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section, as indicated by the attached list of purchases in this field. The "borrowing" by Shanghai book publishing houses is again a feature.
(g) Guides to contract forms
This group has an importance beyond the small number of works listed here. This is established by the inclusion of forms in the collections in encyclopaedias of daily use, and by the many village handbooks which contain draft forms. The number of occasions on which they were required was legion, because of the countless sales and mortgages of fields, houses and other property and the many social and business purposes for which contract forms were in use.
(gg) Guides to official forms and letter writing
This sub-head is not included in the text which originally dealt mostly with the Ch'ing period and before. It is inserted here because one cannot ignore the publication of a good deal of such material in Republican times. I cannot yet say whether it was also produced in Ming and Ch'ing. It is, of course, a valuable source for the study of government and society in Republican times.
(h) Encyclopaedias of daily use
As their titles indicate, these are compendia of the foregoing subjects and much else. They have always been a feature of Chinese publishing. The list indicates items of this kind that I have been able to purchase locally.
(i) Ballads
This was a constant and very large production. I have purchased items for my own collection and the Centre of Asian Studies (University of Hong Kong) Kwangtung Archive and seen many more. I have not listed them here because of the comprehensive account and list of titles given in Leung Pui-chee's Wooden-Fish Books: Critical Essays and an Annotated Catalogue based on the collections in the University of Hong Kong (Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong, 1978), in Chinese with English summaries.
BOOK LISTS
171
section, as indicated by the attached list of purchases in this field. The "borrowing" by Shanghai book publishing houses is again a feature.
(g) Guides to contract forms
This group has an importance beyond the small number of works listed here. This is established by the inclusion of forms in the collections in encyclopaedias of daily use, and by the many village handbooks which contain draft forms. The number of occasions on which they were required was legion, because of the countless sales and mortgages of fields, houses and other property and the many social and business purposes for which contract forms were in use.
(gg) Guides to official forms and letter writing
This sub-head is not included in the text which origi- nally dealt mostly with the Ch'ing period and before. It is inserted here because one cannot ignore the publication of a good deal of such material in Republican times. I cannot yet say whether it was also produced in Ming and Ch’iug. It is, of course, a valuable source for the study of government and society in Republican times.
(h) Encyclopaedias of daily use
As their titles indicate, these are compendia of the fore- going subjects and much else. They have always been a feature of Chinese publishing. The list indicates items of this kind that I have been able to purchase locally.
(1) Ballads
This was a constant and very large production. I have purchased items for my own collection and the Centre of Asian Studies (University of Hong Kong) Kwangtung Ar- chive and seen many more I have not listed them here because of the comprehensive account and list of titles given in Leung Pui-chee's Wooden-Fish Books Critical Essays and an Annotated Catalogne based on the collec- tions in the University of Hong Kong (Centre of Asian Studies. University of Hong Kong, 1978), in Chinese with English summaries.
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