...Wilt L. Idema Mothers and Sons in Chinese Buddhism . By Alan Cole . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1998 . xvii, 303 pp. $49.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 523 micropolitics rather than because they understood class...

...Wilt L. Idema Ming Erotic Novellas: Genre, Consumption, and Religiosity in Cultural Practice . By Richard G. Wang . Hong Kong : Chinese University Press , 2011 . xiv, 319 pp. $50.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2012 2012 When Lu Xun wrote his...

...Elena S. Y. Chiu Two Centuries of Manchu Women Poets: An Anthology . Translated by Wilt L. Idema . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2017 . xii, 316 pp. ISBN: 9780295999869 (cloth, also available as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2018  2018...

...Siyuan Liu On top of such an abundance of sources, Idema also sorts through the legend of Dong Yong, the various pre-1949 stage versions, and the several rounds of revisions from 1951 to 1957 to provide, in chapters 1 and 2, a clear guide to, and substantive analysis of, the multiple revisions...

...Winston L. Y. Yang Chinese Vernacular Fiction: The Formative Period . BY W. L. Idema . Leiden : E. J. Brill, Institutum Sinologicum Lugduno Batavum, Sinica Leidensia , Vol. XIII , 1974 . lxiv, 146 pp. Bibliography. 68 D.Gld. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1977 1977...

...Kimberly Besio Monks, Bandits, Lovers, and Immortals: Eleven Early Chinese Plays . Edited and translated by Stephen H. West and Wilt L. Idema . Indianapolis, Ind. : Hackett , 2010 . xlii, 478 pp. $48.00 (cloth); $16.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...I-Hsien Wu 1 Wilt L. Idema , Judge Bao and the Rule of Law: Eight Ballad-Stories from the Period 1250–1450 ( Singapore : World Scientific , 2010 ) ; Idema, The Resurrected Skeleton: From Zhuangzi to Lu Xun (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014); Idema, trans., Records...

..., and other folk beliefs are not men- the range of Idema's arguments are impressive. tioned at all. It is an ambitious survey of the early history of While the shortcomings of this book tend to Chinese vernacular fiction; Idema has cast doubt overshadow its virtues, the Stovers might be on earlier theories...

...William Dolby The Dramatic Oeuvre of Chu Yu-tun (1379-l439) . By W. L. Idema . Leiden : E. J. Brill , 1985 . viii, 283 pp. Paper. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER ASIA 363 Thought and Institutions, ed. John K. Fairbank...

...Angela Ki Che Leung 1 Glen Dudbridge , Books, Tales and Vernacular Culture: Selected Papers on China ( Leiden : Brill , 2005 ) ; Wilt Idema , “ Diseases and Doctors, Drugs and Cures: A Very Preliminary List of Passages of Medical Interest in a Number of Traditional...

...Chün-fang Yü Escape from Blood Pond Hell: The Tales of Mulian and Woman Huang . Translated and introduced by Beata Grant and Wilt L. Idema . Seattle; London : University of Washington Press , 2011 . x, 278 pp. $70.00 (cloth); $35.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian...

... appreciate the impressive efforts Idema ivories such as the PH "were written at the has made toward developing better understand- Mongol court, as educational and moralistic ing of the history of early Chinese vernacular reading material for the only partly sinicized fiction. His intellectual courage...

... both Yuan elements and Ming editorial changes” (p. 1). This principle is reflected in the anthology's treatment of textual variations, as it seeks to balance between restoring “authentic” Yuan texts and respecting the aesthetic value of Ming editors' versions. In contrast to Wilt L. Idema...

...William O. Hennessey Chinese Theater, 1100–1450: A Source Book . By Wilt Idema and Stephen H. West . Munchener Ostasiatische Studien, Band 27. Wiesbaden : Franz Steiner Verlag GMBH , 1982 . xv, 523. Preface, List of Plates, Plates, General Introduction, Notes to the Translations, Glossary...

... extensive revisions by Zhang Hongsheg 張宏生. 4 And while Hinsch makes very good use of Haun Saussy and Kang-I Sun Chang's excellent anthology Women Writers of Late Imperial China (1999), he does not cite Wilt Idema and Beata Grant's The Red Brush (2004), an equally useful anthology of works by women...

.... Clearly this idea also has bearing on the work of Ho Pingti and others, and we should be grateful to Hymes for raising it. MARK ELVIN University of Oxford TheDramaticOeuvreofChuYu-tun(1379-l439). E. J. Brill, 1985. viii, 283 pp. Paper. ByW. L. IDEMA. Leiden: The early Ming dynasty imperial family included...

..., Calif : Stanford University Press . Wolf Arthur and Gates Hill . In press. “Modelling Chinese Marriage Regimes.” In Idema Wilt L. and Vermeer Eduard B. , eds., Fujian and Taiwan in the 19th and 20th Centuries . Leiden : E. J. Brill . Communications to the Editor...

... . This long-anticipated work compares in its scope and breadth to Kang-I Sung Chang's Women Writers of Traditional China (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1999) or Wilt Idema and Beata Grant's The Red Brush (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004), for instance. Once again beginning...

... to understand how deeply entrenched ideas around gender and sexuality in China have evolved will be able to turn to this book for insight. In her afterword, Susan Mann (citing Stephen West and Wilt Idema) suggests that the delicate topic of sex in China has been neglected by researchers (p. 199). While...

.... His monograph is not only of interest to Buddhologists, but also essential reading for everyone who is interested in the traditional Chinese family or vernacular literature. W I L T L. IDEMA Harvard University Genghis Khan: Conqueror of the World. By LEO DE H A R T O G . New York: I. B. Tauris & Co...