... . xvi, 306 pp. ISBN: 9780295998534 (cloth, also available as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2018  2018 Ying Zhang begins Confucian Image Politics with the history of a joke, namely the witty response of Cheng Hao, the Song dynasty neo-Confucian sage, to his...

...Alfred Kuo-liang Ho Abstract The Grand Council, Chün-chi-ch'u, which functioned mainly as a secretarial and consultative agency to the Emperor, was the most important institution of the Ch'ing Dynasty. The Grand Councilors, Chün-chi Ta-chen, had daily audience with the Emperor to assist him...

...Lawrence D. Kessler Abstract The ch'ing dynasty (1644–1911) was the last and most successful of the dynasties of alien rule in China. “The key to its success,” noted Professor Ping-ti Ho, “was the adoption by early Manchu rulers of a policy of systematic sinicization.” The integration of the Manchu...

... chronology, and requires the substitution for it of the order of events given in the Ming T'ai-tsu shih-lu . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972 1972 Research Notes and Abstracts T H E CHI-SHIH-LU OF Yii P E N : A NOTE ON THE SOURCES FOB THE FOUNDING OF THE MING DYNASTY Edward L...

...David M. Farquhar The Historiography of the Chin Dynasty: Three Studies . By Hok-lam Chan . Wiesbaden : Franz Steiner Verlag , 1970 . vi, 189 pp. Bibliography, n.p. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972 1972 BOOK REVIEWS 391 is common though not universal...

...Chang Te-Ch'ang Abstract This author will attempt to present a preliminary study of the economic aspects of the Imperial Household ( Nei-wu-fu ), which played a unique role during the Chʻing Dynasty in the grand strategy of the Manchu rule over China. The fact that this vital area of Chʻing history...

...Samuel Wright Abstract This paper examines the values that informed the actions of two polities in seventeenth-century Bengal, the Nadia Raj and the Malla dynasty, through a close analysis of their temple inscriptions—a form of royal laudation or praśasti . Focusing on this inscriptional record...

...Woodbridge Bingham Financial Administrations under the T'ang Dynasty . By D. C. Twitchett . Cambridge, England : The University Press , 1963 . xii , 373 . Appendices; Maps. $18.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 298 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Financial...

...Jung-Pang Lo Ming-tai hai-yün chi yün-ho ti yen-chiu (A Study of Transportation by Sea and the Grand Canal in the Ming Dynasty) . By Wu Chi-Hua . Taipei : The Institute of History and Philology, Academica Sinica , 1961 . Special Publication No. 43. 348 . Map. Copyright ©...

... ), were able to contain and suppress these riots by 1353–54 in cooperation with the Yuan bureaucracy. However, when the Yuan Chancellor Toghto was for political reasons cashiered in January 1355, the dynasty lost control of the pacification process. In these circumstances, new leadership emerged from both...

...L. Carrington Goodrich A Study of Chiang-su and Che-chiang Gazetteers of the Ming Dynasty . By Francis D. M. Dow . Canberra : Australian National University , 1969 . 137 pp. Index. Paperback, $3.90. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1970 1970 * Several...

...James Pickett In Remembrance of the Saints: The Rise and Fall of an Inner Asian Sufi Dynasty . By Muḥammad Ṣadiq Kashghari , translated by David Brophy . New York : Columbia University Press , 2020 . xviii, 226 pp. ISBN: 9780231198196 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Fujiya Kawashima The Origins of the Chosŏn Dynasty . By John B. Duncan . Seattle : The University of Washington Press , 2000 . xii, 395 pp. $60.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 886 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES religious experiences...

...W.A.C.H. Dobson 120 Chinese telegraphese. From the Sung dynasty on more and more primary sources have survived, with the result that at least the biographical chapters of dynastic histories are in many cases of no more than secondary and subsidiary source value. For the dynasties from Han to T'ang...

...James F. Cahill The Arts of the Ming Dynasty . Catalog of an exhibition organized by the Arts Council of Great Britain and the Oriental Ceramic Society. London , The Oriental Ceramic Society , 1958 . Distributed in the U. S. by Collings, Inc. iv, 80; 104 plates. $14.00. Copyright ©...

... between China and India of this period are not mentioned. Apart from tiie preface, a brief description of each of the book's eight chapters is as follows: Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1947 1947 Review Article: The Ch'angan of Tang Dynasty and the Civilization of the Western...

...Robert Heine-Geldern Archaeological research in Indo-China. Vol. 1. The district of Chiu-chen during the Han Dynasty; general considerations and plates . By Olov R. T. Janse . Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series, vol. 7 . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1947 . xl, 73 p...

...Lewis A. Maverick Wang An-shih, Chinese statesman and educationalist of the Sung dynasty . By H. R. Williamson . London : Probsthain , 1935 – 1937 . 2 vols. x, 338, viii, 424 p. 60/0. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1941 1941 80 THE FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY...

...E. A. Kracke, Jr 1 Hsiang-lin Lo , “ Ta T'ang ch'uang-yeh ch'i-chü-chu k'ao-chen ” Shih-hsüch chi-k'tm , 2 ( 1936 ), 115 –41. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1941 1941 Thé founding of the T'ang dynasty: the fall of Sui and rise of T'ang...

...Howard S. Levy Ku-tai shih: Yin-tai nu-li-chih she-hui shih [A History of Antiquity: A History of the Slave Society of the Yin Dynasty] . By Wu Tse . Shanghai : Ch'ang-feng shu-tien , 1949 . 641 . 40 yuan. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1956 1956 1 Wu...