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...John R. Shepherd Getting an Heir: Adoption and the Construction of Kinship in Late Imperial China . By Ann Waltner . Honolulu, Hawaii : University of Hawaii Press , 1990 . vii, 226 pp. $26.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA...

...Stanley L. Mickel The Heir and the Sage: Dynastic Legend in Early China . By Sarah Allan . Taipei : Chinese Materials Center , 1981 . xiv, 165 pp. Charts, Bibliography, Index. $8.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1983 1983 VOL. XLIII, N O . 1 JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Lynn Struve Passage to Power: K'ang-hsi and His Heir Apparent, 1661–1722 . By Wu Silas . Cambridge, Mass., and London : Harvard University Press (Harvard East Asian Series No. 91), 1979 . Notes, Map, Bibliography, Index. 252 pp. N.p.l. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...Shahzad Bashir Sufi Heirs of the Prophet: The Indian Naqshbandiyya and the Rise of the Mediating Sufi Shaykh . By Arthur F. Buehler . Foreword by Annermarie Schimmel . Studies in Comparative Religion. Frederick M. Denny , Series Editor. Columbia : University of South Carolina Press...

... the heir of ancient tradition. The Kuomintang effort was noteworthy for four reasons: (1) the rapidity with which its course was reversed; (2) the magnitude of the gulf between the Confucian political and social system which the Kuomintang sought to restore and the national and social revolution which...

... as primitively collective in their property relations led to initial suppression of the rights of heirs over lineage property. The colonial court's subsequent gradual and uneven invocation of the principle of exclusive individual property rights became a source of both legal and physical conflicts. The case...

..., it has consistently used vernacular works based on translations of the Qur'ān and, especially, hadīth in its quietistic work of inculcating correct and devoted religious practice among Muslims. In this use of the vernacular, primarily Urdu, the movement has been heir to over a century of translation...

..., queen, heir-apparent, or regent. Two days prior, he had shared to Facebook a biography of the new king, Maha Vajiralongkorn, or Rama X, who became king following the death of his father, Bhumipol Adulyadej, Rama IX, on October 13, 2016. The BBC Thai biography was candid and highlighted Vajiralongkorn's...

... line of Né (or Yi) native chieftains to which Lady Qu was heir. Yet they gave contradictory accounts of the forms of chiefly succession, sources of political authority, and geopolitical position of the native domain. The inscriptions show that chiefly sovereignty was neither merely embodied...

... Abstract In the production of the November 1991 issue (50.4), the editors added an incorrect identification of the Shih-tsung Emperor mentioned in John Shepherd's review of Ann Waltner's Getting an Heir: Adoption and the Construction of Kinship in Late Imperial China , p. 927. The Shih-tsung...

... and the Sarpasatra ,” examines the heirs of the Pāṇḍavas and the snake sacrifice that the text presents as the setting for the recitation of the Mahābhārata by the Brahmin Vaiśaṃpāyana, a pupil of the composer Vyāsa. Brodbeck argues that “the stories of Parikṣit and Janamejaya help to explain why Vaiśaṃpāyana's...

... of the dynasty, Yi T'aejo, came to the throne in 1392, he had six sons born by his first wife and two by the second. After the death of his first wife in 1391, to please his second wife he designated her son Pangs8k 5ifS3, his eighth son, Heir Apparent. This action was a blow to the six sons of his first wife...

... in the records is failure to have an heir. Records of ex-retainers and extinct families compiled by Hikone, Kaga, and Owari make it possible to calculate that, during the 18th century, these han lost between 20% and 31% of their shi , or about 7–10% each generation. Without adoption to provide heirs...

... divisions of properties among heirs are often delayed for many years aldiough, in fact, heirs may be working portions of the properties as separate farms, and in part because some heirs may continue to work as one farm properties which have been legally subdivided. The most ready source from which the plots...

... attention to the presence of women dharma heirs in the Linji revival led by Chan monk Miyun Yuanwu (1566–1642). After a chapter analyzing the images of nuns in monks' writings, Grant presents her subject in six chapters. Qiyuan Xinggang (1597–1654), “the matriarch of seventeenth-century women Chan masters...

... responsibility to lead the ancestral sacrifices but generally meant succession to office, often endowed with land. This patrimony would be used for the needs of tsung members, but in a graduated manner, closest first. Sometimes the "son" of a lesser tsung might also be heir to an office, but often all that he...

... . Song shi . 20 vols. Beijing : Zhonghua shuju . Waltner Ann. 1990 . Getting an Heir: Adoption and the Construction of Kinship in Late Imperial China . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press . Wilson Thomas A. 1995 . Genealogy of the Way: The Construction and Uses of the Confucian...

... and grandsons to an equal share of family property, thereby putting to rest any notion that daughters enjoyed that claim. Samuel Baron's eighteenth-century observations support this conclusion: Everyone enjoys what he gets by his own industry, and may leave his estate to his heirs and successors … The eldest...

... Native States (24,000 sq. miles), Oudh was the home of the bulk of the sepoys and native officers of the Company's Bengal Army, which mutinied in 1857. Under the Doctrine of Lapse, the Company claimed that on the death of a Native Ruler having no natural heir to succeed him, his State automatically...