...Arienne M. Dwyer A Grammar of Mangghuer: A Mongolic Language of China's Qinghai-Gansu Sprachbund . By Keith W. Slater . London : RoutledgeCurzon , 2003 . xviii , 382 pp. $150 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2007 2007 Mangghuer (Mongolic...

... fieldwork among the Tibetan populations of Qinghai and Gansu Provinces reveals that consent is primarily generated by local officials who negotiate a form of local order with religious and tribal leaders. Ignoring the ideological demands of their superiors, they engage constructively with the expectations...

... . Beijing : New World Press . Zenglie Feng . 1985 . “‘Gedimu’ bayi” [”Gedimu” eight opinions]. In Xibei Yisilanjiao yanjiu [Northwest Islam research], ed. Gansu Provincial Ethnology Department. Lanzhou : Gansu Nationality Publishing Society . Fischer Michael M. J. 1980 . Iran: From...

... is logically divided into five chapters made up of four or five sections, each of which has several straightforwardly entitled subsections, as well as an introduction and conclusion for each chapter. The chapters cover the following main topics: “The Origin of the Yuezhi,” “The Yuezhi in the Gansu: 220–162 BCE...

... : 49 – 66 . l-ssu-lan chiao tsai Chung-kuo (Islam in China) 1982 . Ed. Gansu Provincial Ethnology Dept. Yinchuan : Ningxia People's Publishing Society . Jin Yijiu . (Chin I-chiu) 1989 . “ The System of menhuan in China: An Influence of Sufism on Chinese Muslims .” Ming Studies 13 : 34...

... Zuo and his armies up through war-ravaged Gansu and Xinjiang, with a brief, initial foray through Zhejiang. Chapter 3 traces the environmental aftermath of the mid-century's bloodletting and how, confronted by population losses and “undomesticated plants and animals . . . rewilding former farmlands...

... was not the only Islamic teachers school that was nationalized during the Sino-Japanese War. A similar series of events overtook the Pingliang Islamic Teachers School in Gansu Province—the nominal successor of the Shanghai Islamic Teachers School—in 1941 (Li Jianbiao 2017 , 150–51; Ministry of Education 1943a...

... fluctuations. Her data bear on questions of market integration in the very different environment of North China. Two essays look at Qing government grain storage and its impacts. Peter C. Perdue's "The Qing State and the Gansu Grain Market, 1739 1864" argues that remote Gansu, situated on a strategic corridor...

...-trodden paths along which styles and materials appear to have owed. Thus, we learn of the popularity of cast animal gurines used to decorate vehicles in the Ordos Desert region, of belt plaques in the Ningxia-Gansu area that depicted scenes of animal predation, and of pectorals in the Northern Hebei...

... is not easy given the continued inaccessibility of the Central Archives in Beijing, which prevents a full assessment of China's ethnic minority–related subjects. However, Liu was able to access the provincial and regional archives of Gansu, Qinghai, the Tibet Autonomous Region, and Sichuan, which contain...

... and Middle Eastern Studies 11 ( 1–2 ): 112 –30. Lipman Jonathan N. 1990 . “Ethnic Violence in Modern China: Hans and Huis in Gansu, 1781–1929.” In Violence in China: Essays in Culture and Counterculture , ed. Lipman Jonathan N. and Stevan Harrell , 65 – 83 . Albany : State University...

..., a theory that is also contradicted by the many photographs of the Wall and subsidiary pise constructions of the Han dynasty taken by Sir Aurel Stein in Gansu in the first decades of the 20 th century. Rojas's discussion of the various terms for walls, borders, and fortifications is admirably clear...

... {History of Yuan} . 1370/ 1976 Comp. Song Lian. Repr. Beijing : Zhonghua shuju . Yuan wenlei {Anthology of Yuan Literature} . 1334 Comp. Su Tianjue. Siku quanshu ed. Zhou Zhimei (GANSUSHENG BOWUGUAN, ZHANGXIAN WENHUAGUAN). 1982 “ Gansu Zhangxian Yuandai Wang Shixian jiazu muzang: jianbao...

... and distributed in Gansu) but nonetheless worthy of note. Schneewind's Community Schools in Ming China is characterized by patient attention to sources and a careful integration of local concerns with those of the larger empire, all examined through the lens of a particular institution. Because...

... detective work. But it can help connect cultural history and the performing arts to social, political, and—in this case—legal history. At the heart of the book is the story of one 1943 legal case, Feng vs. Zhang , in Gansu Province's Huachi County. It might seem a simple case at first: a man surnamed...

... needs to be taken into consideration—and it is not mentioned in this work—is the obvious fact that all of the rich cross-cultural exchange explored in this book takes place in the borderlands, far from the metropoles of Beijing and Lhasa (in Gansu, Hangzhou, Yunnan, Sichuan, Kham, Amdo, Xikang, and even...

.... Most works are written by authors in China from the Tibetan Autonomous Region and Tibetan communities in the surrounding areas of Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan, and Yunnan. Other works are written by ethnic Tibetans in northern India, Europe, and the Unites States, thus prompting the term “diaspora...

... now straddles the provinces of Qinghai, Gansu, and Sichuan in the PRC) to the processes of revolution, state building, and nation building in western China, and he explains how and why it has been overlooked by scholars focused on its neighboring regions to the west of central Tibet (Ütsang...

... missionaries and Western observers. Focusing on the 1920 earthquake in Haiyuan, Gansu (and famines in 1920–21) and through an examination of a dazzling variety of sources—ranging from May Fourth publications, missionary reports, geological and social surveys, revolutionary dramas, and Pearl Buck's novels...

... of the CIA-backed Chushi Gangdruk (Four Rivers Six Ranges) guerrilla force—are already relatively well known. However, particularly when the Chinese version was published in Taiwan in 2012, Li's treatment of other episodes, such as the 1958 rebellion in Amdo (largely Qinghai and southern Gansu provinces...