... technique of versification, the poems serve to heighten both scenic situations and character developments. The narrative effect thus achieved may best be appreciated when it is compared with epic songs and heroic sagas of other cultures. Another means with which the novel is endowed with epic magnitude...

...Carlos Rojas Chinese Modern: The Heroic and the Quotidian . By Xiaobing Tang . Durham : Duke University Press , 2000 . xiii, 380 pp. $64.95 (cloth); $21.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 260 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES comparative works...

... to the original text. ROSANE ROCHER Fonds National Beige de la Recherche Scientifique, Philadelphia Tamil Heroic Poetry. BY K. KAILASAPATHY. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968. xv, 282 pp. Index. $9.00. This impressive book represents a successful application of recent advances in the theory of oral literature...

...Ann Grodzins Gold The Many Lives of a Rajput Queen: Heroic Pasts in India c. 1500–1900 . By Ramya Sreenivasan . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2007 . x , 276 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper) . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2008 2008...

...William A. Callahan Abstract Ai Weiwei is famous for crossing boundaries, especially the boundary between art and politics. To appreciate the often contradictory nature of Ai's work, this essay employs multiple narratives: “Ai the Heroic Warrior” who criticizes the Chinese government; “Ai the Court...

... colonial period who sought to engage substantively in mass-based politics and is remembered as a heroic anti-colonial figure. This article explores the contradictions and ironies in Bandaranaike's turn to indigeneity and the political and cultural implications of this turn. It also briefly discusses...

... life in the battle of Kerbela rather than swear allegiance to one whom he did not consider fit to be caliph and a successor to the Prophet. To mark the occasion, the villagers had gathered to recount the heroic resistance offered by Husain and his tiny band of seventy-two persons against fearful odds...

...T. A. Hsia Abstract As the legend goes, the reign of Sui Yang-ti was a great heroic age. The heroes were destined to fight either on the side of or against the great emperor to come, T'ang T'ai-tsung. Before the fall of Sui, however, Sui Yang-ti summoned all the rebels to Yangchow for a tournament...

... or harakiri ), remonstration suicide ( kanshi ) in protest against a corrupt superior, and suicide out of devotion to a lord or superior ( junsbi ), all of which are surrounded by “a heroic, romantic, aesthetic, and moral aura” (Lebra 1976:190). Suicide is, of course, an extraordinary act in Japan...

..., while the other is fixed upon the very personal if enormously heroic qualities of Chairman Mao. In the opening stages of a Communist revolution (and perhaps of most revolutions), a cult of personality comes so naturally and serves so many strategi c purposes, it is difficult to avoid, whatever the logic...

... shared assumptions about the indebtedness of the living to their heroic compatriots and ancestors. To remember these conflicts and those who (depending on the political context) either “lost” or “gave” their lives has been throughout recent history a vital act of citizenship, both “affirming...

... narratives of different genres that have become critical sources for a history of the rebel leader Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi and for configuring her as an icon of heroic Indian womanhood. It places each of these sources, ranging from late nineteenth-century Marathi texts to mid-twentieth-century Hindi...

... (paper). The veneration of heroic gures from a valorous martial past has been and is still a crucial feature of the self-image of the Rajputs of Rajasthan. Traditionally, scholarship has focused on the role of elite men re ning their Rajput lineages through tales of the exploits of their great leaders...

...: there is not much war, little palace intrigue, no dynastic succession, no villain, and the male protagonist is certainly not heroic. But Cilappatikaram is not really about him; instead, its heroine, Kannaki, is a woman steadfast in virtue. She says to her husband, "You have done things that good men/ Would have...

..., might be the political serviceability or the affective charge of the ample quotient of heroic female icons that marked the discourse of the bhadralok male anxious to wrench at least a historical past, if not the historical present of colonial rule, from the ascendancy of racist traditions of colonial...

... labor movement, and it puts forward interesting ideas on the formation of class identities in China, many of which will have broader comparative relevance. TIM WRIGHT University of Sheffield Chinese Modem: The Heroic and the Quotidian. By X I A O B I N G T A N G . Durham: Duke University Press, 2000...

... characters, among them prominence to heroic characters, and among heroic characters prominence to the most heroic character. The attempted forcing of these and other ideas on traditional-style painting is discussed in Han Su-yin, “Chung-kuo hua t'an ch'un i nung” [Spring in the Chinese Painting World], Ch'i...

..., by invoking the concept of “heroic theatricals,” she shows that heroism was made manifest by the coupling of characters who engaged in spectacular acting and those who served as their admiring spectators: Li Kui and Song Jiang, Lu Zhishen and Lin Chong, and Yang Xiong and Shi Xiu are a few examples...

... Foreign Policy Marlene J. Mayo Political Economism in the Thought of Dazai Shundai (1680-1747) Tetsuo Najita The Political Life of the Japan Medical Association William E. Steslic\e The Sai Baba Movement: Approaches to the Study of Indian Saints Charles S White Heroic Verse and Heroic Humanism: Dimensions...

... with a good analysis of a heroic contemporary figure, Hayashi Takeshi, by Marie Thorsten Morimoto; and a sophisticated analysis of heroic film characters who display seishin (spiritual strength) by Dissanayake. Unfortunately, this leaves the impression that Japanese must be heroic to exert agency and resist...