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• Title:[Eminent Chinese of the Chʻing period (1644-1912)]
  Eminent Chinese of the Qing period (1644-1911/2) / edited by Arthur W. Hummel ; with a new introduction by Pamela Crossley.
  
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• Related Title:Berkshire dictionary of Chinese biography.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Hummel, Arthur W. (Arthur William), Sr., 1884-1975, editor.
  
• Published/Created:Great Barrington, Massachusetts : Berkshire Publishing Group, [2018]
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: DS754.19 .E46 2018
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:c.1 On loan - Due on 06-15-2024
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:China--History--Qing dynasty, 1644-1912--Biography--Encyclopedias.
  
• Edition:Revised edition.
  
• Description:xxiv, 1,073 pages : illustration, maps ; 28 cm
  
• Summary:"A Berkshire World Classic and companion to the Berkshire dictionary of Chinese biography. Eminent Chinese of the Qing Period (1644-1911/2) is a standard reference used by scholars, meticulously compiled and unique in its scope. This much-loved work was produced under the auspices of the US Library of Congress and published by the United States Government Printing Office during World War II. The 2016 Berkshire edition contains the original text of 800 biographical sketches as well as a preface by Hu Shih, a scholar who had been China's ambassador to the United States, together with new material for 21st-century readers"--Publisher description.
  "Eminent Chinese of the Qing Period (1644-1911/2) is a standard reference used by scholars, meticulously compiled and unique in its scope. This much-loved work, edited by Arthur W. Hummel Sr., produced under the auspices of the US Library of Congress, and published by the US Government Printing Office during World War II. Its contributors comprise the founders of the profession of Chinese history research and its teaching in the Unites States, including John King Fairbank, Têng Ssû-yü, L. Carrington Goodrich, Fêng Chia-shêng, Knight Biggerstaff, Nancy Lee Swann, and the two driving research forces Fang Chao-ying and Tu Lien-chê. The 2018 Berkshire edition contains the original 800 biographical sketches as well as the extensive front and back matter. The Wade-Giles transliteration has been converted to modern pinyin and the book includes a pinyin/Wade-Giles conversion table and an up-to-date bibliography. Pamela Crossley, who digitized part of the original publication, has written the introduction, touching upon the historical context of this publication as well as its continuing importance for modern readers and researchers. Portraits, illustrations, maps, biographies of the original contributors, a timeline, and a glossary, as well as regularly published updates and reviews of individual entries will be published on Berkshire's online educational platform ChinaConnectU"--Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:"Originally published in 1943 by the Library of Congress, United States Government Printing Office."
  Revised edition of Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing period (1644-1912). With new introduction by Pamela Crossley.
  Includes bibliographical references (pages 971-974) and indexes.
  
• ISBN:9781614720331 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
  1614720339
  9781614728504 (paperback : alkaline paper)
  161472850X
  9781614728498 (ebook)
  
• Contents:Introduction by Pamela Crossley
  Preface / by Hu Shih
  Editor's note
  About the 2018 edition
  Biographies A-Z
  Contributors
  A note on Quan Zuwang, Zhao Yiqing and Dai Zhen / by Hu Shih
  Thirty-three collections of Qing dynasty biographies
  List of Qing emperors
  Bibliography
  Pinyin/Wade-Giles conversion table
  Names in chronological order
  Index of names
  Index of subjects
  Index of books.