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32 683 Cf. type No. 73 of the Chinese tales. (This and the following notes of this 

 type always refer to Eberhard's Typen chinesischer Volksmarchen, here- 

 inafter shortened to "Typen.") 



37 717 and following. Compare with L. Vanicelli, La Religione dei Lolo, Milano, 

 1944, where related ceremonies of the Lolo tribes are described. 



82 524 The introduction reflects popular Chinese history. The Li Lao Chiin is 



the philosopher Lao-tse; in the popular novel Hsi-yo-chi he is mentioned 

 in connection with bellows. 



83 487 On the custom of "washing the bones," see W. Eberhard, Kultur und Sied- 



lung, p. 359; Chung-hua ch'uan-\uo jeng-su-chih, pt. 1, ch. 6, p. 23; 

 Ming-chai hsiao shih, ch. 1, p. 7b (for Kiangsi Province, 1767). 



94 321 Similar contests are very common among Near Eastern minstrels; they 

 seem to have existed in China, too. In this connection compare the dif- 

 ferent opinions on Ch'ii Yiian's T'ien-wen as reviewed by H. Wilhelm, 

 Bemcrkungen zur T'ien-wen-Frage, in Monumenta Serica, vol. 10, 

 pp. 427-432, 1945. 



98 337 On love songs in China, cf. W. Eberhard in Anthropos, vol. 48, pp. 1025- 

 1026, 1953; in general, cf. E. Loeb in Anthropos, vol. 45, pp. 821-851, 

 1950. 

 102 9 "Money societies" are quite common in China and Indo-China. (See 



R. Tawney, Agrarian China, pp. 204-207, New York, 1952; D. H. Kulp, 

 Country Life in South China, vol. 1, p. 189, New York, 1925; A. Smith, 

 Village Life in China, p. 153, New York, 1899; Ngyuen van Vinh, Sav- 

 ings and mutual lending societies, Yale Univ., South-East Asia Stud., 

 Transl. Ser. No. 2, 1949.) 



127 194 Hsiung is a clan name which is typical for South-Central China; it is later 



known as a famous gentry family, (Tun-hnang tsa-lu, hsia 154a; Bull, 

 Acad. Sinica, vol, 7, pp. 481 and 487.) 



128 243 The first part of this tale resembles a famous Near Eastern motif. 



(W. Eberhard and P. N. Boratav, Typen tiirkischer Volksmarchen, 

 No. 77, Mainz, 1953.) 



129 299 Influenced by the last chapters of the novel Hsi-yo-chi. 



131 459 On the origin of guns and cannons in China, cf. G. Sarton in Isis, vol. 35, 

 p. 177, 1944; L, C. Goodrich, ibid., vol. 35, p, 211, 1944; vol, 36, pp. 

 114-123, 250-251, 1946; and vol. 39, p. 63, 1948. See also Isis, vol. 37, 

 pp. 160-178, 1947, and Li Ch'iao-p'ing, The Chemical Arts of Old 

 China, pp. 114-115, New York, 1948. In general, K. Huuri in Studia 

 Orientalia, vol. 9, No. 3, 1941. Important also is Lu Mao-te in Sinica, 

 Nos. 1-2, 1938. The famous Chinese philosopher Wang Yang-ming was 

 the first Chinese general to attack native tribes with Western fire 

 weapons {Wang Yang-ming ch'Uan-chi, 2, p. 251, and 3, ch. 24, p. 639). 

 He had known of these weapons since 1519. 



133 109 Related to joke No. 1, subtype 7, of "Typen." 



134 268 On Chinese fox stories in general, see W. Eberhard, Die chinesische No- 



velle des 17.-19. Jahrhunderts, p. 95f., Ascona, 1948. 



135 270 and following: Chinese short stories bring many similar stories. For a 



general discussion, see W. Eberhard, Die chinesische Novelle. 

 140 80 See "Typen," No, 195. 



