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...John De Francis Elementary Chinese with Romanization and Exercises on Speaking and Writing . By Shau Wing Chan . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1951 . xxxi, 468 p. $7.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1952 1952 BOOK REVIEWS 425 Elementary Chinese...

...Judith Walsh Speaking of the Self: Gender, Performance, and Autobiography in South Asia . Edited by Anshu Malhotra and Siobhan Lambert-Hurley . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2015 . 328 pp. ISBN: 9780822359838 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). Copyright ©...

...Edmund J. Malesky 1 Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet , The Power of Everyday Politics: How Vietnamese Peasants Transformed National Policy ( Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press , 2005 ) . These minor flaws aside, Speaking Out is an important piece of scholarship...

... Kyoto. Speaking in Chinese, Yuefeng participated in a question-and-answer dialogue ( mondō ) about Zen Buddhism. A Japanese monk translated, but among those present was one of the most powerful daimyo of the day, Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu (1658–1714), who was said to have been the only Japanese audience...

...Wen-hsin Yeh Speaking to History: The Story of King Goujian in Twentieth-Century China . By Paul A. Cohen . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 2009 . xxiv, 354 pp. $39.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009...

...Vivian Hsu Speaking Chinese in China . By Hsu Ying and J. Marvin Brown . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1983 . xii, 314 pp. Tapes available from Audio Forum; On the Green; Guilford, Conn. 06437. Illustrations, Glossary. $9.95. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Daniel Gold Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 Speaking of Basava: Lingayat Religion and Culture in South Asia . By K. Ishwaran . Boulder : Westview Press , 1992 . viii, 263 pp. $37.50. 754 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES shell. But when it is green...

...David N. Lorenzen Chant the Names of God: Musical Culture in Bhojpuri-speaking India . By Edward O. Henry . San Diego : San Diego State Univiersity Press , 1988 . 318 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 184 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES of verses...

...Hilary A. Smith Speaking of Epidemics in Chinese Medicine: Disease and the Geographic Imagination in Late Imperial China . By Marta E. Hanson . London : Routledge , 2011 . xx, 265 pp. $140.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2012 2012 Over the past...

...Hanchao Lu Speaking of Yangzhou: A Chinese City, 1550–1850 . By Antonia Finnane . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2004 . xix , 453 pp. $49.50 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 B O O K R E V I E W S C H I N A 715 Clunas s study...

...Christian Haskett Speaking for Buddhas: Scriptural Commentary in Indian Buddhism . By Richard F. Nance . New York : Columbia University Press , 2012 . viii, 298 pp. $60.00 (cloth) Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014  2014 In the introduction to Speaking...

...Aloysius M. Soden Kanzeon Bosatsu no Kenkyū [A Study of Kanzeon Bodhisattva] . By Gōtō Daiyō . Tokyo : Sangibō Butsurin , 1958 . 343 . Illustrations, References. ¥700. Kannon Kyō wo Kataru [Speaking about the Kannon Sutra] . By Okamoto Kanoko . Tokyo : Daihō Rinkaku , 1963...

...Burton Stein The Speaking Tree: A Study of Indian Culture and Society . By Richard Lannoy . New York : Oxford University Press , 1971 . xxvi , 466 pp. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. $15.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972 1972 BOOK REVIEWS 171 ready...

... counterparts. These mock exercises offer access to an important yet much-underappreciated aspect of political culture in early modern China; accordingly, those who had received or had been receiving rhetorical training were actively exploring alternative possibilities of speaking for political and cultural...

...John S. Strong Speaking of Monks: Religious Biography in India and China . By Phyllis Granoff and Koichi Shinohara . Oakville, Ont. : Mosaic Press , 1992 . viii, 232 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER ASIA 915...

...Paz Buenaventura Naylor Let's Speak Ilokano . By Percy Espiritu . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1984 . xxii, 298 pp. Notes to the Teacher, Index to Grammar Notes. $15 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1986 1986 902 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES until...

...George Rosen Patterns of Development 1950–1970 . By Holus Chenery and Moises Syrquin , with the Assistance of Hazel Elkington. London : Oxford University Press , 1975 . xvi, 234 pp £1.50 (paper) Beyond Dependency: The Developing World Speaks Out . Edited By Guy F. Erb...

...Gil Raz Making the Gods Speak: The Ritual Production of Revelation in Chinese Religious History . By Vincent Goossaert . Cambridge, MA : Harvard Asia Center , 2022 . xii, 351 pp. ISBN: 9780674270947 . © 2023 Association for Asian Studies 2023 Making the Gods Speak...

... unique civilization, China will follow its own path to modernity. Such books thus look to the past—China's imperial history—for clues to not only China's future, but also the world's future. This discourse, which could be called “Sino-speak,” presents an essentialized Chinese civilization...

...Yurou Zhong [email protected] The Sounds of Mandarin: Learning to Speak a National Language in China and Taiwan, 1913–1960 . By Janet Y. Chen . New York : Columbia University Press , 2023 . xii, 424 pp. ISBN: 9780231209038 . © 2025 Association for Asian Studies 2025...