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...Martin A. Mills Forging the Golden Urn: The Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet . By Max Oidtmann . New York : Columbia University Press , 2018 . xvii, 330 pp. ISBN: 9780231184069 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019  2019...

... regard themselves as Theravada Buddhists. At the same urne, the imported nature of the Buddhist faith in Burma is well understood, and its historic superposition upon a more ancient substratum of customs and beliefs is appreciated, even though descriptive details in the matter may largely be lacking. All...

... of reportage, photography, and literature in daily life in South Korea in the aftermath of the Korean War in the contexts of neocolonial and postcolonial framings. T obias B enedict Z ürn turns to an examination of writers of the Han dynasty (206 BCE–220 CE) who were involved in an intertextual writing...

... of the book, closely examining the logic of binding spirits in a manner similar to how agricultural processes are controlled; how ritually consecrated threads are used to bind corpses and urns that render potentially malevolent powers as protective; and how the gift of pamsukula , simultaneously understood...

..., so they left their relatives urns in the ancestral temple. Then during the Cultural Revolution, when things were really chaotic (luan), some kids moved the urns down to the river. . . . My landlady, Songling, and her neighbor, Aihua, a long-time local cadre and party member, sat in Songling s...

... uniquely Khmer. A similar form is part of the Malay pottery tradition. She compares Khmer urns to forms in India and Java (p. 106), although the same form was part of the Dvaravati regalia in central Thailand, much closer to home (J. J. Boeles, "The King of Sri Dvaravati and His Regalia." Journal...

... poems, haiku and tanka —we learn that the resonating, if painfully understated, sense of loss that can be felt throughout her works is occasionally presented in very personal terms as well. In “Tending to Plants,” Tada's narrator suddenly notices, “My father's funeral urn appears from the darkness...

... period. Ian Glover's article focuses on prehistoric bronze drums, bells, and urns, observing that the famous drums, which originated in southern China and northern Vietnam, have rarely been studied in the context of a controlled excavation. Hiram Woodward surveys the collection's Hindu and Buddhist...

..., especially in the islands, they were quickly appreciated as items of value in their own right and were invested with new meanings and functions: as containers for ritual rice wine, burial urns, items of individual and family wealth, and goods exchanged in the context of marriages and indemnity proceedings...

... into bones destined for graves and “ash” to be sold for its metallic content. Further, cremains may be commercially pulverized to make “wearable urns” (jewelry) that facilitate the spreading of ashes without breaking Japanese law on abandoning corpses, or compress the contents of a family grave for storage...

... Areas." Sarawak Museum Journal 29[1981]:3-16). Rooney refers to a flattened globular pot (p. 102) as being uniquely Khmer. A similar form is part of the Malay pottery tradition. She compares Khmer urns to forms in India and Java (p. 106), although the same form was part of the Dvaravati regalia...

..., it is untrue and unfair to say that in his recent study of the emergence of the institution of the Golden Urn, Max Oidtmann in fact proposes that “Chinese bureaucracy built the Qing state, and conquered, colonized, and civilized Inner Asia” (32). Similarly, to twist Dorothea Heuschert's studies about...

... Chinese life. Yet one of his stories, "Warning," is a fanciful discussion among the urns of cremated ashes of followers of the Gang of Four. They talk of their chances for being resurrected and conclude that their only hope is that there will be no reforms. "The Fifth Man in the Overcoat" is Kafkaesque...

... authorities. They help the Chinese as well as Western reader disentangle the intricacies and discern the turbulence underlying Chinese life. Yet one of his stories, "Warning," is a fanciful discussion among the urns of cremated ashes of followers of the Gang of Four. They talk of their chances for being...

... oppression, the central protagonist, Kô-chan, and his adult peers have internalized a litany of pathological terms concerning inversion, urnings, catamites, and cross-dressers. Only the vibrant, white-gloved figure of Omi is the exception, standing unashamed—like the male-male sexuality of old Japan—outside...

... Project in Qing Central Asia (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020). 3. See Peter Schwieger, The Dalai Lama and the Emperor of China: A Political History of the Tibetan Institution of Reincarnation (New York: Columbia University Press, 2015); Max Oidtmann, Forging the Golden Urn: The Qing...

... 1922, when J. G. Andersson first identified the Neolithic culture of central and northwestern China in the province of Honan. Though Andersson did not believe that the Pan Shan and Ma Ch'ang burial urns were introduced into Kansu from the Black Sea region, a possible Western origin of the Chinese...

... for Alpine Research 1 (1956), 257. BARNOTJW, VICTOR. Some eastern Nepalese customs: the early years. SWJA 12 (Autumn 1956), 257-71. BAUER, PAUL. Das Ringen urn den Nanga Parbat, 1856-1958; hundert Jahre bergsteigerischer Geschichte. Miinchen, Suddeutscher Verlag [1955] 237 p . BIRDWOOD, CHRISTOPHER BROMHEAD...

... of "postcremation burial urns," which are in fact trash bins or sump pits. Evidence for trade and interaction in the "Middle Asian interaction sphere" is discussed in chapter 12, which includes references in Mesopotamian texts and actual artifacts that have been traded over great distances. An excellent summary...

... explicitly problematized this very relation to history, and the problem of repetition for example, Kara J urns John Silver series. In his analysis ofJohn Silver: The Beggar of Love, Goodman's Benjamin-inspired linking of revolution and messianism obscures the issue by identifying Silver as a messiah figure...