... country, northeastward to Han-yang, then south toward the Po-yang Lake, north again to Chiang-ning (modern Nanking), and finally into the East China Sea at modern Shanghai. Medieval Chinese called it simply “River”—a River among rivers, the designation of an entire S-shaped area whose character depended...

...David G. Marr Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam . By Frances Fitzgerald . Boston and Toronto : Little, Brown and Co. , 1972 . xvi, 491 pp. Map, Bibliography, Index. $12.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1973 1973 564 ent writer's...

...Peter C. Perdue Abstract Both the population and agricultural production of the Dongting Lake region in Hunan and Hubei provinces developed rapidly from the late Ming period through the mid-Qing period. During this period, the interests of local dike builders in clearing more land increasingly came...

...Pierre-Étienne Will Xiang Lake—Nine Centuries of Chinese Life . By R. Keith Schoppa . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1989 . xx, 284 pp. $30.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER ASIA 133 Despite China's official...

...Yeh-Chien Wang Chinese Rural Society in Transition: A Case Study of the Lake Tai Area, 1368–1800 . By James C. Shih . Berkeley : Center for Chinese Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California , 1992 . vii, 217 pp. $15.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...W. Lawrence Highfill How the Swans Came to the Lake: A Narrative History of Buddhism in America . By Rick Fields . Boston : Shambhala Publications , 1992 . xvii, 434 pp. $20.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 BOOK REVIEWS ASIA GENERAL 421...

...Rama Sundari Mantena Hibiscus on the Lake: Twentieth-Century Telugu Poetry from India . Edited and translated by Velcheru Narayana Rao . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 2003 . xxiii, 330 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004...

...Yugen Wang Drifting among Rivers and Lakes: Southern Song Dynasty Poetry and the Problem of Literary History . By Michael A. Fuller . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2013 . xi, 538 pp. $59.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015  2015...

...Marilyn Lake Making Chinese Australia: Urban Elites, Newspapers and the Formation of Chinese-Australian Identity, 1892–1912 . By Mei-fen Kuo . Clayton, Victoria : Monash University Publishing , 2013 . 308 pp. $39.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015...

... in the Department of Religion at Lake Forest College and in the Department of Theology at Loyola University Chicago. This history of Muslim stereotypes in Sinhala literature is therefore unending, just as it has no clear beginning. I thereby try to meet the challenge of postcolonial theorists like Ananda...

... was extinguished and his teachings remained almost unknown for some 2,000 years. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1949 1949 MO TI AND THE ENGLISH UTILITARIANS PHILIP L. RALPH* Lake Erie College 1 I F T H E DIFFERENCES in the milieus which foster distinct philosophies are kept in mind...

... of Chinese trade with the world. It will fill an embarrassing gap in many reading lists. Lake Forest College DOUGLAS S. PAATJW Central Government of China, 1912-1928: An Institutional Study. By FRANKLIN W. HOUN. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1957. ix, 246. Notes, Bibliography, Index. $4.50. China's...

... names: simply the Rāmāyaṇ (borrowing the title of the Sanskrit archetype that, for Hindi speakers, it has largely supplanted); the Tulsī Rāmāyaṇ (invoking its author); and also the Mānas (The lake), which is a condensation of its true title, Rāmcaritmānas (The lake of the acts of Rām). Encountering...

..., and they too quickly disappeared from the bookstores (Phan Cự Dệ 1974:21). Girls disappointed in love succumbed to the influence of the work and committed suicide by jumping into Lake Tây or Lake Trùe Bạch. The work provoked a debate concerning what was proper reading for young women that continued...

... of Enlightened Civilization by employing two East Asian literary tropes: the dangerous but exciting Rivers-and-Lakes World, where the protagonist ventures to search for văn minh , and the peaceful and other-worldly Peach Blossom Spring utopia, where the true qualities of văn minh are realized. These stories...

..., for example, refused to testify against the artist Jiang Feng, the academy's director and a man to whom he felt personal loyalty. The sculptor was declared an “extreme rightist” and sent to a labor camp at Xingkai Lake in Heilongjiang on the Soviet border. His entire sculptural output for the following years...

..., and in the Chengkung and Kunming lake region censuses taken co-operatively by the Ministry of the Interior, the Yunnan provincial government, the Economic Council of Yunnan, and the Institute of Census Research of Tsing Hua University during the war years. Later chapters are devoted primarily to the analysis...