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...Earl Swisher An Embassy to China; being the Journal Kept by Lord Macartney During his Embassy to the Emperor Ch'ien-lung, 1793–1794 . Edited with an Introduction and Notes by J. L. Cranmer-Byng . Hamden, Connecticut : Anchor Books , 1963 . xvi , 421 . Index. $7.50. Copyright ©...

...Howard S. Levy The Veritable Record of the T'ang Emperor Shun-tsung (February 28, 805–August 31, 805) . Trans. Bernard S. Solomon . Harvard-Yenching Institute Studies, XIII. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 1955 . xxxi, 82 . Appendix, Bibliography, Index. $3.00...

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...Philip B. Calkins The Mughal Emperor Humayun . By Rama Shanker Avasthy . Allahabad : History Department, University of Allahabad , 1967 . 491 pp. Appendix, Index. Rs. 30.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1969 1969 BOOK REVIEWS 623 of internal cohesion...

...Takashi Fujitani Emperor Hirohito and Shōwa Japan: A Political Biography . By Stephen S. Large . London and New York : Routledge , 1992 . 249 pp. $29.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 218 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES concludes that as long...

...Yue Zhang The Many Lives of the First Emperor of China . By Anthony J. Barbieri-Low . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2022 . xii, 337 pp. ISBN: 9780295750224 . © 2023 Association for Asian Studies 2023 The First Emperor is one of the most complex and controversial...

...Theodore McNelly The Japanese Monarchy, 1931–1991: Ambassador Grew and the Making of the “Symbol Emperor System.” . By Nakamura Masanori . Armonk, N.Y. : M. E. Sharpe , 1992 . xiv, 202 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $9.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993...

...Takashi Fujitani Abstract Early on the morning of February 24, 1989, my companion and I set out from our lodgings in central Tokyo for the Imperial Plaza. Though we knew that Emperor Shōwa's funeral procession would not be leaving the Palace until 9:35, we planned our arrival for 6:30 because...

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...Mildred Tahara The Emperor Horikawa Diary . ( Sanuki no Suke nikki ). By Fujiwara no Nagako . Translated with an Introduction by Jennifer Brewster . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1978 . xi, 155 pp. Introduction, Translation, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $14.00. Copyright ©...

...Charles D. Sheldon Hirohito: Emperor of Japan . By Leonard Mosley . Englewood Cliffs, N. J. : Prentice-Hall, Inc. , 1966 . 370 pp. $7.95. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968 1968 400 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES political parties, it has plagued conservative...

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..., their cultures and national movements. Colorado College CARROLL B. MALONE A history of the Far East in modern times. BY HAROLD M. VINACKE. 4th ed. New York: Crofts, 1941. xviii, 641 p. $5.00. Kodo: The way of the emperor. BY MARY A. NOURSE. Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1940. 350 p. $3.50. The first...

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...Susan J. Napier Abstract In japan in the late 1980s, a society that is arguably one of the most modern, pragmatic, and materialist in the world, the problem of the emperor system initially seems almost irrelevant. And yet the imperial house continues to excite controversy and concern, as is clear...