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...Paize Keulemans Guan Yu: The Religious Afterlife of a Failed Hero . By Barend J. ter Haar . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2017 . vi, 285 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019  2019 Guan Yunchang, Marquis of Houting, Lord Guan, Emperor Guan. Despite his...

...Haun Saussy The Pheasant Cap Master (He guan zi): A Rhetorical Reading . By Carine Defoort . Albany : State University of New York Press , 1997 . xiii, 376 pp. $25.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 822 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES However, since...

...Benny Teh Cheng Guan In essence, the book is comprehensive and utterly rich in content. Interesting and easy to digest, it is a prized item for graduate students of public administration, as well as for policy makers and academicians. A final point worth mentioning is that although...

... tsuite ” [Concerning a few elements in the Guan Yu faith]. Tōhō shūkyō 8 , no. 9 . Hsu Francis L. K. 1983 . Exorcising the Trouble Makers: Magic, Science, and Culture. Westport , Conn .: Greenwood Press . Huang Huajie . 1968 . Guangongde renge yu shenge [The human and divine...

... us the history of one large (20,000 members), but otherwise ordinary, lineage: the Guan (Kuan). Except for one thing: it was in the Si-yi 834 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES (four counties) area of southwestern Guangdong province, a noted emigrant community. Woon argues that because the area...

... topics, each of which is allocated a separate chapter. These are the reincorporation of the traditional Chinese warrior deity Guan Gong into the Tibetan Karma Kagyu school; the compatibility of (Tibetan) Buddhism and Confucianism within the context of the People's Republic of China (PRC) government's...

... ritual ensembles in northern and northeastern provinces (chapters 10, 11, 12), shifan genres and Jiangnan Silk-and-Bamboo in Southern Jiangsu Province (chapter 13), nan guan and other traditions in Fujian Province (chapter 14), and the various traditions in Guangdong Province (chapter 15...

... in the book. In addition to these problems of presentation, there are also factual mistakes. Take nan guan as an example. To mention only two of the more important mistakes on nan guan, wukong siyi guan should be wukong siche guan (p. 305), and the statement "only thirteen [gunmen] are commonly known today...

...–daughter bond shifts, both socially and literarily. In Ding Ling's depiction of Manzhen in Mother , the heroine uses “the subject position of the chaste widow and virtuous mother” to legitimize “her pursuit of a new social role” (p. 107). Guan Lu, by contrast, presents a picture of the mother–daughter...

.... As such, this volume may show us how difficult it is to write about history while it is happening! ALVIN Y. SO University of Hawaii The Pheasant Cap Master (He guan zi): A Rhetorical Reading. By CARINE DEFOORT. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997. xiii, 376 pp. $25.95. "Rhetorical" in this work's subtitle...

... Chinese power in 1914, the Sichuanese force regained a degree of control in some towns, as tax records and petitions from overburdened communities in Kham demonstrate (Sichuan Sheng Dang'an Guan and Sichuan Minzu Yanjiu Suo 1990 , 99, 132, 157). Its position weakened dramatically as a result of the 1916...

... the Anti-Rightist Crackdown of 1957 and the Cultural Revolution. In particular, Tian Han's two most important historical dramas of this period, Guan Hanqing and Xie Yaohuan, have finally emerged from decades of neglect by China scholars in the West. The political contours of Rudolph Wagner's hermeneutical...

... Customs (Ts ung-hsien wei-su i Dr. Weisfogel painstakingly read Guan Zhidao s detailed program for ritual in daily practice against both his personal and social context, as well as the classical texts and early Ming proclamations Guan drew on, to illuminate long-term changes in elite status and identity...

...Clemens Six Southeast Asia's Cold War: An Interpretative History . By Ang Cheng Guan . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2018 . xii, 306 pp. ISBN: 9780824872571 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2020 2020 Immanuel Wallerstein has argued...

... with editorship variously attributed to Wang Jide (d. 1623) or Chen Yujiao (1544–1611). Among these five plays are two by Guan Hanqing, Moving Heaven and Shaking Earth: The Injustice to Dou E and Rescriptor-in-Waiting Bao Thrice Investigates the Butterfly Dream , both of which belong to the thematic subgroup...

... of Modern Tibet, 1913–1951 . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press . Grupper Samuel M. 1980 . “The Manchu Imperial Cult of the Early Qing Dynasty: Texts and Studies on the Tantric Sanctuary of Mahâkâla at Mukden.” Ph.D. diss., Indiana University . Xiaolian. Guan 1988...

.... Chapters 4 and 5 follow open-air art practices into the 1940s and later. War and conflict in the 1940s made it possible for artists such as the young Guan Shanyue to record the threatened national landscape with patriotic clarity. Seeking out new subjects and frontiers, whether landscapes of devastation...

...Michael D. Barr Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019  2019 Studying Singapore before 1800 . Edited by Kwa Chong Guan and Peter Borschberg . Singapore : National University of Singapore Press , 2018 . 600 pp. ISBN: 9789814722742 (paper). Studying Singapore...