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...Edward Gunn The Heart of Time: Moral Agency in Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction . By Sabina Knight . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2006 . 306 pp. $44.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2007 2007 The Heart of Time: Moral...

...Edward Gunn Literary Societies of Republican China . Edited by Kirk A. Denton and Michel Hockx . Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books , 2008 . ix , 591 pp. $115.00 (cloth); $46.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009 This collection of thirteen...

...Geoffrey C. Gunn Hmong at the Turning Point . By Yang Dao . Minneapolis : WorldBridge Associates , 1993 . xvi, 168 pp. $29.99. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 297 but, by 1975, had turned Saigon "into an overripe fruit...

...Edward Gunn Literary Authority and the Modern Chinese Writer: Ambivalence and Autobiography . By Wendy Larson . Durham and London : Duke University Press , 1991 . 208 pp. $34.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER ASIA 147...

...Edward Gunn The Lyrical and the Epic: Studies of Modern Chinese Literature . By Jaroslav Průšek . Edited by Leo Ou-fan Lee . Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 1980 . xiii, 268 pp. Appendixes. $22.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1982 1982 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Michitake Aso I would assign all three of these books (at least selected chapters) in advanced undergraduate and graduate courses, as they offer a good basis for discussion about the benefits and costs of various representations of nature. Gunn gives us a political economy approach that casts...

...Charles F. Keyes Rebellion in Laos: Peasant and Politics in a Colonial Backwater . By Geoffrey C. Gunn . Boulder, Colorado : Westview Press . 1990 . xv, 224 pp. $28.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 208 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Rebellion...

... geographical expanse, Gunn concludes that “maritime trade demonstrated remarkable continuity” between 100 and 1800 and that the ceramics trade played a key role before and after the arrival of the Western powers (p. 196). The book's contribution is crystal clear: it is a must-read for anyone wanting to learn...

...Donald E. Brown Language, Power, and Ideology in Brunei Darussalam . By Geoffrey C. Gunn . Athens : Southeast Asia Series No. 99, Ohio University Center for International Studies , 1997 . xxxix, 284 pp. $24.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998...

...Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom Rewriting Chinese: Style and Innovation in Twentieth-Century Chinese Prose . By Edward Gunn . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 1991 . vii, 361 pp. $39.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 892 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Arthur J. Dommen Political Struggles in Laos (1930–1954): Vietnamese Communist Power and the Lao Struggle for National Independence . By Geoffrey C. Gunn . Bangkok : Editions Duang Kamol , 1988 . xii, 325 pp. $29.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990...

... stylistic innovations has a great deal of value to offer anyone concerned with twentieth-century Chinese texts. There is something particularly appropriate about a historian rather than a literary scholar or linguist reviewing Rewriting Chinese, since one of Gunn's central theses is that style needs...

...Howard Goldblatt Unwelcome Muse: Chinese Literature in Shanghai and Peking, 1937–1945 . By Edward M. Gunn . New York : Columbia University Press , 1980 . x , 330 pp. Notes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $20. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1981 1981 584 JOURNAL...

.... 606 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES better, while drawing wider lessons for theories of modernization, nation-building, and development. Gunn's book is not without flaws. Excessive extrapolation from conditions in neighboring states to flesh out periods when Brunei materials are scarce or nonexistent...

... and audiences. The volume contains the work of both pioneers in the field such as Edward Gunn and more recent significant scholars such as Shiao-ling Yu, John Weinstein, and Claire Conceison. While I am not qualified to comment on the translations qua translations (I cannot read or speak Mandarin...

...Paul Clark Chinese Theatre from Its Origins to the Present Day . Edited by Colin Mackerras . Honolulu , University of Hawaii Press , 1983 . viii, 220 pp. Illustrations, Index. $19.95. Twentieth-Century Chinese Drama: An Anthology . Edited by Edward M. Gunn . Bloomington : Indiana...

...Jin Liu 2. Gunn, Rendering the Regional , 141. 1. Edward Gunn, Rendering the Regional: Local Language in Contemporary Chinese Media (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2006), 141–44; Jin Liu, Signifying the Local: Media Productions Rendered in Local Languages in Mainland China...

..., Gunn surveys a wide array of resources to illuminate a number of issues confronting modern Brunei. The resources include many that are recently produced by local scholars, often in Malay and sometimes still unpublished. Gunn's sense of what constitute significant issues is thoughtfully informed...

...Eric A. Friedlander Arms Control II: A New Approach to International Security . Edited by John H. Barton and Ryukichi Imai . Cambridge, Mass. : Oelgeschlager, Gunn and Hain , 1981 . x, 328 pp. Notes, Tables. $27.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1982 1982...

... D. Wilhelm Jr . Boston : Oelgeschlager, Gunn, and Hain , 1984 . xxii, 432 . Glossary, Index. N.p. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1985 1985 806 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES China Policy and National Security. By FREDERICK TSE-SHYANG CHEN. New York: Transnational Publishers...