...Sudipta Sen The Origins of Modern Historiography in India: Antiquarianism and Philology, 1780–1880 . By Rama Sundari Mantena . New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2012 . xiii, 261 pp. 9781349343782 (paper, also available in cloth and as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian...

... Criticism to Social Criticism: The Historiography of Ku Chieh-kang LAURENCE A. SCHNEIDER central role of the intellectual in Chinese history, and the centrality of A history to the Chinese intellectual this is the most persistent theme in the provocative writings of Ku Chieh-kang (b. 1893), iconoclast...

...David M. Farquhar The Historiography of the Chin Dynasty: Three Studies . By Hok-lam Chan . Wiesbaden : Franz Steiner Verlag , 1970 . vi, 189 pp. Bibliography, n.p. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972 1972 BOOK REVIEWS 391 is common though not universal...

...Arthur F. Wright Chinese Traditional Historiography . By Charles S. Gardner , Second ed. Harvard Historical Monographs XI, Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1961 , XI, 124 . Additions, Index, $3.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1962 1962 372 JOURNAL...

...Peter Tsung Kei Wong Zhou History Unearthed: The Bamboo Manuscript Xinian and Early Chinese Historiography . By Yuri Pines . New York : Columbia University Press , 2020 . x, 333 pp. ISBN: 9780231196628 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 Zhou...

... to blunt the effectiveness of leftist nationalist rhetoric. An examination of New Right historiography on the colonial and postliberation periods, however, shows that despite the recent change in conservatives’ stance on nationalism, a preoccupation with the legitimacy of the South Korean state remains...

...Kwang-Ching Liu Abstract This article is based on academic journals published in the People's Republic of China (PRC) from 1978 to early 1980 and analyzes the trend in post-Mao historiography regarding peasant rebellions. Previous belief in the revolutionary nature of peasant rebellions is being...

...Kirk W. Larsen Constructing Korean “Origins”: A Critical Review of Archaeology, Historiography, and Racial Myth in Korean State-Formation Theories . By Hyung-Il Pai . Harvard-Hallym Series on Korea. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard East Asian Monographs , 2000 . xxxii, 543 pp. $49.50 (cloth...

...Richard J. Miller The Location of Yamatai: A Case Study in Japanese Historiography, 720–1945 . By John Young . The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science Series LXXV, Number 2, 1957 . Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins Press , 1958. 189 . $3.50 (paper...

...S. Y. Teng Abstract Chinese Historiography has a brilliant past. Both in quantity and in quality, only modern European historiography can be compared with it, while that of other old countries, such as India, is far inferior. Other peoples may boast of their philosophy, science, and art...

...Howard S. Levy Chung-kuo shih-hsüeh shih [A History of Chinese Historiography] . By Li Tsung-t'ung a . Taipei : Chung-hua wen-hua ch'u-pan shih-yeh wei-yüan-hui b , 1955 . 184 . N.T.$15.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1957 1957 114 THE JOURNAL...

... uncle, who had a far better claim to succeed to the throne than Jaka Tingkir. 17 I am indebted to Professor H. J. Benda of Yale for suggesting this line of enquiry. The Role of Structural Organisation and Myth in Javanese Historiography ANTHONY H. JOHNS TH E galaxy of non-indigenous elements...

...Justus M. van der Kroef An Introduction to Indonesian Historiography . Edited by Soedjatmoko and Mohammad Ali , G. J. Resink , and G. McT. Kahin . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 1965 . xxxvi, 427 , Abbreviations, Maps, Index. $9.75. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Giulio Agostini Riven by Lust: Incest and Schism in Indian Buddhist Legend and Historiography . By Jonathan A. Silk . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2009 . xviii, 347 pp. $55.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 The relevance...

..., may usefully draw that of Western readers as well. VOL. XXXVIII, No. i JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES NOVEMBER 1978 The People in History: Recent Trends in Japanese Historiography CAROL GLUCK THE present has changed in Japan, and with it the past. For an important group of Japanese historians, the postwar...

...A. Tom Grunfeld The Translation of Things Past: Chinese History and Historiography . Edited by George Kao . Hong Kong : Chinese University Press (A Renditions Book) , 1982 . 200 pp. Illustrations, Notes on Contributors. N.p. (Distributed by the University of Washington Press...

...Charlotte Furth Revolution and History: The Origins of Marxist Historiography in China, 1919–1937 . By Arif Dirlik . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1978 . xii, 299 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Index. $17.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1979 1979 754...

...Gerald W. Berkley Historiography of the Chinese Labor Movement . By Ming K. Chan . Stanford : Hoover Institution Press , 1981 . xvii , 232 pp. Author Index and Subject Index. $35. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1982 1982 126 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Soviet aid...

... and unconnected to any narrative frame. In the volume under review, each essay considers an event or individual in a cogent reexamination. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 Tall Tales and True: India, Historiography and British Imperial Imaginings . Edited by Kate...

...Willard Peterson The Readability of the Past in Early Chinese Historiography . By Wai-yee Li . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2007 . xii , 449 pp. $49.50 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 This book presents itself...