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Far Eastern Quarterly (1943) 2 (3): 324–326.
Published: 01 May 1943
...Feng Chia-sheng 324 THE FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY brings them into focus and suggests the general direction in which a solution is likely to be found. University of Connecticut E. G. BURROWS Venetian adventurer: being an account of the life and times and of the book of Messer Marco Polo. BY HENRY H...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1958) 17 (2): 270–272.
Published: 01 February 1958
...Jacques Gernet Quinsai, With Other Notes on Marco Polo . By A. C. Moule . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1957 . xii, 92 . Illustrations, Appendix. $5.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1958 1958 270 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES lutionaries. Later...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1963) 22 (3): 277–291.
Published: 01 May 1963
...James B. Crowley Abstract On July 7, 1937 a handful of Chinese and Japanese soldiers exchanged rifle-fire in the vicinity of the Marco Polo Bridge about thirty miles from Peking. This, minor fracas precipitated a sequence of events that soon propelled Japan into full-scale hostilities...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1977) 36 (3): 557.
Published: 01 May 1977
...Morris Rossabi Marco Polo . By Richard Humble . New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons , 1975 . 232 pp. Notes, Index. $12.95 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1977 1977 BOOK REVIEWS 557 incorporates these throughout the entire book; Miller, in his notes, bibliography...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1962) 21 (4): 555.
Published: 01 August 1962
...Stanley L. Falk From the Marco Polo Bridge to Pearl Harbor. A Study of Japan's Entry into World War II . By David J. Lu . Washington, D. C. Public Affairs Press , 1961 . viii, 274 . References, Bibliography, Index. $4.75. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1962 1962...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1968) 27 (4): 923.
Published: 01 August 1968
... Marco Polo: Venetian Adventurer . By Henry H. Hart . Norman, Oklahoma : University of Oklahoma Press , 1967 . xxviii, 306 pp. Appendix, Bibliography, Index, Illustrations. $5.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968 1968 BOOK REVIEWS 923 BOOK NOTES Readings...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1947) 7 (1): 105–107.
Published: 01 November 1947
...E. A. Kracke, Jr. Marco Polo's precursors . By Leonardo Olschki . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Press , 1943 . ix, 100 p. $1.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1947 1947 1 P. 53, also pp. 90–91. On the priority of the Far East in the development...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (1): 240–242.
Published: 01 February 2007
...Bettine Birge Haw's book leaves one convinced that Marco Polo was an extraordinary man in an extraordinary time and that he did actually go to China. It also draws our attention to the incalculable value of Marco's account and the need for an updated, scholarly edition of Marco Polo's...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1949) 8 (2): 157–171.
Published: 01 February 1949
...James T. C. Liu Abstract When the marco polo bridge incident occurred near peiping on july 7, 1937, japan was not prepared to launch a long-term war with china. on the contrary, she was hopeful that a little military pressure would result in a local settlement providing for North China autonomy...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1943) 2 (3): 322–324.
Published: 01 May 1943
... the general direction in which a solution is likely to be found. University of Connecticut E. G. BURROWS Venetian adventurer: being an account of the life and times and of the book of Messer Marco Polo. BY HENRY H. HART. Stanford University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1942. xiv, 284 p. $3.50...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1957) 17 (1): 173–175.
Published: 01 November 1957
... by the striking discoveries made in recent years, remains a classic of its kind, extremely well-written and with a sobriety of judgment characteristic of its author. Meanwhile, by a natural extension of interest, he had become engrossed in the problems relating to Marco Polo, and the discovery by Sir Percival...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1947) 7 (1): 103–105.
Published: 01 November 1947
..., 218, 231, 268-70) should inspire Americans to be worthy of his praise. His book should be recommended as delightful and illuminating reading for classes studying the Far East, as valuable and entertaining for the general reader. CARROLL B. MALONE Colorado College Marco Polo's precursors. BY LEONARDO...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1977) 36 (3): 557.
Published: 01 May 1977
... History of the Second World War; Hitlers Generals; Hitler's High Seas Fleet; Japanese High Seas Fleet; and Napoleon's Peninsular Marshals. He has not spent much time reading the major secondary accounts about Marco Polo (i.e., the works of Olschki, Pelliot, and Moule). But his book is entertaining...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (4): 940–960.
Published: 01 November 1999
... Charles James.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. Bühler Georg. 1892 . “The Peheva Inscription from the Temple of Garibnath.” Epigraphica Indica . Vol. 1 . Calcutta : Thacker, Spink and Co . Critchley John. 1992 . Marco Polo’s Book . Cambridge : Variorum, Cambridge University Press...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1990) 49 (4): 868–870.
Published: 01 November 1990
... East, chiefly those of the thirteenth-century travelers, the merchant Marco Polo and the missionary William of Rubruck. As in Arculf's case, Marco Polo's Description of the World is an as-told-to-by account of travel, for it was only after his return to Italy in 1298 that Marco dictated his...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1943) 2 (3): 326–327.
Published: 01 May 1943
... for wives. As for marrying the wives and concubines of a former khan, this was no new custom peculiar to the Mongols: The Huns, Turks and Uighurs did the same (cf. Cordier, Notes and addenda to Sir Henry Yule's edition, p. 58). Dr. Hart's eagerness to make Marco Polo a "definite, sharply-etched personality...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1943) 2 (4): 410–412.
Published: 01 August 1943
... was greatly enlarged and the contour of European culture itself was changed by these influences. The first of these floods came at the close of the thirteenth century and consisted chiefly of the book of Marco Polo. The second flood consisted of the letters and reports of the Jesuit missionaries...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1963) 22 (2): 212–213.
Published: 01 February 1963
... attempts in the Byzantine and Islamic civilizations. The North China thereafter, goes on to the dubious bulk of the book, however, is devoted to a peace feelers during the war, and then turns judicious and scholarly examination of Chinese back to a detailed analysis of the Marco Polo enamels from...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1977) 36 (3): 557–558.
Published: 01 May 1977
...; Hitler's High Seas Fleet; Japanese High Seas Fleet; and Napoleon's Peninsular Marshals. He has not spent much time reading the major secondary accounts about Marco Polo (i.e., the works of Olschki, Pelliot, and Moule). But his book is entertaining, wellwritten, and, most important, lavishly and profusely...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1958) 17 (2): 267–270.
Published: 01 February 1958
..., Berkeley H . F . SCHURMANN ^ ' Quinsai, With Other Notes on Marco Polo. By A. C. MOULE. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1957. xii, 92. Illustrations, Appendix. $5.50. L'auteur reprend ici, avec de nombreuses additions et, entre autres, des traductions de passages du Tou tch'eng hi cheng (1235) et...