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...William Schaefer Exhibiting Experimental Art in China . By Wu Hung . Chicago : Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago , 2000 . 224 pp. $40.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 234 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES of local nationalism, the Yili...

...Siyuan Liu Pop Goes the Avant-Garde: Experimental Theatre in Contemporary China . By Rosella Ferrari . London : Seagull Books , 2012 . xviii, 365 pp. $25.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014  2014 Rosella Ferrari provides a timely study of China's...

...Kudus Oluwatoyin Adebayo Collaborative Damage: An Experimental Ethnography of Chinese Globalization . By Mikkel Bunkenborg Morten , Nielsen Morten , and Axel Pedersen . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press , 2022 . xii, 277 pp. ISBN: 9781501759826 . © 2023 Association...

...Robert Eno Experimental Essays on Chuang-tzu . Edited by Victor H. Mair . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1983 . xvii, 171 pp. Bibliographic Appendix, Index. $10 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1985 1985 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER ASIA 379...

...Wendy Larson Misogyny, Cultural Nihilism and Oppositional Politics: Contemporary Chinese Experimental Fiction . By Tonglin Lü . Stanford University Press , 1995 . ix, 235 pp. $39.50 (cloth); $14.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 BOOK REVIEWS...

..., Hopei Province. The families all lived in the eastern part of the hsien in the 62 villages included in the Movement's First Experimental District. Preliminary and experimental work was carried on in this limited area before the hsien-wide program of the Movement was inaugurated. Contact was made...

... forms that are usually studied separately, highlighting the ways in which they interacted with (and resisted) each other. It suggests that such experimentations with the writing of place were central to the ways in which individuals engaged in processes of self-fashioning. Further, it argues...

... styles and modes of writing. Rather than being unified by a set of formal and stylistic characteristics, it is marked by a radical openness to experimentation. The multiplicity of experiments in poetry since the mid-1980s may be more broadly and appropriately referred to as avant-garde poetry...

... would provide basic information of a sort that would help nonspecialists understand the historical background of the partition and would serve to frame the main commentary to follow. That second piece, a meditation on memory and loss by historian Manan Ahmed Asif, was experimental in form...

...Tim Oakes Abstract Catastrophic Asia began as an experimental initiative of the Center for Asian Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. Culminating in a spring 2014 symposium where three of the four papers presented here and earlier versions of the two commentaries were delivered...

... framework of village institutions and administrative setup in India. In land policy much of the period under consideration was taken up in China in bold experimentations—with the inevitable advances and retreats—in search of the optimum size of land management in a backward peasant economy, while in India...

.... On the other hand, within his fictional writings, Kim also displayed an antithetical interest in the fragmentary scenes of modern life, which he often depicted through experimental techniques of a modernist aesthetic sensibility. In this essay, an attempt is made to provide a unified account of Kim's works...

... of social change, and Asian area scholars of the contemporary scene have been waiting with great anticipation the publication of this summary report on the experimental family planning program initiated in 1963 in Taiwan. It is this reviewer's pleasant duty to report that they will not be disappointed...

... process. Whenever the government faces a new challenge, it resorts to local experimentation to find the most effective solution, which is then promoted to other areas. The Chinese party-state thereby manages to maintain its fundamental power structure while being responsive to popular demands...

... an intellectually confused rather than anguished generation, a confusion stemming from the attempt to assimilate and experiment with several streams of European thought. This assimilative and experimental process also emerges, in one form or another, as the theme of the contributions by Benito Ortolani, "Shingeki...

... of European thought. This assimilative and experimental process also emerges, in one form or another, as the theme of the contributions by Benito Ortolani, "Shingeki: The Maturing New Drama of Japan;" Peter Milward, "Shakespeare in Japanese Translation;" and Edward Seidensticker, "Strangely Shaped Novels...

... colonial agricultural policy can be found in the Taiwan Nōjihō , a remarkable primary document, published by the Taipei agricultural experimental station. For an official statement on using persuasive means, see Inazo Nitobe , “Nōgyō Shidōsha no Kokoro e” (“How to Lead the Taiwanese Farmer...

... elites, civil servants, and filmmakers) with increasingly competing agendas, created the spaces for less programmatic filmmaking to emerge. The Films Division's documentary filmmakers—both the conventional ones and the “outliers” who rode the experimental wave of the 1960s—were familiar with other iconic...

... Diexian, shedding light on the informal practices of experimentation and manufacturing that Chen employed in building a successful cosmetics business. Chen was born in 1879 to an affluent family that resided near Hangzhou. He received a traditional classical education and subsequently passed the imperial...

... CREVEL. Leiden: Research School CNWS, 1996. x, 355 pp. The very first full-length book in English devoted to the study of Chinese "experimental poetry," Maghiel van Crevel's Language Shattered: Contemporary Chinese Poetry and Duoduo merits attention primarily for the highly valuable yet hitherto...