...Robert L. Thorp Eastern Zhou and Qin Civilizations . By Li Xueqin . Translated by K. C. Chang . Early Chinese Civilizations Series. New Haven : Yale University Press , 1985 . xvi, 527 pp. Figures, Abbreviations, Bibliography, Index. N.p. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...Julia Y. Qin China and the World Trade Organization: A Legal Perspective . By Kong Qingjiang . River Edge, N.J. : World Scientific , 2002 . xiii , 350 pp. $48.00 (cloth); $24.00 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 154 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S...

...Amelia Ying Qin Negotiated Power: The State, Elites, and Local Governance in Twelfth- to Fourteenth-Century China . By Sukhee Lee . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2014 . xiii, 347 pp. ISBN 9780674417144 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Yucheng Qin Qing Travelers to the Far West: Diplomacy and the Information Order in Late Imperial China . By Jenny Huangfu Day . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2018 . 275 pp. ISBN: 9781108471329 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2020 2020...

...Qin Shao Abstract The Chinese Teahouse was one of a few traditional institutions of sociability whose wider social and cultural appeal overshadowed its primary business. Historically, it was closely woven into the fabric of Chinese life. In many communities the teahouse served as a center...

...Wen-Yi Huang Abstract Controlling the physical movement of people was a well-established tradition throughout imperial China. Scholars have argued that the Qin (221–206 BCE) and Han (206 BCE–220 CE) empires required their subjects to register personal information, including their place of residence...

... of unflattering statements aimed at foreign peoples: the Zuo zhuan compares the Rong and Di to wolves (ZZ, 1:209); the Zhan guo ce says the state of Qin shares the same attributes as the Rong and Di—the heart of a tiger or wolf, greed, and cruelty (ZGC, 11:869; cf. Crump 1970:436). Foreign peoples were often...

... Representation. By M A R T I N K E R N . American Oriental Society, no. 85. New Haven: American Oriental Society, 2000. viii, 221 pp. $35.00 (cloth). Martin Kern presents a complex array of linked arguments in which, most important, he places Qin hymns his classification for the stele inscriptions set up...

.... Emura Haruki's study provides us with the most comprehensive and authoritative survey and analysis of pre-Qin bronze coinage. As is well known, four distinct regions of monetary circulation emerged in the Warring States period: spade-shaped currencies in the Central Plain; knife-shaped currencies...

... ethnically and culturally vibrant provinces. Since the first Imperial dynasty, the Qin (221-207 B.C the Sichuan region has played critical roles in China's major political, economic, literary-intellectual, scientific-technological, artistic, and ethnic developments, and there has been a tremendous amount...

... in English. The text is split about equally into sections on Qin Shihuang and on Reagan and Bush. One might be tempted to call this book, which true to its Deleuzian origins actively resists synopsis or summation, a reading of the late capitalist state through the vocabulary of the legalism of the Book...

... constructions and interpretations of the First Emperor across millennia. A major contribution of this book is to explore the current appeal of the Qin emperor lore in contemporary popular culture and mass media. By placing this lore in a contemporary context, Barbieri-Low brings ancient Chinese history...

... forces him to reconcile the fundamentally retro nature of the stele text with the image of Qin from Han period histories as a reformist and cruelly legalistic state run by an emperor obsessed with his own transcendence over death. Kern reaffirms the observation (noted by other scholars in the light...

...,” focuses on texts that the novel interacts with when establishing Baoyu's sexuality. Wu begins by pointing out how historical romances that feature promiscuous men and women kindle Baoyu's passion for sex and romantic love. She then shows how the episode of Qin Keqing's bedroom links the novel to various...

... Representation. By M A R T I N K E R N . American Oriental Society, no. 85. New Haven: American Oriental Society, 2000. viii, 221 pp. $35.00 (cloth). Martin Kern presents a complex array of linked arguments in which, most important, he places Qin hymns his classification for the stele inscriptions set up...

... in the Huangdi sijing, he is less persuasive in arguing that moral pragmatics or the acceptance of some role for positive law in other pre-Qin works necessarily excludes 928 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES from them any concept or valuation of natural law. Further, in dismissing Mencius's incorporation of morality...

... diffusion through the countryside in contrast to the fewer, large-scale, centrally controlled operations of north China. After its initial development, iron-founding spread relatively rapidly first to Chu, then to Qin, and the other states, such as Yan, in the north. This argument may be valid...

... by sister exchange (dui men qin) (figure 4). Dongyang residents discussed the various forms of cousin marriage in terms of the phrase qin shang jia qin, "building [new] affinal relations on the basis of [old] ones." Elderly Dongyang villagers emphasized that arranging marriages with lao qin (old affines...