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Volume 83 - October 2020

Reviews: East Asia

Christopher Agnew: The Kongs of Qufu: The Descendants of Confucius in Late Imperial China. xi, 241 pp. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019. ISBN 978 0 295 74593 0.

Wilt L. Idema: Insects in Chinese Literature: A Study and Anthology. (Cambria Sinophone World Series.) x, 341 pp. Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2019. ISBN 978 1 60497 954 1.

Aurélie Névot: Masters of Psalmody (bimo): Scriptural Shamanism in Southwestern China. (Religion in Chinese Societies.) xv, 264 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2019. ISBN 978 90 04 41483 9.

Roderich Ptak: China und Asiens maritime Achse im Mittelalter: Konzepte, Wahrnehmungen, offene Fragen. (Das mittelalterliche Jahrtausend.) 61 pp. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2019. $17.99. ISBN 978 3 11 06295 9.

Catherine Despeux (trans. Jonathan Pettit): Taoism and Self Knowledge: The Chart for the Cultivation of Perfection (Xiuzhen tu). (Sinica Leidensia.) xiv, 297 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2019. $150. ISBN 978 90 04 32215 8.

Sami Honkasalo: A Grammar of Eastern Geshiza: A Culturally Anchored Description. 889 pp. Helsinki: University of Helsinki, Faculty of Arts, 2019. ISBN 978 951 51 5732 4.

Birgit Kellner (ed.): Buddhism and the Dynamics of Transculturality, New Approaches. (Religion and Society.) vi, 264 pp. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. ISBN 978 3 11 041153 9.

Xiaorong Li: The Poetics and Politics of Sensuality in China: The Fragrant and Bedazzling Movement (1600–1930). (Cambria Sinophone World Series.) x, 331 pp. Amherst, NY: Cambria Press. 2019. ISBN 978 160497952 7.

Fan Pan Li Chen (ed. and trans.): Marionette Plays from Northern China. x, 333 pp. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2017. ISBN 978 1 4384 6483 1.

Michael Lackner (ed.): Coping with the Future: Theories and Practices of Divination in East Asia. (Sinica Leidensia, 138.) xv, 586 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2018. €149. ISBN 978 90 04 34653 6.

Mark Bender, Aku Wuwu (translators) and Jjivot Zopqu (transcriber): The Nuosu Book of Origins. A Creation Epic from Southwest China. (Studies on Ethnic Groups in China.) xviii, 173 pp. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019. £19.50. ISBN 978 0 295 74569 5.

Jane Kate Leonard: Stretching the Qing Bureaucracy in the 1826 Sea-Transport Experiment. (Monies, Markets, and Finance in East Asia, 1600–1900.) xii, 193 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2019. €94. ISBN 978 90 04 38457 6.

Shen Zhongwei: Phonological History of Chinese. xxxvi, 404 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. ISBN 978 1 107 13584 0.

Max Oidtmann: Forging the Golden Urn: The Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet. (Studies in the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.) xvii, 330 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. £54. ISBN 978 0 231 18406 9.

David Crockett Graham (ed. Hartmut Walravens): More Songs and Stories of the Ch'uan Miao. (Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes.) 329 pp. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag / Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft, 2018. ISBN 978 3 447 11001 3.

Kazue Iwasa: Remarks on Maps of the Yi Script based on the Swadesh 100 Wordlist. (Studies in Asian Geolinguistics, Monograph Series No. 5.) 68 pp. Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 2018. ISBN 978 4 86337 292 4.

Chunmei Du: Gu Hongming's Eccentric Chinese Odyssey. (Encounters with Asia.) 251 pp. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. £60. ISBN 978 0 81225120 3.

Robert Culp: The Power of Print in Modern China: Intellectuals and Industrial Publishing from the End of Empire to Maoist State Socialism. (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute.) xv, 371 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. £50. ISBN 978 0 231 18416 8.

Harry Harootunian: Uneven Moments: Reflections on Japan's Modern History. (Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture.) viii, 372 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. £30. ISBN 978 0 231 19021 3.

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