mind of Late Han China: A Translation of the "Shenchien." Translated, introduced, and annotated by CH'I-YUN CH'EN. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press (Princeton Library of Asian Translations), 1980. ix, 225...

... used a combination of biography, history, literary criticism, and something more psychological insight so that what emerges from these essays are vivid portrayals of some major figures of the 1930's such as Ch'ii Ch'iu-pai and Lu Hsiin and of several minor ones such as Chiang Kuang-tz'u and Hu Yehp'in...

... posi- Lu Hsiin and the New Culture Movement of tion as Pontifex Maximus is in no way com- Modern China. By HUANG SUNG-K'ANG. parable (p. 55). Amsterdam: Djambatan, Ltd., 1957. 158. In these first two volumes Mr. de Riencourt Dr. Huang presents in terse prose an ex- 4 has not discussed established...

... Hsiin Tzu's view of the mind as both a director of action and a spectator of action. In analyzing the mind as director, Hsiin Tzu argues against Mencius's idea that the mind simply extends one's natural tendencies. Hsiin Tzu's presentation of the mind as spectator an idea developed chiefly in his...

... to pay homage to this craftsman. Hoover Institution RAMON H. MYERS Hsiin Yueh (A.D. 148-209): The Life and Reflections of an Early Medieval Confucian. BY CHI-YUN CHEN. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions), 1975. x, 242 pp. Chart, Notes...

.... by Collings, Inc. iv, 80; 104 plates. $14.00. BOOK REVIEWS Hsiin accepted certain Communist ideas and worked very closely with the Party in the last years of his life, and while it is also clear that he awakened many young intellectuals to the evils of Kuomintang dictatorship repression, censorship...

... in Chinese yi and Gladys Yang.) CL, 7, 1961, 92-106. poetry. University of Toronto Quarterly, 30, POKORA, TIMOTEUS. The first interpolation in the 3, 1961, 311-324. Shihchi. AO, 29, 1961, 311-315. HIGHTOWER, JAMES ROBERT. Franz Kuhn and his SCHRAMM, GOTTFRIED. LU Hsiin: Uber das chin- Translation of Jou P'u...

... reaction against the dogmatism this produced. While interesting, this hardly seems an effective rescue operation. The remaining twenty pages are devoted to Hsiin Yueh's life and thought including a general listing of his ideas, some of which are provided with textual references, others not. On page 51...

... book section of the National Bibliography. However, without examining the actual text, one cannot know to what extent the contents of the revised edition differ from the previous one. Another work is Lu Hsiin shou-kao hsiian-chi san-pien (The Third Selected Compilation of Lu Hsiin's Manuscripts) which...

...) Snow in Midsummer, by the Yuan dramatist Kuan Handling, (2) The Passer-by, by Lu Hsiin, (3) Dragon Beard Ditch, by Lao She, (4) The White-haired Girl, by Ting Yi and Ho Chingchih, (5) The Women's Representative, by Sun Yu, (6) Yesterday, by Chang Pao-hua and Chung Yi-ping, (7) Magic Aster, by Jen Teh...

...; 126.) In spite of these minor faults, Professor Prusek's analysis of modern Chinese literature is both competent and keen. His brief critique of Lu Hsiin shows the superb workmanship of a scholar thoroughly familiar with his material. His enthusiasm for Lu Hsiin may have carried him rather far when he...

... of these minor faults, Professor Prusek's analysis of modern Chinese literature is both competent and keen. His brief critique of Lu Hsiin shows the superb workmanship of a scholar thoroughly familiar with his material. His enthusiasm for Lu Hsiin may have carried him rather far when he stated that the works...

...Lillian M. Li 594 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES narrowly political or ideological. Thus, Semanov's belabored comparisons in matters of content and style between Lu Hsiin's stories and late Ch'ing fiction seem to be forced, despite his many provocative ideas. It is only when Semanov or the reader...

... important adaptation was made on the eve of the unification, by Hsiin-tzu, who modified the founder's teachings and rendered them more or less consonant with some of the social forces that led to the emergence of the empire. By being made adaptable to the nascent dynastic system Confucianism became suitable...

... influence over the later Confucians was through Hsiin Tzu (ca. 298-38 B.C and is seen primarily in the concept of "techniques" or administrative methods. Hsiin Tzu did not admit his borrowing from Shen, either. Creel further challenges the common attribution of the political philosophy of cheng-ming...

... center of gravity lies elsewhere. N. SIVIN University of Pennsylvania Hsiin Yiieh and the Mind of Late Han China: A Translation of the "Shenchien." Translated, introduced, and annotated by CH'I-YUN CH'EN. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press (Princeton Library of Asian Translations), 1980. ix, 225...