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...Jane Kate Leonard Horatio Nelson Lay and Sino-British Relations 1854–1864 . By Jack J. Gerson . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1972 . x, 341 pp. Appendices, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $4.50 (paperback). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1973 1973 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Thomas P. Rohlen Lay Buddhism in Contemporary Japan: Reiyūkai Kyōdan . By Helen Hardacre . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 1984 . xviii, 267 pp. Illustrations, Figures, Tables, Appendix, Bibliography, Index. $35. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1986...

...Katherine L. Alexander Practicing Scripture: A Lay Buddhist Movement in Late Imperial China . By Barend J. ter Haar . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2014 . ix, 298 pp. ISBN: 9780824839277 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2017...

...Yue Zhang; Lingshuang Lai The Many Lives of Yang Zhu: A Historical Overview . Edited by Carine Defoort and Ting-mien Lee . Albany : State University of New York Press , 2022 . vi, 353 pp. ISBN: 9781438490397 . © 2024 Association for Asian Studies 2024 The Many Lives...

...Whalen Lai The Religious Philosophy of Nishitani Keiji . Edited by Taitetsu Unno . Berkeley : Asian Humanities Press , 1989 . xiv, 350 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper). The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism . By Nishitani Keiji . Translated by Graham Parkes with Setsuko Aihara...

...Yuen-Ting Lai BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 767 Discourse on the Natural Theology of the Chinese. By GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ (1646 1716). Translated by HENRY ROSEMONT, J R . , and DANIEL J. COOK. Honolulu: The University Press of Hawaii (Monographs of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, No. 4...

...Delin Lai Metaphor, of course, cannot have been the dominant consideration for a compiler of official building standards, nor was metaphor the only method Li Jie used for choosing the names of structural elements. For instance, the designation pupaifang (a kind of tie beam) may...

...Whalen W. Lai Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1981 1981 A Short History of Buddhism . By Edward Conze . London : George Allen & Unwin , 1980 . 135 pp. Bibliography. $8.95(cloth). BOOK REVIEWS ASIA GENERAL 331 tion not only of how to accelerate growth, but also...

... and originality was supported in a lengthy speech by Premier Chou En-lai in 1961. In this period of relatively liberal art policies, artists created some of their best works. While the popular, folk idioms (such as New Year's pictures) were by no means ignored, the greatest achievements were those...

... details the “ritual turmoil” (p. 226) that erupted upon the death of Sun Yat-sen in 1925 and the ensuing struggles about how he was to be memorialized. Wagner explains how Sun's ideas are reflected and symbolized in his mausoleum in Nanjing, designed by Lü Yanzhi (1894–1929). Delin Lai sets...