...Ariel Fox Idle Talk under the Bean Arbor: A Seventeenth-Century Chinese Story Collection . Compiled by Aina The Layman with commentary by Ziran The Eccentric Wanderer . Edited by Robert E. Hegel . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2017 . xxviii, 288 pp. Slapping...

...Tong Lam A Story of Ruins: Presence and Absence in Chinese Art and Visual Culture . By Wu Hung . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 2012 . 296 pp. $60.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013  2013 Contemporary visual culture is saturated...

...Herbert J. Wood The First Englishman in Japan: The Story of Will Adams . By Philip G. Rogers . London : Harvill Press , 1956 . xvi, 144 . Foreword, Map, Illustration, Bibliography, Index. 12s. 6d. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1958 1958 BOOK REVIEWS 291...

...Howard S. Levy The Empress Wu . By C. P. Fitzgerald . London : Cresset Press , 1956 . vii, 252 . Lady Wu: A True Story . By Lin Yutang . London : Heinemann , 1957 . xiv, 245 . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1958 1958 BOOK REVIEWS 617 The Empress Wu...

... Library The Treasured One: The Story of Rudivoravan, Princess of Siain. As told to RUTH ADAMS KNIGHT. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1957. 249. Illustrations. $3.95. Princess Rudivoravan's life story is a welcome addition to the very few Thai autobiographical accounts available in English; hers is the third...

...Knight Biggerstaff China and America: the story of their relations since 1784 . By Foster Rhea Dulles . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1946 . vii, 277 p. $2.75. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1947 1947 BOOK REVIEWS 189 China and America: the story...

...John W. Masland The lost war: a Japanese reporter's inside story . By Masuo Kato . New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1946 . 264 p. $2.75. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1947 1947 BOOK REVIEWS 309 The lost war: a Japanese reporter's inside story. BY MASUO KATO. New...

...Harley Farnsworth MacNair Pearl Harbor: the story of the secret war . By George Morgenstern . New York : The Devin-Adair Company , 1947 . xv, 425 p. $3.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1947 1947 430 THE FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY whether and to what extent...

..., Iriki , p. 335. 9 The story of his youth and of his journey to Japan are taken from Adams' letter to the English East India Company written in 1611. It was published in various slightly differing editions. The paper is based upon Rundall's version, founded upon manuscript copies preserved among...

...R. Alpha Amirrachman Hamka's Great Story: A Master Writer's Vision of Islam for Modern Indonesia . By James R. Rush . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 2016 . xix, 286 pp. ISBN: 9780299308407 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019  2019 James...

...George McT. Kahin The Indonesian story. The birth, growth and structure of the Indonesian republic . By Charles Wolf, Jr . New York : John Day Company , 1948 . x , 201 p. $3.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1949 1949 230 THE FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY...

...Evelyn B. McCune The Korea Story . By John C. Caldwell in collaboration with Lesley Frost. Chicago : Henry Regnery Company , 1952 . vi, 180 . $3.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1953 1953 BOOK REVIEWS 439 when reading a text more than twenty years old...

...Margaret Gentles Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1955 1955 The Floating World: The Story of Japanese Prints . By James A. Michener . New York : Random House , 1954 . 403 . Illustrations. $8.75. BOOK REVIEWS 129 the whole are not of the highest quality...

...Andrew Schonebaum Daoist Philosophy and Literati Writings in Late Imperial China: A Case Study of The Story of the Stone . By Zuyan Zhou . Hong Kong : Chinese University Press , 2013 . xi, 316 pp. $55.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014  2014...

.... BASHAM School of Oriental and African Studies University of London The Story of Indian Music: Its Growth and Synthesis. By O. GOSWAMI. Bombay: Asia Publishing House, 1957. 332. Index. Rs. 14.50. This book contains a great deal of information about Indian music. Unfortunately it also contains more than...

...Leon Hurvitz Zen and Shinto. The Story of Japanese Philosophy . By Chikao Fujisawa . New York : Philosophical Library , 1959 . 92 . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1960 1960 BOOK REVIEWS 355 music. In the entire 254 pages of the main Japanese Music...

...James Warren Gould The Story of Indonesia . By Louis Fischer . New York : Harper & Brothers , 1959 . x, 341 . Illustrated, Map, Bibliography, Index. $5.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1960 1960 BOOK REVIEWS 469 controversies as to the solutions...

...William B. Noseworthy The Story of Lục Vân Tiên: Illuminated Manuscript (v. 1) and Comments (v. 2) . Edited by Pascal Bordeaux and Olivier Tessier . Paris : Ecole francaise d'Extreme-Orient , 2016 . 604 pp. 2 vols. ISBN: 9782855392295 (paper). Gods, Heroes, and Ancestors...

...Henrietta Harrison Violence and Order on the Chengdu Plain: The Story of a Secret Brotherhood in Rural China 1939–1949 . By Di Wang . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 2018 . xiv, 260 pp. ISBN: 9781503605305 (paper, also available in cloth and as e-book). Copyright ©...

.... Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015  2015 The Soul of Anime: Collaborative Creativity and Japan's Media Success Story . By Ian Condry . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2013 . x, 241 pp. $84.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper). Japanese Animation: East Asian Perspectives...