News Notes

NEWS NOTES The Resource S Information Center for Chinese Studies The Resource and Information Center for Chinese Studies established in 1981, is located in the National Central Library in Taipei, Taiwan. Its purpose is to: investigate and collect materials; edit a bibliographical index; report on research activities; and provide services to Sinological researchers in Taiwan and abroad, such as purchasing or copying materials published in Taiwan. Hie Center is composed of two divisions: Materials, and Liason. The Center is run by an Advisory Committee consisting of scholars from Academia Sinica, Taiwan University, the Palace Museum, and the Kuomintang Historical Commission. The Director of the National Central Library, Mr. C.K. Wang also serves as the Director of the Center. The Center publishes a quarterly journal, Newsletter for Research in Chinese Studies ^ T h e abn of the journal is to report news concerning research, teaching, and scholarly activities in the field of Chinese studies in Taiwan. The first four issues were published in 1982. Each issue contains bibliographical and other articles, interviews with scholars, lists of conferences and meetings, introductions to research institutions and graduate schools, announcements of newly published reference tools and essay collections, lists of graduate student dissertations and of current scholarly projects, and selected bibliographies of academic journal articles from Taiwan. Because the goal of the newsletter is to establish a bridge between scholars in Taiwan and to report their research activities to the world, the journal is distributed free of charge to all interested parties. Approximately 3,300 copies of each issue are currently being published. Scholars who are interested in receiving the Newsletter for Research in Chinese Studies r in send their name, address, present position, and current research interests to the following address: Newsletter for Research in Chinese Studies 43, Nan-hai Road Taipei, Taiwan R.O.C. Ch'ien-lung Palace Memorials Published The Palace Museum in Taiwan has begun publication of the Palace Memorials of the Ch’ien-lung Reign (^ c f z ^ ^ ). Volume 1 (covering 1736/2nd month to 1752/lst month) and Volume 2 (covering 1752/lst-6th months) are now available; the entire set will run to 60 volumes. The current price per volume is NT$900.00. The palace memorials for three other reigns have already been published and are available at the prices below. For descriptions of these documents and their great scholarly value, see Hao Yen-p’ing § K.C. Liu, "The Importance of the Archival Palace Memorials of the Ch’ing Dynasty," Ch’ing-shih wen-t’i 3:1 (1974) 71-94; Beatrice S . Bartlett, "Ch’ing Palace Memorials in the Archives of the National Palace Museum," National Palace Museum Bulletin (Taiwan) 13:6 (1979). K'ang-hsi memorials ( 7 volumes of Chinese documents) ( 2 volumes of Manchu documents) Yung-cheng memorials (30 volumes) volumes 1-2, 1-30 volumes 3-9 ( 2 volumes in Manchu) Kuang-hsu memorials (26 volumes) NT$ 450 each NT$ 700 each 900 each 700 each NTS 450 each New Journal Zhongguo shehui jingjishi (Studies in Chinese socio-economic history) is a new scholarly journal being published in the People's Republic of China. The journal will carry articles on the theoretic­ al aspects of socio-economic history as well as on specialized empirical 112 research in Chinese socio-economic history of all periods. The subjects will include economic structure, productive forces and relations of production, regional and sectional economies, national minority economies, economic systems, and economic thought. Compilations of historical source materials, trends in research in this field inside and outside China, and book reviews will also be included. A special section will be devoted to works or summaries of works by foreign scholars. The journal will be issued quarterly, each issue consisting of about 150,000 words. Three issues will appear in 1982, and four each year there­ after. The editorial board is located at Xiamen University in Fujian province. Subscriptions and purchase orders may be sent to China Publications Center (Guoji shudian), P.O. Box 399, Beijing, China. Missionary Works on Microfiche Protestant Missionary Works in Chinese are now available on microfiche from the Inter Documentation Co. The richness of this collection, housed in the Harvard...