...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...

...William R. Roff Southeast Asian Periodicals: An International Union List . By G. Raymond Nunn , et al. London : Mansell, Information Publishing Ltd. , 1977 . xxiii, 456 pp. £30.00; $50.00. Periodicals for Southeast Asian Studies: A Union Catalogue of Holdings in Britain and Selected...

...N. Gerald Barrier Union Catalogue of Social Science Periodicals: Karnataka . Social Science Documentation Centre, New Delhi. New Delhi : SSDC , 1973 . xxiv, 74 pp. Rs. 30; export $9.00 Delhi ., SSDC. New Delhi : SSDC , 1973 . xxix, 519 pp. Rs. 80; export, $24.00 Periodicals...

...Chong-Sik Lee G-2 Periodic Report . United States Armed Forces in Korea (USAFIK) Headquarters. 8 volumes, September 9, 1945/June 17, 1949. G-2 Periodic Report . United States Military Advisory Group in Korea (USMAGIK) Headquarters. 2 volumes, July 26, 1949/June 15, 1950. G-2 Weekly Summary...

... 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...

...: a Study of the Characteristic Weapon of the Bronze Age in China in the Period 1311-1039 B.C." During the war years (1942-46) he acted as a Chinese consultant with the U. S. Office of War Information in San Francisco and Washington, and then retired to Toronto because of a heart attack. Dr. Menzies passed...

... to valuable detailed studies of Tokugawa commerce and to attempts to interpret Japan's economic development in its own terms. Among the first to do this were the members of the so-called “Kyoto School” under Professor E. Honjō. Changes in Japanese Commerce in the Tokugawa Period E. S. CRAWCOUR r I "'HE...

...Jessie G. Lutz Controversies in Modern Chinese Intellectual History: An Analytic Bibliography of Periodical Articles, Mainly of the May Fourth and Post-May Fourth Era . By Chun-Jo Liu . Cambridge, Mass. : East Asian Research Center, Harvard University Press , 1964 . vii, 207 . Glossary...

...Edwin G. Beal, Jr Index Sinicus; A catalogue of articles relating to China in periodicals and other collective publications 1920–1955 . Compiled by John Lust . Cambridge, England : W. Heffer & Sons Limited , 1964 . xxx, 663 . £8 8s. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...Alexander Soper From Castle to Teahouse: Japanese Architecture of the Momoyama Period . By John B. Kirby Jr. , Rutland and Tokyo : Charles E. Tuttle Company , 1962 . xv , 268 . Illustrations; Bibliography, Index. $12.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1963...

...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...

...Ping-Kuen Yu Abstract China is known for a long and outstanding tradition of historical writing, but it has been only in this century that an examination of history has developed in periodicals. The earliest of these periodicals was Hsin-min Ts'ung-pao , which was published in 1902 in Yokohama...

...Ping-Ti Ho Abstract Although the Ch'ing period is generally regarded as one of the better studied and understood periods of Chinese history, the existing fund of our knowledge is actually far from adequate. A systematic discussion of the significance of the entire period from 1644 to 1912 would...

...Holden Furber Early English Travellers in India: A Study in the Travel Literature of the Elizabethan and Jacobean Periods with Particular Reference to India . By Ram Chandra Prasad . Delhi, Patna, Varanasi : Motilal Banarsi Dass , 1965 . xxii, 392 pp. Rs. 25. Copyright ©...

...Horace I. Poleman Nifor Guide to Indian Periodicals 1955–1956 . Poona : National Information Service , 1955 . Indexes. $6.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1957 1957 326 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES see daily Japanese life also made it inevitable that at some...

... trends in fertility and mortality. In general, this work is a useful population reference guide and a practical tool for area specialists in many disciplines. Library of Congress LEO ORLEANS Intellectual Trends in the Ch'ing Period. By LIANG CH'I-CH'AO. Translated by IMMANUEL C. Y. Hsu...

...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...

...Clarence Norwood Weems An Index to English Language Periodical Literature Published in Korea, 1890–1940 . By Jefferson McRee Elrod . Seoul : Yonsei University , 1960 . 214 . [Electrostatically printed and bound Index , $20.00; microfilm of Index and of all ten periodicals indexed (22...

...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...