...Morton H. Fried Village Life in Old China; A Community Study of Kao Yao, Yunnan . By Cornelius Osgood . New York : The Ronald Press Company , 1963 . xii, 401 . Appendix, Bibliography, Maps and Text Figures. $8.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 BOOK...

...Harry J. Lamley Chung-kuo wen-hua yao-i . By Liang Shuming ( Liang Sou-Ming ). Kowloon : Hsiang-kang Chi-ch'eng t'u-shu kung-szu , 1963 . x, 332 . HK$5. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1965 1965 682 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Violence: The Political Framework...

...S. Y. Teng Nien-chü ko-yao [Folk songs about the Nien Army] . Collected and edited by Li Tungshan and others. Shanghai : Wen-i ch'u-pan she , 1960 . 142 . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1961 1961 BOOK REVIEWS 375 mine of ideas for further research...

...Clarence H. Hamilton Shih-li yü-yao . . By Hsiung Shih-Li . Shanghai : The Commercial Press under the auspices of the China Philosophical Society , 1947 . 4 vols. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1950 1950 BOOK REVIEWS 397 more familiar names of Adam Smith, John...

...Jean Michaud Other Chinas: The Yao and the Politics of National Belonging . By Ralph A. Litzinger . Durham : Duke University Press , 2000 . 344 pp. $64.95 (cloth); $21.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 706 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Other...

...Kun Chang Yao-English Dictionary . Compiled by Sylvia J. Lombard . Ithaca : Southeast Asia Program , Data Paper No. 69. Cornell University, 1968 . xvi, 363 pp. Preface, Appendixes. Paper. $3.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1969 1969 BOOK REVIEWS 441...

...Zongsui Yang Hu Yao Bang: A Chinese Biography . By Yang Zhong Mei . Armonk, N.Y., London : M. E. Sharpe, Inc. , 1988 . xxiv, 208 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990 646 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES mented in his central chapter on "Chih-i's Threefold...

...Thomas A. Metzger Abstract Chin Yao-Chi (Ambrose Y. C. King) is internationally known for the knowledgeability and fluency with which he uses many of the perspectives of Western social science to discuss Chinese culture, modern Chinese history, and current developments on both sides of the Taiwan...

...Richard John Lynn Mei Yao-ch'en and the Development of Early Sung Poetry . By Jonathan Chaves . New York : Columbia University Press , Studies in Oriental Culture, No. 13, 1976 . ix, 254 pp. Notes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. S12.00 Heaven My Blanket, Earth My Pillow: Poems from...

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...Feng Yao Japan Versus China in the Industrial Race . By Zhang Wei-Bin . New York : St. Martin's Press , 1998 . x, 226 pp. $69.95. BOOK REVIEWS ASIA GENERAL 785 raise complex questions around the difference it might make (or doesn't) to have women as political leaders. These examples...

...Steven G. Yao Configurations of Comparative Poetics: Three Perspectives on Western and Chinese Literary Criticism . By Zong-qi Cai . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2002 . xii, 360 pp. $54.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 BOOK...

...Steven G. Yao Ezra Pound and China . Edited by Zhaoming Qian . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , 2003 . viii, 297 pp. $57.50 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 778 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T U D I E S Ezra Pound...

...Tao-Chung Yao Tao-chia ta tz'u-tien [The Great Dictionary of Taoist Religion] . By Li Shu-Huan . Chü-liu t'u-shu kung-ssu , 1979 . vii, 700 pp. No price. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1980 1980 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 115 line, will be characteristic of Chinese...

... of cultural and linguistic influences, producing one of the most complex ethnological pictures to be found anywhere in the world. Within its confines may be found languages belonging to the Mon-Khmer, Malayo-Polynesian, Annamese-Müöng, Thai, Kadai, Miao-Yao, Tibeto-Burman, and Chinese stocks. Generally...

...Yao Shan-yu Abstract Throughout history floods and droughts have undoubtedly been the two greatest natural scourges of China. Being thus far primarily an agricultural nation with a close dependence upon nature, China's concern with floods and droughts is clearly understandable. As is generally well...

... chi; HNYL, Chien-yen i-lai hsi-nien yao-lu; LCSC, Liang-ch'ao sheng cheng; PMHP, San-ch'ao pei-meng hui-pien; SHY, Sung hui-yao k.ao: SS, Sung-shih. The most convenient access to material on the Lake Rebellion is Sung-tai san-ts'e nung-min ch'i-i shih-liao hui-pien edited by Su Chin-yuan and Li...

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...Robert Poor Chinese Connoisseurship . The Ko Ku Yao Lun. The Essential Criteria of Antiquities. By Sir Percival David (Trans, and Ed.). New York : Praeger Publishers , 1971 . lxii, 344 pp., 32 pls. Indices of Names, Subjects, and Books. $50.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

... Shiihi Hensan linkai, ed., Moriguchi shishi , IV , ( Moriguchi , 1962 ), pp. 45, 53, 59; Jun Obata , ed., Sakai shishi zokuhen , I , ( Sakai , 1971 ), p. 947; Sayama Choshi Hensan linkai, ed., Sayama chōshi , I , ( Sayama-cho , 1967 ), p. 960; Yao Shishi Hensan linkai, cd., Yao...