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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (3): 722–724.
Published: 01 August 2005
...Haiyan Lee Revolution Plus Love: Literary History, Women's Bodies, and Thematic Repetition in Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction . By Jianmei Liu . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2003 . x , 272 pp. $49.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 722...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (2): 275–301.
Published: 01 May 2020
... by crucial political events and continuities that spanned these ruptures. The study revisits central tenets of Taiwanese literary history and, by seeking to articulate structuring principles, also unveils new perspectives on how to map and interpret the dynamics of literary systems and the ways in which...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1978) 37 (3): 578–579.
Published: 01 May 1978
...Surjit Singh Dulai Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1978 1978 Towards a Literary History of India . By Sujit Mukherjee . Simla : Indian Institute of Advanced Study (Occasional Papers), 1975 . vii, 103 pp. Appendixes, References. Rs. 26.00 578 JOURNAL OF ASIAN...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (1): 189–191.
Published: 01 February 2015
... intellectual and literary history, set in a strong undercurrent in which the author frequently (especially in the beginning chapters) muses about the meaning and possibility of general history and common human identity, arguing that general literary history and theory need to engage the particular experience...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (4): 1132–1134.
Published: 01 November 2007
...Kuei-fen Chiu Writing Taiwan: A New Literary History . Edited by David Der-wei Wang and Carlos Rojas . Durham and London : Duke University Press , 2006 . x , 412 pp. $89.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2007 2007 For those who...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (1): 187–194.
Published: 01 February 2019
.... 75). Although these characteristics have made the Ise an unlikely candidate for inclusion in the canon of world literature, it has always shared equal pride of place with Genji in Japanese literary history and has been widely read over the centuries and often pictorialized. Courtly Visions...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (3): 854–856.
Published: 01 August 2011
...Heonik Kwon Soldiers on the Cultural Front: Developments in the Early History of North Korean Literature and Literary Policy . By Tatiana Gabroussenko . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2010 . 248 pp. $49.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (2): 567–569.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Anne M. Blackburn Reading the Mahāvamsa: The Literary Aims of a Theravāda Buddhist History . By Kristin Scheible . New York : Columbia University Press , 2016 . 240 pp. ISBN: 9780231171380 (cloth, also available as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2018...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1966) 25 (3): 485–498.
Published: 01 May 1966
...Leon Zolbrod Abstract When students of Japanese literary history view the latter part of the Tokugawa period, two developments stand out. First, Edo replaced Kyoto and Osaka as the center of cultural activity. Second, a baffling variety of forms of prose fiction arose. The former stemmed largely...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1983) 42 (3): 599–606.
Published: 01 May 1983
...Anthony C. Yu Abstract Unquestionably the most comprehensive single study of High T'ang poetry to have appeared in English, Stephen Owens' book surveys a crucial segment of Chinese literary history and attempts to define a period style. Copious notes and translations enhance the analysis of less...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (1): 2–5.
Published: 01 February 1998
.... Their combined effect, however, has at times produced a civilizational sphere whose very self-definition rested with foundational claims to achievement in language. Yet despite the richness of this linguistic and literary history (or, perhaps, because of it), relatively few studies combine substantive textual...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (1): 113–141.
Published: 01 February 2014
...” between Korea and Japan when the two countries’ literary histories converged in a widely publicized performance across the empire. By reading the tensions between parallel yet unbridgeable nostalgic desires between Japan and Korea, and measuring the gap between the consumption of the tale as trendy...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1992) 51 (3): 565–586.
Published: 01 August 1992
... 1972 . Nihon bungaku no kindai to hankindai [The modern and anti-modern in Japanese literature], Tokyo : Tokyo Daigaku Shuppankai . Mitsuo Nakamura 1963 . Meiji bungakushi [Literary history of Meiji]. Tokyo : Chikuma Shobō . Yukihiko Nakamura 1966 . Gesakuron [Treatise...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1953) 13 (1): 49–62.
Published: 01 November 1953
... created during this period can be assured of a permanent place in the history of Chinese literature. Yet one ancient literary genre, biography, seems to have benefited little by the new movement. It is this fact that makes the excellent work now under review deserve more than usual attention. The work...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1950) 9 (3): 245–255.
Published: 01 May 1950
... of the modern Japanese novel. 1 Here I omit novels in the Chinese tradition and also pulp novels, both of which began much earlier. 2 Heisuke Sugiyama Bungei gojūnenshi (Literary arts: a 50-year history) ( Tōkyō : Masu shobō , 1948 ), 78 . 3 His pen-name was Shiba...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (4): 927–940.
Published: 01 November 2014
... on Methodology .” New Literary History 20 ( 3 ): 661 –77. Matheson James. 1836 . The Present Position and Prospects of the British Trade with China . London : Smith, Elder . Meadows Thomas T. 1847 . Desultory Notes on the Government and People of China, and on the Chinese Language . London...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (1): 5–27.
Published: 01 February 2011
... projects and the historical and literary ideas that informed them. The translators of Rajatarangini framed the text as more than a solitary example of Indian historical writing; rather, they engaged with it on multiple levels, drawing out, debating, and rethinking the definitions of literature and history...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (4): 897–918.
Published: 01 November 2007
...Rosinka Chaudhuri Abstract History, it seems, has to attain a degree of scientificity, resident in the truth-value of its narrative, before it can be called history, as distinguished from the purely literary or political. Invoking the work of Jacques Rancière and Hayden White, this essay...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1957) 16 (4): 503–527.
Published: 01 August 1957
.... 385 – 419 . 10 Sen'ichi Hisamatsu , Nihon bungaku hydrōnshi: kodai, chūsei hen [History of Japanese Literary Criticism: Ancient and Medieval Periods] ( Tokyo , 1949 ), pp. 46 – 56 . 11 For this, and earlier versions of the same poem, see Taizō Ehara , Shinkō...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1984) 43 (2): 247–272.
Published: 01 February 1984
... to Dutch, maintained Low Malay as their literary language. The second interesting phenomenon in the linguistic history of the Chinese of Java is the emergence of the mixed language, Indonesianized-Javanese, alongside the national language, standard Indonesian. Frequently the rise to prominence...