...Thomas G. Nimick The Treatises on Military Affairs of the Ming Dynastic History (1368–1644): An Annotated Translation of the Treatises on Military Affairs Chapter 89 and Chapter 90, Supplemented by the Treatises on Military Affairs of the Draft of the Ming Dynastic History, A Documentation...

... the Table in Amazement: A Ming Dynasty Story Collection . By Ling Mengchu . Translated by Shuhui Yang and Yunqin Yang . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2018 . xxiv, 897 pp. The Book of Swindles: Selections from a Late Ming Collection . By Zhang Yingyu . Translated by Christopher...

...Ian M. Miller In the Shadow of the Mongol Empire: Ming China and Eurasia . By David M. Robinson . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2020 . xiii, 372 pp. ISBN: 9781108482448 (cloth). Ming China and Its Allies: Imperial Rule in Eurasia . By David M. Robinson . Cambridge...

...Jung-Pang Lo Ming-tai hai-yün chi yün-ho ti yen-chiu (A Study of Transportation by Sea and the Grand Canal in the Ming Dynasty) . By Wu Chi-Hua . Taipei : The Institute of History and Philology, Academica Sinica , 1961 . Special Publication No. 43. 348 . Map. Copyright ©...

...Qitao Guo Huishang yu Ming-Qing wenxue . (Huizhou Merchants and Ming-Qing Literature) . By Zhu Wanshu . Beijing : Renmin wenxue chubanshe , 2014 . 508 pp. ISBN: 7020102352 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2020 2020 This is a pioneering study...

...Qitao Guo Youyou fangxiang: Ming-Qing Jiangnan chengshi de xiuxian xiaofei yu kongjian bianqian . (Urban Pleasures: Leisure Consumption and Spatial Transformation in Jiangnan Cities during the Ming-Qing Period) . Monograph Series 96. By Wu Renshu . Taipei : Zhongyang yanjiuyuan jindaishi...

...,” “topsy-turvy,” and “jumbled” time “in the years preceding the collapse of the Ming dynasty” (Handler-Spitz, p. 3). But the “Epitaph” actually describes a paradise of wealth and pleasure preceding the Ming collapse, with Zhang Dai plunged “into a daze” only after 1644. To make her case, Handler-Spitz...

...Y. P. Mei Two Chinese Philosophers: Ch'eng Ming-tao and Ch'eng Yi-ch'uan . By A. C. Graham . London : Lund Humphries , 1958 . 45s. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1959 1959 BOOK REVIEWS 79 Nine Songs to describe the dancing or posturing of the shamaness...

...S. M. Chiu The Philosophy of Wang Yang-ming . Trans. by Frederick Goodrich Henke . New York : Paragon Book Reprint Corp. , 1964 ( 2 nd. ed.). xvii, 512 . Index. $12.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1965 1965 688 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Tseng Kuo-fan...

...James I. Crump, Jr. Stories from a Ming Collection: Translations of Chinese Short Stories Published in the Seventeenth Century . By Cyril Birch London : The Bodley Head , 1958 . 205 . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1959 1959 BOOK REVIEWS 499 (item 81512.2...

...Lyman P. van Slyke Abstract The name of Liang Sou-ming is perhaps most familiar in connection with his controversial published lectures of the early 1920's, The Cultures of East and West, and Their Philosophies . It is less well known that Liang had an extensive career in the field of rural...

...Samuel C. Chu Abstract In the latter decades of the nineteenth century, a number of Chinese officials acted as agents of modernization in their own regions of authority. The achievements of such men as Li Hung-chang and Chang Chih-tung are well known. The work of Liu Ming-ch'uan in Taiwan, however...

...Robert H. G. Lee Mao Tse-tung t'ung-chih ti ch'u-ch'i ke-ming huo-tung [Comrade Mao Tse-tung's Early Revolutionary Activities] . By Li Jui . Peking : Chung-kuo ch'ing-nien ch'u-pan-she , 1957 . 276 Plates. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 304 JOURNAL...

...Hellmut Wilhelm Das Dienstleistungs-System der Ming-Zeit (1368–1644) . By Heinz Friese . Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft fur Natur- und Volkerkunde Ostasiens Band XXXV A. Wiesbaden : Kommissionsverlag O. Harrassowitz , 1959 . 163 . Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1962...

...David B. Chan The Traditional Chinese State in Ming Times (1368–1644) . By Charles O. Hucker . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 1961 . 85 . Notes. $1.75 (paper). $3.50 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1962 1962 542 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES bring...

...Burton Watson Tō Emmei den m [A T'ao Yüan-ming Biography] . By Yoshikawa Kōjirō n . Shinchō sōsho series. Tokyo : Shinchō , 1956 . 187 . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1957 1957 418 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES One or two misreadings of common characters...

...Frederick W. Mote Erziehung und Politik im Konfuzianischen China der Ming-Zeit (1368–1644) . By Tilemann Grimm . Mitteilungen der OAG, Band XXXV B. Wiesbaden : Otto Harrassowitz , 1960 . 177. Tables, Appendices. DM 20.—(paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1960...

...Harold Z. Schiffrin Liang Chʻi-chʻao yü Chʻing-chi ko-ming. Liang Chʻi-chʻao and the Revolution in the Late Chʻing Period . By Chang Pʻeng-yuan . Nan-kang, Taiwan : Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica , 1964 . Special publications series. 345 pp. Chronological table...

...James F. Cahill The Arts of the Ming Dynasty . Catalog of an exhibition organized by the Arts Council of Great Britain and the Oriental Ceramic Society. London , The Oriental Ceramic Society , 1958 . Distributed in the U. S. by Collings, Inc. iv, 80; 104 plates. $14.00. Copyright ©...

...Mary C. Wright T'ai-p'ing t'ien-kuo ko-ming yun-tung lun-wen chi—Chin-t'ien ch'i-i pai-chounien chi-nien . (Symposium on the T'ai-p'ing revolutionary movement—in commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of the Chin-t'ien uprising). Edited by the Institute of Historical Research of North...