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..., 1992 . 208 pp. $20.00. Chinese Almanacs . By Richard J. Smith . Hong Kong : Oxford University Press , 1992 . x, 93 pp. $16.95. Mooncakes and Hungry Ghosts: Festivals of China . By Carol Stepanchuk and Charles Wong . San Francisco : China Books and Periodicals , 1991 . xiv...

...Cho-yun Hsu Yun-meng Ch'in-chien jih-shu yen-chiu . [Studies on the Ch'in Almanac of Chronomancy Discovered at Yun-meng]. By Jao Tsung-i and Tseng Hsien-t'ung . Hong Kong : Chinese University Press (Research Center of Chinese Archaeology and Arts Monograph Series, no. 3), 1983 . ii, 99...

... ASIA 989 Smith's interpretation is generally clear and admirable. He underscores the close relationship between almanacs and politics and is particularly sensitive to the constant tension throughout Chinese history between state officials, who proclaimed a monopoly on astrological and calendrical...

.... Chapters 1–3 deal with the calendar, including the reckoning of the day, month, and intercalary month; the positions of the five planets (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn); and calculations concerning eclipses. Chapter 4 touches on the almanac and divination techniques. Chapter 5 sets out...

... of almanacs and popular encyclopedias as determinators of daily life events among the Chinese village population. In the first sections of Carpentry and Building in Late Imperial China, the profound impact of time and place of construction as prescribed by almanacs, calendars, or their human equivalents...

..." for the date of tzu, "closed" for that oichou, "construct" for that ofyin, "cancellation" for that ofmao, and so on. Activities appropriate for each of these dates were then given in the almanac. Such a practice survives in the folk almanacs issued today in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Among the discoveries found...

...Nabaparna Ghosh Bhattacharyya suggests “almanac forms of reading space” (p. 15). Almanacs, registers of vernacular knowledge, record tidal tables and seasonal inundations, highlighting the temporal nature of land-water connections that state archives wished to erase. Additionally, the book...

... . Berkeley: Publications of the Chinese Popular Culture Project 2. Distributed by IEAS Publications, 2223 Fulton St., Berkeley, Calif. 94720, 1992. 208 pp. $20.00. Chinese Almanacs. By R I C H A R D J . S M I T H . Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1992. x, 93 pp. $16.95. Mooncakes and Hungry Ghosts...

...]. Tokyo : Yūseidō . Hayashi Rokurō . 1993 . “Shōsōin komonjo-chū no guchū-reki” [Almanacs from the Shōsōin Collection of Ancient Documents]. In vol. 1 of Kokiroku to nikki [Ancient Records and Diaries], ed. Yamanaka Yutaka . Kyoto : Shinbunkaku . Ishihara Shōhel . 1971 . “Nikki...

... the very core of religious beliefs and practices shared by both commoners and the elites of early China. Textual records of mantic techniques as well as the recently excavated almanacs and "tomb quelling texts" (discussed in chapters 3, 4, and 7) perfectly reflect this basic optimism. Much in the spirit...

... sections on Greater Indian, Iranian, and "other allied extra-Indian studies." Asian Almanac, a weekly abstract of Asian The Religious Policy of the Mughal Emperors. By SRI affairs, began publication July 1, 1963, at 2-J RAM SHARMA. New York: Asia Publishing House, 1962 (2d. ed.) ix, 206. (no price...

... background and her concluding comments are articles by David Johnson on communication, class, and consciousness; James Hayes on specialists (geomancers, charm-writers, fortunetellers, and letter-writers) and written materials (genealogies, almanacs, etc.) in the village world; Robert Hegel on levels...

...? It is a traditional Chinese encyclopedia (including its political orthodoxy) in that it is formed largely from selections from other almanacs, yearbooks, and statistical compilations already available. Specialists will want to turn to more specialized studies or to the Chinese-language almanacs on such topics...

... of the educated hand that composed it. The mantic calculations of calendars and almanacs instantiate the cosmic patterns whose baleful and bene cent in uences over liminal times and spaces affect the fate of the groom and the bride. Legal verdicts recon gure local wedding practices and marital ties according...

... and remuneration for personnel who have had their rightist labels removed]. Pp. 137 –38 in Planning Commission, 1973. Almanac China . 1980 . Zhongguo Baike Nianjian 1980 [China almanac 1980] . Beijing : Zhongguo Da Baike Quanshu Chubanshe . Almanac China . 1981 . Zhongguo Baike Nianjian 1981...

... and Taoist sources, to which is added an emplification; the Nui Yeh, a tract on mysticism in the Taoist manner; the Hsin Shu, both shang and hsia are also included; the Yu Kuan, which is the text of an almanac at one time appended to a chart; the Ping Fa, a treatise on the art of war; and the Ti T'u...

..., it combines the Indian and Chinese systems, and at other times, it switches between these two. Its further complexity is caused by traces of Uygur calendrical systems, which made their way into Mongolian almanacs of the Yuan dynasty, and by the inclusion of the Tibetan twelve-animal cycle. In terms of its...

... of a few characters, or even hundreds of characters within a particular genre (such as account books or almanacs) did not mean that a reader could “read” novels, or introductions to the classics, or even ritual handbooks, whose vocabulary was completely different. Sibao books targeting local cultures...

... textual analyses. Over four chapters, he explores (1) ritual manuals; (2) wedding correspondence and nuptial songs; (3) calendars, almanacs, miracle tales, and medical texts; and (4) legal codes and contracts. In chapter 1, De Pee focuses on a debate between practical accommodation and classical...

..., longer and more ambitious in scope, is a vast accumulation of facts chosen on the basis of an inscrutable criterion. In both cases, the treatment of many topics is most cursory, providing little more information than the World almanac. The excuse is undoubtedly lack of space, which suggests the second...