...Matthew T. Kapstein The History of Tibet . By Alex McKay . London and New York : RoutledgeCurzon , 2003 . £450 (cloth). Alex McKay . Vol. 1 , The Early Period: To c. AD 850; The Yarlung Dynasty ., xxix , 624 pp London and New York : RoutledgeCurzon , 2003 . £450 (cloth...

...Robert H. Brower Japanese Literature in Chinese. Vol. I: Poetry and Prose in Chinese by Japanese Writers of the Early Period . Translated by Burton Watson . New York : Columbia University Press (Translations from the Oriental Classics), 1975 . 130 pp. Appendix. $9.00. Japanese...

... of California Press , 1937 – 1940 ), vol. 1 , pp. 234 – 243 , attributes the common error concerning tributary status to an incorrect extension into a later period of a pre-seventh century relationship between Japan and part of south Korea. 3 The term “Lord”is used to follow the Korean terminology...

...Mary C. Wright United States relations with China with special reference to the period 1944–1949 . Department of State publication no. 3573 . Washington , 1949 . xli, 1054 p. $3.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1950 1950 1 Hsin-hua she-she-lun, Wu...

...Jung-pang Lo Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1967 1967 Chʻing-chi ping kung-yeh ti hsing-chʻi (Rise of the armaments industry at the close of the Chʻing period) . By Wang Erh-min . Monograph No. 9 of the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taipei , 1963...

...Bernard S. Silberman Abstract One of the most recurrent themes in the descriptions and analyses of political development in Japan during the Meiji period (1868–1912) is the emergence of the genrō as the primary decision and policy-making group. Surprisingly, however, while a great deal has been...

...Harold Z. Schiffrin Liang Chʻi-chʻao yü Chʻing-chi ko-ming. Liang Chʻi-chʻao and the Revolution in the Late Chʻing Period . By Chang Pʻeng-yuan . Nan-kang, Taiwan : Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica , 1964 . Special publications series. 345 pp. Chronological table...

...Robert M. Marsh Abstract In China during the Ch'ing period, as before, many Confucian values were so family-centered as to tolerate degrees of nepotism not acceptable in some other societies. Ideally, of course, Confucian values admitted of no conflict between loyalty to the Emperor and loyalty...

... were actually unemployed from those who held “menial “jobs. See SSMH , IV, 70, 234; also, Hidezō Yoshikawa , “ Meiji shonen shitsugyō mondai “(“The problem of unemployment in the early Meiji period”), Keizaishi kenkyū , 14 , ( 1935 ), No. 2. 31 Quoted in Yoshikawa , SJK...

...Richard N. McKinnon Japanese Literature of the Showa Period. A Guide to Japanese Reference and Research Materials . By Joseph K. Yamagiwa . The University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies, Bibliographical Series No. 8. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , 1959 . xii , 212...

...Hugh R. Clark The Writing of Weddings in Middle Period China: Text and Ritual Practice in the Eighth through the Fourteenth Centuries . By Christian de Pee . Albany : State University of New York Press , 2007 . xiv , 365 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $27.95 (paper). Copyright ©...

...James T. C. Liu Abstract Most periodization schemes of Chinese history would note the significance of a “great divide.” It may be placed before the T'ang period, considering from ethnological as well as cultural standpoints such factors as the first major influx of non-Han conquering groups...

...Paul H. Clyde Korean-American Relations; Documents Pertaining to the Far Eastern Diplomacy of United States, Vol. II: The Period of Growing Influence, 1887–1895 . Edited, with an introduction, by Spencer J. Palmer . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1963 . xiii...

...Allen Atwell Principles of Composition in Hindu Sculpture; Cave Temple Period . By Alice Boner . Leiden : E. J. Brill , 1962 . xv , 260 . Glossary, Plates. D. gld 96. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 BOOK REVIEWS 333 were sites of cattle-pens; and (3...

... in the Tokugawa period can be documented. Kaga han needed an all-water route to Osaka because of the high cost of transshipping rice by land from Tsuruga to Osaka. This may have been the main reason for the development in the latter part of the seventeenth century of nishi mawari , the route for ships going from...

...David Schaberg Foundations of Confucian Thought: Intellectual Life in the Chunqiu Period, 722–453 BCE . By Yuri Pines . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 2002 . x, 387 pp. $55.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 B O O K R E V I E W S C H I N...

...: East Asia Cultures Critique 9 ( 3 ): 559 –84. De Certeau Michel . 2004 “ Material Ambiguity and the Hermetic Text: Cities, Tombs, and Middle-Period History .” Journal of Song-Yuan Studies , no. 34: 81 – 94 . Dongjing meng Hua lu “A Record of Dreaming of Hua in the Eastern Capital...

...Michael E. Robinson Everlasting Flower: A History of Korea . By Keith Pratt . London : Reaktion Books , 2006 . 320 pp. $34.95 (cloth); $27.00 (paper). A Concise History of Korea: From the Neolithic Period through the Nineteenth Century . By Michael J. Seth . Lanham, Md...

...Ari Daniel Levine The Yijing and Chinese Politics: Classical Commentary and Literati Activism in the Northern Song Period, 960–1127 . By Tze-Ki Hon . Albany : Stanford University of New York Press , 2005 . xi, 217 pp. $70.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005...

...Brian Platt Japan in Print: Information and Nation in the Early Modern Period . By Mary Elizabeth Berry . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 2006 . xvii , 325 pp. $60.00 (cloth), $24.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2008...