.... FAIRBANK Harvard University Wang An-shih, Chinese statesman and educationalist of the Sung dynasty. By H. R. WILLIAMSON. London: Probsthain, 1935-37. 2 vols. x, 338, viii, 424 p. 60/0. In Mr. Williamson's two volumes there is a complete account of Wang An-shih. That socialist statesman rose to power under...

...William J. Hail BOOK REVIEWS 40J Wang Ching-ivei, puppet or patriot. BY DON BATE. Chicago: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, 1941. 187 p. $1.50. Don Bate places the general reader in his debt for an interesting account of the enigmatic Wang Ching-wei, one of Sun Yat-sen's closest collaborators...

...Arthur F. Wright Wang Mang . By Clyde Bailey Sargent . Shanghai : The Graphic Art Book Co. n.d. ( 1947 ?) 12, 206 p. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1952 1952 1 Stange O. H. , Leben , Personlichkeit und Werk Wang Mangs ( Berlin 1934...

.... In the same year the nationalist-minded interpreter of Western political and social thought, Yen Fu, published a series of important essays which brought him for the first time before the public eye. Something of the spirit of the gathering tide of nationalism could be seen in the forceful editorials of Wang...

...Conrad M. Schirokauer Instructions for Practical Living and Other Neo-Confucian Writings by Wang Yangming . Translated with Notes by Wingtsit Chan . New York and London : Columbia University Press , 1963 . xix, 358. Bibliography, Glossary, Index. $7.50. Copyright © The Association...

...David J. Lu The Chinese Civil Service; Career Open to Talent? . Edited by Johanna M. Menzel . Boston : D. C. Heath and Company , 1963 . xviii, no. Glossary, Bibliography. $1.65. Wang An-shih; Practical Reformer? . Edited by John Meskill . Boston : D. C. Heath and Company , 1963...

...Martin Benedikter Poems by Wang Wei . Trans. Chang Yin-Nan and Lewis C. Walmsley . Rutland and Tokyo : Tuttle , 1958 . 159. Illustrations. $3.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1959 1959 388 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES and mother" (p. 102). The doctrine...

...Robert Backus Van Chun, Drevnekitaĭskiĭ materialist i prosvetitelʼ [Wang Chʻung, Materialist and Teacher of Ancient China] . By Apollon A. Petrov . Moscow : Academy of Sciences of the USSR , 1954 . 103 . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1957 1957 1...

...E. A. Kracke, Jr. Reform in Sung China: Wang An-shih (1021–1086) and His New Policies . By James T. C. Liu . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1959 . xix , 140 . Notes, Index, Bibliography, Glossary. $3.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1962 1962 BOOK...

...Yi-Li Wu A Chinese Physician: Wang Ji and the “Stone Mountain Medical Case Histories.” . By Joanna Grant . London and New York : RoutledgeCurzon , 2003 . xi , 209 pp. $114.95 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 442 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T U...

...Fusheng Wu The book consists of five chapters. Chapter 1, “Engagement or Retreat—A Life of Dilemma,” explores Wang Wei's life and career. Chapter 2, “Wang Wei's Reclusion,” explores the traditional Chinese concept and practice of reclusion and how Wang Wei's notion of reclusion fits...

...Dennis Grafflin Rituals of Recruitment in Tang China: Reading an Annual Programme in the Collected Statements by Wang Dingbao (870–940) . By Oliver J. Moore . Sinica Leidensia, no. 65. Leiden and Boston : Brill , 2004 . vi , 407 pp. $116.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association...

...Jackie Armijo-Hussein Chinese Gleams of Sufi Light: Wang Tai-yü's “Great Learning of the Pure and Real” and Liu Chih's “Displaying the Concealment of the Real Realm” . By Sachiko Murata . Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press , 2000 . xiv, 267 pp. $71.50 (cloth); $23.95...

... compared him with the Duke of Chou; others drew a parallel between his career and that of Wang Mang. Wang cheng-ch'iian ti k'ai-ch'ang yii shou- Professor Dien has translated the text with ch'ang. (The Beginning and End of the meticulous faithfulness and reasonable accuracy. Drama of die Wang Regime), Vols...

...Linda P. Shin Between Tradition and Modernity: Wang T'ao and Reform in Late Ch'ing China . By Paul A. Cohen . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1974 . x, 276 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Glossary, Index. $16.00 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1976 1976 BOOK REVIEWS...

...S. M. Chiu The Philosophy of Wang Yang-ming . Trans. by Frederick Goodrich Henke . New York : Paragon Book Reprint Corp. , 1964 ( 2 nd. ed.). xvii, 512 . Index. $12.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1965 1965 688 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Tseng Kuo-fan...

... with the world of dance. Nevertheless, its breadth and level of scholarship make it an absolute must for any scholar concerned with dance and dance-theater and for any library seeking to broaden its dance and drama collection. RICHARD A. FRASCA University of California, Berkeley CHINA AND INNER ASIA Wang Kuo-wei...

...Thomas A. Metzger Neo-Confucian Thought in Action: Wang Yang-ming's Youth (1472–1509) . By Tu Wei-ming . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1976 . xvi , 222 pp. Bibliography, Glossary, Index. $12.00 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1977 1977 112 JOURNAL...

...Tze-Ki Hon Language, Ontology, and Political Philosophy in China: Wang Bi's Scholarly Exploration of the Dark (Xuanxue) . By Rudolf G. Wagner . SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture. Albany : State University of New York Press , 2003 . viii , 261 pp. $81.50 (cloth); $27.95...

...Paula Varsano A Wild Deer amid Soaring Phoenixes: The Opposition Poetics of Wang Ji . By Ding Xiang Warner . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2003 . ix , 218 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 B O O K R E V I E W S C H I N A 733...