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Note on A Lost Taiping Book

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

Yuan-Chung Teng
Yuan-Chung Teng
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Marist College
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Historians of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom (or the Taiping Rebellion) have so far discovered forty-two books officially published by that regime. About thirty more titles are verified, but the books have not been found. Students working with archives and other sources should be on the lookout for these unfound documents.

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 23 , Issue 3 , May 1964 , pp. 447 - 448
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Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964

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References

1 Erh-kan, Lo, T'ai-ping Tien-kuo shih-liao k'au-shih chi (A critical study of historical material about the Taiping kingdom; Peking, 1956), pp. 12–34.Google Scholar According to Hsiu-min, Chang and Hui-an, Wang, in Tai-p'ing t'ien kuo tzu-liao mu-lu (A bibliography of source material about the Taiping kingdom; Shanghai, 1957), pp. 3–15Google Scholar, the total number of books is forty-six. Chang's bibliography lists several titles which do not appear in Lo's book, and indicates their where-abouts.

2 Lo, pp. 81–90, recognizes only the first five titles as the lost Taiping books and doubts the existence of T'ai-p'ing lü-wen i-pai ch'i-shih-ch'i t'iao, as it is mentioned only in Sheng Meng-liang's Chiang-nan ch'un-meng-an pi-chi, a proved forgery since its author was ignorant of the Taiping history. But it is mentioned in Ssu-yu's, TengHistoriography of the Taiping Rebellion (Harvard University Press, 1962), p. 33.Google Scholar Chang does not mention this title in his list, but does include Lüwen-lu-shih-erh t'iao (Laws, 62 articles), ibid. p. 61.

3 Chang, pp. 60–64.

4 “Hung Jen-kan's letter to Edkins, 11th day, 6th month, Taiping 10th year (July 21, 1860),” T'ai-ping t'ien-kuo, ed. by Hsiang Ta (Peking new edition, 1957), II, 727–728.

5 North China Herald, Supplement, July 28, 1860.

6 Edkins, Jane R., “Letter to her mother-in-law, Shanghai, July 31, 1860,” quoted in her Chinese Scenes and People (London, 1863)Google Scholar, page number is not clear.

7 “E. C. Bridgman to Rufus Anderson, Shanghai, August 2, 1860,” Archives, American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, North China Mission, Vol. I (1860–1871)Google Scholar, and “Letter of M. T. Yates to A. M. Poindexter, Shanghai, August 1, 1860,” File of Reverend M. T. Yates, Archives, Foreign Mission Board, Southern Baptist Convention, Richmond, Va.

8 North China Herald, Supplement, July 28, 1860.

9 Bridgman's Report.

10 Yates's report.

11 Tai-p'ing t'ien-Kuo, II, 523–541.

12 Lo Erh-kang, p. 81, and Chang Hsiu-ming, pp. 63–64.

13 The titles are “T'ai-hsiung sheng-t'ien chieh chi (Chapter on the elder brother's [Jesus] ascending to heaven),” “T'ai-hsiung chi chên têng chi chieh chi (Chapter on the cider brother and me [the Heavenly King] ascending to the throne),” and “Tung-wang sheng-t'ien chieh chi (Chapter on the Eastern King's ascending to heaven).”

14 Lo Erh-kang, p. 81.