...Evan Nicoll-Johnson Abstract In the early fourth century CE, after the escalation of a series of succession disputes among the imperial Sima clan, the Jin dynasty collapsed and its capital city of Luoyang 洛陽 was destroyed. However, the end of the dynasty did not cause the Sima clan to fall from...

... and the government of the Ming dynasty] .” Qingshi luncong , no. 4 : 224 – 239 . Xizu Zhu . 1932 . Hou Jin guohan xingshi kao [Researches on the surname and lineage of the khan of the Later Jin nation]. 1932. Peiping . VOL. 46, No. 4 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES NOVEMBER 1987 Manzhou yuanliu kao...

... in Western languages on the Jurchen and the Jin dynasty only dates from the 1970s, one can still regard the appearance of collected papers such as these as a special blessing. The Jurchen have been something of a stepchild among the alien dynasties of the tenth through the fourteenth centuries. The Khitan...

..., and the nature and histories of the neighboring Liao, Xi Xia, and Jin dynasties. This last is especially welcome, as the “other dynasties” are all too often ignored by Song historians. Their inclusion is particularly evident in Kuhn's first (pre-Song) and fourth (Southern Song) chapters, but also in a number...

...晉南北朝史講演錄 [Lectures on Wei, Jin, and Southern and Northern dynasties] (Anhui: Huangshan shushe, 1987); Xiaofei Tian , Visionary Journeys: Travel Writings from Early Medieval and Nineteenth-Century China ( Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2011 ) . While...

... definitions of state power during the Liao, Jin, and Yuan dynasty. Gernet and Schwartz also stress the importance of the sacred in the Chinese conception of imperial power, a theme linking several of these studies. The religious and ritual elements of imperial power stressed by Michael Loewe and David...

... as a structural element in polyethnic societies, highlighting the differences between Chinese and non-Chinese definitions of state power during the Liao, Jin, and Yuan dynasty. Gernet and Schwartz also stress the importance of the sacred in the Chinese conception of imperial power, a theme linking several...

... with whom the Mongols contended or that entered into a client relationship with them: Jin dynasty, Song dynasty, Xia dynasty, Qara-Khitai, Khorazm, Ismailis, Mamluk Egypt, Burma, Korea, Russia, Vietnam, and so on. In addition, the relations of speci c regions with the Mongol empire are surveyed: Manchuria...

... honor, often expressed through violence and vengeance, structured male behavior in the Han dynasty (206 BCE–220 CE). The third chapter, on the Jin dynasty (265–420 CE), taps into the intersections of religion and masculinity, especially how the introduction of Buddhism in early China confronted...

..., Jin, and Yuan states, face a number of challenges. One is to write the "History of China" during a period when China itself gradually receded before the growing dominance of Inner Asian powers. Herbert Franke puts this aptly in the conclusion to his chapter on the Jin Dynasty when he writes...

... of five texts: the Archetypal Burial Classic of Qing Wu , purportedly from the Han dynasty, but likely a forged work or reconstituted from the following text; the Book of Burial Rooted in Antiquity , a Jin dynasty manual of grave siting; the Yellow Emperor's Classic of House Siting , a Liu Song dynasty...

... rationale; how the module principle was applied to architectural design in the Song, Liao, and Jin dynasties; and what the differences were between the two basic types of structures mentioned in the manual, the tingtang and the diantang . During the past three decades, interest in Chinese architectural...

..., these Turco-Sogdian Shatuo eventually established three of the petty Five Dynasties between the Tang and the Song. With the end of these dynasties, they did not disappear, however. Instead, they converted to Christianity while serving the Kitan Liao and Jurchen Jin dynasties as wardens on the Mongolian...

...), written as a narrative of Justinian's (r. 527–65) wars with the Persians, Vandals, and Goths, and the Jin shu , compiled by a large committee of Tang court officials in 646–48 as a history of the Jin dynasty (266–420) and its relations with the Sixteen Kingdoms (304–439). Procopius was a witness...

... of challenges. One is to write the "History of China" during a period when China itself gradually receded before the growing dominance of Inner Asian powers. Herbert Franke puts this aptly in the conclusion to his chapter on the Jin Dynasty when he writes, "There existed no 'China' as a whole in the twelfth...

... Chinese- and Western-language literature dealing with the interrelationship of warfare, state, and society during the six centuries between the fall of the Western Jin dynasty and the fall of the Tang dynasty" (p. 3). For the most part, it succeeds in achieving this aim. The book's chapters are divided...

... brought Islamic Central Asia within his orbit of control. After his death, the empire flourished, notably under the reign of several empresses (1144–77), it gradually weakened with the rise of the combative Khwarazm Shah in the west and the Jin dynasty in the east, and finally collapsed with the invasion...

..., this leads to their deaths after Zhu's family arranges her marriage to another man. As Cho discusses in chapter 1, the story originated in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, China during the Eastern Jin dynasty (317–420) and circulated widely during the Song dynasty (960–1279), traveled to Korea around the Tang...

.... RICHARD FOLTZ Columbia University Studies on thejurchens and the Chin Dynasty. By H E R B E R T FRANKE and H O K LAM CHAN. Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing Company, 1997. xiv, 374 pp. $107.95. Since significant publication in Western languages on the Jurchen and the Jin dynasty only dates from...

... . Rozman Gilbert . 1973 . Urban Networks in Ch'ing China and Tokugawa Japan . Princeton : Princeton University Press. Sanguo zhi [History of the Three Kingdoms]. Chen Shou (Jin dynasty). Beijing : Zhonghua Shuju . Steinhardt Nancy Schatzman . 1990 . Chinese Imperial City Planning...