...Homer H. Dubs Records of the Grand Historian of China, translated from the Shih Chi of Ssu-ma Ch'ien . By Burton Watson . 2 vols. New York : Columbia University Press , 1961 . 563 + 543. Index. $20.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1963 1963 BOOK REVIEWS 205...

...Howard S. Levy Yüan-bo hsing-tsuan ssu-chiao chi . (A Fourfold Collation and Notation of the Yüan-ho collection of surnames ). By Ch'en Chung-Mien . Shanghai : 1948 . 3 vols., 55+33+6+1126. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1954 1954 BOOK REVIEWS 205 and cloth...

... chih t'ung chien of Ssu-ma Kuang (1019-1068). Translated and annotated by Achilles Fang. Edited by Glen W. Baxter. Volume I. Harvard-Yenching Institute Series VI. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1952. xx, 698. 510.00. The repute of Ssu-ma Kuang as a man of letters and historian has always been...

...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...

...Ramon H. Myers Ching-chi fa-chan yu nung-ts'un ching-chi . (Economic Development and Rural Economy); Ching-chi fa-chan yu ching-chi ssu-hsiang (Economic Development and Economic Thought). Assembled By Chang Han-yu po-shih wen-chi pien-chi wei-yuan-hui (The Committee to Edit the Essays of Dr...

.... I hope that it will soon be issued in a paperback edition for student use. WILLIAM S. ATWELL Hobart and William Smith Colleges The Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel: Ssu ta ch'i-shu. By ANDREW H . PLAKS. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. xiv, 595 pp. $62.50. Andrew H. Plaks's The Four...

...Anthony William Sariti Abstract Contrary to accepted scholarly opinion, Ssu-Ma Kuang was not a leading spokesman for monarchical absolutism during the Sung dynasty. He conceived of “non-action” as a practical technique of government in which the various strata of the administration had their own...

... of the Southern T'ang: Feng Yen-ssu, 9 0 3 - 9 6 0 , and Li Yii, 9 3 7 - 9 7 8 . By DANIEL BRYANT. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1982. lviii, 151 pp. Appendix, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $35. Daniel Bryant's volume of translations offers much new material for the study and appreciation...

...Chang-Tai Hung An Èxposition of Benevolence: The Jen-hsüeh of T'an Ssu-t'ung . Translated, and with an introduction, by Chan Sin-wai . Hong Kong : Chinese University Press , 1984 . xvi, 374 pp. Illustrations, Notes, Appendixes, Selected Bibliography, Index. $24.75. Copyright ©...

...Derk Bodde Syma Tsyan, Istoricheskie Zapiski (Shi Tsi). [Ssu-ma Ch'ien, Historical Records (Shih Chi)] . Translated from Chinese, with introduction and commentaries, by R. V. Viatkin . Moscow : Nauka Publishing House , 1984 . (Department of History, Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R...

..., 1987. xvi, 374 pp. $14.00 (paper). Ai Ssu-ch'i's Contribution to the Development of Chinese Marxism. By JOSHUA A. FOGEL. Harvard Contemporary China Series 4. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987. vi, 145 pp. $14.00 (paper). These works examine ideas and roles of intellectuals in modern...

...Leonard Gordon Mei-kuo yü Tʻai-wan, i-chʻi-pa-ssu chih i-pachiu-wu . (The United States and Taiwan, 1784 to 1895). By Huang Chia-mu . Taipei, Taiwan : Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica , 1966 . iii, iv, 477 pp. Bibliography, Chinese-Western name chart, Index. U.S. $1.00...

...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 ©...

...Paul K. T. Sih Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1966 1966 The Chronicle of The Three Kingdoms (220–265). Chapters 69–78 from the Tzu Chih T'ung Chien of Ssu-ma Kuang . Translated and annotated by Achille Fang . Vol. II . edited by Bernard S. Solomon . (Harvard...

...Ramon H. Myers Ch'ing-tai ssu-chih kung-yeh ti fa-jan (The Development of the Silk Industry During the Ch'ing Period) . By Shih Min-hsiung . Taipei : T'ai-wan shang-wu yin-shu kuan , 1968 . 133 pp. Fine cover, $1.00; Plain cover, $.75. Published under the auspices of the China Committee...

...C. T. Hsia Ssu-ma Ch'ien's Historiographical Attitude As Reflected in Four Late Warring States Biographies . By Frank Algerton Kierman, Jr. Wiesbaden : Otto Harrassowitz . vi, 127 . Index of Place-names and Map, Bibliography, Index. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

... bid, Western Wei, capital at Ch'ang-an, rejected it. But Western Wei did reluctantly allow one of its officers, the daring but personally insecure Wang Ssu-cheng, to occupy and try to hold Hou Ching's exposed city of Ch'ang-she in north-central Honan. After neatly sweeping Hou Ching and his Liang...

...Ssu-yü Têng Foreign mud; being an account of the opium, imbroglio at Canton in the 1830's and the Anglo-Chinese war that followed . By Maurice Collis . New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1947 . x, 300 p. $5.00. Old China hands and the Foreign Office . By Nathan A. Pelcovits . New...

...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...

...Ssu-yü Teng 296 THE FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY seem virtually out of place, interests himself in a question of process, whether the changes in size between the Lao Thai of the Menam Valley in Central Thailand, as compared with the West Lao of North Thailand, may be at- tributed to a difference...