...Sherman Cochran; Charles A. Peterson Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 Obituaries KNIGHT BIGGERSTAFF (1906-2001) Knight Biggerstaff, Cornell Emeritus Professor of Chinese History and Asian Studies, died on May 13, 2001, in Ithaca, New York. Born in Berkeley...

...Liu Wu-chi The Chinese Knight-errant . By James J. Y. Liu . Chicago : The University of Chicago Press , 1967 . xiv, 208 pp. Bibliography, Glossary, Index. $5.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968 1968 BOOK REVIEWS 625 Chu Hsi from his opponents respectively...

... Abstract The Journal 's May 1997 issue (56.2) carried an error in Roger B. Jeans's review of Nick Knight's Li Da and Marxist Philosophy in China . On page 478, the third sentence was misedited to add the word “the” before the word “China.” The same sentence should read: “In this dense work, Knight...

...M. M. Knight Japan's war economy . By T. A. Bisson . New York : Macmillan, for the Institute of Pacific Relations , 1945 . xv, 267 p. $3.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1946 1946 BOOK REVIEWS 463 and its validity. Granted that Theodore Roosevelt, and many...

...Deirdre Sabina Knight Ways with Words: Writing about Reading Texts from Early China . Edited by Pauline Yu , Peter Bol , Stephen Owen and Willard Peterson . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2000 . ix, 283 pp. $48.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association...

...Roderic Knight Music in South India: The Karnatak Concert Tradition and Beyond; Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture . By T. Viswanathan and Matthew Harp Allen . Global Music Series. New York : Oxford University Press , 2004 . xxv , 150 pp. CD. $34.95 (cloth); $17.95 (paper...

...Deirdre Sabina Knight Chinese Modernism in the Era of Reforms: Cultural Fever, Avant-Garde Fiction, and the New Chinese Cinema . By Xudong Zhang . Durham, N.C. and London : Duke University Press , 1997 . xiv, 431 pp. $21.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...John Knight Abstract I n the village of ukegawa there stood, until recently, a large chestnut tree up on the hillside in the garden of the village doctor's family. In the 1960s macaques started to descend from the mountains to feed on the tree every autumn. The old doctor, a kindly man with a well...

...Deirdre Sabina Knight A Buddhist History of the West: Studies in Lack . By David R. Loy . Albany : State University of New York Press , 2002 . vii , 244 pp. $62.50 (cloth); $26.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 724 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N...

...Deirdre Sabina Knight The Subject in Crisis in Contermporary Chines Literature . By Rong Cai . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2004 . xii, 282 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 B O O K R E V I E W S C H I N A 997...

...Sabina Knight Contemporary Chinese Fiction by Su Tong and Yu Hua: Coming of Age in Troubled Times . By Hua Li . Leiden; Boston : Brill , 2011 , ix, 227 pp. $123.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2012 2012 This book offers a welcome addition...

...Deirdre Sabina Knight The Other Shore: Plays by Gao Xingjian . By Xingjian Gao . Translated by Gilbert C. F. Fong . Hong Kong : The Chinese University Press , 1999 , distributed by University of Michigan Press, xlii , 312 pp. $18.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian...

... name “a household word in England. He received £70,000 as his share of the spoils” (Mehra 1985, 496–97) and was knighted. In 1851 he quarrelled with James Ramsey, the Marquess of Dalhousie (governor general of India from 1847 to 1856), and left India. In 1844, the following item appeared in a British...

...Knight Biggerstaff China and America: the story of their relations since 1784 . By Foster Rhea Dulles . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1946 . vii, 277 p. $2.75. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1947 1947 BOOK REVIEWS 189 China and America: the story...

...Knight Biggerstaff Abstract During the winter of 1867–1868 the Chinese Foreign Office dispatched its first diplomatic mission to the United States and Europe. The stipulated time for treaty revision was drawing near and the Chinese government had reason to expect that the Treaty Powers, under...

...Knight Biggerstaff 326 THE FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY and do not, have the custom of taking their mothers for wives. As for marrying the wives and concubines of a former khan, this was no new custom peculiar to the Mongols: The Huns, Turks and Uighurs did the same (cf. Cordier, Notes and addenda to Sir...

...Knight Biggerstaff COMMENTS 303 Thus, he maintained that Li Hung-chang exerted more influence over Chinese education than Chang Chih-tung, an assertion that is contrary to all contemporary evidence. With much exaggeration, Martin also made the assertion that "an American Company had laid out...

...Knight Biggerstaff Hart and the Chinese Customs . By Stanley F. Wright . Belfast : Wm. Mullan and Son , 1950 . xiv, 949 . 45 shillings. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1952 1952 482 THE FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY the University of Pennsylvania has a large number (30...

...Knight Biggerstaff Modern China's Foreign Policy . By Werner Levi . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 1953 . 399 . Notes and index. $5.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1954 1954 BOOK REVIEWS 113 and boasted of the cheapest electric power rates...

...Knight Biggerstaff China's Management of the American Barbarians: A Study of Sino-American Relations, 1841–1861, with Documents . By Earl Swisher . Far Eastern Association Monograph No. 2. New Haven : Far Eastern Publications, Yale University , 1953 . xxi, 844 . $7.50; $6.75 to members...