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...Karen Brazell The Road to Komatsubara: A Classical Reading of the Renga Hyakuin . By Steven D. Carter . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 1988 . x, 298 pp. $21.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 384 T H E J O U R N A L OF A S I A N...

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...Russell Kirkland Religious Experience and Lay Society in T'ang China; A Reading of Tai Fu's “Kuang-i chi.” . By Glen Dudbridge . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1996 . 256 pages. $59.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA...

...Ellen Widmer Reading Illustrated Fiction in Late Imperial China . By Robert E. Hegel . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1998 . xxii, 484 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 489 and may prove to be a trying read for historians...

..., and appropriate for readers from advanced undergraduates on up, it deserves the close attention of everyone who thinks about contemporary China and about comparative social movements. MARC BLECHER Oberlin College Traditional Chinese Fiction and Fiction Commentary: Reading and Writing Between the Lines. D A V I D...

...Haun Saussy The Pheasant Cap Master (He guan zi): A Rhetorical Reading . By Carine Defoort . Albany : State University of New York Press , 1997 . xiii, 376 pp. $25.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 822 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES However, since...

...Stephen R. Bokenkamp Poetry and Personality: Reading, Exegesis, and Hermeneutics in Traditional China . By Steven Van Zoeren . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1991 . 333 pp. $39.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 716 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

.... in Lingfeng Yan , ed., Wuqiubei zhai Yijing jicheng , vol. 15. Taipei : Chengwen chubanshe , 1975 . Marriage, Divorce, and Revolution: Reading between the Lines of the Book of Changes EDWARD L. SHAUGHNESSY X HE ENIGMATIC IMAGES CONTAINED in the Book of Changes (Yijing or Zhouyi) have been...

... expressed and predicated in a world view distant, both temporally and culturally, from that of today—is a controversial one. It has led to numerous misunderstandings on the part of critics. E. D. Edwards, for example, would not accept Shen Ya-chih's praise of Feng Yen, a murderer, and read Shen's comments...

...C. H. Wang Songs of Flying Dragons: A Critical Reading . By Peter H. Lee . Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series, Vol. 22. Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1975 . xvi, 314 pp. Bibliography, Glossary, Chronology, Index. $16.95 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Barbara N. Ramusack The Princely India I Knew: From Reading to Mountbatten . By Sir Conrad Corfield . Madras : Indo British Historical Society , 1975 . 199 pp. Illustrations, Appendixes, Index. Rs. 45.00 ($9.00) Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1976 1976 704 JOURNAL...

...Roy Andrew Miller Manual for Reading Japanese. . By Dale P. Crowley with the assistance of Yoshiyuki and Yoko Kawata. Honolulu : The University Press of Hawaii , 1972 . xxxvi, 500 pp. Appendix, Index. $7.50. (paperback). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1973...

...William H. Frederick Reading Southeast Asia: Translation of Contemporary Japanese Scholarship on Southeast Asia . Vol. 1 . Introduced by Takashi Shiraishi . Ithaca : Cornell University Press, Southeast Asia Program , 1990 . 188 pp. $12.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association...

...Tsu-Lin Mei Fifty-Five T'ang Poems: A Text in the Reading and Understanding of T'ang Poetry . By Hugh M. Stimson . New Haven : Yale University , (Far Eastern Publications). 1976 . x, 239 pp. $7.50 T'ang Poetic Vocabulary . By Hugh M. Stimson . New Haven : Yale University...

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