...David Pollack Abstract In Japan between 1770 and 1790, the craze for witty, comic verse forms such as kyōka and senryū, infected the ancient and noble tradition of poetry written in Chinese to produce kyōshi, “wild Chinese poetry.” Written in both Edo and Kyoto by poets of the lower samurai...

...Jonathan D. Pollack The Chinese Military System: An Organizational Study of the Chinese People's Liberation Army . By Harvey W. Nelsen . Boulder, Colorado : Westview Press; and London: Thornton Cox Publishers , 1977 . xiv, 266 pp. Tables, Charts, Maps, Appendix, Notes, Selected...

...David Pollack Remembering Paradise: Nativism and Nostalgia in Eighteenth-Century Japan . By Peter Nosco . Cambridge, Mass. : Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University , 1990 . xv, 271 pp. $27.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 938...

...David Pollack A Blade of Grass: Japanese Poetry and Aesthetics in Dōgen Zen . By Steven Heine . Asian Thought and Culture 1. New York : Peter Lang , 1989 . xxi, 171 pp. $32.90. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 157 A Blade of Grass...

...David Pollack Ikkyū and the Crazy Cloud Anthology . By Sonja Arntzen . New York : Columbia University Press , 1987 . xvi, 178 pp. $24.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988 1988 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 369 Although radically different in scope, format...

...Neil F. McMullin Reading against Culture: Ideology and Narrative in the Japanese Novel . By David Pollack . Ithaca and London : Cornell University Press , 1992 . x, 259 pp. $41.50 (cloth); $14.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Kenneth Kraft Zen Poems of the Five Mountains . By David Pollack . New York : The Crossroad Publishing Company and Decatur, Ga.: Scholars Press , 1985 . (American Academy of Religion Studies in Religion 37.) Illustrations, Notes, Biographies of the Poets, Index of Poems, viii, 167 pp...

...Thomas Blenman Hare The Fracture of Meaning: Japan's Synthesis of China from the Eighth Through the Eighteenth Centuries . By David Pollack . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1986 . xvi, 250 pp. Illustrations, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $32.50. Copyright © The Association...

..., leaving a powerful legacy in his country for future generations. JAMES M. PHILLIPS Overseas Ministries Study Center, Ventnor, New Jersey Zen Poems of the Five Mountains. By DAVID POLLACK. New York: The Crossroad Publishing Company and Decatur, Ga.: Scholars Press, 1985. (American Academy of Religion...

... The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1987 1987 420 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Life is as illusory as dew, a lightning flash, In the end just a deceptive dazzle of light; Events can go swarming past in confusion as they will I eat my white rice, watch the green mountains, (p. 52) Pollack's fluent...

.... It was almost a mirror image of the nineteenth-century foreign resident view of Japanese society. EDWARD R. BEAUCHAMP University of Hawaii at Manoa Reading against Culture: Ideology and Narrative in theJapanese Novel. By D A V I D POLLACK. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1992. x, 259 pp. $41.50...

... a stimulating and well-argued analysis, perhaps the best in the book, of competing science policy alternatives. Suttmeier's analysis of policy alternatives might profitably be used to analyze other kinds of policy conflicts. Finally, Jonathan D. Pollack seeks to show why "China is now one of the biggest...

... The Fracture of Meaning: Japan's Synthesis of China from the Eighth Through the Eighteenth Centuries. By DAVID POLLACK. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986. xvi, 250 pp. Illustrations, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $32.50. In this attractively produced and ambitious book, David Pollack purports to follow...

.... Pollack on Sino-American relations. The chapters tackle BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER ASIA 201 slightly different slices of time; Robinson covers the 1965-75 decade and Pollack the period 1968-1982. From these extraordinarily detailed assessments one is left with an appreciation of both Chinese...

... Japan GLUCK, CAROL. The People in History: Recent Trends inJapanese Historiography 25 HOLLERMAN, LEON. International Economic Controls in Occupiedjapan 707 POLLACK, DAVID. Kyoshi:Japanese "WildPoetry" 499 RICE, RICHARD. Economic Mobilization in WartimeJapan: Business, Bureaucracy, and Military...

... and logic, one which is genealogical and combinatory, and suggests in turn several conclusions about the relationship of individuals and society in South Asian cultures. Kyoshi: Japanese "Wild Poetry" DAVID POLLACK Pages 499-517 In Japan between 1770 and 1790, the craze for witty, comic verse forms...

...) in Chinese folk religion were not written to accompany one another, and each stands on its own; yet each touches on basic definitions of the person in a major popular religious tradition. Professor Pollack's article on Japanese "wild poetry" addresses an intriguing aspect of Japanese cultural and literary...

... similar to Watsuji's. "Culturalism that endorses nationalism in terms of national language and ethnic culture is as persistently endemic in Japanese Studies in the United States, Europe and elsewhere as in Japan today" (p. 17). It becomes clear in Sakai's critique of David Pollack's The Fracture...

... in the book, of competing science policy alternatives. Suttmeier's analysis of policy alternatives might profitably be used to analyze other kinds of policy conflicts. Finally, Jonathan D. Pollack seeks to show why "China is now one of the biggest boosters of the international system." Some aspects...

... that it is a universal problem, not something that the Japanese face uniquely because of their historical intellectual dependence on China. Given Pollack's admirable curiosity about contemporary critical theory and his considerable talents with practical criticism and translation, we can expect that his next effort...