Others, however, had for their first ancestor a local deity long worshipped in the family's home country, such as the ancient agrarian god Huang Ti, or the bovine god Shen Nung.

Of the traditional four "classes" of Chinese society, only the first two, officials (shih) and farmers (nung) were always regarded as fully "respectable" (liang-min).

Chapter Nine p. 195: Many Chinese and Japanese authors have a new period begin with the early (Ch'ien Mu) or the late tenth century (T'ao Hsi-sheng, Li Chien-nung), while others prefer a cut already in the Middle of the T'ang Dynasty (Teng Ch'u-min, Naito Torajiro).

I have used mainly Li Chien-nung and articles in Li-shih yen-chiu 1955, No. 3 and in Mem.

On labour legislation in early modern times I used Ko Ch'ang-chi and especially Li Chien-nung, also my own studies.

The problem of "vagrants" has been taken up by Li Chien-nung who always refers to the original sources and to modern Chinese research.

Li Chien-nung also deals extensively with investments in industry and agriculture.

For porcelain production Li Chien-nung and other modern articles.

Chapter Ten p. 233: I use here mainly Meng Ssu-liang, but also others, such as Chü Ch'ing-yüan and Li Chien-nung.

On the progress of agriculture wrote Li Chien-nung and also Kat[=o]

On indented labour see Li Chien-nung, H. Iwami and Y. Yamane.

The political history of the time, as seen by a Chinese scholar, is found in Li Chien-nung, The Political History of China 1840-1928, Princeton 1956.For the social history of this period see Chang Chung-li, The Chinese Gentry, Seattle 1955.For the history of Tz[)u]

One night a slave woke up, and heard a "tsi-tsi-nung-nung" and a "tsia-tsia" coming from within, and then quick breathing.

One night a slave woke up, and heard a "tsi-tsi-nung-nung" and a "tsia-tsia" coming from within, and then quick breathing.