...Amy McNair Two Chinese Treatises on Calligraphy: Treatise on Calligraphy (Shu pu), by Sun Qianli; Sequel to the “Treatise on Calligraphy” (Xu shu pu) by Jiang Kui . Introduced, translated, and annotated by Chang Ch'ung-Ho and Hans H. Frankel . New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press...

... and are not aberrations but, rather, products of an unreformed political system and an ineffective legal system. They make sober reading for those who claim that China does not need democracy at the present time or that democracy would only make life worse. TONY SAICH Harvard University A Treatise on Ef cacy: Between...

...Jerome Silbergeld Philosophy of Painting by Shih T'ao: A Translation and Exposition of his Hua-P'u (Treatise on the Philosophy of Painting) . By Earl J. Coleman . The Hague, Paris, and New York : Mouton (Studies in Philosophy No. 19), 1978 . 147 pp. Notes, Bibliography. D.Glds. 37...

...Ding-hwa E. Hsieh Coming to Terms with Chinese Buddhism: A Reading of the Treasure Store Treatise . By Robert H. Sharf . Studies in East Asian Buddhism, no. 14. Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2002 . 408 pp. $47.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

... himself, who is an educated man and writes passable poetry, must wince when he reads the results of his sermon at Yenan. We can only hope that this sort of thing will not long survive the early insecurities of the regime. Columbia University KLAUS H. PRINGSHEIM Wei Shou, Treatise on Buddhism and Taoism...

...David R. Knechtges Hsin-lun (New Treatise) and Other Writings by Huan T'an (43 B.C. – 28 A.D.) . Translated By Timoteus Pokora . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies , Papers in Chinese Studies 20, 1975 . xlviii, 414 pp. Addenda, Bibliography, Index. $5.00...

...Matthew T. Kapstein Tibetan Elemental Divination Paintings: Illuminated Manuscripts from The White Beryl of Sangs-rgyas rGya-mtsho, with the Moonbeams Treatise of Lo-chen Dharmaśrī . Commentary and translations By Gyurme Dorje . London : John Eskenazi in association with Sam Fogg , 2001...

...Hwansoo Kim Korea's Great Buddhist-Confucian Debate: The Treatise of Chŏng Tojŏn (Sambong) and Hamhŏ Tŭkt'ong (Kihwa) . Translated by A. Charles Muller . Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press , 2015 . vii, 181 pp. ISBN: 9780824853808 (cloth). Copyright ©...

... students will be able to take advantage of the- textbook to learn Manchu. I feel, however, that the text will prove the most useful to those who have already had some training in Manchu. STEPHEN A. WADLEY Portland State University The Treatises on Military Affairs of the Ming Dynastic History (1368-1644...

...Leon Hurvitz Chao Lun: The Treatises of Seng-chao . By Walter Liebenthal . Hong Kong : University Press , 1969 . xli, 129 pp. Appendixes, Bibliography, Index. $9.10. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1970 1970 172 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Chao Lun: The Treatises...

...Arthur H. Thornhill, III On The Art Of Nō Drama: The Major Treatises Of Zeami . Translated by J. Thomas Rimer and Yamazaki Masakazu . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 1984 . xlx, 298 pp. Illustrations, Glossaries, Selected Bibliography in Western Languages, Index. $35...

..., the Bāul expresses his religious beliefs and experience, his view of life and of the world, his thoughts and emotions. They are his only form of worship; there is no treatise embodying the doctrines and practices of this sect. It is only in his songs that we can get a glimpse of what a Bāul is and what he...

...Robert A. Scalapino; Harold Schiffrin Abstract After a decade in power, the Chinese Communists have had enough time to change the past as well as the present. Voluminous documentary collections, monographs, and general treatises on modern Chinese history have been published. Many of these works...

... of relations among language varieties, ideologies, social contexts, and identities, as documented in a treatise on the language of medieval Kerala when that region first raised its claims for a distinctive linguistic identity. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 List...

... of the Pali canonical texts, which can be interpreted as references to a general, often unspecified plurality of Māras, while other passages, more frequently found in the Sanskrit treatises, specify four Māras and designate a name for each. The purpose of this study is to show how the four Māras function...

..., troupe leader, playwright, and theorist—perfected the classical fourteenth-century masked dance-drama form of noh. His claim to enduring Japanese and even international fame is largely attributable to a series of twenty-one treatises covering the history of the art, proper training methods, role...

... for the understanding of Chinese civilization as a whole. But this is the case with the volumes under review. These two studies are the first two parts of a trilogy which will be completed by a parallel study of the Treatise on Law of the Chin-shu. Volume I has been awarded the Prix Stanislas Julien by the Acade"mie...

... real-estate markets and the retail sector posed by the cheaper prices available across the border in China. ALAN SMART University of Calgary Coming to Terms with Chinese Buddhism: A Reading ofthe Treasure Store Treatise. By ROBERT H. SHARF. Studies in East Asian Buddhism, no. 14. Honolulu: University...

...Stacey Van Vleet Part two closely examines the earlier permutations of two major medical controversies in which the Desi intervened, which can be broadly grouped as historical and anatomical. The historical controversy developed between scholars who credited the Four Treatises...

.... Illustrations, Index. $17.50 The core of this volume is basically a copiously annotated, partial translation of the "Treatise on Rituals" of the Hou-Han-shu; the strengths and the weaknesses of the work derive from its essential characteristic: translation. The translations, scattered throughout the volume...