...Etienne Balazs Economic Structure of the Yüan Dynasty. Translation of Chapters 93 and 94 of the Yüan shih . By Herbert Franz Schurmann . Harvard-Yenching Institute Studies XVI. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 1956 . xviii, 253 . Maps, Bibliography. $3.50. Copyright ©...

...James J. Wrenn Wei Yüan Nien Pu (A Chronological Biography of Wei Yüan) . By Wang Chiachien . Monograph No. 21 of the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica , 1967 . 204 pp. Bibliography, Index. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1970 1970 688 JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Li Yu-ning Yüan Shih-K'ai (1859–1916) . By Jerome Ch'en . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1961 . 290 . Bibliography, Notes, Index. $6.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1962 1962 BOOK REVIEWS 97 commander of the forces against the rebellious governor...

...Richard H. Robinson Bi-yän-lu. Meister Yüan-wu's Niederschrift von der Smaragdenen Felswand . Verdeutscht und erläutert von Wilhelm Gundert. München : Carl Hanser Verlag , 1960 . 581 . Tafeln, Literatur, Register. DM 40. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1962 1962...

...James I. Crump Abstract Yüan opera, if we limit our material to the one hundred examples found in the Yüan-ch'ü hsüan (YCH) , seems to be a well defined genre, the numerous formal peculiarities of which can be shown to have evolved from earlier entertainment forms in a manner truly comforting...

...Burton Watson Tō Emmei den m [A T'ao Yüan-ming Biography] . By Yoshikawa Kōjirō n . Shinchō sōsho series. Tokyo : Shinchō , 1956 . 187 . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1957 1957 418 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES One or two misreadings of common characters...

...David Tod Roy Li Sao. A Third Century B.C. Poem by Chʻü Yüan . Translated by Jerah Johnson . Miami : Olivant Press , 1959 . Olivant Quarterly No. 4. iv , 74 . Introduction, Notes. $4.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1960 1960 BOOK REVIEWS 103 might...

...Kwanha Yim Abstract The fall of Yüan Shih-k'ai in the summer of 1916 came as a result of an abortive attempt to set up a monarchy. This was one of the turning points in the Chinese revolution. The revolutionary tide which had been held back by his authoritarian rule was unleashed after its collapse...

...Shih-Hsiang Chen Yuan Mei . By Arthur Waley . London : George Allen and Unwin , 1957 . 227 . References, Index, Glossary. $4.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1960 1960 204 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES indicated by simple graphs showing steps in the process...

...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...

... AND EARLY YUAN PERIODS JUNG-PANG LO ONE of the topics of Chinese history that deserves greater attention is the nature and direction of the expansion of the Chinese people beyond the geographical confines of China. It is a subject which, for want of more information, is still so cloaked in generalities...

...John D. Langlois, Jr Conquerors and Confucians: Aspects of Political Change in Late Yuan China . By John W. Dardess . New York and London : Columbia University Press , 1973 . (Studies in Oriental Culture, 9). [2, 8], 245 pp. Map, Biographical notes, Table, Bibliography, Index. $12.50...

... University HAO CHANG Hills beyond a River: Chinese Painting of the Yuan Dynasty, 1279-1368. BY JAMES CAHILL. New York and Tokyo: John Weatherhill, 1976. xvii, 198 pp. 8 Color Plates, 94 Black and White Plates, Map, Bibliography, Index. $25.00 This is a major book, on a major subject, by a major authority...

...Craig N. Canning The Presidency of Yuan Shih-k'ai: Liberalism and Dictatorship in Early Republican China . By Ernest P. Young . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , 1976 . 347 pp. Illustrations, Notes, Glossary, Works Cited, Index. $17.50 Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Mary Backus Rankin Power and Politics in Late Imperial China: Yuan Shi-kai in Beijing and Tianjin, 1901–1908 . By Stephen R. MacKinnon . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1980 . xii, 260 pp. Maps, Notes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $23.50. Copyright © Association...

...Peter Kees Bol The Washing Away of Wrongs [Hsi yuan chi lu, by Sung Tz'u (1186–1249)]: Forensic Medicine in Thirteenth-Century China . Translated and introduced by Brian E. McKnight . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies , Science, Medicine, and Technology in East...

...Lynn Struve Yüan Thought: Chinese Thought and Religion Under the Mongols . Edited by Hok-lam Chan and Theodore de Bary Wm. . New York : Columbia University Press , 1982 . xiv, 545 pp. Notes, Glossaries, Index. $35. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1984 1984 VOL...

...Eugene Lubot Ts'ai Yüan-p'ei: Educator of Modern China . By William J. Duiker . University Park and London : The Pennsylvania State University Press , 1977 . ix, 124 pp. Notes. $3.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1979 1979 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 565 Reservations...

...Judith Anne Whitbeck Wei Yuan and China's Rediscovery of the Maritime World . By Jane Kate Leonard . Cambridge : Harvard University , Council on East Asian Studies, 1984 . 276 pp. Illustrations, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $20. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1986...

...Chu-tsing Li An Index of Early Chinese Painters and Paintings: T'ang, Sung, and Yüan . Compiled by James Cahill , incorporating the work of Osvald Sirén and Ellen Johnston Laing. Berkeley : University of California Press , 1980 . x, 391 pp. Preface, Bibliography. $25. Copyright ©...