...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...

... 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...

...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...

...Robert Felsing Massacre in Shansi . By Nat Brandt . Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press , 1994 . xxii, 336 pp. $34.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 815 changes in the value of real estate. But these are minor concerns...

... policy with respect to the peasant villages and therefore less inclined to oversimplify the circumstances which brought the Communists to power in North China. 5 Ch'i Chih-chin, “‘T'u-ti ts'un-yu’ hsia chih Chin-pei nung-ts'un,” [“Peasant Villages of Northern Shansi under [Yen's] ‘All Land...

..., b headed the state called Eastern Wei, in Shansi and Honan, which became the dynasty of Northern Chʻi under his descendants. The other, Yü-wen Tʻai, e ruled Western Wei, in Shensi, later to become Northern Chou. The ensuing half-century witnessed the final victory of Northern Chou over Northern Chʻi...

... and Chiang]. Hong Kong : Hsin Min Chu . Frillman Paul , and Peck Graham . 1968 . China: The Remembered Life . Boston : Houghton Mifflin . Gillin Donald . 1967 . Warlord: Yen Hsi-shan in Shansi Province, 1911–1949 . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press . Hahn Emily...

...–3457. 3980–3982, 4321–4326. 7 Lee, SHKCYT , pp. 32–33, 37–38. Regarding the Peking Syndicate's mining contracts in Shansi and Honan, see China No. 1 (1899), pp. 112–114; 194–196. 8 Ibid., pp. 41–42. 9 KWT , p. 2991–2992. 10 KWT , p. 3145; Lee, op. cit. , p. 41...

.... The same phenomenon occurred in Shansi during the nineteen twenties and nineteen thirties, which causes me to wonder if, like his neighbor Yen Hsi-shan, because of his urgent need for money Feng tried to wrest away from the rich an increasingly large part of the agricultural surplus, with the result...

... and vote on national policy toward their areas. ARTHUR SCHLESINGER, JR. City University of New Yor\ 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. With this book coming hard on the heels...

... Kweichow 14 .45 Yunnan 41 1.32 Kansu 47 1.51 Hunan 66 2.12 Szechwan 70 2.25 Fukien 73 2.35 Kwangsi 73 2.35 Kwangtung 100 3.22 Shansi 101 3.25 Shensi 126 4.06 Kiangsi 149 4.80 Anhwei 193 6.21 Shantung 310 9.98 Kiangsu 312 10.04 Hupeh 318 10.24 Honan 335 10.79 Hopei 372 11.98 Chekiang 406 13.07 Kweichow 6...

... 1879 a severe drought struck Shantung, Chihli, Honan, Shansi, and Shensi (maps 90-94); the drought claimed between ten and twenty million lives. Ho's account of the drought is the best we have so far of this incredible disaster its origins, the efforts made by the Ch'ing government to provide relief...

... rights in Anhui from the London and China Company which was accomplished in 1910 with China paying the ex-concessionaire £ 52,000 as settlement price. Chapter 4 (pp. 201-265), "Anglo-Chinese negotiations over the Peking Syndicate's mining rights in Shansi: a case study," deals extensively with another...

..., Inc. 1968 1968 378 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES zation. This was survival but it was not power, as was shown in 1936 when the Chinese Communists sliced through southwest Shansi, and again in 1938-39 when the CCP stole from Yen most of what the Japanese had missed. Professor Gill in ably describes all...

... by the Institute of Ethnology. I was charged with making a plan for the survey, and I proposed that Inner Mongolia and part of northern Shansi, which were then called by the name of Meng-chiang, should be the area of the survey. My plan was approved, and I conducted the survey in which eight Japa- This article...

... of the anthropology of food habits. PAUL H NOGUCHI Bucknell University CHINA Massacre in Shansi. By N A T B R A N D T . Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1994. xxii, 336 pp. $34.95. The presentation of history can be as undramatic as data in a spreadsheet or as intense as eyewitness accounts of actual events...

.../26). 16 Hui-tien shih-li , pp. 5352–55 ( ch. 23.12a–18b). This arrangement was approved for Shansi in 1734, Honan in 1739, Shantung in 1742, Kweichow in 1747, Kiangsi in 1749, and Anhwei in 1803. There was no governor-general with jurisdiction over Shansi, Honan, or Shantung; the governor...

... preceded by an "evolved stage in wood or bonecarving" (p. n f "The orthodox chronology" . . . dated this move (from Yen to Yin, i.e., the Anyang site) to 1300 B.C." (p. 12): The "orthodox" year of this event was 1388 B.C.; thedate given in the Bamboo Annals is 1301 B.C.. The home of the Chou was not Shansi...

.... 47–48. 54 Ibid., p. 48. 53 Gillin Donald G. , Warlord: Yen Hsi-shan in Shansi Province ( Princeton : Princeton Univ. Press , 1967 ). 52 A standard version of the story of Liu's death is Tai Kao-hsiang, “Liu Hsiang chin-ching huanping ching-kuo chui-i...

... University into the Communistguerrilla area of north China, until they flew out of Chungking for India and England early in 1945. The Bands spent something less than two years in the vicinity of Fu-p'ing, Hopeh, headquarters of the Hopeh-Chahar-Shansi Border region (where, as guests of the government, he...