... to say that a certain thing happened in a certain way at a certain time in the past, in case adequate data have been procured and critically handled. But the statement ‘It actually happened in this way,’ has its status and significance within the scope and perspective of historical writing.” 41...

...John W. Lewis Socialism and War; A Survey of Chinese Criticism of the Policy of Coexistence . By Edvard Kardelj . Translated by Alec Brown . New York : McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. , 1963 . 238 . $4.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 468 JOURNAL...

...Clifton W. Royston Abstract Japanese poetry has for a long time been credited with truly miraculous powers of concision, suggestion, and philosophical insight by some of its Western admirers. Other Westerners, from Chamberlain and Aston on, have been less charmed, and have criticized the classical...

.... [Javanese textual criticism: An overview and a new approach, illustrated with the Kunjarakarna] . By W. Van Der Molen . Dordrecht : Foris Publications Holland , 1983 . (Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde.) Bibliography, Index, ix, 316 pp. N.p. (paper...

...I-Fan Ch'eng Dissent in Early Modern China: Ju-lin wai-shih and Ch'ing Social Criticism . By Paul S. Ropp . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, Michigan Studies on China , 1981 . x, 356 pp. Abbreviations, Notes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $24. Copyright © Association...

...James J. Y. Liu Wang Kuo-wei's Jen-chien Tz'u-bua: A Study in Chinese Literary Criticism . Translated with an introduction by Adele Austin Rickett . Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press , 1977 . xv, 133 pp. Bibliography, Index. N.p.l. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...C. H. Wang Abstract The philosophical reflections on literary art produced in traditional China cannot be accurately described as literary criticism or literary theory. A scholar or writer set forth his ideas about the nature of literature in general, the value and function of imaginative writing...

...Tracy Pintchman Political Theory and Feminist Social Criticism . By Brooke Ackerly . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2000 . xii, 234 pp. $54.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 Book Reviews ASIA: COMPARATIVE...

...Martha Ann Selby 1288 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES a fine translation of a commentary by the guru-scholar Bhaskaraya (c. 1728-50) upon the pithy Tripurd Upanisad. Overall, Brooks has combined good critical scholarship with a guided tour of a venerable and profound Tantric masterpiece. Ritual...

...Steven G. Yao Configurations of Comparative Poetics: Three Perspectives on Western and Chinese Literary Criticism . By Zong-qi Cai . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2002 . xii, 360 pp. $54.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 BOOK...

...Liangyan Ge Abstract Until very recently, much of the literary scholarship on the eighteenth-century Chinese novel Honglou meng ( The Story of the Stone or Dream of the Red Chamber ) was centered on what was seen as the autobiographical nature of the work. Critics of the novel, especially those...

... (p. 27) to a police arrest in 2010 (p. 28) to the Labor Law in 2012 (p. 29). This Billy Pilgrim time-leaping obscures critical longitudinal trends for readers. Have protests increased in their frequency and scale? Has the regime become more responsive over time? It is difficult to get a sense...

...Michael A. Fuller Poems on Poetry: Literary Criticism by Yüan Hao-wen (1190–1257) . By John Timothy Wixted . Calligraphy by Eugenia Y. Tu. Münchener Ostasiatische Studien, b. 33. Wiesbaden, West Germany : Franz Steiner Verlag , 1982 . xvi , 482 pp. Copyright © The Association...

...Peter Dale Scott The International Critic: The Impact of Swedish Criticism of the U.S. Involvement in Vietnam . By Lars-Goran Stenelo . Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press , 1986 . 194 pp. Abbreviations, References, Sources, Interviews, Index. $29.50 (cloth). Copyright © The Association...

...Richard John Lynn Harmony Garden: The Life, Literary Criticism, and Poetry of Yuan Mei (1716–1798) . By J. D. Schmidt . London : RoutledgeCurzon , 2003 . xxii, 758 pp. $75.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 B O O K R E V I E W S C H I N A 779 work...

...Wallace Jackson English Criticism in Japan: Essays by Younger Japanese Scholars on English and American Literature . Edited with Introduction by Earl Miner . Tokyo : University of Tokyo Press , 1973 . ix, 306 pp. $15.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1974 1974...

..., 1962, when he died in Taipei. Among them, his articles published in Jen-ch'üan lun-chi (Essays on Human Rights), (Shanghai: Hsin Yueh Book Co., 1931 ) , his writings in Tu-li ping-lun (The Independent Critic) between 1932–1937, and his discussion on liberalism in the small pamphlet entitled Wo...

...Shuyu Kong Postsocialist Modernity: Chinese Cinema, Literature, and Criticism in the Market Age . By Jason McGrath . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 2008 . xii , 300 pp. $60.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009...

... father faded from the central role, the prince's behavior seemed more “extravagant, self-indulgent and idiosyncratic” (p. 125). The lèse-majesté law was increasingly used to suppress not just criticism of the monarchy but also news of his life. After the succession in 2016, the new king increased his...