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1796 to 1914. University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands, Western Australia. (Price A 35/-). The only definitive list of protestant societies which maintained missionaries in China, also with a comprehensive list of protestant missionary archives and records in the British Isles. Miss Fu Lo-shu's eight volume manuscript entitled A Documentary Chronicle of the Celestial Empire. Slno-Western Relations, 1644-1820. as Revealed in Primary Chinese Sources, is available on microfilm. The manuscript consists of lengthy annotated translations from Shih-lu and other sources of hundreds of passages dealing with foreign countries, tribute, embassies, etc. Arranged by relgn-period, with appendices, bibliographies, Chinese characters. Sold at 4$ per page, minimum order ¿ 10, reductions for orders by volumes. Enquiries to L. S.Fu, c/o 1239 Pennsylvania Avenue, S.E., Washington 3, D. C. Recent CMRASC reprints of possible interest to readers include the works of Wang Fu-chih, Hu Lin-i, Liu Shen-shu, Cordier's Biblioteca Sinica, the collected (through T'ung-chih) Ch'ing edicts Ta-Ch' ing Shih-ch'ao sheng-hsun. the history of the Ch'ing palaces Kuo-ch'ao kung-shih cheng-hsu-plen, and the Yungcheng reign collection of memorials with vermilion endorsements Yung-cheng chu-p'l yü-chih. Available through Robert Irick, CMRASC, PO Box 22048, Taipei, Taiwan. The Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society is interested in publishing worthy articles on the Ch'ing period. Mail manuscripts to Stephen Uhalley Jr., PO Box 13864, Hong Kong, B.C.C. Responses. I should think that every Ch'ing historian ought to have access to the 33 titles listed in the Index to 33 collections of Ch'ing dynasty biographies. We lack several of the works listed, and they simply are not available on the antiquarian book market. If you want to go about a reprint program in a systematic -18- way, I should think this would appear to be a good place to start. Fairbank's Ch'ing Documents also lists a number of basic works most of which are no longer readily available. Ino Yoshinori's Taiwan Bunka Shi mentioned by Bill Speidel (CSWT 1:2), long out of print and selling at elevated prices when available, is now being reprinted by Tokö Shoin, Tokyo. Three volumes at ¥6,000 per volume, or roughly /è50 for the set. Expensive, but still about one half the price the prewar set fetched about a year ago. Warren Tsuneishi, Curator East Asian Collection, University Library, Yale, New Haven, Conn. Reading Professor Wilhelm' ß response to J. Chesneaux (CSWT 1;2) I am reminded of an earlier reference to Hung-hu-tzu by T'ao Chu (T'ao Wen-1'kung ch'uan-chi. 24, 3a). In the study of secret societies in general, I am of the opinion that 1. Chinese popular novels should be systematically explored as an important source—novels such as P'eng-kung-an. Shih-kung-an, and so on, and 2. a study of militia (minlt'uan and hsiang-t'uan, not kuan^t'uan) should be made at the same time. I would like comments on these points as well as bibliographical and other suggestions. Jerome Ch* en, School of History, University of Leeds, Leeds 2, England. -19- ...