...Jacques Gernet Quinsai, With Other Notes on Marco Polo . By A. C. Moule . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1957 . xii, 92 . Illustrations, Appendix. $5.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1958 1958 270 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES lutionaries. Later...

...Jack L. Dull A History of Chinese Civilization . By Jacques Gernet . Translated by J. R. Foster . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1982 . xxvii, 772 pp. Plates, Maps, Tables, Figures, Chronological Tables, Bibliography, Index. $37.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies...

...Arthur F. Wright Les aspects économiques du Bouddhisme dans la société chinoise du V e au X e siècle . By Jacques Gernet . Saigon : Publications de l'Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient , 1956 . xv, 331 , 10 Plates. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1957 1957...

... Cordier's Bibliothka Sinka. However, this work for books and articles on the Taiping Rebellion should be a standard for many years to come. S. Y. TENG Indiana University China and the Christian Impact: A Conflict of Cultures. By JACQUES GERNET. Trans, by JANET LLOYD. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press...

...Edward H. Kaplan Daily Life in China (On the Eve of the Mongol Invasion 1250–1276) . By Jacques Gernet . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1970 . 249 pp. Notes, References, Index. Paperback. $2.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1970 1970 174 JOURNAL...

...Peter Ward Fay Chine et Christianisme: Action et réaction [China and Christianity: Action and Reaction] . By Jacques Gernet . Paris : Gallimard , 1982 . 342 pp. Bibliography. 144 Fr. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1983 1983 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER ASIA 919...

...Alan Cole Buddhism in Chinese Society: An Economic History from the Fifth to the Tenth Centuries . By Jacques Gernet . Translated by Franciscus Verellen . New York : Columbia University Press , 1995 . xvii, 440 pp. $42.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996...

... Civilization. By JACQUES GERNET. Translated by J. R. FOSTER. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982. xxvii, 772 pp. Plates, Maps, Tables, Figures, Chronological Tables, Bibliography, Index. $37.50. Jacques Gernet's A History of Chinese Civilization brings together a great deal of information. The writing...

... Cordier's Bibliothka Sinka. However, this work for books and articles on the Taiping Rebellion should be a standard for many years to come. S. Y. TENG Indiana University China and the Christian Impact: A Conflict of Cultures. By JACQUES GERNET. Trans, by JANET LLOYD. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press...

..." (p. 626). Third, Gernet, having allegedly discarded a dynastic approach and having conspicuously rejected a Marxist approach, presents his history "in a scheme of historical evolution furnished by Europe" (to borrow his wording) under which he subsumes the traditional dynastic patterns. Thus part 4...

... Society: An Economic History from the Fifth to the Tenth Centuries. By J A C Q U E S G E R N E T . Translated by FRANCISCUS VERELLEN. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995. xvii, 440 pp. $42.50. Money and transcendence, everything has its economy. Jacques Gernet's Buddhism in Chinese Society...

... anniversary of his arrival in China (Macau) on August 7, 1582. In 1982 as well, Jacques Gernet's Chine et christianisme, action et réaction (Paris: Gallimard) pronounced a negative judgment on the Jesuit enterprise in China, opening an intense debate about the meaning, strategies, and results of Ricci's...

...Robert A. Kapp 116 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES worlds he has elaborated so well in the nature of language itself, Indo-European vs. Chinese. Many of Gernet's assertions will be disputed and probably should be. Some of his characterizations seem overdrawn; at times it is hard to tell where...

... Gernet argues that the monastic codes were adapted to allow the monasteries even greater economic activity in China. Soon the monasteries, mimicking the powerful nobility, were managing large estates with senior monks holding their serfs to exacting payment schedules. In addition, the monasteries...

... the painting could be used by those unable to make the trip further east as a tool for virtual pilgrimage. Lin might have given more attention to the more prosaic reasons for Wutai's success. Jacques Gernet argued long ago for the economic resources available in mountains—primarily timber and water...

... ), 251 – 265 . Vimalakirti figures prominently in the cave-temples of north China, but the meaning of his cult in the north would be differently interpreted in relation to a different clientele. 19 See Gernet Jacques , Les aspects économiques du Bouddhisme dans la société chinoise du...

.... Jacques Gernet lacks this qualm but he emphasizes, as does Karl Biinger, the ambiguity of the term. This ambiguity is discussed by Herbert Franke in his chapter on the role of the state as a structural element in polyethnic societies, highlighting the differences between Chinese and non-Chinese...

..., and period is so great that my first objective to convey something of the book's content can best be met by reproducing its table of contents: I. La pensee du changement Jacques Gernet, Sur la notion de changement en Chine Anne Cheng, Mutation ou changement? Quelques reflexions sur le commentaire de Wang Bi...

...Philip A. Kuhn Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 Lettrés et Pouvoirs: Un Procès Littéraire dans la Chine Impériale . [Literati and Powerholders: a Literary Case in Imperial China] . By Pierre-Henri Durand . Preface by Jaques Gernet . Paris : École des...

... resonances to the Western reader and discusses instead the primacy of the "political order" in East Asian societies. Jacques Gernet lacks this qualm but he emphasizes, as does Karl Biinger, the ambiguity of the term. This ambiguity is discussed by Herbert Franke in his chapter on the role of the state...