... of marriage (Gough 1959), the universality of the institution is still accepted up to this day (Ember and Ember 1999). Since the early 1980s, however, a growing body of literature on the Moso, a matrilineal group in Southwest China, has made available an ethnographic case in which marriage is not the primary...

...Laura Hostetler Naxi and Moso Ethnography. Kin, Rites, Pictographs . Edited by Michael Oppitz and Elisabeth Hsu . Zürich : Völkerkundemuseum Zürich , 1998 . 396 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 159 tended to reinforce...

... as a contribution to what we know about colonial knowledge formation, and the way in which kshatriya and dalit ideologies influenced the construction of colonial social identity. C H U A N - K A N G SHIH'S article explores the origins of Chinese-style marriage among the Moso, a people who lived in southwestern...

... titles in 2.4 million volumes in Japanese; 95,000 titles in 200,000 volumes in Korean; and 45,000 volumes in Manchu, Mongol, Tibetan, Moso, and other East Asian languages (Table 1). Western-language materials are not included in the tabulation; their location is uncertain and reporting is inconsistent...

... effective and potent are said to be makarre', and their EMBODIED SUMANGE ' IN LUWU 567 capacity to command is called moso'. Moso' is also the sting of a snake bite. People who lack moso' have these characteristics: they nag and reprimand their inferiors; they become visibly annoyed at small things...

... of this important subbranch. Traditionally, five ethnolinguistic divisions have been thought to make up the Loloish subbranch: Akha (or Hani), Lahu, Lisu, Lolo (or Yi), and Moso (or Nakhi). Bradley, on good evidence, excludes the last; the other four, he groups into a "Southern" (mainly Akha) division, a "Central...

... of this important subbranch. Traditionally, five ethnolinguistic divisions have been thought to make up the Loloish subbranch: Akha (or Hani), Lahu, Lisu, Lolo (or Yi), and Moso (or Nakhi). Bradley, on good evidence, excludes the last; the other four, he groups into a "Southern" (mainly Akha) division, a "Central...

..., this chapter makes a charming end to a thoroughly engaging and valuable book a book that every student of Chinese legal history should read. MATTHEW H. SOMMER University of Pennsylvania Naxi and Moso Ethnography. Kin, Rites, Pictographs. Edited by MICHAEL O P P I T Z and ELISABETH HSU. Zurich...

... Mongol and Chinese societies during the Yuan. LINDA WALTON Portland State University A Society without Fathers or Husbands: The Na of China. By CAI H U A . Translated by ASTI H U S T V E D T . New York: Zone Books, 2000. 505 pp. $33.00. The Na (a.k.a. Moso, Yongning Naxi; population 30,000) is a small...

... further finds that "the pictographic script was probably invented on purpose to save an endangered oral tradition from extinction," but that "the script alone . . . cannot substitute for the oral tradition" (p. 332). This volume makes an impressive contribution to Naxi and Moso studies, an area...

... and adaptation in the encounter between Mongol and Chinese societies during the Yuan. LINDA WALTON Portland State University A Society without Fathers or Husbands: The Na of China. By CAI H U A . Translated by ASTI H U S T V E D T . New York: Zone Books, 2000. 505 pp. $33.00. The Na (a.k.a. Moso, Yongning Naxi...

... most of Yunnan, parts of Sikang and Tibet, and a portion of southern Szechwan as well. The author frankly admits that this was never exclusively inhabited by the Moso or Nashi tribe, was never a political unit under the rule of a Nashi king or chief, and that in it live a considerable number of other...

... Chinese culture. This is the attitude which is still in existence today when we hear how lovingly Mongols, Tibetans, Lolo, Moso, Chuang and others, forget their freedom and are happy to see their "autonomous areas" slowly integrated into regular Chinese administrative units. And when they attempt...

... Press . Sen Sudipta . 2002 . “ The New Frontiers of Manchu China and the Historiography of Asian Empires: A Review Essay .” Journal of Asian Studies 61 ( 1 ): 165 –77. Shih Chuan-Kang . 1993 . “The Yongning Moso: Sexual Union, Household Organization, Gender, and Ethnicity...

... and Moso manuscripts kept at the National Peiping Library, a number of studies are in active preparation. Among them, A Descriptive Grammar of Lolo written in English by Professor Fu Mao-chi 'PJSSiSd is in the press and will be included in the Cambridge Oriental Series. With the liberation of Tibet...

...) a lexicon of the Hsi Hsia language including words and phrases compared with Lolo, Moso, and Tibetan and explained both in Chinese and English; (2) a new study on various old languages in Chinese Turkistan on the designations: T'u-hou-lo (Tokharian Wu-sun, Yueh-chih; (3) problems on political, social...

... (b) Iranian Avestan Pahlavi Saka (Khotanese) 16 10 10 (c) Dravidian Brahui Kannada Malayalam Tamil Telugu 1 13 19 83 27 (d) Tibeto-Burman Bhutanese 1 Burmese 176 Lolo 35 Manipuri 3 Moso (Nakhi) 94 Nervari 7 Tibetan 141 (e) Karen Taungthu 1 Tai Laos Shan Siamese 10 16 25 (g) Mon-Khmer Cambodian Peguan...

... and Presentation: Women in the Chinese Literati Tradition [AMY D. DOOLING] Ol, Rural China Takes Off: Institutional Foundations of Economic Reform [CARSTEN A. HOLZ] Ol and WALDER (eds Property Rights and Economic Reform in China [WANG FENG] OPPITZ and HSU (eds Naxi and Moso Ethnography. Kin, Rites, Pictographs...

..." SAUTMAN, BARRY. "Peking Man and the Politics of Paleoanthropological Nationalism in China" SHIH, CHUAN-KANG. "Genesis of Marriage among the Moso and Empire-Building in Late Imperial China" Japan BROOK, TIMOTHY. "The Tokyo Judgment and the Rape of Nanking" DUUS, PETER. "Presidential Address: Weapons...

... was casual.10 The film then presents a succession of minorities in various stages of transition from "matrilineality" to "patrilineality," including intimate scenes of marriage and mating rites among the Naxi, Dong, Bouyi, Yao, Hani, Wa (Va), Moso, Zhuang, and Miao (Hmong). Several of these groups...