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... poets cre­ated new mean­ing as they selected and com­bined ele­ments from a varie­ ty of text­ ual sources (his­tor­ic­ al, unof­fi­cial, and anec­dotal) in yongshi poems and how dif­fer­ ent poets adopted dif­fer­ent approaches to these sources. Zhang s study care­fully draws and expands on a broad...

..., and reli­gious work done by icons. One conc­ ept employed by both authors is that of the assemb­ lage, which speaks to how agency can emerge from patt­erns of con­tin­gent conc­ ate­ ­na­tion. Jain even con­ strues her book as an assem­blage (Jain, p. 25), a recurs­ ive set of engagem­ ents that resists the lure...

... to realize that But merely to state that "Westerners" are pres- the reader must have a well-appointed oriental ent and add some facts about costume and library at hand in order to have accurate visual technique is not quite enough. confirmation of the author's descriptions. What emerges is a kind of grab bag...

.... It may the unity of the One and the Many, the differ- be said of any such collection and it may be said k ent paths leading to a common goal has been of this, that the essays represent different ap- dictated by the compiler's own irenic concern proaches and different points of view and that rather than...

..." be- Chinese folk arts and lore. Professor Cammann, fore the expedition's departure. For Preble, who excels in such studies, has treated his pres- however, the wonders of Japan did not com- ent subject well, and the book, the first treating pensate for his restricted life on shipboard and of this unobtrusive...

... only. There was no military support for that position, and there was apparently no intention of building it, at least, not until long after the outbreak of the pres- ent World War. The first attempt to build a genuine military force on the Philippines was made by sending General Claggett's party, which...

.... For example, the estimated iron ore deposit of Szechwan province, of 137,597,700 tons (p. 76), represents only about one and one-half years of our own pres- ent extraction from the Mesabi range alone. In the statistical field a large increase in personnel training and discipline will be necessary after...

... of navigation along functioning but the personnel is gradually the Indus captured the British imagination, changing. The third volume describes the pres- and pressure was accordingly put upon the ent status of the limited scientific research and Amirs to open up the river. By 1838, with a information in South...

... consultants. Independ- ent Burma sought such services at an early stage. To the best of my knowledge, the present volume is the first full-length book relating in detail the experience of such consultants. This was not, however, the declared intention of the book. Rather, its aim was to examine the Burmese...

... newly independent countries increased the demand for the services of a comparatively new profession, economic development consultants. Independ- ent Burma sought such services at an early stage. To the best of my knowledge, the present volume is the first full-length book relating in detail...

... as a disciple of Tao-i (709788). Ch'an tradition has sdyed him ta chu (the Great Pearl), making a play on his secular 201 202 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES surname, Chu. The work in question falls into ent reprint by the Hong Kong University Press two parts, entitled, in the present translation, is most welcome...

..., irrever- obedient, hard-working peasants. It would be ent, energetic, irrepressible. The samurai interesting to speculate on why, in spite of the could cling to his precious honor and his cold ^ ukjyoe, in spite of Sansom, and in spite of pleasures of classical painting, the no theatre, Borton's studies...

... words function without change in two or more of these categories, so that the English equivalent given * for a Chinese word may have the same amount of freedom. But in such a highly inflected language as Latin one is forced to give differ[ ent equivalents according to function. The compilers have tried...