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Nien chün [The Nien Army]

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Nien chün [The Nien Army] Edited by Wen-lanFan, Po-tsanChien, Ch'ung-ch'iNiehz, Lin Shu-hui, Wang Ch'i-chüaa6 vols., 1953. 2,713 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

S. Y. Teng
S. Y. Teng
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Indiana University
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Special Review Article: Documentary Collections on Modern Chinese History
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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , November 1957 , pp. 76 - 80
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1957

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References

1 See Chiang, Siang-tseh, The Nien Rebellion (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1954), 149 pp.Google Scholar; and Teng, Ssu-yu, “The Nien-fei and Their Guerrilla Warfare,”Google Scholar MS. awaiting publication; also Erh-kang, Lo, Nien-chūn ti yün-tung chan (Changsha: Commercial Press, 1939), 59 pp.Google Scholar

2 The reviewer has compared the Yü-chün chi-lüeh and Shan-tung chün-hsing chi-lüeh reproduced in the Nien chün collection with his own copies of these basic works. He finds no omission of any paragraph or line, no change of wording, and little typographical error. The added punctuation of the text of the Yü-chün chi-lüeh is a help; the division of the text of the Shan-tung chün-hsing chi-lüeh into paragraphs in addition to punctuation is still better. One can surely use the two texts for research if he cannot find the original. These two works, however, are reprinted in their entirety; for works partially reproduced, it may be safer to check the original.

3 The compilers thought (I, 2) that it was relatively easy to buy the Ch'in-ting chiaop'ing Nien-fei fang-lüeh, Ch'ing shih-lu, and Ch'ing-shih kao, and therefore it was not necessary for them to make extracts from these works. This is not true; these works are very difficult to get, and even in the National Peking University library they used to be locked in the rare book room.

4 Even for other provinces than Anhwei, important gazetteer sources are not listed; the following are a few examples of gazetteers which definitely have materials about the Nien: Wo-yang feng-t'u chi bf by Huang P'ei-lanbg et al. (1924); Hsü-hsiu Meng-ch'eng hsien-chih bh by Yü Chen-chiangbi et al. (1915); Shou-chou chih bj by Tseng Tao-weibk et al. (1890); Lu-chiang hsien-chih bl by Lu Yübm et al. (1885); Ch'ien-shan hsien-chih bn by Liu T'ing-fengbo et al (1920); Liu-an chou-chih bp by Wu K'ang-linbq et al. (1872); Hsü-i hsien-chih kao br by Wang Hsi-yüanbs et al. (1891); Hsiang-ch'eng hsien-chih bt by Shih Ching-shunbu et al. (1911); Liao-ch'eng hsien-chih bv by Ch'en Ch'ing-fanbw et al. (1910); Ch'i-hsia-hsien hsü-chih bx by Huang Li-chungby et al. (1879); Tung-o-hsien hsiang-t'u-chih bz by Chou Chu-shengca (1934); Hsin-t'ai hsien-chih cb by Hsü Chih-yücc et al. (1891).