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...Bruce B. Lawrence Writing Self, Writing Empire: Chandar Bhan Brahman and the Cultural World of the Indo-Persian State Secretary . By Rajeev Kinra . Oakland : University of California Press , 2015 . xix, 371 pp. ISBN: 9780520286467 (paper, also available in cloth and as e...

...M. B. Emeneau The Burmese Writing System . By Robert B. Jones Jr. , and U Khin . Washington, D. C. : American Council of Learned Societies , 1953 . Program in Oriental Languages. Publications Series B—Aids—No. 1. v, 37. $1.00 (paper). A Grammar of Pashto . By Herbert Penzl...

... in the spaces these actors inhabit—between Europe and East Asia, as well as between East Asia and its neighbours and internal ‘others.’” Rather than pointing to either a confined colonial arena or an alternatively restricted inter-Asia area, this case study of the writing of ancient Chinese history in a modern...

... of Ch'uanshan's works], (Taipei: Hua-lien ch'u-pan she, 1965), 16 vols., I.13. All quotations from Wang's writings, unless otherwise stated, are from the Ch'uan-shan ch'üan-chi , cited hereafter as CSCC. 7 Note that Ch'uan-shan was not in the same location as the Ch'uan-shan shu-yuan, which...

...Sonja Arntzen Writing Margins: The Textual Construction of Gender in Heian and Kamakura Japan . By Terry Kawashima . Harvard East Asian Monographs. Cambridge : Harvard University Asia Center , 2001 . 325 pp. $39.50 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002...

..., critical read for scholars working on Okinawa, literature and cultural history in Japan, cultural studies in East Asia, and world literatures. Writing Okinawa represents a commendable work, notable for rich critical readings along with a remarkable scope. However, the one tension that resonates...

...Louisa Schein Bamboo Among the Oaks: Contemporary Writing by Hmong Americans . Edited by Mai Neng Moua . St. Paul : Minnesota Historical Society Press , 2002 . ix , 205 pp. $24.95 (cloth); $29.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 B O O K R E V I E W S...

...James M. Hargett Xu Xiake (1587–1641): The Art of Travel Writing . By Julian Ward . Richmond, Surrey : Curzon , 2001 . xviii , 231 pp. $60.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 178 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T U D I E S in that they respected...

...Julian Ward Taiwan's Imagined Geography: Chinese Colonial Travel Writing and Pictures, 1683–1895 . By Emma Jinhua Teng . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2004 . xvi , 370 pp. $49.50 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 B O O K R E V I E...

...Bonnie B. C. Oh Writing Women in Korea: Translation and Feminism in the Colonial Period . By Theresa Hyun . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2004 . xiv , 174 pp. $42.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 B O O K R E V I E W S K O R E A 213...

...Katherine Carlitz Writing and Materiality in China: Essays in Honor of Patrick Hanan . Edited by Judith T. Zeitlin and Lydia H. Liu . Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series, no. 58. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center for Harvard-Yenching Institute , 2003 . xvii...

... . Shinshaku kanbun taikei [Newly Annotated Series of Classical Chinese Writings] 1961 – 1982 . Vols. 1 and 82 . Tokyo : Meiji shoin . Shin Nihon koten bungaku taikei [New Series in Classical Japanese Literature]. 1992 – 1998 . Vols. 6 and 27 . Tokyo : Iwanami shoten . Shinpen Nihon koten...

...Scott W. Gregory Writing Pirates: Vernacular Fiction and Oceans in Late Ming China . By Yuanfei Wang . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , 2021 . viii , 218 pp. ISBN: 9780472132546 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 At a particular...

...Huaiyin Li Abstract The writings by Chinese historians and archeologists about the origins of Chinese civilization in the past century have transitioned from the old construct of “unitary plurality,” or a shared assumption of the mythical Huangdi (the Yellow Emperor) as the progenitor of the only...

...Chang Qizhong Choreographies of Multilingualism: Writing and Language Ideology in Singapore . By Tong King Lee . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2022 . viii, 234 pp. ISBN: 9780197644652 . © 2024 Association for Asian Studies 2024 One of the early existential challenges...

...David Strecker Mother of Writing: The Origin and Development of a Hmong Messianic Script . By William A. Smalley , Chia Koua Vang , and Gnia Yee Yang . Chicago : The University of Chicago Press , 1990 . xii, 221 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991...

... by KALI FOR W O M E N , Introduction by MEENA ALEXANDER. New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1990. 179 pp. $12.95. Women Writing in India: 600 B.C. to the Present. Volume I: 600 B.C. to the Early 20th Century. Edited by SUSIE T H A R U and K. LALITA. New York: The Feminist...

...Gregory J. Smits Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 Political Thought in Japanese Historical Writing: From Kojiki (712) to Tokushi Yoron (1712) . By John S. Brownlee . Toronto : Wilfrid Laurier University Press , 1991 . xvii , 158 pp. $35.00. 666...

...Jeff Eden Writing Travel in Central Asian History . Edited by Nile Green . Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 2014 . 220 pp. ISBN: 9780253011350 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2016  2016 In his engaging, lucid introduction to Writing Travel...

...D. S. Willis Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968 1968 A Manual of Japanese Writing. Books 1, 2 and 3 . By Hamako Ito Chaplin and Samuel E. Martin . New Haven and London : Yale University Press , 1967 . Paper set. $6.50. 882 rant officer" (785b). It appears...