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... P. , The Communists and Chinese Peasant Rebellions , 1969 . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972 1972 Yiieh Fei (1103-41) and China's Heritage of Loyalty JAMES T. C. LIU LOYALTY is at present an agonizing question to many concerned Chinese who face either divisive...

... for defeating Ch'u. Eventually, the attack is made, and Ch'u is defeated, but we are told nothing about Wu Tzu-hsu's part in the campaign. Finally, Wu Tzu-hsu comes into conflict with King Ho-lii's successor, Fu-ch'ai, who does not realize that their southern neighbor, Yiieh, is their deadly enemy. Wu Tzu-hsii...

.... M. Dieny's masterly study of early yiieh-fu The writing is vague and redundant should ideally be read in conjunction with throughout, and the text is cluttered with his earlier work on the Ninteen Old Poems, superfluous diagrams and charts. Long sec- to which the present volume forms a sequel. tions...

...Robert M. Somers Tung Yüeh . By Frederick P. Brandauer . Boston : Twayne , 1978 . 178 pp. Selected Bibliography, Index. $12.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1982 1982 572 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES CHINA and INNER ASIA Tung Yiieh. By FREDERICK P. BRANDAUER...

... clarity. These are estimable accomplishments in a book whose center of gravity lies elsewhere. N. SIVIN University of Pennsylvania Hsiin Yiieh and the Mind of Late Han China: A Translation of the "Shenchien." Translated, introduced, and annotated by CH'I-YUN CH'EN. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University...

... remains to be done. M. Dieny's masterly study of early yiieh-fu The writing is vague and redundant should ideally be read in conjunction with throughout, and the text is cluttered with his earlier work on the Ninteen Old Poems, superfluous diagrams and charts. Long sec- to which the present volume forms...

... the fissures that would widen to engulf his new dynasty a few decades later (pp. 6, 190 92). There are a few nits to pick. Goodman refers, for example, to "the indigenous Yiieh-shan peoples" (p. 12), but the correct label is shan-Yiieh. Yiieh-shan would be a name: Mt. Yiieh. Shan-Yiieh designates, instead...

.... N. SIVIN University of Pennsylvania Hsiin Yiieh and the Mind of Late Han China: A Translation of the "Shenchien." Translated, introduced, and annotated by CH'I-YUN CH'EN. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press (Princeton Library of Asian Translations), 1980. ix, 225 pp. Bibliography, Index...

... be feasible at all. At just this moment Chang was summoned back to Court, ostensibly to plan for an autumn attack. But before he could leave, Yiieh Fei arrived back in T'an, produced a map on which he had outlined his tactics, and announced to Chang that capture of the remaining rebels would be easy. Chang...

... in the city to "lay down their drums and furl their flags,"13 to give the impression of an undefended city. Wang Ssu-cheng's ruse was effective, for Kao Yiieh was convinced that his numbers would overwhelm the city's defenders, "in one battle they can be butchered," he said. He ordered his troops to storm...

... in detail nowhere else, and it raises questions new to our sometimes rather parochial field about the relationship between fiction and ideology. KATHERINE CARLITZ University of Pittsburgh The Poet Shen Yiieh (441-513): The Reticent Marquis. By RICHARD B. MATHER. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988...

... in seventeenth-century Chinese vernacular fiction should ignore this book. It discusses material treated in detail nowhere else, and it raises questions new to our sometimes rather parochial field about the relationship between fiction and ideology. KATHERINE CARLITZ University of Pittsburgh The Poet Shen Yiieh...

...;" and in poem 90, line 4, the phrase hsiao-yiieh (dawning moon) should be left unaltered. In the translation we find this phrase replaced by "the day that dawns," apparently changing hsiao-yiieh to hsiao-jih, quite out of harmony widi the Chinese belief diat in the netherworld there is only "eternal night." Han...

... on "Yiieh-fu Poetry," Hans H. Ming drama, and popular fiction from the Sung Frankel gives the historical dimension of the to the Ch'ing written by outstanding special- dominant features of each type of the yiieh-fu. ists in the field of Chinese literature. The sub- Considering the two poles in Chinese...

... not amount to anything more than brief analyses and groupings of artifacts of the various and varied regions of eastern China. An exception is William Meacham's vehement attack on the sinocentric approach to the origins of Chinese civilization and an exaltation of the contributions by the various Yiieh...

... qualified scholars to embark on similar critical approaches This is a most welcome collection of eleven to locate other underlying patterns in Chinese essays covering Chinese poetry from the Shih- literature. ching to the tz'u of the Southern Sung, Yuan and In his essay on "Yiieh-fu Poetry," Hans H. Ming...

... in the similarity of the themes P'i treats and those found in Po's New Yiieh-fu and in the harsh criticism of the government that is evident in the treatment of these themes. In the later period P'i wrote over 300 poems. Nienhauser categorizes these poems as on the following themes: the flora of Wu; reclusion...

... and fervent emotion. One illustration too well-known to be omitted is the Shuo Yiieh ch'iian-chuan (The Life of Yiieh Feiab), a saga concerning the legendary Sung general whose activities symbolized the strains and sufferings in those bitter days when the Chinese were pushed southward by the sweeping...

...-she tsa-chih (Reconstruction Magazine), and San-min cbu-i yiieh-k'an (Three People's Principles Monthly). He was also a man with strong convictions. His stand on anticommunism alienated Mikhail Borodin and brought him into conflict with Wang Ching-wei. As president of the Legislative Yuan, he...

... status, Martin's term is particularly appropriate.13 Other examples of terms which owe their origin to traditional Chinese sources are: "pirate" ("hai-taou "treaty" ("yiieh" or "meng-yueh15 "peace treaty" ("ho-yuehie etc. There were, to be sure, some traditional Chinese terms, currently used in trans- 8...