...Gananath Obeyesekere Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1978 1978 VOL. XXXVII, No. 4 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES AUGUST 1978 Michael J. Egan 1940-1977 Michael J. Egan's death at the young age of thirty-six has deprived South Asian scholarship of one of its most promising young...

...Michael Egan Literature in the People's Republic of China . Edited by Kai-yu Hsu . Co-edited by Ting Wang. Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 1980 . xiii , 976 pp. Chronology, Biographical Sketches, Glossary, Chinese References, Author Index. $37.50. Copyright © Association...

...Charles H. Egan The Brush and the Spur: Chinese Culture and the Cockfight . By Robert Joe Cutter . Hong Kong : Chinese University Press , 1989 . xiii, 255 pp. $28.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER ASIA 381 ensuring...

...Ronald C. Egan The Tso chuan: Selections from China's Oldest Narrative History . Translated by Burton Watson . New York : Columbia University Press , 1989 . xliv, 232 pp. $32.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990 144 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES party...

...Gananath Obeyesekere Abstract Many scholarly articles and some of a polemical nature have been written on the 1971 insurgency in Sri Lanka. Recent studies of this movement (Fernando 1972, Egan 1972, Kearney 1973, Arasaratnam 1972, Warnapala 1972) have helped us to understand some of the underlying...

...Kang-I Sun Chang Egan uses wide-ranging sources to demonstrate how the image of Li Qingzhao was constructed and reconstructed during the last several centuries in China. He argues that the conventional way of equating Li Qingzhao's literary voice (especially in ci ) with the historical poet's...

...Dore J. Levy The Literary Works of Ou-yang Hsiu (1007–1072) . By Ronald C. Egan . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1984 . (Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature, and Institutions). 269 pp. Appendix. N.p. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1986 1986...

... a remarkably consistent literary persona. This consistency is also felt in his various poetic genres. In chapter 3, Egan balances Ou-yang's importance as a shih poet in the Sung with his private attitude toward his poetry he regarded his shih as the least significant of his works. It is perhaps because he...

...Michelle Burnham Oriental Shadows: The Presence of the East in Early American Literature . By Jim Egan . Columbus : Ohio State University Press , 2011 . 167 pp. $44.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013  2013 In the recent Itinerario interview...

...Wei Wang A Companion to “The Story of the Stone”: A Chapter-by-Chapter Guide . By Susan Chan Egan and Pai Hsien-yung . New York : Columbia University Press , 2021 . xiii, 260 pp. ISBN: 9780231199452 . © 2024 Association for Asian Studies 2024 Book Reviews China and Inner...

... who would "use a pipe to peep at the heavens and an awl to indicate the earth," but this is not mere selfdeprecation (tongue-in-cheek or not), since, as Professor Egan observes in his articulate and informative introduction (p. 14), "Qian's title . . . refers to what the author characterizes as his...

... from different perspectives. Ronald Egan, in "Poet, Mind, and World: A Reconsideration of the Shensi Chapter of Wenxin diaolong," closely engages the many linguistic and semantic difficulties of Liu Xie's twenty-sixth chapter, which Egan translates as "Daimonic BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 579 Thinking." Egan...

... inside continually remind us of how difficult and costly yet also how necessary a task it has been to attempt to make this picture a reality. JEFFREY WASSERSTROM University of California, Berkeley The Literary Works of Ou-yang Hsiu (1007-1072). By RONALD C. EGAN. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press...

...-century collection, Yulan shi (Poems for Imperial Reading), concluding that its graceful, balanced decorum is precisely the image of the world that the emperor wanted to see (p. 87). Ronald Egan looks at the indebtedness of the imperial court to literati values in the last four decades of the Northern...

... exemplified by his Passagen-Werk (Arcades project), begun in 1927, an investigation of Baudelaire's poetry and Second Empire Paris. The similarities between Benjamin's and Qian's approaches are so numerous and striking, it is surprising that Professor Egan makes no reference to them in his otherwise...

..." more often than previously recognized. He then tries to establish that Chinese prototypes traditional crime stories (gongan) and Cantonese ballads as well as foreign models inspired Wu Woyao's manipulation of time schemes in Nine Murders. For Michael Egan, Wu Woyao's The Sea of Woe is significant...

... in this conference volume analyze various ways in which knowledge was transmitted, transformed, and even effaced after print became a popular tool for transmitting knowledge in China. The editors have divided the essays into four parts. In part 1, “Change,” Ronald Egan discusses changing perceptions of books...

... significant contributions to our knowledge of him. This book is not superseded by Ronald Egan's fine Word, Image, and Deed in the Life of Su Shi (Harvard University Press, 1994), for although Egan's comprehensive study contains important reflections on Su Shih's Buddhism, Beata Grant's narrower focus allows...

... of the Sovetskii Narod, in Em­pire and Belonging in the Eura­ sian Borderlands, eds. Krista Goff and Lewis Siegelbaum (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019), 147 61. A Companion to The Story of the Stone : A Chapter-by-Chapter Guide. By Susan Chan Egan and Pai Hsien-yung. New York: Col­umb­ ia University...

... of the greatest and most interesting literary and cultural figures of traditional China, and Mount Lu Revisited makes significant contributions to our knowledge of him. This book is not superseded by Ronald Egan's fine Word, Image, and Deed in the Life of Su Shi (Harvard University Press, 1994), for although...