...Sonja Arntzen Mapping Courtship and Kinship in Classical Japan: The Tale of Genji and Its Predecessors . By Doris G. Bargen . Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press , 2015 . xix, 372 pp. ISBN: 9780824851545 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). The Tale of Genji...

...C. Martin Wilbur Abstract President Nixon's visit to China has excited hopes in the United States that a new era of good relations may emerge between our two nations. Five weeks ago China's leaders accorded the President a formally correct but cool reception when he arrived in Peking on “The Spirit...

... understanding of the history of periodization, a problematic yet essential practice that concerns every historian. history of periodization Spring and Autumn period (Chunqiu) classical reception Confucius (Kongzi) Wang Mang The Spring and Autumn period (Chunqiu 春秋; 722–481 BCE) is unique in Chinese...

...Xin Fan Plato Goes to China touches on some significant questions in reception studies, intellectual history, and political theory. As an ambitious work of cross-cultural studies, it transcends the traditionally defined disciplinary boundaries. From a Western classical studies background...

... formation, particularly as it relates to the emergence of linguistic and cultural nationalism. To this end, the essays explore the history of scholarly reception of texts that have been established as classics, as repositories of the Japanese tradition, with an emphasis on the modern invention of national...

... or rumors thereof. The book's first part provides a broad contextual framework through chapters discussing possible similarities between Baudelaire's verse and a number of Classical Chinese poets, providing an overview of Baudelaire's reception by Chinese literary writers, and then recounting the history...

..., around the reception of reference cultures in those traditions. All of which is to say that this is an exciting and promising investigation of a topic in which interest is long overdue: it deserves to be read widely in a variety of disciplines, and to inspire further study in the area. Denecke...

... policy leads them to resist efforts by their leaders to take a more active role on the international stage. Kent Calder, in a short chapter, points to "domestic structural constraints" that prevent Japan from playing a classical hegemonic role: the fragmented character of state authority...

... author belabors this already well-documented problem. Studies deconstructing and historicizing the Japanese national literary canon have revealed it to be a product of the middle to late Meiji state. 1 Though the Classical Chinese canon, as a literary context, was essential to the work of such early...

... then may be more appropriate for the vernacular renditions of the Confucian classics. If the SGHST indeed became a “manual for the illiterate in times of ethical challenges” (p. 10), ascertaining the illiterates' reception of moral messages or how they appropriated them is difficult using discussions...

... application of historically contextualized readings a partial "reception history" of Senshi's work. J O S H U A S. M O S T O W The University of British Columbia Die Entstehung des Kabuki. By T H O M A S F . LEIMS. Leiden, New York, K0benhavn, Kbln: E. J. Brill, 1990. vii, 364 pp. A large proportion...

... in translation; rather the selection is made by a panel of Korean literary critics (literary critic, or munhak p'yŏngnon'ga , is the conventional designation for Korean scholars of Korean literature). The implications of this process for the reception of the published English translations should be obvious...

... for perseverance, rather than despondency. It is a classic Confucianist strategy in biographical narrative, that of inspiration and persuasion through moral example. And, Phan's is not the only fallen chariot described; he eulogizes many fallen comrades. In so doing, he builds a cult of saints for his dreamed...

... of the theoretical ambivalence at the heart of its methodologies. Her essay thus calls attention to one of the crucial problems in working between invention and reception. Problems arise when theoretical ambivalence encourages a kind of balancing act between an account of reception and invention, between tradition...

... a deficiency in recent Nietzsche scholarship, which has been inattentive both to the influence of Asian (almost exclusively Indian) thought upon Nietzsche and to the problematic reception of Nietzsche's thought in Asia (principally China and Japan). Thus, several of the essays are devoted to an attempt...

... of Asian (almost exclusively Indian) thought upon Nietzsche and to the problematic reception of Nietzsche's thought in Asia (principally China and Japan). Thus, several of the essays are devoted to an attempt to gauge the extent of the "influence" (that most hoary of a certain intellectual historiography's...

... Mani Kaul's controversial 1969 Hindi film Uski rotj, which is based on the 1968 revised version of Mohan Rakes"s short story of the same title. Annie Montaut studies Jainendra Kumar's short, classic, 1937 Hindi novel Tydgpatra, first with narratology, which proves weak here, and then by means...

...Christian Lee Novetzke Indian Literature and Popular Cinema: Recasting Classics . Edited by Heidi R. M. Pauwels . New York : Routledge , 2007 . xvi , 259 pp. $160.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2008 2008 Pauwels delivers editorial wizardry...

... The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 908 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES view of brahmanic attitudes. Feminist critiques of classical Hinduism have unequivocally asserted that Hinduism, framed in the context of the great divide that exists between the exalted image of the divine feminine and her...

... are transformed in reception. More interesting is J. Thomas Rimer's account of the postwar theater of Senda Koreya. He shows how Senda's preference for staging older or classic French plays was not a simple time lag but a matter of aesthetic and political choices, which had an impact on later theater. What...