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A Critical Study of Chu Tsai-yü's Contribution to the Theory of Equal Temperament in Chinese Music
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Journal of Asian Studies (1981) 40 (4): 775–776.
Published: 01 August 1981
...Bell Yung A Critical Study of Chu Tsai-yü's Contribution to the Theory of Equal Temperament in Chinese Music . By Kenneth Robinson . Additional Notes by Erich F. W. Altwein; Preface by Joseph Needham. Wiesbaden : Franz Steiner Verlag (Sinologica Coloniensia Band 9), 1980 . x, 136 pp...
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The Middle East in China's Foreign Policy, 1949–1977
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Journal of Asian Studies (1981) 40 (4): 776–777.
Published: 01 August 1981
... STUDIES But were they really identical? It is on this point that a minor controversy arises. Robinson contends that both Stevin and Chu calculated the equal temperament by relating the problem to mathematically finding the twelfth root of two. Fritz Kuttner, in his article "Prince Chu Tsai-yii's Life...
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Foundations of Chinese Muscial Art
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Journal of Asian Studies (1970) 29 (4): 912–913.
Published: 01 August 1970
... reasons. This is particularly in- developments adapted to Chinese needs." (p. teresting since it means we must discard the 206). One such adaptation would be the use view much in vogue in recent years that of equal temperament; ". . . the inadequacy the yiieh-fu, as distinct from the feng-yao...
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Aux Origines de la Poésie Classique en Chine: Etude Sur la Poésie Lyrique A L'Epoque des Han
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Journal of Asian Studies (1970) 29 (4): 913–914.
Published: 01 August 1970
.... This is particularly in- developments adapted to Chinese needs." (p. teresting since it means we must discard the 206). One such adaptation would be the use view much in vogue in recent years that of equal temperament; ". . . the inadequacy the yiieh-fu, as distinct from the feng-yao, of the untempered scale...
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An Introduction to Sung Poetry
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Journal of Asian Studies (1968) 27 (3): 635–636.
Published: 01 May 1968
... describing paintings numerous in Sung anthologies, is not discussed along with the disappearance of landscape poetry in Sung times. What particularly attracts one's attention is his penetrating insight into the temperament of the Sung poets that necessarily determines the scope and style of their literatary...
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Trade and Expansion in Han China. A Study in the Structure of Sino-Barbarian Economic Relations
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Journal of Asian Studies (1968) 27 (3): 636–638.
Published: 01 May 1968
... particularly attracts one's attention is his penetrating insight into the temperament of the Sung poets that necessarily determines the scope and style of their literatary creations. Ch'ien Chungshu has pointed out in Tan-yi-lu (Shanghai, 1937) that the stylistic differences between T'ang and Sung poetry have...
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Taming the Wind of Desire: Psychology, Medicine, and Aesthetics in Malay Shamanistic Performance
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Journal of Asian Studies (1992) 51 (2): 459–460.
Published: 01 May 1992
... into their own temperaments gained through mystical identification with archetypal figures from folk legends (p. 83). This is somewhat unorthodox social science and may leave some readers skeptical about how closely an anthropologist's mystical perceptions resemble those of the people she is studying...
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The Poetry of T'ao Ch'ien
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Journal of Asian Studies (1971) 30 (3): 627–633.
Published: 01 May 1971
...) No use discussing immortality When just to keep alive is hard enough, (p. 43) Mundane and spiritual sentiments are found in attractive proportion in T'ao Ch'ien's verse and add immeasurably to our appreciation of the complex temperament of the man. Thus while life may seem like "a conjuror's illusion" (p...
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Living Islam: From Samarkand to Stornoway Living Islam: What it Means to be a Muslim in Today's World
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (4): 1104–1107.
Published: 01 November 1996
... Press, 1986). Throughout Living Islam, whether as book author or video narrator, Ahmed emphasizes the complex and creative cultural diversity of Muslim peoples and the broad range of beliefs, behaviors, temperaments, and styles that have characterized Muslims throughout history and in the present. Also...
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India: The Search for Unity, Democracy, and Progress
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Journal of Asian Studies (1967) 26 (3): 514.
Published: 01 May 1967
... and international economic aid, traditional temperament and modern drive, are all interwoven. Thus a book on modern India should construe past as yesterday, not as a millennium ago. With this conceptual framework, Professor Neale has produced a seven-chapter book. Each chapter is brief, but it does not miss...
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That Ban(e) of Indian Music: Hearing Politics in The Harmonium
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (3): 657–682.
Published: 01 August 2011
...” was assumed to use a single system: equal temperament, or an idealized system of compromised, irrational, slightly-out-of-tune intervals that make modulating harmony possible. The facile, commonsense link between equal temperament and the West among music scholars was not diminished by the fact that equal...
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Rumor in the Early Chinese Empires
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (4): 1067–1069.
Published: 01 November 2021
... their temperament. Lu is well aware that, in reality, the populace did not speak with one voice (p. 141). Hence, any attempt to promote a certain poem as representative of the people's feelings was, at least to some extent, manipulative. Lu identifies six types of rumors, which he illustrates with copious...
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The Lives of Confucius: Civilization's Greatest Sage through the Ages
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (4): 1203–1204.
Published: 01 November 2010
... of a minor government official in the state of Lu, born in 551 bce . In the first chapter, doing much to dispel pious myths about Kongzi's angelic temperament, the authors cite Sima Qian's thesis that “until he was in his mid-sixties, Kongzi was a sanctimonious and arrogant know-it-all” (p. 3). In Sima...
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Key Economic Areas in Chinese History; As Revealed in the Development of Public Works for Water-Control
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Journal of Asian Studies (1964) 23 (3): 469.
Published: 01 May 1964
... on sents himself as an average man of letters control of water has had and for some time without lofty ambitions or fervent ideals, un- will continue to have both timelessness and suited by temperament or personality for the some timeliness in relation to the fortunes of role of revolutionary Bolshevik...
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The China of Chiang K'ai-shek: a political study
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1941) 1 (1): 76–77.
Published: 01 November 1941
..., and there would yet be war", with the ultrarealistic apology for Kuomintang casuistry: "Had the exigencies of reform, social change, and military activity proved too sharp, too violent, too profitless, the personnel trained by experience and fitted by temperament to government might have gone over to Japan...
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American Military Government in Korea
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1951) 10 (4): 403–404.
Published: 01 August 1951
... not present a very clear picture of what he deems to have been our failure in Korea in relation to the opposing forces at work in that country, but he is specific and outspoken on why the United States was unable to establish a really democratic regime. The temperament of the American, the antithesis between...
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The Epic of Korea Why War Came in Korea
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1951) 10 (4): 404–405.
Published: 01 August 1951
... to the opposing forces at work in that country, but he is specific and outspoken on why the United States was unable to establish a really democratic regime. The temperament of the American, the antithesis between the very concepts of "democracy" and "occuaption," the lack BOOK REVIEWS 405 of trained civilian...
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The Mayor of Aihara: A Japanese Villager and His Community, 1865–1925
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (1): 269–271.
Published: 01 February 2010
... of centralized political and economic control that intruded into their affairs as never before. Their leaders, men similar to Aizawa in worldview and perhaps even in temperament, had to figure out how to pay centrally exacted taxes, provide local men for a national draft, build schools mandated centrally...
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Bali, the Camera, and Dance: Performance Studies and The Lost Legacy of the Mead/Bateson Collaboration
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (4): 1251–1276.
Published: 01 November 2008
... to illuminate. 23 However, with regard to their thinking about human performance specifically—as opposed to “temperament,” or “character”—the observational and documentary work Bateson and Mead conducted on Bali deserves to be viewed in a different light. In this particular regard, their methodology...
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The Natural Philosophy of Chu Hsi, 1130–1200
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (3): 840–841.
Published: 01 August 2001
... that the Confucian tradition, at least prior to the Ch'ing period, lacked an empirical method and temperament). Finally, Professor Kim challenges the typically "Orientalist" conception of Chinese civilization as lacking some important facet of European culture science, the scientific method, capitalism, democracy...
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