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...Chalmers Johnson The Mandate of Heaven, Record of a Civil War, China 1945–49 . By John F. Melby . Toronto : University of Toronto Press , 1968 . xiii , 313 pp. Pictures, Index. $10.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1969 1969 BOOK REVIEWS 845 (pp. 62-64), how...

...Deberniere Janet Torrey Building a Heaven on Earth: Religion, Activism, and Protest in Japanese Occupied Korea . By Albert L. Park . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2015 . 307 pp. ISBN: 9780824839659 (cloth, also available as e-book). Copyright ©...

...F. K. Lehman Heaven Born in Burma . 3 vols. By Maurice Maybury . Somerset, England : Folio Hadspen . Vol. 1: 184 pp.; vol. 2: 180 pp.; vol. 3: 244 pp. $35.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1987 1987 700 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES problem. Failing...

...James Robson To Live as Long as Heaven and Earth: A Translation and Study of Ge Hong's Traditions of Divine Transcendents . By Robert Ford Campany . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 2002 . xxviii, 607 pp. $95.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian...

...Yegor Grebnev Many Worlds under One Heaven: Material Culture, Identity, and Power in the Northern Frontiers of the Western Zhou, 1045–771 BCE. By Yan Sun . New York : Columbia University Press , 2021 . xxii, 336 pp. ISBN: 9780231198424 . © 2023 Association for Asian Studies...

...David Strand Challenging the Mandate of Heaven: Social Protest and State Power in China . By Elizabeth J. Perry . Armonk, N.Y. : M. E. Sharpe , 2002 . xxxii, 343 pp. $69.95 (cloth); $27.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 936 THE JOURNAL...

...Michael Marmé The Mandate of Heaven and The Great Ming Code . By Jiang Yonglin . Seattle; London : University of Washington Press , 2011 . xiv, 245 pp. $65.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2012 2012 Arguing against a scholarly tradition that sees...

... the viewpoint of a political ideology according to which the Middle Kingdom was the center of the world and the only legitimate secular power, ruled by the Son of Heaven who regarded all other states and their rulers as tributary. Equality between sovereign states was incompatible with this ideology...

...Judith Nagata Heaven in Transition: Non-Muslim Religious Innovation and Ethnic Identity in Malaysia . By Susan E. Ackerman and Raymond L. M. Lee . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press ., 1988 . x, 201 pp. $22.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989...

...Mary A. Nourse Heaven below . By E. H. Clayton . New York : Prentice-Hall, Inc. , 1944 . v, 282 pp. $2.75. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1945 1945 76 THE FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY Heaven below. By E. H. CLAYTON. New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1944. v, 282 pp...

...Vivian-Lee Nyitray Temples of the Empress of Heaven . By Joseph Bosco and Puay-peng Ho . Hong Kong : Oxford University Press , 1999 . viii , 80 pp. $12.95 (cloth). Tianhou Temple: Ritual and Architecture . By Puay-peng Ho and Joseph Bosco . Hong Kong : The Chinese...

...Kenneth J. Hammond Bandits, Eunuchs, and the Son of Heaven: Rebellion and the Economy of Violence in Mid-Ming China . By David Robinson . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2001 . ix , 283 . $40.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 1038...

... vaguely defined national essence. It is not hard to convince urban historians working on the Republican era to check out this book. It would be a shame, though, if only these specialists picked up Between Heaven and Modernity , so I will end by stressing how much it has to offer at least two other...

...R. Guisso Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1976 1976 Mirror to the Son of Heaven: Wei Cheng at the Court of T'ang T'ai-tsung . By Howard J. Wechsler . New Haven and London : Yale University Press , 1974 . xi, 210 pp. Appendixes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $15.00...

... the religious elements at the core of the early Heaven and Earth Society (Tiandihui), the most widespread and well-known of Chinese secret societies. The vast historiography treating Chinese secret societies, often grounded in documents produced by hostile governments, has in large measure reproduced the image...

...Philip J. Ivanhoe The Confucian Creation of Heaven . By Robert Eno . Albany, New York : State University of New York Press , 1990 . xi, 349 pp. $59.50 (cloth); $19–95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 BOOK REVIEWS C H I N A A N D INNER ASIA...

...Randall A. Dodgen Chinese Maps: Images of All Under Heaven . By Richard J. Smith . Hong Kong : Oxford University Press , 1996 . viii, 88 pp. $19.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 196 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES examines the U.S. role in China's...

.... MACDOUGALL University of Alabama-Huntsville Earth to Heaven: The Royal Animal-shaped Weights of the Burmese Empires. By D O N A L D and J O A N G E A R . Twinstar, 1992. xvii, 299 pp. So-called Burmese opium weights have long held a fascination for enthusiasts of things Asian. This book represents...

... (paper). Peace Under Heaven: A Modern Korean Novel . By Chae Man-Sik . Translated by Chun Kyung-ja . Armonk, N.Y. : M. E. Sharpe, Inc. , 1993 . xx, 250 pp. $35.00 (cloth); $14.95 (paper). 578 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES KOREA Peace Under Heaven: A Modern Korean Novel. By C H A E MAN-SIK...

...Bryan W. Van Norden Nature and Heaven in the Xunzi: A Study of the Tian Lun . By Edward J. Machle . Albany : State University of New York Press , 1993 . xiv, 224 pp. $16.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER ASIA 9 2 1...