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...Meow Hui Goh Interpretation and Literature in Early Medieval China . Edited by Alan K. L. Chan and Yuet-Keung Lo . Albany : State University of New York Press , 2010 . vi, 288 pp. $80.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Philosophy and Religion in Early Medieval China . Edited by Alan K...

...Richard M. Eaton For God or Empire: Sayyid Fadl and the Indian Ocean World . By Wilson Chacko Jacob . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 2019 . xxi, 276 pp. ISBN: 9781503609631 (paper). Abraham's Luggage: A Social Life of Things in the Medieval Indian Ocean World...

...Darielle Mason The Sculpture of Early Medieval Rajasthan . By Cynthia Packert Atherton . Studies in Asian Art and Archaeology. Continuation of Studies in South Asian Culture. Edited by Jan Fontein . Vol. 21. Leiden : E. J. Brill , 1997 . xiv, 130 pp. $88.50 (cloth). Copyright ©...

...Dominic Steavu Copp is to be commended for his bid to redirect and reshape the study of medieval Chinese Buddhism in The Body Incantatory . It is a lofty aspiration for sure, but one that will succeed for two reasons. The first is that Copp is not alone in his endeavor. He stands shoulder...

...Anna M. Shields Literati Storytelling in Late Medieval China . By Manling Luo . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2015 . xii, 242 pp. ISBN: 9780295994147 (cloth, also available in paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2016  2016...

...Michal Biran Food and Environment in Early and Medieval China . By Eugene N. Anderson . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2014 . xi, 338 pp. ISBN: 9780812246384 (cloth; also available as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2016...

... (monastic and lay) made an impact on medieval Chinese culture by appropriating and applying Indian Buddhist models in the Chinese context. Chapter 3 provides the critical conceptual metaphors that frame his study. Thereafter, chapter 4 provides a detailed account of well-known translators like Zhiyi...

... Keizō ( Tokyo : Kondō shuppan , 1931 ), 30:456–59 . Shapinsky suggests that this source is unreliable (p. 260), but this view is not shared by the editors of Ehime kenshi kodai II chūsei [Ehime prefectural history ancient period 2 medieval] ( Matsuyama , 1984 ), 658...

... on the new king, the Xuanhe embassy had the covert purpose of persuading King Injong (r. 1122–49) of Koryŏ into aligning with Song against the formidable Jurchin Jin (1115–1234) state. Under the title A Chinese Traveler in Medieval Korea , Sem Vermeersch offers a fully annotated translation...

...Robert H. Brower The Ballad-Drama of Medieval Japan . By James T. Araki . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1964 . xvi, 289 , Appendix, Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrations, Index. $7.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1966 1966 342...

...Robert Eric Frykenberg Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1969 1969 Studies in Economic and Social Conditions of Medieval Andhra (A.D. 1000–1600) . By K. Sundaram . Machilipatnam and Madras : Triveni Publishers , 1968 . vi, 96 , ix pp. Appendix, Bibliography, Index...

... paragraph to the translation is marred by his misreading of the second character of the phrase chou Yü-pi bp as wang “King.” He thus has, “Kao Huan attacked Pi, king of Chou.” Studies in Medieval Chinese Siegecraft: The Siege of Yu-pi,a A.D. 5461 BENJAMIN E. WALLACKER NO R T H China in A.D. 546...

...F. Joüon Des Longrais Land and Society in Medieval Japan. Studies by Kan'ichi Asakawa . Compiled and edited by the Committee for the Publication of Dr. K. Asakawa's Works in Cooperation with the Council on East Asian Studies of Yale University. Published, with Introductory Essays by J. W...

...Stella Kramrisch Silpa Prakāśa: Medieval Orissan Sanskrit Text on Temple Architecture . By Rāmacandra Kaulācāra . Translated and annotated by Alice Boner and Sadāśiva Rath Śārmā . Leiden : E. J. Brill , 1966 . lvii , 166 , 102 pp. Plates, Illustrations, Sanskrit Text. 150 Guilders...

...Philip B. Calkins People and Politics in Early Medieval India: (1206–1398 A.D.) . By Asit Kumar Sen . Calcutta : Indian Book Distributing Co. , 1963 . viii, 168 pp. Bibliography, Index. Rs. 10.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968 1968 906 JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

... of importance are Noguchi Hirohisa, “ Kohon setsuwa shū no seiritsu to Uji shūi monogatari,” Gengo to bungei . Vol. 5, no. 4, 1963, pp. 253–263, and Kenji Satō , Konjaku monogatari, Uji shūi monogatari in Nihon koten kanshō kōza ( Kadokawa shoten , 1962 ) Vol. 8 . MEDIEVAL JAPANESE...

...Cornelius J. Kiley Imperial Restoration in Medieval Japan . By H. Paul Varley . New York : Columbia University Press , 1971 . xi, 188 pp. Appendices, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $8.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972 1972 BOOK REVIEWS 409 perfectly...

...Arthur F. Wright The Buddhist Conquest of China: The Spread and Adaptation of Buddhism in Early Medieval China . By E. Zürcher . Leiden : E. J. Brill , 1959 . Volume I : Text, xii, 320. Volume II: Notes, Bibliography, Indices. 321 – 468 . Gld. 58.— Copyright © The Association...

...Karen M. Gerhart Rewriting Medieval Japanese Women: Politics, Personality, and Literary Production in the Life of Nun Abutsu . By Christina Laffin . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2013 . viii, 270 pp. $49.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014...

...Benjamin J. Fleming Objects of Translation: Material Culture and Medieval “Hindu-Muslim” Encounter . By Finbarr B. Flood . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 2009 . 366 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 This volume...