Responses

- 107 Responses I am sure that the readers of the Bulletin of the Society for Ch'ing Studies will be interested in another, and in my opinion superior, printing of the Huang-ch'ao ching-shih wen-pien (see the article by Frederic Wakeman in Ch'ing-shih wen-t'i, vol. I, no. 10, Feb. 1969). It is published by the Kuo-feng ch'u-pan she and is available at all large bookstores in Taipei. It has three advantages: 1) It is far cleaner than the World Book edition (which is badly printed); 2) It is more compact, in three volumes; 3) It is cheaper, $13. 50 US. It is in smaller type, but this matters little because of the sharpness of the printing. Its one real drawback is that it is punctuated very badly -- the World Book edition seems to have fewer punctuation errors. Marshall R. Kaplan, Taipei ...