...L. Carrington Goodrich Jesuit adventure in China during the reign of K'ang Hsi . By Eloise Talcott Hibbert . New York : Dutton , 1941 . x, 298 p. $5.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1942 1942 1 Published in England under the title of K'ang Hsi...

... Sheng ) was in charge of general administration, the Privy Council ( Shu-mi Yüan ) was in charge of military authority, and the Censorate ( Yü-shih T'ai ) was in charge of dismissal and promotion.” ( Yüan shih , 85:1) During the reign of Qubilai Qaqan, the Grand Secretariat did not have a president...

... working on Burma. Dartmouth College ROBERT E. HUKE The Politics of Reform in Thailand: Education in the Reign of King Chulalongkorn. BY DAVID K. WYATT. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1969. xix, 425. Illustrations, Notes, Appendixes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $11.00. This is a superb book. David...

... to try to translate the name of an era I was studying. What happened was that my search led me to a philologically sound, but, as it turned out, entirely erroneous interpretation. What's in a Reign Name The Uses of History and Philology NOTE MARY C. WRIGHT H E historian and the philologist who study...

... of calculation that the encounter with Western learning led to the most interesting interactions, of which Jami gives several examples. The body of the book starts with an overview of the relevant background events of the late Ming and the reign of Kangxi's predecessor. After this valuable synthesis...

...J. S. Deyell; R. E. Frykenberg The Coins of the British Commonwealth of Nations to the End of the Reign of George VI, 1952 . Part 4: India. Volume 1: East India Company, Presidency Series c1642–1835. By F. Pridmore . London : Spink & Son , 1975 . xxv, 275 pp. Plates, Maps, Tables...

...Frederic Wakeman, Jr Monarchy in the Emperor's Eyes: Image and Reality in the Chʻien-lung Reign (Harvard East Asian, 59) . By Harold L. Kahn . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1971 . 262 pp. Appendix, Bibliography, Glossary, Index. $10.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...John K. Whitmore Abstract This article is an introduction to the type of materials available to the historian of pre-1800 Vietnam, particularly that material produced during the reign of Le Thanh-tong. The rule of this Emperor is significant for the bureaucratization of the government...

... discussed by Waltner and Shepherd was the Ming ruler, whose reign title was Chia-ch'ing (1522–1566), and not the Ch'ing period Emperor of a similar dynastic title, who reigned as Yung-cheng (1723–1736). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 474 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...G. William Skinner Abstract In A.D. 1227, during the Southern Sung, the four hsien on the peninsula in Chekiang which is dominated by Ningpo supported twenty-six rural markets; six and a half centuries later, during the Kuang-hsü reign, there were approximately 170 rural markets in the same...

... as “The disorder of the Yongjia Reign” ( Yongjia zhi luan 永嘉之亂). This epithet uses the imperial reign name given to the period between 307 and 313, even though the disasters did not neatly begin and end with those years. Although the Yongjia troubles are addressed throughout surviving historiographic material...

... Annam for the asking, Gialong protected the French and Spanish missionaries during his reign and tried to give the French some trade advantages; but his successors, Ming Mang (1820–41), Thieu-Tri (1841–47), and Tuduc (1847–83), persecuted the missionaries and closed the country to European trade...

...Jung-pang Lo Abstract On page 278 of my article, “The Controversy Over Grain Conveyance During the Reign of Qubilai Qaqan, 1260–94,” which appeared in the May 1954 Number of the Far Eastern Quarterly (13.3), I translated Hsing Ch'uan Fu Ssu as the Ambulatory Office for Ch'uan-chou. It should...

... portion of the reign of the Emperor Aurangzeb (1658–1707). This growth in the number of nobles was not matched by a corresponding increase in the resources available to pay them and their followers. Consequently, the system of alienation of the land-tax proceeds for salary payments (the jagir system...

...M. N. Pearson Abstract The decline of the Mughal empire is usually considered to begin late in the reign of the emperor Aurangzib (1658–1707). The favorite explanations consist of circles, or even spirals, usually vicious in nature. One important interpretation sees the decline as originating from...

... principal sources for the Yung-chêng period (1723–35), reign of Emperor Shih-tsung, who was the third ruler of the Ch'ing. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968 1968 48 This new publication is Spence Jonathan D. 's Ts'ao Yin and the K'ang-hsi Emperor, Bondservant...

... career in the thirteenth year of the reign of the T'ang Emperor, T'ai-tsung, the same year when Ch‘ên’s son, Hsiian-tsang, was to have been commissioned to begin his westward journey, further evidence editorial changes and faulty re-arrangements. In the judgment of Dudbridge, chapter nine of the novel...

...John R. Bowen Abstract If each world region has its own style of anthropological analysis, then surely Southeast Asia has come to be the place where interpretive approaches to culture have reigned, whether in anthropology, history, or politics. Interpretive anthropologists, drawing largely on Boas...

..., is Japan's history of mapmaking before the modern period. Although the earliest imperial governments in Japan practiced administrative mapmaking on a limited scale beginning in the seventh century, it was only during the reign of the Tokugawa shogunate (1603–1868) that comprehensive land surveying...

... from the policies of Yoshimune, the eighth Tokugawa shogun. Although his suppression of “pernicious literature” had a baneful effect on publishing in Kyoto and Osaka, it indirectly improved the competitive position of Edo booksellers. During Yoshimune's reign, also, the city of Edo underwent enormous...