Bulletin Spring‧Summer 1980

Yen Keng-Wang, The Rout e from T'ai Yüan Northeast to Chan-yü Tu-hu-fu and the Three Cities along the Yellow River During the T'ang Dynasty' Han-Sheng Chuan, 'The Prices of Rice in Kiangnan and the Neighboring Areas during the K'ang-hsi Period (1662-1722)' Thomas H.C. Lee, 'On Some Problems in Sung Education and Examinations' Yan-Shuan Lao, 'Southern Literati in Early Yüan: Some Aspects as Reflected in Poetry' Hsu Kwan-san, 'Cosmology of Wang Ch'uan-shan (Fu- chi), Kenneth C. K. Liang, ‘Some Principles of Value Maintenance in Social Disturbance and Their Application to the Case of 19th Century China' Cheung Kwong Yue, 'The Procedure of the Investiture Ceremony as Recorded in Bronze Inscriptions' Lin Shou Chin, ‘A Critical Discussion Concerning the Theory that Yang-shao Culture was Introduced from the West' Ying-hsiung Chou, 'The Linguistic Structures of Fu, Pi and Hsing ——with Special Reference to the Symbolic Meanings of the Bird Motifs as Hsing in the Early Yüeh-fu Poetry' Yuk Wong, ‘Li Chih's Blending of Confucianism, Taoism, Legalism and Buddhism' Chan Sin-wai, ‘The Buddhist Though t of Kung Tzu- chen, Yeh-Chien Wang, ‘Banking Development in China, 1840-1937’ Yang Yüan, T he Population of T'ang China' (In English) Harry Hsin-i Hsiao, ‘Concepts of Hsiao (Filial Piety) in the Classic of Poetry and the Classic of Documents' Renditions, Nos. 11 & 12 ， 13 The combined issue Numbers 11 & 12 of Renditions, the Chinese-English translation magazine published by the Translation Division of the Comparative Literature and Translation Centre, is a special issue on Tz'u. Lyrics or tz'u by Wei Chuang, Liu Yung, Ou-yang Hsiu, Su Shih, Chou Pang-yen, L u Yu, Chiang K'uei and Nalan Hsinteh are rendered into English by scholars like D. C. Lau, C. Y. Hsu and John C. H. Wu. Writings of K u Sui, Y u Ping-po, Miao Yueh and Cheng Ch'ien are also translated in order to introduce these four important contemporary tz'u critics to the western world. Number 13 of Renditions is a special classical fiction issue. A m o ng the articles featured are an article by David Hawkes on The Story of the Stone; a translation of a chapter from The Journey to the West by Anthony C. Yu; and an essay on Classical Chinese Fiction in the West by Winston L. Y. Yang. Also included in this issue are ten translations of P'u Sung-ling's Liao-chai chih-i, which are translated by Y. K. Martin, Y. Y. Lo, Katherine Carlitz and C. Y. Hsu. Chinese Language Studies, Inaugural issue Chinese Language Studies is a quarterly published by The Ng Tor Tai Chinese Language Research Centre, Institute of Chinese Studies. Included in the 116-page inaugural issue are fourteen articles covering the various aspects of the Chinese language: Zhou Zu-Mo, 'The history of the development of the Chinese language' Chou Fa Kao, ‘The problem of bringing order to the written Chinese character' Sheung Chung Ho, 'The problem today of the standardization of Chinese characters' M a Guo-Quan, 'A study of the Shuo Wen Chieh Tzu— an authoritative work on Chinese character' D. C. Lau, 'On the pronunciation of the character 核, first in a series of random remarks on Cantonese pronunciation' Chang Song Hing, ‘The vowel system in the Ch'uan Hsiang P 'ing Hua Wu Chung, Zhu De-Xi, ‘ "Huo" (或） and "He"( 和）， Frederick Tsai, ‘The grammatical subject in Chinese' Wang Erh Min, ‘Nomenclature, past and present' Lee Tat Leung, ‘A conjecture about the early origins of certain modal particles as back as the early archaic period' Tam Chuen Ki, T h e Hsu Chin Chi by Liu Ch'ing- chih of the Ch'ing Dynasty 一 a milestone in writings on rhetoric in ancient China' Dang Shu Leung, ‘The problem of standardization in the Chinese written language in Hong Kong' Gaylord Leung, 'A postcript on Chu Tzu-ch'ing's "What the ideal should be in written colloquial Chinese", So Ma n Jock, ‘The teaching of literary Chinese & written colloquial Chinese' Huang Jia-Jiao, ‘The experience of compiling dictionarie of 4 kinds of dialects in Kwangtung' Hui Lai Ping, 'Book Review: Index to Articles on Chinese Linguistics, 30