...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...

...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...

... to republican presidents Yuan Shih-kʻai and Feng Kuo-chang, there appear a number of mu-chih-ming and hsing-chuang composed during the 1930's and early 1940's. 8 Of special interest in this respect are the biographical writings appearing in the mid-1930's in the magazines of Lin Yutang: the Lun-yü...

...Donn V. Hart New Writing from the Philippines: A Critique and Anthology . By Leonard Casper . Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press , 1966 . xv, 411 pp. Notes on Contributors, Selected Bibliography, Checklist, Acknowledgments, Glossary/Index. $7.95. Copyright ©...

... . Publications Series A, Texts No. 2. xiv, 217 – 589 . $4.00 (paper). The Thai System of Writing . By Mary R. Haas . Washington, D. C. : American Council of Learned Societies , 1956 . Publications Series B, Aids No. 5. xiv, 115 . $2.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Shau Wing Chan Easy Lessons in Chinese Writing . By Bernhard Karlgren . Stockholm : Naturmetodens Sprakinstitut , 1958 . 173 . (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1961 1961 BOOK REVIEWS 233 should read out repeatedly the whole of the classical text...

...Joseph K. Yamagiwa A Guide to Reading and Writing Japanese . Compiled by Florence Sakade , General Editor; Kenjie Emori , Associate Editor (Japanese Language); Ralph Friedrich , Associate Editor (English Language); and Susumu Ohashi , Assistant Editor. Rutland and Tokyo : Charles E...

...Albert Feuerwerker REVIEW ARTICLE From "Feudalism" to "Capitalism" in Recent Historical Writing from Mainland China Chung-kuo tzu-pen chu-i meng-ya wen-t'i t'ao-lun chi [Collected Papers on the Problem of the Incipiency of Capitalism in China]. Edited by the Chinese History Seminar of the Chinese...

...Theodore Cohen Dictionary of Japanese (Sōshō) writing forms . By Otome Daniels . London : Lund Humphries and Company , 1944 . 309, xix, 48 pp. 25 s. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1945 1945 90 THE FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY Mr. Acker's footnotes are by way...

...John De Francis BOOK REVIEWS 425 Elementary Chinese with Romanization and Exercises on Speaking and Writing. By SHAU WING CHAN. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1951. xxxi, 468 p. $7.50. This is a much-improved version of the author's earlier Chinese Reader for Beginners. It presents enlarged...

.... Witness the definition for pieh-chi in Sui-chu ching-chi chih . See Sui-shih (T'ung-wen edition) chūan 35.20 b. 3 See Jih-chi lu chüan 19, item 15. REVIEW ARTICLE AN INNOVATION IN CHINESE BIOGRAPHICAL WRITING SHIH-HSIANG CHEN* University of California Chang Chu-cheng ta-cbuan S S ^ J...

...Donald Hart Philippine Writing: An Anthology . Edited by T. D. Agcaoili . An introduction by Edith L. and Edilberto K. Tiempo . Archipelago Publishing House , Manila, Philippines , 1953 . xxvii, 351 . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1954 1954 BOOK REVIEWS...

... to Chinese Civilization . Edited by John Meskill. New York: Columbia University Press, 1973. 699 pp. Appendix, Index. $1750 Review Articles WRITING TEXTBOOK HISTORY: TWO CURRENT EXAMPLES "/ know histhry isn't true, Hinnessy, because it ain't like what I see ivry day in Halstead Sthreet. If any wan comes...

...Lionel M. Jensen Inscribed Landscapes: Travel Writing from Imperial China . Translated with annotations and an introduction by Richard E. Strassberg . Berkeley, Los Angeles, Oxford : University of California Press , 1994 . xvii, 580 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $20.00 (paperback). Copyright...

...: Gender and Theory in Japanese Women's Writing. Edited by PAUL G O R D O N SCHALOW and J A N E T W A L K E R . Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 1996. xx, 511 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $22.50 (paper). Timely, stimulating, highly readable any and all of these apply in ample measure to The Woman's Hand...

...J. Mark Kenoyer Indus Age: The Writing System . By Gregory L. Possehl . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 1996 . xvi, 244 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 1139 Indus Age: The Writing System...

...Carla Petievich In Other Words: New Writing by Indian Women . Edited by Urvashi Butalia and Ritu Menon . Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press , 1994 . xxvii, 196 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $14.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 1030 THE JOURNAL...

...Nancy N. Chen Writing at the Margin: Discourse Between Anthropology and Medicine . By Arthur Kleinman . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1997 . xiii, 314 pp. $16.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 BOOK REVIEWS ASIA GENERAL 459...

...Takeyoshi Nishiuchi Narrative as Counter-memory: A Half Century of Postwar Writing in Germany and Japan . By Reiko Tachibana . Albany : State University of New York Press , 1998 . xiv, 345 pp. $21.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 534 THE JOURNAL...

...Wendy Larson Writing Women in Modern China: An Anthology of Literature by Chinese Women from the Early Twentieth-Century . Edited by Amy D. Dooling and Kristina M. Torgeson . New York : Columbia University Press , 1998 . xii, 394 pp. $49.50 (cloth); $18.50 (paper). Copyright ©...