...Eugene Cooper The Rise of a Refugee God: Hong Kong's Wong Tai Sin . By Graeme Lang and Lars Ragvald . Hong Kong, New York, Oxford : Oxford University Press , 1993 . x, 204 pp. $58.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER...

...R. Bin Wong Abstract Commenting on Christopher Bayly's Remaking the Modern World, 1900–2015 is a bittersweet exercise. My assignment for this forum is to consider Remaking the Modern World, 1900–2015 from the vantage point of China studies. I will do so by framing my remarks with respect to some...

...Peter Tsung Kei Wong Abstract This article proposes that the invention of the concept of Spring and Autumn (Chunqiu; ca. 722–481 BCE), the only Chinese historical period named after a text, was neither early nor inevitable. A diachronic analysis of the word chunqiu shows that it began to denote...

... is; of course, entitled to that view: but in reasserting that book's thesis he ignores rather than responds to the critiques ofthat book (see Wong 1990; Myers 1991; Wong 1992). He also ignores plentiful new research on both Asia and Europe that suggests there were more paths to modernity than we once realized...

..., and R. Bin Wong, and the stimulating introduction by Lillian M. Li provide the pegs for these brief comments. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1982 1982 List of References Ambiranjan S. 1978 . Classical Political Economy and British Policy in India . London...

... Taiwan and Saisai (Xi Xi) and Wong Bik-wan from Hong Kong, the article proposes “deep imperial time” as a Sinophone historical poetics and cultural strategy of deimperialization. Artists turn their Sinophone sensibilities into a historiographical method that intervenes in nation-centric history...

...幽佈施祈褔除惡晚會, was held on August 9, 2019, in the districts of Wong Tai Sin and Shatin and specifically centered religious practice as a creative and potent source of political expression. To better understand this intersection of religion, politics, and identity in Hong Kong, this article analyzes...

...Ting Guo Abstract This article highlights the neglected political participation of Daoism, Buddhism, and Chinese folk religions in Hong Kong in recent years, focusing on how local communities creatively engage with three deities in particular, namely Wong Tai Sin 黃大仙, Kwan Kung 關公, and Che Kung 車公...

...R. Bin Wong Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 Obituary SAEKI YUUICHI 1923-1998 Saeki Yuuichi, formerly of the Institute of Oriental Culture, University of Tokyo, passed away on 24 February 1998 of lung cancer. Professor Saeki was a leading scholar of China's late...

...Man-kong Wong Hong Kong in Chinese History: Community and Social Unrest in the British Colony, 1842–1913 . By Tsai Jung-Fang . New York : Columbia University Press , 1993 . xiii, 375 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 BOOK REVIEWS...

...R. Bin Wong To Achieve Wealth and Security: The Qing Imperial State and the Economy, 1644–1911 . Edited by Jane Kate Leonard and John R. Watt . Cornell East Asian series, No. 56. Ithaca : Cornell University East Asia Program , 1992 . xii, 189 pp. $10.00. Copyright ©...

...William Lavely; R. Bin Wong Abstract Ever since malthus, it has been conventional to cast the Chinese and European preindustrial demographic systems as opposing archetypes—Europe as a model of demographic restraint, China as demographic profligate. Europe's moderate population growth, fertility...

...David B. Wong A Daoist Theory of Chinese Thought: A Philosophical Interpretation . By Chad Hansen . New York : Oxford University Press , 1992 . xv, 448 pp. $79.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 824 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES A Daoist Theory...

...Nancy Wong Advertising in Asia: Communication, Culture, and Consumption . Edited by Katherine Toland Frith . Ames, Ia .: Iowa State University Press , 1996 . 313 pp. $44.95. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 BOOK REVIEWS ASIA GENERAL 1101 Advertising...

...Young-tsu Wong Global Space and the Nationalist Discourse of Modernity: The Historical Thinking of Liang Qichao . By Xiaobing Tang . Stanford : Stanford University Press . 1996 . $39.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 786 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Luke S. K. Kwong; Young-tsu Wong Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 List of References Guojia dang'an ju . 1958 . Wuxu bianfa dang'an shiliao (Archival materials on the 1898 reform). Beijing : Guojia dang'an ju . Bozan Jian , , comp. 1953 . Wuxu...

...R. Bin Wong Abstract Ramon myers recently reviewed in this journal four books analyzing China's prewar economy and Philip Huang added a reply to some of Myers's criticisms. They clearly disagree about how best to characterize China's Republican-period economy. Myers suggests that books by Loren...

...R. Bin Wong Communities of Grain: Rural Rebellion in Comparative Perspective . By V. Magagna . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 1991 . xii, 277 pp. $42.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 BOOK REVIEWS ASIA GENERAL 129 Government of India Act...

...R. Bin Wong Abstract Competition over grain supplies produced conflict when the people controlling large stores of grain failed to sell or lend grain at prices and in quantities demanded by the people needing grain. These conflicts, known generally as food riots, took place within a general...

...Shirleen S. Wong Li Ho . By Kuo-ch'ing Tu . Boston : Twayne Publishers , 1979 . 165 pp. Notes and References, Finding-List, Selected Bibliography, Index. $13.95. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1982 1982 154 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Such sloppiness could perhaps...