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Revue Bibliographique de Sinologie 14 (review)
- China Review International
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 5, Number 2, Fall 1998
- pp. 386-387
- 10.1353/cri.1998.0066
- Review
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386 China Review International: Vol. 5, No. 2, Fall 1998 Michael Cartier, Danielle Elisseeff, and Jacqueline Nivard, editors. Revue Bibliographique de Sinologie 14. Paris: Éditions de l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 1996. xxxi, 521 pp. FF 195 ($34.00). The 1996 issue of the Revue Bibliographique de Sinologie (Bibliographie review of sinology), includes entries for 214 books and 400 articles selected from 123 periodicals , originally in Chinese, Japanese, or Western (including Eastern European) languages. A list of contributors (eighty-one different scholars) appears on the fold-in wings of the front and back cover pages. A survey of the contents ofthis volume reveals the following categories: bibliography (new review publications, bulletins and newsletters, bibliographies, collections of documents, sources and archives, reference works, history of sinology, and proceedings of colloquia and conferences); history and the social sciences (historiography, history, economics, institutions, sociology, diaspora, border peoples/relations, and geography); art and archaeology (interdisciplinary approaches, methodology, reports ofarchaeological finds, bronzes, jade, Buddhist art, catalogs of collections and exhibitions, numismatics, architecture, gardens, minor arts, music, painting, and calligraphy); linguistics (script, lexicography, history of the Chinese language, phonetics, grammar , dialects, and comparative linguistics); literature (fiction, poetry, drama and theater, women's literature, and translations); philosophy and religions (Confucianism /Neo-Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism, Islam, and popular religions); and the history of science (technology/technological procedures, agronomy, astronomy and mathematics, and medicine). The entries in each category begin with general works and, if appropriate, follow the historical chronology of the subjects treated. Beginning with 1995, each volume of the Revue also contains a number of bibliographical surveys that explore new topics and introduce books and articles that were previously omitted.1 The 1996 volume has eight such surveys, six in French and two in English: (1) Irene Eber, "La sinologie en Israël" (Sinology in Israel ) (in English), follows the section on bibliography; (2) Guido Samarani, "Les études sur la Chine républicaine dans la RPC et le Nanjing Research Center" (Studies on the history of Republican China in the PRC and the Nanjing Research Center) (in English), follows works on modern history and the social sciences; (3) Jacqueline Nivard, "La IVe conférence mondiale des femmes: Pékin 1995" (The UN Fourth World Women's Conference in Beijing, 1995) (in French), follows the© 1998 by University Samarani essay; (4) Yolaine Escande, "Perspectives et limites des recherches ofHawai'i Pressrécentes sur la calligraphie et la peinture" (Recent trends ofresearch on Chinese calligraphy and painting) (in French), follows the section on art and archaeology; (5) Danielle Elisseeff, "Identité culturelle, protection du patrimoine" (Cultural Reviews 387 identity and protection ofChinese patrimony) (in French), follows the Escande essay; (6) Étiennette Nodot, "Archéo-musicologie" (Archaeomusicology) (in French), follows the section on music; (7) François Picard, "La connaissance et étude de la musique chinoise: Une histoire brève" (Knowledge and research on Chinese music: A briefsurvey) (in French), follows the Nodot essay; and (8) Vincent Goossaert, "L'image variée du taoïsme dans quatre nouveaux dictionnaires" (The shifting image ofTaoism through four new dictionaries) (in French), appears at the end ofthe philosophy and religion section. This volume ofRevue Bibliographique de Sinologie continues the same great breadth and standard ofaccuracy that the series as a whole has maintained since its inception in 1955. It is an indispensable tool recommended to all. Richard John Lynn University of Alberta RichardJohn Lynn is aprofessor ofclassical Chinese studies specializing inphilosophy , philology, poetry, poetics, and intellectual history. N OTE S 1. The 1995 volume was reviewed by Richard John Lynn in China Review International 5, no. 1:89-91, both in terms of its own merits and in the context of describing and evaluating general features ofthe Old and New Series as an integral set of bibliographic tools. m Chang Tsai. Rechtes Auflichten I Cheng-meng. Übersetzt aus dem Chinesischen , mit Einleitung und Kommentar versehen und herausgegeben von (translated from the Chinese, with introduction and commentary by) Michael Friedrich, Michael Lackner, and Friedrich Reimann. Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag, 1996. evi, 326 pp. Hardcover DM 86.00, isbn 3-78730935 -7· In 1868 the Felix Meiner Verlag began publishing what is today the most distinguished series ofphilosophical texts in Germany. The dust...