Whitlatch, Jo Bell

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Book Review. Companion to Chinese History

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San Jose State UniversitySJSU ScholarWorksFaculty Publications School of Information1-1-1987Book Review. Companion to Chinese HistoryJo Bell WhitlatchSan Jose State University, jobell.whitlatch@sjsu.eduFollow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/slis_pubPart of the Library and Information Science CommonsThis Article is brought to you for free and open access by the School of Information at SJSU ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in FacultyPublications by an authorized administrator of SJSU ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact scholarworks@sjsu.edu.Recommended CitationJo Bell Whitlatch. "Book Review. Companion to Chinese History" Reference Quarterly (1987): 274.274 \VINTER 1987 RQ Baldwin has taken the renJnh of 111 schools that corn pete in the National Colle­giate Athletic Association's Division I·A, and the Ivy League (the latter, officially dasscd as Division I-AA, did no! organize officially untill956) and compiled r~cords against conferences, Division I -A oppo· nents, and others, including so-called small colleges, clubs, and service tcam.s, Schools are listed alphabetically within their conferences; indepcncknt schools are listed alphabetically following the cmJ.lcr­ences .. Each entrY mHncs the school, nick­narn.e, colors, lcH:ation, stadinrn and seat· ing rapacity, first year of football, first year in the conference, and nurn!.:wr ofcon­f'erencc chan1pionsl~ips won. Records show the named school first, e.g., CalifOJ·· nia's record at:ainst Stanford u.nder the Golden Bears' fistingis36-41·10. Eacl1en· try concludes with the total records over­all, within the conference, and in bowl games. At the beginning of each confer­ence section, Bakhvin notes the date it was founded, c!ut.ner members, and any f(n·rner nwtnbers; overall and conference records by teams; the nuntber of times each school has been confereJHX~ champi· ems; and a chronological list of past cha.m· pions. 'fhe appendixes list best Division I-A overall records; best howl game nee· ords; most brnvl game appe<~ranccs; Divi· sion I·A conff~rc:m:e bowl garne records; longest Division I rivalries (Lafayeue and Lehigh ·····l)ivi sion I ·1\A teams-have been meeting for rnore than 120 years); and Division 1-AA tearns, College Football Records does not contain individual achievements, either by players or coaches. Records arc not broken down by year, as they are in Douglas F. Eiler· ston's kfajor College Football Result.>, 1957 to 1981 (Opus Associates, 1982). Perhaps Sporting NtuJS >viii begin issuing guides to college football similar to those for profe:<>· sional footb;lll and basketball. There are some minor errors: the conference Baldwin lists as the Padllc Coast Conie1·· ence is the Pacific Coast Athletic Associa· Lion (theo!d PCC is now the Pacifh> 10); and, although the school now properly' l'f' • s TJ • ' 'k.nown as CAl I .orma" rate " Il!vennty, Los Angeles, was indeed called "Los Angeles State,'' California State Univer1>i t y, Northridge, was never known as ,,. ........ ,, ~"· ~--...,~ ·~ ~ ~·. home in academic and public libraries where there are fans of bi>{·tirne college football. ---Sue Kanan, Rr,(er~na Libraria~r, Library A1anap,cmcnt Systems, Lo;r AngrleJ, Cmnjumion .to C!dnese HislmJ'· By Hugh l B. O'NeilL New York: Facts On File, tHF' 'l(V' . ,,,~' (ir (·I·S'l.) N·t ()· ""' 1c {':JO/, .J;:i/jl. li>L'LJ,) '· H • , ·o/ :J~)· 841-X). LC::: 83-11685. CornfJanion to Chinese Histmy provides bn­si.c infl:1rmation on the most cornmon pop­ular topics for Chintse civilization, from prehistory to the tnid· f 980s. The book is designer! t.o supplnnent beginning Chi-­nese historv texts and to serve as a resource liJr people ;lesiring a quick imroduction 1.0 China. For those w+w want to !cam more, O'Neil! provides references at the end of each of dw articles. These references list many of llw classic Englisl1·language works on ()hinese civilization and permit l he reader to pursue topics in greater depth. Approxitnatdy l ,000 entries a.rc ar­ranged in nlphaJwlical order, frmn Abacus to Zht'iiane. The handbook aLso has a con, siderabt(/ number t'Jf cross,references; however, the lack of a comprehensive in­dex limits the usefulness of rhc work for quick ref(Tence. For example, there are no references from the comnwn English, language translations of the well·known popular novels,, 71w Golden Lotus and All ;tienArt Brothers, to entries under their (;h!­nese names, Chin P'ing Alei and S'fwi flu Clwan. On the plus side, the volume con· tains a number of useful features, includ­ing; chronology of \Vestern corJt.act with C:hina, maps from different hiswrical pe­riods, and inf1xmation on the traditional Chinese calendar, Comparable in purpose to the Compan­ion is the Dimtm;' <!f Chinese lli.rlm}' by 1Vl i­chael Dillon (Cass, 1979), which provides basic coverage of China from prehistoric tirncs to 1977. The handbooks by O'Neill and Dillon cmnplemcnt each other, be· cause each contains a IHHl!b(:r of unique terms. -Jo Btll I<Vhitlatrh, Ass;;ciate Librm)' Director, Acu•ss and Bibfiogmf!/lit Savio?.>, San Jose State Un ivers i(y, Ca!1jinnia. Dictirmm:y qf A rtifidal Intelligence and RobotiCs. ByJeny !VL Rosenberg. New York; Wiley, 1987. 203p. $32.95 (ISBN ..... _. , • .., • "' ' '"' ... .r. '"'" _.,. ..-.~ ~, ... , ~ ,.. .......... <"' 

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