...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...

...Anne E. Monius Ritual and Mythological Sources of the Early Tamil Poetry . By Alexander M. Dubianskii . Groningen : Egbert Forsten , 2000 . xxi, 224 pp. Kāvya in South India: Old Tamil Cankam Poetry . By Herman Tieken . Groningen : Egbert Forsten , 2001 . 270 pp...

...Denzel Carr The Development of Modern Indonesian Poetry . By Burton Raffel . Albany : State University of New York Press , 1967 . xii, 278 pp. Appendix, Bibliography, Index. $7.00. An Anthology of Modern Indonesian Poetry . Edited by Burton Raffel . Albany : State University...

...Zhiling Lin The Red Azalea: Chinese Poetry since the Cultural Revolution . Edited by Edward Morin ; translated by Fang Dai , Dennis Ding , and Edward Morin . Introduction by Leo Ou-fan Lee . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1990 . xxix, 235 pp. $35.00. A Splintered...

...James R. Morita 968 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Depilautumn: The Poetry of Nakahara Chuya. Translated by KENNETH L. RICHARD and J O H N L. RILEY. Toronto: University of Toronto-York University Joint Centre on Modern East Asia, 1981. xiii, 69 pp. Sources and Notes. N.p. Treelike: The Poetry...

... history, they share a single critical and historical perspective that, if embraced by scholars, as Owen urges, would redirect the discipline's customary discourse about traditional Chinese literature and raise its level of sophistication in the process. The subject of Owen's Classical Poetry...

...Eugene Eoyang Modern Chinese Poetry: Theory and Practice since 1917 . By Michelle Yeh . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1991 . xiii, 252 pp. $27.50. Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetry . By Michelle Yeh . New Haven and London : Yale University Press , 1992 . lv, 241 pp...

...Nanxiu Qian Burying Autumn: Poetry, Friendship, and Loss . By Hu Ying . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2016 . ix, 380 pp. ISBN: 9780674737204 (cloth). Fiction's Family: Zhan Xi, Zhan Kai, and the Business of Women in Late-Qing China . By Ellen Widmer...

...Edwin Gerow Vidyākara's “Subhāṣitaratnakosa.” An Anthology of Sanskrit Court Poetry . Translated by Daniel H. H. Ingalls . Harvard Oriental Series, Vol. 44. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 1965 . x, 611 , Abbreviations and References, Alternative Readings and Emendations...

...Ainslie T. Embree Asia through Asian Eyes: Parables, Poetry, Proverbs, Stories, and Epigrams of the Asian People . Compiled by Bhaldoon Dhingra with a Foreword by K. M. Panikkar . Rutland, Vermont and Tokyo, Japan : Charles E. Tutde Company , 1959 . 296 . Bibliography, Biographical...

...W. E. Skillend Anthology of Korean Poetry: from the Earliest Era to the Present . Compiled and translated by Peter H. Lee . New York : The John Day Company , 1964 . 196. $5.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 BOOK REVIEWS 167 In making the selection...

... of the Gītagovinda ’s songs’ meters by earlier scholars, such as Stella Sandahl-Forgue and Edwin Gerow. While Knutson foregrounds realism in the “rustic vignettes” of Sena poetry (p. 8), he pays proportionally little attention to the reality behind the texts. One might have liked more engagement with historical...

... of the Sinographic cultural sphere. Reading Philosophy, Writing Poetry: Intertextual Modes of Making Meaning in Early Medieval China . By Wendy Swartz . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center . 318 pp. ISBN: 9780674983823 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022...

...Mehr Farooqi Urdu Poetry, 1935–1970: The Progressive Episode . By Carlo Coppola . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2018 . 702 pp. ISBN: 9780199403493 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2021 2021 Ever since Carlo Coppola submitted his dissertation...

...Christopher A. Born Idly Scribbling Rhymers: Poetry, Print, and Community in Nineteenth-Century Japan . By Robert Tuck . New York : Columbia University Press , 2018 . xxxv, 280 pp. ISBN: 9780231187343 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019  2019...

... and land of China than just "observable reality." This is a readable, scholarly, and informative book. It deserves the careful scrutiny of students of China as well as students of comparative literature. CHUN-JO LIU Stanford University New Chinese Poetry. Translated by Yu KWANGCHUNG. Taipei: Heritage Press...

...David T. Roy Abstract Scholars are agreed that the most significant literary development of the O Chien-an period, which coincided with the collapse of the Eastern Han empire, was the rise of the five word poem to a position of dominance in the field of Chinese poetry. Ts'ao Chih (A.D. 192–232...

...); or that the Guangdong tong zhi is the Guangdong provincial gazetteer, not the Guangzhou prefectural gazetteer (pp. 61, 64). On another level, this book is about poets: Cantonese literati who either identified themselves with, or were identified by others with, the Southern Garden Poetry Society. The author asserts...

... ideal of Eastern spirituality within the larger climate of literary production, specifically in new poetry. Through close reading of poems by Xu Zhimo and Bing Xin, this article argues that Tagore's ideas were fundamental for the development of poetry as an interpersonal medium that both portrays...

... benefit from this book. NORMAN SUN and ELIZABETH LI Temple University The Interlingual Critic: Interpreting Chinese Poetry. By JAMES J. Y. LIU. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982. xix, 132 pp. Notes, Bibliography, List of Chinese Words and Names, Index. $17.95. James J. Y Liu, Professor...