...Homer H. Dubs Records of the Grand Historian of China, translated from the Shih Chi of Ssu-ma Ch'ien . By Burton Watson . 2 vols. New York : Columbia University Press , 1961 . 563 + 543. Index. $20.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1963 1963 BOOK REVIEWS 205...

...Kun Chang Fifty Chinese Stories. Selected from Classical Texts, Romanized, and Translated into Modern Chinese . By Y. C. Liu , with an Introduction and Romanized Japanese Versions by W. Simon. London : Lund Humphries , 1960 , xxii, 232. Vocabularies, Notes. 45/-. Copyright ©...

...Walter F. Vella The Nan Chronicle. Translated by Prasoet Churatana . Edited by David K. Wyatt . Ithaca, New York : Cornell University , 1966 . (Data Paper: Number 59. Southeast Asia Program. Department of Asian Studies.) 78 pp. $2.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

... with some of its most interesting results, achieved by one of its acknowledged masters. A final word of thanks is due the Harvard-Yenching Institute for helping to make this publication possible. Stanford University DAVID S. NlVISON Inside the Moon Gate: Poems Translated from the Chinese. By DAVID WlLLARD...

...Katharine Smith Diehl Patriarch, Shah and Caliph: A Study of the Relationships of the Church of the East with the Sassanid Empire and the Early Caliphates up to 820 A.D., with Special Reference to Available Translated Syriac Sources . By William G. Young . Rawalpindi, Pakistan : Christian...

...Wendy Larson Translingual Practice: Literature, National Culture and Translated Modernity—China, 1900–1937 . By Lydia H. Liu . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 1995 . xx, 474 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA...

...F. K. Lehman The Pāḍaeng Chronicle and the Jengtung State Chronicle Translated . By Sao Saimöng Mangrāi . Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan , Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies, 1981 . Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia, no. 19. xxii, 301 pp. N.p. (paper...

...Edward H. Hume, M.D. 322 THE FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY Bodde, Dubs, Sargent, Stange, and Swann, to mention those who come readily to mind. How firm a grip on the Ch'in-Han period have Western scholars achieved? Does the work of translation and annotation now permit relatively firm generalizations...

...Donald R. Davis, Jr. Islam Translated: Literature, Conversion, and the Arabic Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia . By Ronit Ricci . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2011 . xvi, 313 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013 2013...

...Ghassan Moazzin Vernacular Industrialism in China: Local Innovation and Translated Technologies in the Making of a Cosmetics Empire, 1900–1940 . By Eugenia Lean . New York : Columbia University Press , 2020 . 416 pp. ISBN: 9780231193481 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Miho Matsugu Woman Critiqued: Translated Essays on Japanese Women's Writing . Edited by Rebecca L. Copeland . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2006 . x, 281 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $27.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2008 2008 What...

...Edward H. Schafer Abstract Among the sins of scholarly translators from the Chinese, there is one which is so prevalent as to remain unchallenged generation after generation, possibly because no one is free from its taint. I refer to the practice of leaving uncooked and indigestible lumps...

... spokesmen put up a not altogether convincing defense against the Conservative criticism that the Colonial Office's policy was "vacillating, complacent and unrealistic." University of Minnesota LENNOX A. MILLS The Satapancasatka of Matrce(a: Sanskrit Text, Tibetan translation and commentary, and Chinese...

...Sonja Arntzen In conclusion, I concur with Washburn that only multiple translations can grant access to works as rich and complex as Genji . Washburn's and Tyler's make a wonderfully complementary pair for entering the Genji ’s world. Doris Bargen's Mapping Courtship and Kinship...

... of Pittsburgh GARY D. ALUNSON On Translation In the interest of promoting more efficient communication and enhancing graduate education, I would be grateful for a little space in which to air my views on translation. Translation is generally regarded as either an elementary or an overly complex exercise. Too...

...John L. Bishop A List of Published Translations from Chinese into English, French, and German . Compiled and edited by Martha Davidson . Part I: Literature, Exclusive of Poetry . (Tentative Edition). Ann Arbor, Mich. : J. W. Edwards for the American Council of Learned Societies , 1952...

...James I. Crump, Jr. Stories from a Ming Collection: Translations of Chinese Short Stories Published in the Seventeenth Century . By Cyril Birch London : The Bodley Head , 1958 . 205 . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1959 1959 BOOK REVIEWS 499 (item 81512.2...

...Mary C. Wright Ch'ing Administrative Terms: A Translation of the Terminology of the Six Boards with Explanatory Notes . Edited by E-tu Zen Sun . Harvard East Asian Studies No. 7. Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1961 . xxvii, 421 . Sources, Indices. $7.50. Copyright ©...

...W.A.C.H. Dobson BOOK REVIEWS 301 Kuan-tzu, a translation and study of twelve chapters. Vol. i. TRAN. AND ED. BY W. ALLVN RICKETT. Foreword by Derk Bodde. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1965. HK $45. This is a translation of twelve of the seventysix chapters of a work which Haloun has...

...D. E. Mills A Study of the Ise-monogatari with the Text According to the Den-Teika-hippon and an Annotated Translation . (in two volumes). By Frits Vos . The Hague : Mouton and Co. , 1957 . xii, 271 , 208. Indices. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1958 1958 BOOK...