...Ssu-Yu Teng Hua Kang , T'ai-p'ing T'ien-kuo ko-ming chan-cheng shih . (A history of the revolutionary war of the T'ai-p'ing T'ien-kuo). Hai-yen shu-tien , Hong Kong , 1949 . Lo Erh-kang , T'ai-p'ing T'ien-kuo shih pien-wei chi . (A collection of essays denouncing certain Taiping...

... to a growing collection of works on Sung history. Chaffee's book is the better of the two, but they complement each other, and I recommend them both. LINDA WALTON Portland State University Yen-chiu T'ai-p'ing T'ien-kuo shih chu-shu tsung-mu {A comprehensive bibliography of publications for research...

...Ramon H. Myers Han Yeh P'ing kung-ssu shih-lüeh . (A Brief History of the Hanyehping Iron and Coal Mining and Smelting Company). By Ch'uan Han-sheng . Hong Kong : The Chinese University of Hong Kong , 1972 . 339 pp. HK $24.00. Chung-kuo ching-chi shih lun-ts'ung . (Collected...

...Kung-chuan Hsiao Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1953 1953 T'ai-p'ing t'ien-kuo kê-ming chan-chêng shih . (A history of the revolutionary war of T'ai-p'ing t'ien-kuo). By Hua Kang Shanghai : Hai-yen shu-t'ien , 1949 (4th printing, 1951 ). 2 + 229. 218 FAR...

...Robert B. Marks Social Organization in South China, 1911–1949: The Case of the Kuan Lineage in K'ai-p'ing County . By Yuen-fong Woon . Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Center for Chinese Studies , 1984 . xi, 158 pp. Tables, Appendixes, Notes, Glossary, Bibliography. $13 (cloth...

...Franz Michael T'ai-p'ing T'ien-kuo [The Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace] . Edited by Hsiang Ta and nineteen others. 6 vols., 1952 . 3,405 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1957 1957 1 T'ai-p'ing T'ien-kuo ko-ming yün-tung (Hong Kong, 1948 ), pp...

...Peter Rushton The Rhetoric of Chin p'ing mei . By Katherine Carlitz . Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 1986 . x , 239 pp. $20.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988 1988 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER ASIA 109 The Rhetoric of Chin p'ing mei...

...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...

...Yen-P'ing Hao Abstract In Chinese history, few reformers have been merchants and, prior to Cheng Kuan-ying, none of them was a merchant working for foreigners. In the late Ch'ing, the rise of the merchant class was remarkable and the reformers came from varying social backgrounds. Yet Cheng Kuan...

...Kuo-P'ing Chou 3 yi to jen; liang ko jen ; etc. 2 The vocabularies of the lessons give 514 characters, plus 11 variant forms, but the glossary has 518 entries, variant forms included. The preface says “exactement 517.” 1 The verso pages use the French system...

...Kuo-P'ing Chou Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1955 1955 Language in Culture . Proceedings of a Conference on the Interrelations of Language and Other Aspects of Culture. Edited by Harry Hoijer . The American Anthropologist , Vol. 56 , No. 6, Part 2, Memoir No. 79...

... in the Manchu conquest of China. When the rebel Li Tzu-ch'eng was marching eastward and advancing toward Peking, Emperor Ch'ung chen finally realized the danger of the threat. In early April he conferred upon Wu San-kuei and other able generals the title of earl; Wu was designated P'ing-hsi po (Earl who...

...Thomas E. LaFargue Abstract The decade between 1870 and 1880 was a significant one in the history of the development of modern China. At the beginning of this period the internal disturbances caused by the great T'ai-p'ing rebellion had subsided. Under the stress and strain of the rebellion Tseng...

... contribution to public understanding of the modern Far East. Even as it stands, it can be read by its intended audience with some profit and much pleasure. HAROLD C. HINTON Chevy Chase, Maryland T'ai-p'ing t'ien-kuo tien-chich t'ung-k'ao [Studies on the Institutions of T'ai-p'ing T'ien-kuo]. By JEN YU-WEN...

... Eastern history. The original of this article was read before a session on modern Chinese history at the sixty-third annual meeting of the American Historical Association, Dec. 28, 1948, Washington, D.C. 1 The simpler spelling Taiping is used for T'ai-p'ing except in the transliteration of the titles...

... and such overall planning not only is not to be found in the 7 Sun Chung-shan, Tsung-li ch'Uan-chi, edited by Hu Han-min (5 vols. Shanghai: Min-chih Shu-chii, 1930),o 2:241-42. 'Ibid., 352-53. ' P'eng Tse-i, T'ai-p'ing T'ien-kuo ke-ming ssu-ch'ao (Shanghai: Commercial Press 1946), 129; for characters see group "y...

... 1953 BOOK REVIEWS 325 counts from both Ch'ing and T'ai-p'ing materials to construct a sketch of the Nien-fei movement. He. considers it a genuine peasant uprising, but weak in doctrine, program and discipline; if it had had greater internal coherence, the Ch'ing could not have withstood joint T'ai...

... of the modern Far East. Even as it stands, it can be read by its intended audience with some profit and much pleasure. HAROLD C. HINTON Chevy Chase, Maryland T'ai-p'ing t'ien-kuo tien-chich t'ung-k'ao [Studies on the Institutions of T'ai-p'ing T'ien-kuo]. By JEN YU-WEN [CHIEN YU- WEN]. Kowloon, Hong Kong: Chi...

... . According to Hsiu-min Chang and Hui-an Wang , in Tai-p'ing t'ien kuo tzu-liao mu-lu (A bibliography of source material about the Taiping kingdom; Shanghai , 1957 ), pp. 3 – 15 , the total number of books is forty-six. Chang's bibliography lists several titles which do not appear...

..., ou la Nouvelle Heloi'se, and Hung-lou meng, and the sixteenth-century Chin P'ing Mei. Each of the four chapters is devoted to a close reading and analysis of a single novel, and each can be read as an independent essay. Les Liaisons dangereuses and Chin P'ing Mei are paired for their negative...