...Meow Hui Goh Interpretation and Literature in Early Medieval China . Edited by Alan K. L. Chan and Yuet-Keung Lo . Albany : State University of New York Press , 2010 . vi, 288 pp. $80.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Philosophy and Religion in Early Medieval China . Edited by Alan K...

...Arthur F. Wright The Buddhist Conquest of China: The Spread and Adaptation of Buddhism in Early Medieval China . By E. Zürcher . Leiden : E. J. Brill , 1959 . Volume I : Text, xii, 320. Volume II: Notes, Bibliography, Indices. 321 – 468 . Gld. 58.— Copyright © The Association...

... accessibility to nonspecialists. Wendy Swartz's introduction (pp. 1–10) synopsizes conditions under North China's foreign governments and native dynasties south of the Yangzi, and explains the volume's arrangement around themes that capture the “complexities of the early medieval period” and the “cross...

...Sujane Wu Letters and Epistolary Culture in Early Medieval China . By Antje Richter . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2013 . x, 235 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $30.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015  2015 Antje Richter's Letters...

...Masha Kobzeva Structures of the Earth: Metageographies of Early Medieval China . By Jonathan D. Felt . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2021 . x, 391 pp. ISBN: 9780674251168 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 Jonathan D...

...Kay Duffy As Swartz informs the reader in the first chapter, the focus of this study is not on the material or embodied facets of reading and writing in early medieval China. Rather, this book seeks to examine “how texts were interpreted and appropriated” (p. 9) through close readings of texts...

...Jennifer W. Jay Patterns of Disengagement: The Practice and Portrayal of Reclusion in Early Medieval China . By Alan J. Berkowitz . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 2000 . xii, 296 pp. $55.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 1334...

... of the book, which is to delineate the “generic features and conventions of panegyric poetry in the Chinese tradition” (p. 10). Through Wu's analysis and narration, the reader is gradually and firmly drawn into the richness and pageantry of panegyric verse in early medieval China. In this informed...

...Victor Cunrui Xiong State and Society in Early Medieval China . Edited by Albert E. Dien . Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press , 1990 . Distributed in the U.S. by Stanford University Press, viii , 414 pp. $39.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992...

...Rania Huntington Strange Writing: Anomaly Accounts in Early Medieval China . By Robert Ford Campany . Albany : State University of New York Press , 1996 . xii, 524 pp. $74.50 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA...

...晉南北朝史講演錄 [Lectures on Wei, Jin, and Southern and Northern dynasties] (Anhui: Huangshan shushe, 1987); Xiaofei Tian , Visionary Journeys: Travel Writings from Early Medieval and Nineteenth-Century China ( Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2011 ) . While...

...). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 Making Transcendents: Ascetics and Social Memory in Early Medieval China . By Robert Ford Campany . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2009 . xviii , 300 pp. $48.00 (cloth). ...

...Xiaoshan Yang Lore and Verse: Poems on History in Early Medieval China . By Yue Zhang . Albany : State University of New York Press , 2022 . xv, 223 pp. ISBN: 9781438486918 . © 2023 Association for Asian Studies 2023 Yue Zhang's informative and cogent study of the subgenre...

... delineated. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 The Landscape of Words: Stone Inscriptions from Early and Medieval China . By Robert E. Harrist Jr. Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2008 . xxvii, 397 pp. $60.00 (cloth). ...

...Marion Eggert Visionary Journeys: Travel Writings from Early Medieval and Nineteenth-Century China . By Xiaofei Tian . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2012 . xii, 381 pp. $39.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013 2013 It has...

...Michal Biran Food and Environment in Early and Medieval China . By Eugene N. Anderson . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2014 . xi, 338 pp. ISBN: 9780812246384 (cloth; also available as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2016...

... and culture in the twenty-first century. The issue also includes a forum titled “Migration in Early Medieval China.” The essays feature interdisciplinary approaches to the study of migration in the fourth to the sixth century CE. The authors argue that the early migrations occurred in the context...

... for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009 Scholars of early medieval China have long viewed an understanding of the Liang dynasty as incidental to an appreciation of serious literary history, and they point to Liang Palace Style poetry as both the cause and the consequence of the dynasty's famed decadence...

... the life and thought of Qiao, it also seeks to illuminate the world of Shu intellectuals in early medieval China. The study begins by surveying the major intellectual trends in the early history of Shu, paying special attention to the “prophetic-apocryphal” ( chenwei ) learning of the family of Yang Xu...

... than anyone else, Jia Bi would know the perils of a compromised bloodline and the danger of hybridity. Contamination of genealogy was a serious matter in early medieval China. The distinction between gentry and commoners had to be guarded jealously for the sake of defending the identity of a privileged...