The Society of Song, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasty Studies appreciates the generous contributions of Frank Wang and Laura Young, through the Wang Family Foundation. Through their support the Society has been able to make electronic copy of the initial volumes of the Sung Studies Newsletter and the Journal of Song Yuan Studies available in the public domain. Please Note: Because this newsletter was converted to a text-searchable format rather than scanned as a series of graphics images of the pages, it is not identical to the originally published version. The formatting has been corrected to reflect the page breaks in the original newsletter. As a result, pages may end abruptly in the middle (or even beginning) of a line. Moreover, the initial scanning converted characters to their simplified form. They have been restored to the traditional form, but some errors may have been introduced in the process. 13 SUNG STUDIES NEWSLETTER Number 13, 1977 Bibliography of Chinese Periodical Literature, 1976 113 Bibliography of Recent Japanese Scholarship 122 General Editor Addendum to “Bibliography of Western Language Sources on the Sung” Charles A. Peterson Michael C. McGrath 132 Cornell University Contributing Editors: John D. Langlois, Jr. Yüan Stephen H. West Chin Bowdoin College University of Arizona CONTENTS From the Editor 1 News of the Field 3 Sung All correspondence with regard to manuscripts and subscriptions should be The Expansion of Educational Opportunity in the Reign of Hui-tsung of addressed to the Editor at: Department of History, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. the Sung And Its Implications 14853. Subscription rates are $5.00 annually for individuals and $8.00 for Edward A. Kracke, Jr. 6 institutions. Checks should be made payable to: Sung Studies Newsletter. Shen Kua: A Preliminary Assessment of His Scientific Thought and Achievements Nathan Sivin 31 © 1978 SUNG STUDIES NEWSLETTER Chin The Late Chin Debates on Dynastic Legitimacy Michael C. Rogers 57 The Historical Value of the Ch’uan-chen Sources in the Tao-tsang Tao-chung Yao 67 Book Review: The Jurchen in the Twelfth Century by Jing-shen Tao Ruth Dunnell 77 Yuan Report on Research Conference, “The Impact of Mongol Domination on Chinese Civilization” John D. Langlois, Jr. 82 Book News 91 Dissertations: Completed and In Progress 97 ii FROM THE EDITOR nomenclature is imposed, for with the integration of Yuan (as well as Liao and Chin) studies can we properly continue calling this the "Sung Studies There is one important announcement to make with regard to the Newsletter?" Or would the simple addition of subtitle suffice? I await your advice Newsletter, that with this issue it is shifting from a semiannual to an annual on this subject. publication schedule. The target period for publication will be fall. Old habits die Finally, I am pleased to acknowledge the expression of good wishes and hard, particularly for the devotees of Chinese civilization. However, the reasons encouragement which many of you have been kind enough to make in response for making this change are compelling. Costs, always a factor in any enterprise, to the resuscitation of the SSN. Personally and practically, the reaction thus far can be significantly reduced by undertaking only one printing and one mailing per has been excellent, revealing the existence of a strong foundation for publication year. Equally important, for an enterprise lacking any permanent staff, the sheer in this field. May I remind you, however, that the Newsletter is dependent not only labor of assembling the material for two issues a year is to say the least on your reading but also on your writing support? We are always in need of excessive. Indeed, as long as the SSN is edited by individuals serving in full-time information bearing on bibliography, research projects, professional activities and faculty positions, it is difficult to imagine how, without regular editorial assistance, the like, and not least we need good manuscripts. more than one respectable issue could be published per year. Valuable services for the publication of this issue have been provided by The subscriber should not on the whole suffer from this change. With the China-Japan Program and also the Department of History, Cornell University. subscription rates remaining the same, the annual issue will equal the volume Their assistance is gratefully acknowledged. and, I trust, quality of two of the old issues. For example, the present issue goes well beyong doubling the former average size of a single number. (Of course the size of any particular issue is always dependent on the availability of publishable material.) The major disadvantage of the new schedule is that useful announcements and bibliographic information may not reach readers quite as early as they may have need for them. The change does, however, have important implications for treatment of the "conquest dynasties" of Liao, Chin and Yüan. The publication of but one issue per year means no special supplement for those dynasties such as the issue published as no.10. As the present issue indicates, material on them will be integrated with that on the Sung. Students of late Yüan history might conceivably object, but I cannot seriously entertain the idea that there are many Yüan specialists who are not also interested in important aspects of Sung history. There will, incidentally, be no inclination to feature work on one dynasty over that on another; the material will decide. But a problem of 2 NEWS OF THE FIELD Gari Ledyard, Columbia University, topic not yet submitted Proposed Session on Sung Studies at 1978 AAS Meeting in Chicago Luciano Petech, Rome, Italy, Aspects of Sino-Tibetan relations. Brian E. McKnight, of the University of Hawaii, is attempting to organize an Charles A. Peterson, Cornell University, "Sung's Policies toward the Collapsing informal session on Sung studies which would feature "state of the field" reports Chin and the Mongols." by three or four scholars. At time of writing it is not clear whether AAS can Michael C. Rogers, University of California at Berkeley, "National Collsciousness provide the necessary space or not; but those attending the Meeting should in Medieval Korea: the Impact of Liao and China." carefully examine the program in order to ascertain time and place (if indeed a Morris Rossabi, Case Western Reserve University, "Interpreters and Translators place is available). in Sung China." Shiba Yoshinobu, Osaka University, "Sung Foreign Trade--Its Scope and Conference on Multi-State Relations in East Asia. 10th-14th Centuries Organization." This conference, supported by the Committee on the Study of Chinese Tao Jing-shen, University of Arizona, "Barbarians or Northerners? Sung Views of Civilizations of the ACLS, will convene from July 9 to 14, 1978 at Providence the Ch'i-tan." Heights, a conference center near Seattle. The focus will be Chinese foreign Klaus Tietze, University of Munich, topic not yet submitted. relations in the tenth to fourteenth centuries. The last major collaborative study of Wang Gung-wu, Australian National University, an aspect of Chinese relations Chinese foreign relations, The Chinese World Order edited by John K. Fairbank, with Southeast Asia. dealt primarily with Ming and Ch'ing China, a time during which China was united Oliver Wolters, Cornell University, "Diplomatic Relations Between Qubilai Qan and relatively powerful. During the period proposed for study, however, China and the Vietnamese Court." was weak and unable to impose its will on neighboring states. The study of Edmund Worthy, American Historical Association, topic not yet submitted. China's relations with other states at this time may well challenge some generally accepted views of China's foreign relations in traditional times. Observers Participants and Anticipated Paper Topics Hok-lam Chan, University of Washington, Seattle. Thomas Allsen, University of Minnesota, rapporteur, will also contribute a paper Keith Pratt, School of Oriental Studies, University of Durham. on "The Mongol Grand Qans and the Uighurs of Turfan in the 13th Century." Additional information about the Conference may be obtained from Igor de Rachewiltz, Australian National University, "Turks in the Early Mongol Professor Morris Rossabi, Department of History, Case Western Reserve Period." University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106. Herbert Franke, University of Munich, "Sung Travellers to Neighboring Foreign Dynasties." NEH Summer Seminar on Chinese Painting E.I. Kychanov, Leningrad Oriental Institute, topic not yet submitted. Among the approximately 100 summer seminars for college teachers sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1978 will be one on Chinese Painting of the Sung and Yüan Dynasties, to be held in the Kress Foundation Department of Art History, University of Kansas, Lawrence, from June 12 to August 4, 1978. A group of twelve participants will be selected for the eight-week seminar, each of whom will receive a stipend of $2000 plus some travelling 3 4 expenses. The seminar will focus on the excellent collection of Chinese painting THE EXPANSION OF EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY IN THE REIGN OF at the Nelson Gallory of Art in Kansas City. For more details, please write to the HUI-TSUNG OF THE SUNG AND ITS IMPLICATIONS* director of the seminar: Professor Chu-tsing Li, Chairman, Kress Foundation by Department of Art History, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045. Edward A. Kracke, Jr. Symposium on Chinese Calligraphy l. The Questions to be asked Papers from this conference, which