Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period

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Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period (1644-1912) ; Abbrev. ECCP , "Significant Chinese of the Qing Period (1644–1912)", is a biographical reference work on personalities of the Chinese Qing Dynasty (the Manchu ), published in 1943 and 1944 by the United States Government Printing Office and published by Arthur W. Hummel (1884-1975), the then head of the Orientalia department in the Library of Congress in Washington DC. Hummel's most important partners were Tu Lien-che (杜 聯 喆) and Fang Chao-ying (房 兆 楹), Chinese scholars of Manchurian descent.

The two volumes, totaling 1103 numbered pages, contain around 800 short biographies of leading figures of the Qing dynasty ( Wade-Giles : Ch'ing) (1636–1912) in China. The articles include Han Chinese, Manchus, Mongols, and other indigenous figures, as well as some Europeans. Each article contains a brief listing of sources and secondary literature. There are three registers: personal names (also a chronology for biographies), book titles and a subject register.

To the history of the project

Arthur W. Hummel, who had developed his language skills as a missionary in China, was chairman of the committee for Chinese studies of the American Council of Learned Societies from 1930 to 1934 . He worked with Mortimer Graves , the executive director of the council, in planning a Qing-era biographical reference book, and received financial support from the Rockefeller Foundation . The plans were implemented when Hummel joined the Library of Congress in 1934 . The foreword by Hu Shih , a leading Chinese intellectual of the day who was China's ambassador to the United States , praised Hummel and the more than 50 scholars who had worked on the project for over nine years. This included researchers from the United States, Europe and Taiwan.

The authors of the biographical sketches were: Knight Biggerstaff , Roswell S. Britton , Meribeth Cameron , SK Chang , Ch'i Ssŭ-Ho , YM Chin , A. K'ai-ming Ch'iu , Homer H. Dubs , Eduard Erkes , John K. Fairbank , Fang Chao-ying , Fêng Chia-shêng , John C. Ferguson , Walter Fuchs , Gussie Esther Gaskill , M. Jean Gates , L. Carrington Goodrich , Michael J. Hördertt , William J. Hail , Han Shou- hsüan , Hu Shih , Arthur W. Hummel , Jên Tai , George A. Kennedy , Alfred Kühn , Thomas C. La Fargue , ES Larsen , William R. Leete , Li Man-kuei , AV Marakueff , Hiromu Momose , Tomoo Numata , Cyrus H. Peake , Shunzo Sakamaki , Rufus O. Suter , Nancy Lee Swann , Earl Swisher , Têng Ssŭ-yü , Tsêng Hsien-san , Tsêng Mien , CH Ts'ui , Tu Lien-chê , Wang Chung-min , Dean R. Wickes , C. Martin Wilbur , Hellmut Wilhelm , Wong Ch'ang-ping , Wu Kwang Tsing , Yang Ju-chin , Paul Yap Teh-lu .

For the romanized Chinese the work uses the now out-of-use Wade-Giles - transcription .

References and footnotes

  1. ^ Orientalia Division Library of Congress and Arthur W. Hummel: Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period (1644–1912). Washington: US Government Printing Office, 2 volumes, 1943, 1944
  2. ↑ See the foreword by Hu Shih (ECCP, vii) and the editor's note (ECCP, xi).
  3. ^ "Preface", ECCP, vii
  4. ^ ECCP, p. 969.

literature

  • Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period (1644-1912). US Government Printing Office 1943, 1944, 2 volumes. Digitized: I , II
  • Edwin G. Beal, Janet F. Beal: Obituary: Arthur W. Hummel (1884-1975). In: The Journal of Asian Studies 35.2 (1976): 267-75. JSTOR 2053983