...Benno Weiner When the Iron Bird Flies: China's Secret War in Tibet . By Jianglin Li . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2022 . xxi, 550 pp. ISBN: 9781503615090 . © 2023 Association for Asian Studies 2023 Jianglin Li's When the Iron Bird Flies is an exhaustive...

... world in general. University of Chicago TANG TSOU The Vermilion Bird: Tang Images of the South. BY EDWARD H. SCHAFER. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1967. vii, 380 pp. Index, Glossaries, Bibliography, Notes, List of Plates, Dates at which Chinese Dynasties began, Years...

...Margaret Y. K. Woo Bird in a Cage: Legal Reforms in China After Mao . By Stanley B. Lubman . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1999 . 447 pp. $65.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 841 range of the natural sciences...

.... : University of Chicago Press , 1980 ). VOL. XL, No. 1 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES NOVEMBER 1980 Minerva and the Crane (Tsuru): Birds of a Feather? Comparative Research and Japanese Political Change A Review Article ROGER BENJAMIN To understand the contributions of recent work on Japanese politics...

...Allen Bird BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 215 X efficiency, the efficiency derived from Japanese employees working harder and smarter than their foreign counterparts. Dore is right that Japan is relatively egalitarian as to the salary gap between factory workers and CEOs and that this provides a feeling...

... for the South Manchuria Railway. Actually, this mild-mannered little man had come to China as the representative of the Itsuyūkai , a secret organization whose aim was the achievement of peace in the “year of the bird” – 1945. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1949 1949 * Dr. Fishel...

... of the soil (Tai Chia-hsiang 1986); the role of sun, bird, and other totems in Neolithic and Shang belief (Hu Hou-hsüan 1977; Allan 1981; Tu Chin-p'eng 1992; Wu Hung 1985; Paper 1986; Ch'ien Chihch'iang 1988; Juyü 1991; Wang Chi-huai 1992; Xiong Chuanxin 1992; Chang Teshui 1993; Chang Wen 1994; Wang Lu-ch'ang...

... and bird pests (Terwiel 1989), settlers struggled successfully to make these deltas highly productive centers of rice and other agriculture. Such struggles, which were until very recently confidently labeled as “Man's Conquest of Nature,” used to be seen as representing Progress with a capital P...

...Shiro Yoshioka Abstract As a research subject, Japanese animation or anime is like a nue , an imaginary Japanese bird that has the head of an ape, the torso of a raccoon, the tail of a snake, and the limbs of a tiger. Depending on the perspective from which you are looking at it, and what you want...

...Kodai Abe Abstract This article shows how Murakami Haruki's novel The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994–95) constructs a historical narrative to overcome the victim/perpetrator dichotomy and demands ethical response from readers. Drawing on Marianne Hirsch's term postmemory , the author analyzes...

... or recent times in Melanesia and artifacts from the ancient bronze-age art of the Far East. 26 The custom of suspending the tjidako with its four-bird oiale from the highest point in the club-house of the secret society in Ceram, and the custom of suspending the Chinese mirror in the same way from...

... in sight any longer. To protect their cherished birds from the heat, most pigeon flyers selected early morning and late afternoon, which were relatively cooler times to fly dari pigeons on their routine, circular flight. However, some pigeon flyers awaited with enthusiasm for the last week of May when...

... is a fascinating and timely ethnography on bird flu prevention in East Asia. The author, Frédéric Keck, has taken a unique approach to the field of global health that is rich with theoretical insights and fresh methods. He also enriches our understanding of how global health concerns have shaped relations between...

... complicated and nuanced power dynamics between the vassal and the lord. Part two turns its focus to the Bronze Bird Terrace, a famous historical site that has inspired countless literary compositions. In the third chapter, Tian examines an alternative southern perspective on the Wei and the Three Kingdoms...

... Bird. London : Pacific Basin Books . Beahan Charlotte . 1975 . “ Feminism and Nationalism in the Chinese Women's Press , 1902–11.” Modern China 1 ( 4 ): 379 – 416 . Bird Isabella . 1880 /1984. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan . Repr. Boston : Beacon Press . Bird Isabella . 1897...

... values and the quality of the translations would put them at a disadvantage in the overseas book market. 2 It is perhaps for these reasons that when O Chŏng-hŭi's Sae (reviewed here in its translation, The Bird ) was first published in 1996 by Munhak kwa chisŏng sa, it was labeled sosŏl...

... : Lowell . Bandaranaike , S. D. 1929 . Remembered Yesterdays, Being the Reminiscences of Maha Mudaliyar Sir Solomon Dias Bandaranaike, K. C. M. G. London : John Murray . Bates , R. S. P. 1931 . Bird Life in India . Bombay : Bombay Natural History Society . Beinart...

...] Japan PAINTINC. 14th century; Amida Nyorai walking on clouds; color on silk; H. 3814", W. 19". [1949.95] Korea CERAMICS. Koryu; celadon bowl with floral design; H. 27/8", D. 1 [1949.131] Koryu; celadon bowl with three incised birds; H. 3", D. 7". [1949.132] CHICAGO, ILLINOIS: THE ART INSTITUTE...

..., the animal skins he collected, the description of bird behavior he recorded when ornithological science of his day was still focused on nomenclature and classi cation, the drawings of architec- 438 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T U D I E S tural monuments he commissioned and the descriptions he...