...Kai-Yu Hsu Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968 1968 A Little Primer of Tu Fu . By David Hawkes . Oxford : Clarendon , 1967 . xii, 243 pp. Index, Vocabulary. $8.00. An Anthology of Chinese Verse—Han, Wei, Chin and the Northern and Southern Dynasties...

... merely reforming the economy and education system to create more wealth and thus postponing the subordination of that center to the people's sovereignty. RAMON H. MYERS Hoover Institution The Poetics of Decadence: Chinese Poetry of the Southern Dynasties and Late Tang Periods. By FUSHENG W u . Albany...

...: Southern Song Dynasty Poetry and the Problem of Literary History . By Michael A. Fuller . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2013 . xi, 538 pp. $59.95 (cloth). ...

..., the usurpation of Northern Chou by the founder of the Sui dynasty, and Sui's destruction of the last of the Southern Dynasties to unify all of China and usher in the era of Tʻang. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1969 1969 2 CS 18, PS 62. 3 Tou Tʻai's biography...

... Grafflin's contribution brings together modern social anthropology and Japanese sinology in studying a superelite group in the Southern Dynasties, whose members deviated from the standard tracks of promotion in their rise to power. They came to control a nonbureaucratic officialdom. However, more research...

... Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 Communications to the Editor To THE EDITOR: This letter is submitted in response to Paul Rouzer's review of my book, The Poetics of Decadence: Chinese Poetry of the Southern Dynasties and Late Tang Periods, published in the August...

... China faced ethnic others both outside and inside. To the north, there was the Northern Wei dynasty founded by the Tabghatch clan; the south was widely populated by non-Han ethnic groups, referred to as the Man 蠻 (“southern barbarians”). According to Xiao Zixian 蕭子顯 (483–537), the compiler...

... the different direction that Chinese poetics took from the Tang dynasty onwards, this task is not an easy one and involves a good bit of creative speculation and sensitivity to the vocabulary and argumentation of the writers involved. I suspect that if Goh had attempted a more ambitious overview of Southern...

... Grafflin's contribution brings together modern social anthropology and Japanese sinology in studying a superelite group in the Southern Dynasties, whose members deviated from the standard tracks of promotion in their rise to power. They came to control a nonbureaucratic officialdom. However, more research...

..., there is no work of history dedicated to documenting the ensuing exodus from Luoyang to Jiankang. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2021 2021 biography divination Guo Pu Jin dynasty Jinshu migration Shishuo xinyu Soushen ji zhiguai Southern Dynasties In the early...

... sinologists as Henri Maspero, Etienne Balazs, Paul Demieville, and Jacques Gernet. Kawakatsu's main area of scholarly interest was the medieval period, especially the Southern Dynasties, on which he published widely. In 1970, his Medieval Chinese History Study Group, organized with Tanigawa Michio, published...

... of early medieval studies, especially early medieval poetry. The author has made it possible to take this period seriously and to make consideration of its legacy necessary to an accurate understanding of the literary cultures of the Southern dynasties and the Tang. If this work has any limitations, I...

... to chronology. Part 1, entitled "Self in Poetry and Criticism," consists of three essays: Anne M. Birrell's "The Dusty Mirror: Courtly Portraits of Woman in Southern Dynasties Love Poetry," Frances LaFleur Mochida's "Structuring a Second Creation: Evolution of the Self in Imaginary Landscapes," and Jonathan...

... of the emigres from the North. Mather, drawing on the Shi shuo xin yu, examines the question of marriage alliances in the Southern Dynasties. Whalen Lai, Jennifer Holmgren, and Albert Dien each write a chapter on a specific aspect of the North during the Six Dynasties period. Whalen Lai reexamines the Luoyang...

... the more knowledgeable reader. The freshman, for instance, will read not of the group but of a man Toba Wei (p. 22); not that Luoyang qielan ji is a text of the Northern and Southern dynasties, written about the city of Luoyang, but that it can be used to inform its readers about Song architecture...

... to a certain extent from the rest of the population, and keep their own language and customs”? 17 Or were they segregated because of outside pressure? In the case of the Northern Wei dynasty, the answer to the last question is yes. Indeed, throughout the dynasty, the Northern Wei restricted the southern...

... the southern dynasties of Qi and Liang, when poets, through intimate contact with Buddhists, were most sophisticated in phonology. Even after the reunification of China during the Sui Dynasty, the Qi-Liang tradition maintained its prestige into the beginning years of the Tang Dynasty. Pulleyblank, however...

... ASIA 389 the Qieyun does not represent the spoken language of that place and time. Rather, it is a codification of the rhyming practice followed during the southern dynasties of Qi and Liang, when poets, through intimate contact with Buddhists, were most sophisticated in phonology. Even after...

... of Chinese Verse Han, Wei, Chin and the Northern and Southern Dynasties. BY J. D. FRODSHAM AND CH'ENG HSI (TRANSLATORS). Oxford: Clarendon, 1967. xxxix, 198 pp. Table of Dynasties, Abbreviations of titles of works cited, Footnotes. $7.00. A Little Primer of Tu Fu. BY DAVID HAWKES. Oxford: Clarendon, 1967...

... knowledge and understanding of the natural and human worlds. The book structures its own analysis around four metageographies: ecumenical regionalism, northern and southern dynasties, the hydrocultural landscape, and the Indo-Sinitic bipolar worldview. Metageographies highlighted the importance...