Bulletin Spring 1979

book. This book consists of 14 chapters. Each chapter begins by explaining the concepts involved, followed by one or more example programmes illustrating the materials covered. Every opportunity is taken to expose practical problems drawn from a variety of areas in business data processing and scientific applications. Mr. Douglas S. Tung is Lecturer o f the Computer Science Department of this University. Ancient China: Studies in Early Civilization Edited by David T. Roy & Tsuen-hsuin Tsien This volume consists of sixteen essays on various aspects o f early Chinese civilization contributed by scholars in their special fields in honour of Professor Herrlee G. Creel, whose work on ancient China has been in the forefront of sinological scholarship for the last half-century. The articles represent major dis­ ciplines ill ancient Chinese studies, including arch­ aeology and anthropology; epigraphy, philology, and linguistics; intellectual, cultural, economic and insti­ tutional history; and philosophy, art and literature. They are arranged roughly in chronological order, covering all important periods from pre-history to the end of the Later Han Dynasty in A.D. 220. Students in Chinese studies w ill find this collection of scholarly papers a significant contribution to the understanding of Chinese culture in the ancient period. The volume is edited by Professor David T. Roy, Professor of Chinese Literature, University o f Chicago, and Professor Tsuen-hsuin Tsien, Professor of Chinese Literature and Curator o f the Far Eastern Library, University of Chicago. Twelve Towers Short Stories By Li Y ü Retold by Nathan Mao (2nd edition) The Twelve Towers (Shih-erh lou) is a collection of a dozen vernacular Chinese short stories by the renowned seventeenth-century fiction w riter, drama­ tist, and drama critic L i Y ü , often identified by his tzu, Li Li-weng (1611-1680?). It presents a vivid and realistic picture o f Chinese society in the seventeenth century and a wide-ranging yet detailed study o f characters w ithin the traditional themes o f Chinese fiction. These are stories o f idyllic charm, bedroom farce, as well as innocent romance. The plots are fu ll of surprises and sexual crises. These features have made the collection immensely popular in China for the last three hundred years. Professor Nathan Mao teaches English at Ship- pensburg State College, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. CO-PUBLICATIONS (1) Later Mohist Logic, Ethics and Science By A. C. Graham The Canons and other later writings of the school of Mo-tzu, dating back to 300 B .C., contain nearly all that survives of the logic of ancient China, and its optics and mechanics, the only organised set of geometrical definitions, and the only fu lly rationa­ 6