News Notes

- 131 NEWS SOTES ANNUAL MEETING OF THE MID-ATLANTIC REGION OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN STUDIES October 28-30, 1983 (Philadelphia) Roy E. Goodman (American Philosophical Society) "Benjamin Franklin's Legacy: Printed Materials From Before 1870 Relating to Chinese, Language, Science, Geography, and Culture at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia" Herman Baron. "Late 19th and Early 20th Century China-Related Books, Manuscripts, Artifacts, and Prints: A Survey of Three Major Collections in Philadelphia" Pei-kai Cheng (Yale University) "Love, Sex, and Society in 16th Century Ming Plays" Paul Ropp (Memphis State University) "Women in Dream of the Red Chamber: Literary Images and Social Implications" Chih-p'ing Chou (Princeton University) "Convention and Innovation: Historical Perspectives on Hu Shih' s Literary Theory" Jung-fang Tsai (College of Charleston) "The Anti-American Boycott in Hong Kong, 1905-06" Lynda Bell (University of Illinois) "Merchants and Local Politics in Wuxi County [in the Republican Period] ' Helen Chauncey (Georgetown University) "Rural Educators and Social Polarization in Republican Jiangsu" Prasenjit Duara (George Mason University) "State and Elite in North China Villages [in the Republican Period] " SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COLLOQUIUM IN CHINESE STUDIES March 3, 1984 (Los Angeles) Arthur Wolf (Stanford University) "Chinese Family Size: A Myth Revitalized" Lucie Cheng (UCLA) "Household Structure of Chinese Americans in the Nineteenth Century" Charlotte Fürth (California State University at Long Beach) "Blood, Body, and Gender: Medical Perspectives on the Female Condition, 1650-1850" Kwang-ching Liu (University of California at Davis) "Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy in Ch'ing China" 132 Susan Mann (University of California at Santa Cruz) "Women in the Kinship and Community Structure of Qing China" Tian Rukang (Fudan University) "Male Anxiety and Female Chastity: A Comparative Study of Chinese Ethical Values in Ming-Qing Times" ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN STUDIES March 23-25, 1984 (Washington DC) Susan Mann (University of California at Santa Cruz) "Chaste Widows in the Kinship, Class, and Community Structures of Late Qing China" Vivien W. Ng (University of Oklahoma) "Rape Laws in Qing China" Timothy Cheek (Harvard University) "Contracts and Ideological Control in Village Administration: Tensions in the 'Village Covenant1 System in Late Imperial China" Chih-p'ing Chou (Princeton University) "The Landscape Essays of Yuan Hongdao (1568-1610)" T-D. Huters (University of Minnesota-Minneapolis) "The Closing Circle: Theories of Prose in Late Qing China" Wendy Larson (Portland state University) "Autobiography and Change at the End of the Qing" Eugene Wu (Harvard University) "A. K'ai-ming Ch ' iu and the Harvard-Yenching Library" Edwin G, Beai (Library of Congress) "Arthur W. Hummel and the Orientalia Division of the Library of Congress Cynthia J. Brokaw (Bowdoin College) "Philanthrophy and Morality Books in the Late Ming and Early Qing" Joanna F. Handlin (Harvard University) "The Philanthrophy of Chen Longzheng (1585-1645)" David E. Kelley (Oberlin College) "Buddhist- Inspired Mutual Aid during the Early Qing: Shelter-Temples in Eighteenth-Century Hangzhou" Raymond D. Lum (Harvard University) "Aid for Indigent Widows in Nineteenth-Century Canton" Charlotte Fürth (California State University at Long Beach) "Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Infancy in the Qing Dynasty" - 133 Victoria Cass (.University of Minnesota) "Female Healers in Ming Beijing: A Study of Physicians, Midwives, and Nursemaids" Sue Gronewold (Columbia University) "Beautiful Merchandise: The Trade in Women in Late Traditional China" Phillip Woodruff (University of Chicago) "Thoughts on the Origins of the Manchus" Joseph Fletcher (Harvard University) "Autocrat, Aristocrat, and Bureaucrat: The Politics of Succession" James Lee (California Insitute of Technology) Robert Y. Eng (University of Redlands) "Population and Family History in Eighteenth-Century Manchuria: Daoyi, 1774-1798" Edward J.M. Rhoads (University of Texas at Austin) "The Manchu Cabal at the End of the Qing" Madeline Zelin (Columbia University) "The New Policies [of Wang Anshi] in Sichuan from the Perspective of the Qing" Daniel L. Overmyer (University of British Columbia) "Messenger, Savior, and Revolutionary: The Roles of Maitreya in Chinese Popular Religious Literature of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries" Ch'ing-jen pieh-ming-tzu-hao so-yin JS /\ ri\ S> "* s|t \ 5| [An index to alternative names of men during the Ch'ing]. Wang Te-yi i ¡jj£. ^ comp. Taipei: $fi X ^ ¡fc lfa_'¿îf, 1984. US$20.00. This comprehensive work of about 1...