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Published: 01 November 2016
Figure 5. Yemeni spiral text (1917) and Sudanese upside-down text (1225) (Messick 1993 , 232; O'Fahey and Abu Salim 2003 , 72). Photos courtesy of University of California Press and Cambridge University Press. More
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Journal of Asian Studies (1969) 28 (2): 430–432.
Published: 01 February 1969
...Thomas R. Trautmann Cāṇakya-Nīti-Text-Tradition. Volume II, Part II , Cāṇakya's Six Versions of Maxims: An Attempt to Reconstruct the Ur-Text . By Ludwik Sternbach . Hoshiarpur, Punjab : Vishveshvaranand Institute , 1967 . 679 pp. Errata. Rs. 30.00. Vishveshvaranand Indological Series 29...
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Published: 01 February 2021
Figure 3. A page from a Nasu genealogical text. This unique text gives the names of the wives and daughters of the Luɦo chieftains and their natal lineages or the lineages into which they married (Yang 2010 ). More
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (1): 211–212.
Published: 01 February 2014
... with the classical texts, there is the Xuanxue philosophical commentary that “translates” the often anecdotal or aphoristic sagely bequests into explicit political philosophy. The strategies deducted from this philosophy are designed to allow even mediocre rulers, assisted by equally mediocre advisors, to calculate...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (1): 17–41.
Published: 01 February 2014
... inscribed a long text in the meter of the Three Character Classic , memorized by every schoolboy. “In the southern mountains, the forests were profuse,” the inscription begins. It tells of how Liu's ancestors led their nomadic people into these mountains to hunt during a time when they wore hemp...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (1): 226–229.
Published: 01 February 2017
...Gerald Figal While biographies are unfashionable in some quarters these days, the biographical vignettes Christy provides at the onset and then sprinkles throughout the book are crucial as context for the complex and nuanced story he tells. Rather than a set of fully formed and disembodied texts...
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Published: 01 February 2017
Figure 5. Shandong, highlighting counties mentioned in the text. The priority classification is as of 1800, after Guo Tai's manipulations. Seashore counties had lost their priority status. Note the cluster of priority counties in the northwest. More
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Journal of Asian Studies (1966) 25 (3): 582.
Published: 01 May 1966
... The Mahārāshṭa Purāṇa An Eighteenth-Century Bengali Historical Text . Translated and annotated by Edward C. Dimock and P. C. Gupta . Honolulu : East-West Center Press , 1965 . For the Association for Asian Studies, xxii, 86 . Bibliography and Index. $5.00. Copyright ©...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1969) 28 (3): 652–653.
Published: 01 May 1969
...A. L. Becker Bagus Umabra. Prince of Koripan (Balinese text and an English translation and commentary) . By C. Hooykaas Dr . London : The British Museum , 1968 . 55 pp. £ 2.10.0. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1969 1969 652 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES standard...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1972) 31 (4): 966–967.
Published: 01 August 1972
...J. W. Spellman Kauṭilya and the Arthaśāstra: A Statistical Investigation of the Authorship and Evolution of the Text . By Thomas R. Trautmann . Leiden : E. J. Brill , 1971 . xviii, 227 pp. Appendix, Bibliography, Index. 42 Du. guilders. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1968) 27 (2): 408–409.
Published: 01 February 1968
...Stella Kramrisch Silpa Prakāśa: Medieval Orissan Sanskrit Text on Temple Architecture . By Rāmacandra Kaulācāra . Translated and annotated by Alice Boner and Sadāśiva Rath Śārmā . Leiden : E. J. Brill , 1966 . lvii , 166 , 102 pp. Plates, Illustrations, Sanskrit Text. 150 Guilders...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1968) 27 (3): 634–635.
Published: 01 May 1968
...John Blofeld The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch: The Text of the Tun-Huang Manuscript . By Philip B. Yampolsky . New York : Columbia University Press , 1967 . xiv, 212 pp. Index, Bibliography, Glossary, Notes to the Text, Abbreviations, Tables. $8.50. Copyright © Association...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1952) 11 (3): 408–410.
Published: 01 May 1952
...Kenneth Chen The Śatapañcāśatka of Mātrceta : Sanskrit Text, Tibetan translation and commentary, and Chinese translation . Edited by D. R. Shackleton Bailey , with an introduction, English translation and notes. Cambridge : The University Press , 1951 . xi, 237 p. Copyright ©...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (4): 1104–1112.
Published: 01 November 2017
... , 2014 . ISBN: 9780824838607 (cloth, also available as e-book). Reading Colonial Japan: Text, Context, and Critique . Edited by Michelle M. Mason and Helen J. S. Lee . Stanford, Calif .: Stanford University Press , 2012 . ISBN: 9780804776967 (cloth, also...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1957) 17 (1): 149–151.
Published: 01 November 1957
...Arthur E. Link The Jātakastava or Praise of the Buddha's Former Births : Indo-Scythian (Khotanese) Text, English Translation, Grammatical Notes, and Glossaries . By Mark J. Dresden . Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, Vol. 45 , Part 5, 1955. Philadelphia...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (4): 1073–1074.
Published: 01 November 2004
...Andrew Quintam Buddhist Text Translation Society's Buddhism A to Z . Compiled By Ronald B. Epstein . In collaboration with the Editorial Committee of the Buddhist Text Translation Society. Burlingame, Calif. : Buddhist Text Translation Society , 2003 . xxiii , 284 pp. $21.95 (paper...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (4): 1138–1140.
Published: 01 November 2004
...Edward Mack Text and the City: Essays on Japanese Modernity . By Maeda Ai . Edited by James A. Fujii . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2004 . xv , 391 pp. $89.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 1138 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (4): 1198–1200.
Published: 01 November 2004
...Robert Wessing Killing a Buffalo for the Ancestors: A Zhuang Cosmological Text from Southwest China . By David Holm . Northern Illinois University Monograph Series on Southeast Asia, no. 5. DeKalb : Southeast Asia Publications, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Illinois...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1978) 37 (2): 343–344.
Published: 01 February 1978
...Tsu-Lin Mei Fifty-Five T'ang Poems: A Text in the Reading and Understanding of T'ang Poetry . By Hugh M. Stimson . New Haven : Yale University , (Far Eastern Publications). 1976 . x, 239 pp. $7.50 T'ang Poetic Vocabulary . By Hugh M. Stimson . New Haven : Yale University...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1979) 38 (2): 245–251.
Published: 01 February 1979
... OF ASIAN STUDIES FEBRUARY 1979 Shifting Perspectives on Text and History: A Reflection on Shelly Errington's Paper* Tu WEI-MING The purpose of Shelly Errington's "Some Comments on Style in the Meanings of the Past" is to explore the relation between Classical Malay hikayat and the events of the past...