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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (1): 99–112.
Published: 01 February 2021
... dynastic histories of the Jin as well as anecdote collections, anthologies of biographical material, and a host of other sources on the margins of historiography and storytelling. The early Tang historiographer Liu Zhiji 劉知幾 (661–721) was among the first to critique the Jinshu for relying on unreliable...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1953) 13 (1): 49–62.
Published: 01 November 1953
... of the Ssu-k'u ch'üan-shu tsung-mu . See chüan 57, prefatory note to the biographical section. 2 Despite the divergence in modem readings and meanings, there is no doubt that the word pieh was used in this stronger, distinctive sense as an attributive adjective by even the early T'ang writers...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1977) 36 (4): 760–761.
Published: 01 August 1977
... treasure. ROBERT EPP University of California, Los Angeles Biographical Dictionary of Japanese Literature. BY SEN'ICHI HISAMATSU. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1976. 437 pp. Glossary, Bibliography, Index. S29.50 The volume under review consists of the dictionary proper, preceded by an introduction...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1972) 32 (1): 226–227.
Published: 01 November 1972
... An Oriental Biographical Dictionary . By Thomas William Beale . Revised By Henry George Keene. Dehli : Manohar Reprints , 1971 . vii , 431 pp. $12.50. (Distributed by South Asia Books, Columbia, Mo.) Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972 1972 226 JOURNAL...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1980) 40 (1): 204–208.
Published: 01 November 1980
...: Seven Papers . By Leo Suryadinata . Singapore : Chopman Enterprises , 1978 . 175 pp. Glossary, Index. No price (cloth). Eminent Indonesian Chinese: Biographical Sketches . By Leo Suryadinata . Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies , 1978 . iv, 230 pp. Abbreviations, Glossary...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1981) 40 (3): 645–647.
Published: 01 May 1981
... by JAMES A. HAFNER and JOEL M. HALPERN. Amherst: University of Massachusetts at Amherst, International Area Studies Program, 1978. vi, 47 pp. N.p. The Old Man: A Biographical Account of a Lao Villager. By FRED BRANFMAN. Edited with an Introduction by JOEL M. HALPERN and JAMES A. HAFNER. Amherst: University...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1979) 39 (1): 182–183.
Published: 01 November 1979
...Byron K. Marshall Biographical Dictionary of Japanese History . By Seiichi Iwai , supervising editor. Burton Watson , translator. Tokyo, New York, and San Francisco : Kodansha International Ltd. , 1978 . 655 pp. Appendixes, Maps, Bibliography, Index. $39.50. Dictionnaire...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (1): 250–252.
Published: 01 February 2005
...Jean Gelman Taylor Minorities, Modernity, and the Emerging Nation: Christians in Indonesia; a Biographical Approach . By Gerry van Klinken . Leiden : KITLV Press , 2003 . 285 pp. $35.00 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 250 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (4): 1197–1199.
Published: 01 November 1999
...Steve Lansing Biographical Objects: How Things Tell the Stories of People's Lives . By Janet Hoskins . New York : Routledge , 1998 . $70.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 1197 and his mismanagement...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1962) 21 (4): 453–455.
Published: 01 August 1962
... position, a position shaped both by the forms and purposes of Chinese historical writing and by the fabric of Chinese society. The papers of this symposium, presented originally at the 1961 annual meeting of the American Historical Association, offer a preliminary assessment of the place of biographical...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1962) 21 (4): 465–475.
Published: 01 August 1962
...Richard C. Howard Abstract “Biography,” in the words of Hu Shih, “is the least developed branch of Chinese literature.” This statement would, at first sight, seem to have little justification when we take into account the enormous quantity and wide variety of Chinese biographical literature...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1962) 21 (4): 553–554.
Published: 01 August 1962
...Marius B. Jansen Japanese Studies on Japan and the Far East. A Short Biographical and Bibliographical Introduction . By S. Y. Teng . Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press , 1961 . x, 485 . Appendix, Index, $12.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1962 1962 BOOK...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (1): 229–235.
Published: 01 February 2016
... , 2013 . 269 pp. ISBN 9781932476668 (cloth). The Yogin and the Madman: Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet's Great Saint Milarepa . By Andrew Quintman . New York : Columbia University Press , 2013 . xi, 314 pp. ISBN 9780231164146 (cloth). Love and Liberation: Autobiographical...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1972) 31 (2): 405–407.
Published: 01 February 1972
...Chün-tu Hsüeh Biographic Dictionary of Chinese Communism 1921–1965 . By Donald W. Klein and Anne B. Clark . Vols. I and II . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1971 . xvi, 1194 pp. $30.00 for the two volumes. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972 1972...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1957) 16 (4): 503–527.
Published: 01 August 1957
..., individual, or generation can accomplish. But the undertaking nevertheless seems necessary today, when we can no longer be satisfied with the older extremes of Victorian condescension towards “Japanese epigrams”; the exclusively historical or biographical treatment which evades direct analysis of the poetry...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (3): 619–640.
Published: 01 August 2014
... different complete translations of the Qur'ān into Japanese, however, amply bespeaks a genuinely religious interest in Islam, an impression that is corroborated by a look at the sociopolitical contexts of the translations and the biographical backgrounds of the translators. While explicitly anti-modern...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1971) 30 (2): 281–314.
Published: 01 February 1971
.... The article is based on an extensive analysis of biographical information contained in chronicles, dynastic histories, records of conduct, and funerary inscriptions, as well as extant copies of examination questions and answers and edicts of appointment contained in the collected papers of Nordiern Sung...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1984) 43 (4): 631–665.
Published: 01 August 1984
... often situational and not always mutually exclusive, they were associated in contemporaries' eyes with distinct aesthetic tastes, specific philosophical positions, and particular political commitments. This essay attempts to identify those distinctions in the biographical trajectories of several eminent...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (4): 1051–1084.
Published: 01 November 2001
..., but it remained basically undocumented and unknown to the outside world until the 1980s, just as it was becoming extinct. Prior to Liberation, Jiangyong women had used nüshu to write sisterhood letters, biographic laments, wedding literature, folk stories, and other narratives in verse form. Combined with nüge...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1942) 1 (4): 337–347.
Published: 01 August 1942
... which in 1868 overthrew the Shogunate and restored the Imperial authority. “If we are going to speak of the Restoration,” Mr. Iichiro Tokutomi points out in his biographical study, “we must necessarily speak of Yoshida Shōin. Just as a mother may die in giving birth to her child, but the child lives...