Ming-Ch’ing Delegation

N E W S N O T E S Ming-Ch’ing Delegation From June 4 to 30, 1979 a delegation of Ming and Ch'ing historians visited China. The trip was sponsored by the Committee for Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China find hosted by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. The delegation visited universities, musuems, libraries, archives, and historical sites. Seminars with Chinese counterparts on developments in Ming and Ch'ing history were held in Peking, Tsinan, Nanking, and Shanghai. The delegation went to Peking University, People's University (Peking), Shantung University (Tsinan), Nanking University, and Fu-tan University (Shanghai), as well as the Peking Library, Nanking University Library, Shanghai Municipal Library, and Wu-hsi Municipal Library. The group was particularly interested in learning about archives and documentary collections of all sorts, and visited the Ming-Ch'ing Archives in Peking, the Confucian Estate archives in Ch'U-fu (Shantung), as well as the Republican archives in Nanking. Sites visited by the delegation included the Palace Museum in Peking, Ming tombs near Peking and in Nanking, Ch'ing tombs (the Eastern Tombs of K'ang-hsi, Ch'ien-lung, and the Empress Dowager), the Ch'ing summer residence in Jehol (Pi-shu shan-chuang), the Confucian temple, cemetary and residence at C h ’U-fu, Mount T'ai, numerous Ming and Taiping sites in Nanking, and Ch'ing gardens and other sites in Soochow, Wu-hsi, Shanghai, and Hangchow1. Wang Jungsheng 5 / t J*. , a Taiping expert from the Ch'ing history section of the Chinese Academy of the Social Sciences, travelled with the delegation. A report on the trip, including state of the field reports and descriptions of archives, is now being prepared for publication. The members of the delegation were: Frederic Wakeman (University of California, Berkeley)(Chairman of the delegation), Evelyn S. Rawski (University of Pittsburgh), Charles 0. Hucker (University of Michigan), Philip Kuhn (Harvard University), John D. Langlois (Bowdoin College), Susan Naquin (University of Pennsylvania), Willard J. Peterson (Princeton University), Lynn Struve (Indiana University), Wang Yehchien (Kent State University), John E. Wills (University of Southern California), and Patricia J. Tsushitani (CSCPRC Senior Staff Officer). ...