...D. S. Willis Abriss der Japanischen Grammatik: auf der Grundlage der klassischen Schriftsprache . By Bruno Lewin . Wiesbaden : Otto Harrassowitz , 1959 . xiii, 269 . DM 28 (paper). The Sound System of Standard Japanese: A Tentative Account From the Teaching Point of View . By F...

...W. Miles Fletcher, III The Sound of the Whistle: Railroads and the State in Meiji Japan . By Steven J. Ericson . Cambridge : Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University Press , 1996 . xvii, 506 pp. $42.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 BOOK...

...Daniel M. Neuman Sufi Music of India and Pakistan: Sound, Context and Meaning in Qawwali . By Regula Burckhardt Qureshi . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1995 . Second Edition . Cambridge Studies in Ethnomusicology. xviii, 281 pp. $24.95 (paper). Copyright ©...

...Milo C. Beach Imaging Sound: An Ethnomusicological Study of Music, Art, and Culture in Mughal India . By Bonnie C. Wade . Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology Series. Philip V. Bohlman and Bruno Nettl , Series Editors. Chicago : University of Chicago , 1998 , lvi, 276 pp. $80.00 (cloth...

...Donna M. Wulff Sonic Theology: Hinduism and Sacred Sound . By Guy L. Beck . Columbia : University of South Carolina Press , 1993 . xvi, 290 pp. $39.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 485 that the many series and types...

... that is “widely accepted to the present as a straightforward narrative of the history of linguistic and scholarly innovation in China” (206). The book is divided into major sections titled (1) “Sound and Script”; (2) “Singing and Speaking, Reading and Writing”; and (3) “Philology: The Making and Remaking...

...Gegentuul Baioud Mongolian Sound Worlds . Edited by Jennifer C. Post , Sunmin Yoon , and Charlotte D'Evelyn . Urbana : University of Illinois Press , 2022 . xx, 312 pp. ISBN: 9780252053368 . © 2023 Association for Asian Studies 2023 Scholars from different fields have...

...Donna Lee Kwon Sound of the Border: Music and Identity of Korean Minority in China . By Sunhee Koo . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2021 . ix, 221 pp. ISBN: 9780824888275 . © 2023 Association for Asian Studies 2023 Sound of the Border: Music and Identity of Korean...

... Manz (Aldershot: Variorum, 1995). 2. For more recent contributions, see Jonathan N. Lipman, “Head-Wagging and the Sounds of Obscenity: Conflicts over Sound on the Qing-Muslim Frontiers,” Performing Islam 3, no. 1–2 (2014): 45–59; Florian Sobieroj, “The Chinese Sufi Wiqāyatullāh Ma Mingxin...

...Anthony Reid Shadow and Sound: The Historical Thought of a Sumatran People . By James Siegel . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1979 . x, 284 pp. Figures, Glossary. $14.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1980 1980 668 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES ment...

... . By Hwang Sun-wōn . Edited by Martin Holman . London : Readers International , 1989 . $17.95 (cloth); $9.95 (paper). Shadows of a Sound . Hwang Sun-wōn . Edited by Martin Holman . San Francisco : Mercury House , 1990 . $17.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992...

...Peng Hai The Sound of Salvation: Voice, Gender, and the Sufi Mediascape in China . By Guangtian Ha . New York : Columbia University Press , 2022 . xiv, 293 pp. ISBN: 9780231552486 . © 2024 Association for Asian Studies 2024 Guangtian Ha's The Sound of Salvation offers...

...Hui Faye Xiao Sound Rising from the Paper: Nineteenth-Century Martial Arts Fiction and the Chinese Acoustic Imagination . By Paize Keulemans . Harvard East Asian Monographs 369. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2014 . xiii, 338 pp. ISBN: 9780674417120...

...Yu Wang Listening to China: Sound and the Sino-Western Encounter, 1770–1839 . By Thomas Irvine . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2020 . 256 pp. ISBN: 9780226667126 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2021 2021 The sound texts that really set...

...Niti Pawakapan Political protests were going on when author Benjamin Tausig arrived in Bangkok to conduct research about sound. He decided to explore the sounds created not only by the protesters called the Red Shirts but also by other agents. He then became interested in the sound of dissent...

...Tzu-hui Celina Hung Sound and Script in Chinese Diaspora . By Jing Tsu . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 2010 . xii, 306 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013  2013 The rapidly growing field of sinophone studies has gained...

...Paul Rouzer Sound and Sight: Poetry and Courtier Culture in the Yongming Era (483–493) . By Meow Hui Goh . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2010 . x, 192 pp. $50.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2012 2012 Goh's work builds upon two...

...Michael J. Gressett Singing Krishna: Sound Becomes Sight in Paramānand's Poetry . By A. Whitney Sanford . Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press , 2008 . ix , 207 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009...

...Carol Laderman Healing Sounds from the Malaysian Rainforest: Temiar Music and Medicine . By Marina Roseman . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1991 . xvii , 233 pp. $39.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 716 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Dennis Dalton Gandhi: Soundings in Political Philosophy . By Ramashray Roy . Delhi : Chanayaka Publications , 1984 . ix, 159 pp. Index. Rs. 80. (Distributed in the U.S. by South Asia Books, Columbia, Mo.) Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1985 1985 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH...