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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch

RASHKB and author

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Ta-Ming hui-tien

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Vol. 1 (1961)

ISSN 1991-7295

Tung-hua lu

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I-tsung chin-chien

Suan-fa t'ung-tsung

Ch'ün fang p'u

Erh-ya

(*Statutes of the Ming dynasty', 1577)

- (1734)

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('Golden Mirror of Medicine', 1740)

('Systematic Treatise on Arithmetic')

(A Herbarium). Compiled by Wang Hsiang-chin, 1708.

(The earliest Chinese 'dictionary')

Man-Han ming-ch'en chuan (Records of famous statesmen, Manchu and Chinese', c. 1750)

Other books are devoted to such diverse subjects as Buddhism, the ch'in (lute), a Manchu translation of the Four Books, various dictionaries (including the K'ang-hsi tzu-tien), various works on medicine, agriculture, geography, history, law, chess, and so on.

A complete and annotated catalogue of these Chinese works together with the Chinese characters of their titles and authors or compilers would be of considerable value to scholars working in London. Does anyone feel like undertaking this task?

J. L. CRANMER-BYNG.