xliii, 414 pages : 22 cm

The volume consists of nearly 275 alphabetically arranged entries covering persons, practices, and concepts, although structural flaws detract from its usefulness. First, this work needs an index. Writing for nonspecialists, Pas has "tried as much as possible to provide names and titles in English, rather than in Chinese." See references are provided from transliterated Chinese to English, but, in some cases, vice-versa. An index would have minimized the use of see references and allowed for the inclusion of variant forms of transliteration, names/terms included within an entry but for which no separate entry exists, and a grouping of related entries by subject. Second, entries occasionally give citations to supplemental works, but the references are abbreviated, forcing the user to turn to a bibliography at the end of the dictionary for the complete bibliographic citation. This is especially annoying when one finds that the bibliography is divided into subjects, with citations arranged alphabetically by author under each subject heading. Consequently, the user must search for a citation under every subject heading

Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-412)

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