Bulletin Spring‧Summer 1981

Recent Publications of the University The Chinese University Press published the following titles in early 1981: Titles in Chinese A Comprehensive Bibliography o f Japanese Trans lations o f Chinese Books Edited by Tam Yue-him with Saneto Keishu as Edi torial Consultant and Ogawa Hiroshi as Co-editor Included in this Bibliography are about four thousand titles of Japanese translations of Chinese books published in Japan and China in 1660-1978. It is a basic reference for studies in modern Japan and Sino-Japanese cultural relations. The Craft o f Tenon-making in Fine Woodwork during the Warring States Period in China Monograph No. 1 ， Centre for Chinese Archaeology and Art, The Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong By Lin Shou-ch'in This monograph is the first book to apply the technological knowledge of modern fine woodwork craft to the study of woodwork of the Warring States Period excavated in various parts of China in the last 30 years. The author, who had carried out a detailed study at Beijing and the major excavation sites, came up with the finding that a substantial part of the modern knowledge and skill of the craft of tenon-making is over two thousand years old. Titles in English The Five Seasons o f a Golden Year A Chinese Pastoral By Fan Ch'eng-ta Translated by Gerald Bullett The “ Five Seasons" of the title are: Early Spring, Late Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter— as represented by Fan Ch'eng-ta (1126-1193) in a sequence of sixty poems depicting the rural year in all its toil and tranquillity. Rendered into English by Gerald Bullett, the work was first published in England more than thirty years ago by the Cambridge University Press, in a slender volume that has long been out of print. In this new edition we present Mr. Bullett's sensitive interpretation in a fresh format along with the original Chinese text in T. C. Lai's handsome calligraphy. Included for the first time is an introductory essay in which the translator, a poet in his own right, explains step by step his method of re-creating in English verse a Sung poet's picture of rustic life in ancient China. 29