...." Quibbles aside, this is a book that the specialist in Chinese poetry will find rewarding and thought provoking. RICHARD W. BODMAN St. Olaf College Zhongguo lishi xue nianjian [Chinese Historical Studies Yearbook], Compiled by the CHINESE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION. Beijing: Renmin chuban she, 1979, 1981, 1982...

.... Princeton, New Jersey MARGARET SPROUT Rome and China: a study of correlations in historical events. BY FREDERICK J. TEGGART. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1939. xvii, 283 p. $3.00. The problem undertaken in this painstaking study is to find a rational and universally applicable cause...

...Philip Yampolsky “Issen kyūhyaku yonjūkyū-nen no rekishi gakkai” (Historical Studies in Japan, 1949). Shigaku zasshi ., 59 , no. 5 (May 1950 ), 22 – 67 . Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1951 1951 * Alexander Soper will review recent Hōryūji scholarship...

... early Showa Japan and show how the concerns of such theorists and activists are not merely of historical interest, but constitute our present. The key logic that connects the themes of these three texts (e.g., class struggle and creation of a socialist world) is, of course, the logic of capital, which...

...Clyde B. Sargent Abstract In the latter half of the first century A.D. a Chinese scholar picked up his brush and began to compile historical records. A political indiscretion prematurely terminated his labors, but he gave twenty years of his life to the task. The result of his work is one...

...Jeremy Menchik Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment: A Global and Historical Comparison . By Ahmet T. Kuru . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2019 . xvii, 303 pp. ISBN: 9781108409476 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 Islam...

... as failures. His most successful trade items—cotton, raw silk, and silkworm eggs—were only temporarily profitable for him, but historically quite significant. In finding foreign buyers for products from his native province of Kōshū, he linked the hinterland with the entrepôt of Yokohama, and the global market...

...Carl Bielefeldt Dōgen's Formative Years in China: An Historical Study and Annotated Translation of the Hōkyō-ki . By Takashi James Kodera . Boulder, Colo. : Prajñā Press , 1980 . xx , 258 pp. Glossary, Bibliography, Chinese text. $25.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies...

...William Wayne Farris State Formation in Korea: Historical and Archaeological Perspectives . By Gina L. Barnes . Richmond, Surrey, UK : Curzon Press , 2001 . xxi, 245 pp. £45.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 BOOK REVIEWS KOREA 881...

...Cecil Hobbs Hinduism and Buddhism. An Historical Sketch . In three volumes. By Charles Eliot Sir . New York : Barnes & Noble, Inc. , 1954 . $17.50. Siam. Basic Handbook . London , Foreign Office , ( 1945 ?) 147 . Appendices, maps. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Harold C. Hinton China's March Toward the Tropics: A Discussion of the southward penetration of China's culture, peoples and political control in relation to the non-Han-Chinese peoples of South China and in the perspective of historical and cultural geography . By Herold J. Wiens . Hamden...

...Marius B. Jansen Nationalism in Japan: An Introductory Historical Analysis . By Delmer M. Brown . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1955 . viii, 336 . $5.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1955 1955 586 FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY that carry an automobile...

... on the site of Karakorum, which had been established by Ogodai, son of Cinggis Khan. It thus bore a peculiarly potent historical and religious significance to the Mongols. 8 Cf. Kolarz , 140 : “From the Soviet point of view it would have been better if the ruins of the Mongolian cultural...

... . English translation from the German by Rev. Lobscheid W. , The Numerical Relation of the Population of Chin, during the 4000 Years of Its Historical Existence; or, The Rise and Fall of the Chinese Population ( Hon Kong : A Shortrede & Co. , 1862 ; 2nd ed. , 1864 ) . The original Russian...

... historical perspective helps make sense of this politics of citizen intellectuals. The efforts of China's intellectuals under the authoritarian Nationalist Party state of Chiang Kaishek in the 1930s and 1940s come to mind. But the vibrancy of Chinese “everyday politics” goes back further in time and beyond...

...Stephen L. Field Five Classics of Fengshui: Chinese Spiritual Geography in Historical and Environmental Perspective . By Michael John Paton . Leiden : Brill , 2013 . xx, 422 pp. $177.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014  2014 For much of its...

... interest- the formation of the South-East Asia Com- related historical development. No claim is mand, or SEAC "no single name had been made that it is a definitive work; rather it is an applied to the whole area, and those normally effort to put together known facts in the his- given to its major divisions...

...Conrad Totman Japan: A Historical Survey. . By Mikiso Hane . New York : Charles Scribner's Sons , 1972 . ix, 650 pp. Appendices, Selected Bibliography, Index. $15.00 (cloth), paper $6.50 (paperback). Japanese Culture: A Short History. . By H. Paul Varley . New York : Praeger...

... STUDIES MAY 1976 In Search of the Historical Kuan Chung SYDNEY ROSEN IN any anthology of Chinese political writing, one is likely to find the names Kuan Chung or Kuan Tzu scattered in the works of most, if not all, periods from the Spring and Autumn to the present. According to a widely accepted tradition...

...Sherman G. Cochran China's Modern Economy in Historical Perspective . Edited By Dwight H. Perkins . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1975 . xiv, 344 pp. Tables, Diagrams, Notes, Index. $13.85 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1976 1976 142 JOURNAL OF ASIAN...