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...Thomas Jansen The Age of Courtly Writing: Wen xuan Compiler Xiao Tong (501–531) and His Circle . By Ping Wang . Leiden : Brill , 2012 . x, 309 pp. €110.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014  2014 Ping Wang's book is a biographical study of Xiao Tong...

... Bildungsroman ? Or, if the goal is to enrich understandings of the Bildungsroman , other works Li mentions might have offered more cogent examples; good candidates include Su Tong's My Life as Emperor 我的帝王生涯 (1993), Lin Bai's 林白 One Person's War 一個人的戰爭 (1993), Chen Ran's 陳染 A Private Life 私人生活 (1996...

...Penny Van Esterik Chapter 2 begins with a summary of excavation techniques at Ban Chiang and the single test pits at nearby Ban Tong, Ban Phak To, and Don Klang. White and Hamilton explain contradictions around dating the sites and assume that there is no final absolute chronology...

...John K. Whitmore Abstract This article is an introduction to the type of materials available to the historian of pre-1800 Vietnam, particularly that material produced during the reign of Le Thanh-tong. The rule of this Emperor is significant for the bureaucratization of the government...

...James Tong Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 Obituaries ALBERT CHAN, SJ (January 25, 1915 March 10, 2005) Father Albert Chan, Jesuit scholar, eminent Ming historian, and founder and curator of the eighty-thousand-title Chinese collection of the Society of Jesus, died...

...Jingrong Tong Changing Media, Changing China . Edited by Susan L. Shirk . New York : Oxford University Press , 2011 . 281 pp., $99.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper) Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2012 2012 The changes in the nature and context of the Chinese...

...Q. S. Tong The Problematic of Self in Modern Chinese Literature: Hu Feng and Lu Ling . By Kirk A. Denton . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 1998 . xiv, 324 pp. $49.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 484 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...James W. Tong China Learns from the Soviet Union, 1949–Present . Edited by Thomas P. Bernstein and Hua-yu Li . Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield , 2011 . xii, 550 pp. $110.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 Standard texts on Maoist...

...T. K. Tong Chung-Jih Erh-shih-i Tʻiao Chiao-she (Sino-Japanese Negotiation over Twenty-one Demands) . By Li Yu-shu . Vol. I. Monograph No. 18 of the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica. Taipei : 1966 . 462 pp. n.p. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1969 1969...

...Yanqi Tong Reform and Transformation in Communist Systems: Comparative Perspectives . Edited by Ilpyong J. Kim and Jane Shapiro Zacek . New York : Paragon House , 1991 . 380 pp. $19.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 BOOK REVIEWS ASIA GENERAL 123...

... the explorers from Kim Tong Sŏp's serialized novel Youth Space Expedition Team met any other socialist space travelers on their way to Mars. But they could have very well run into spaceship #1, commanded by Zhenzhen, the protagonist of Zheng Wenguang's (1929–2003) “Cong diqiu dao huoxing” (From the Earth...

...Tong Lam Hygienic Modernity: Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China . By Ruth Rogaski . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 2004 . xiv , 401 pp. $60.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009 Anyone who has...

...Tong Lam 5 Frederick Mote , “ A Millennium of Chinese Urban History: Form, Time, and Space Concepts in Soochow ,” Rice University Studies 59 , no. 4 ( 1973 ): 51 . All in all, this is a well-researched, ambitious, and important book that should appeal greatly to anyone...

... an earlier monarch who had abdicated the throne to serve as an elder statesman. King Minh-tong abdicated the throne in 1329 yet continued to direct affairs at court until his death in 1357. King Nghe-tong reigned from 1370 to 1372, then abdicated, serving as elder statesman during the reigns of Due-tong...

...David Ownby Disorder under Heaven: Collective Violence in the Ming Dynasty . By James W. Tong . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1991 . xi, 325 pp. $39.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER ASIA 159 group called...

... together and to evaluate fully the impact of this period on Vietnamese life. For example, the most powerful person in the Vietnamese state at this time was not the titular ruler but rather an earlier monarch who had abdicated the throne to serve as an elder statesman. King Minh-tong abdicated the throne...

...Timothy Cheek Transitions from State Socialism: Economic and Political Change in Hungary and China . By Yanqi Tong . Lanham, Md. : Rowman and Littlefield Publishers , 1997 . xiii, 265 pp. $59.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999...

... the energy required to locate, peruse, and reduce 233 gazetteers to machine-readable data. Tong has also mastered the huge literature on collective violence and the demanding quantitative methodology that makes his work relevant to social scientists. Furthermore, in his discussion of the two approaches...