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-lan^bg et al. (1924); Hsü-hsiu Meng-ch'eng hsien-chih ^bh by Yü Chen-chiang^bi et al. (1915); Shou-chou chih ^bj by Tseng Tao-wei^bk et al. (1890); Lu-chiang hsien-chih ^bl by Lu Yü^bm et al. (1885); Ch'ien-shan hsien-chih ^bn by Liu T'ing-feng^bo et al (1920); Liu-an chou-chih ^bp by Wu K'ang-lin^bq et al. (1872); Hsü-i hsien-chih kao ^br by Wang Hsi-yüan^bs et al. (1891); Hsiang-ch'eng hsien-chih ^bt by Shih Ching-shun^bu et al. (1911); Liao-ch'eng hsien-chih ^bv by Ch'en Ch'ing-fan^bw et al. (1910); Ch'i-hsia-hsien hsü-chih ^bx by Huang Li-chung^by et al. (1879); Tung-o-hsien hsiang-t'u-chih ^bz by Chou Chu-sheng^ca (1934); Hsin-t'ai hsien-chih ^cb by Hsü Chih-yü^cc et al. (1891).