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..., however, and this is a most welcome and useful volume. H. H. E. LOOFS-WISSOWA Australian National University Mr. Loofs-Wissowa was formerly known by the surname hoofs. ...

... historiography of the ancient Chinese northeast. A ninth century BCE poem called “Hanyi” in the Classic of Poetry [Shijing] has been the cause of a far older history dispute. Whereas Chinese scholars have generally understood Han as a Zhou feudal state ruled by a Ji-surnamed scion of the Zhou Dynasty (1045–256...

.... In the Chinese context, establishing a son from one family as the heir of another required conferring rights to inherit property, and imposing duties to care for parents in their old age, mourn them after their deaths, and continue ancestral sacrifices. Adoption between families of different surnames entailed...

... own experience with genealogies in Ta-ch'i is consistent with Ahern's data. Even at the level of recently published provincial-level genealogies that attempt to encompass entire surname groups in a single volume, locale is the primary organizing rubric. Locale also appears as a substitute...

... (A Fourfold Collation and Notation of the Yuan-ho collection of surnames). By CH'EN CHUNG-MIEN ^ # ® . Shanghai: 1948. 3 vols., 55+33+6+1126. During the Yuan-ho period (806-820 A. D T'ang Emperor Hsien-tsung was dissatisfied with the inaccurate genealogical records dealing with the 206 FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY...

... of the province. Page numbers refer to the individual booklet within the collection. 19 Surnames were made obligatory in the reign of Rama VI (1910–1925). The first law concerning names was promulgated on March 22, 2455 (1913), ( PKPS , Vol. 25, pp. 259 – 262 ). It allowed people choose...

... accommodations to Chinese norms. For example, some families did not adopt Chinese-language surnames. What explains the differences? Were geographic or political factors involved? The Xie's residence in the literati heartland of southern Jiangsu perhaps influenced their choices. Political alignments also may have...

... matters. Within a year, Lin Pao completed the Yuanho hsing-tsuan, in ten chapters. Ch'en Chung-mien's exhaustive collation is primarily based on Lin Pao's earlier work, which was quoted and utilized by Sung and Ming writers concerned with genealogical matters. The surnames are arranged according to tones...

... lai Hua chi," %UWi:%Mffi-'3M£E3fc#fB [Account of the first English embassy to China], Hsien-tai shih-hsueh J g f t A ^ 3, (May, 1936), 5. IV. BIBLIOGRAPHY In general follow the forms given above, but the author's surname should always be given first. Periods should generally be used in place of commas...

... from 28 to 271 and averaged 120, with a median of 107 per village. The average number of marriages recorded per household was 8.26. The surname of each household was recorded to verify proper surname distribution for each village and to aid in uncovering twice-recorded data. An effort was made...

... these marriages. 13 KS 1:9b, 11. In the Later Three Kingdoms period, only the Silla aristocrats and successful upstarts normally had surnames. The upstarts, however, seldom if ever assumed well-established Silla aristocratic surnames such as Kim, Pak, Ch'oe, etc. Those having such surnames therefore...

... was abolished in 1894. The treaty was signed in that year, but the practice continued until 1899- My only other quibble is with what McCargo himself calls a "contentious editorial decision" (p. x): the choice to write Japanese names with the surname last. One would think that even the most culturally...

..., Legal Institutions of Manchu China (London, 1962), p. 80. This does not imply a biological connection. See also Hsing-an Hui-lan, appended to Ta-Ch'ing Lii-Li, Chiian 8. Here it was held in an 1828 case that, where there were no eligible relatives, a child of the same surname could be adopted...

... of the rural people in traditional times passed their lives as members of such great lineage communities (perhaps 30 percent, by R. S. Watson's estimate, 1981:565). Many more lived in much smaller localized kin groups, some occupying distinct hamlets, some closely intermixed with other surname groups...

... name, Tu is the surname and Fu the personal name, just as Li Po's surname was Li and his personal name Po, or Wang Wei's surname Wang However, when Yoshikawa returns to his real business, literary history, he gives us what is perhaps our best picture of Tu Fu the artist and those qualities which have...

... played significant roles in China's development, often understanding their multidimensional characters as the basis for their success within the several communities with whom they negotiated (Chinese, Muslim, northwestern, urban, rural, Sufi, secularist, etc Many of them are surnamed "Ma." Lipman's index...

... of the border between British Hong Kong and Mao Zedong s Cultural Revolution China. San Tin is the home of the Man lineage, one of the ve major surname groups that dominated political life in the Hong Kong New Territories until the 1960s (Baker 1966). After a year and a half in this village, I moved to London...

..., and posthumous) carried information about his ancestral territory, his relative status within the family cults as well as in the larger community, and about probable and improbable blood ties to illustrious figures. For example, he aptly notes that the genealogy of a western Han official surnamed Zhang could...