The Journal of Asian Studies: Volume 40 - Issue 3

Published on behalf of Association for Asian Studies

Only show content I have access to (5)

Over 3 years (64)

View selected items
Save to my bookmarks
Export citations
Download PDF (zip)
Save to Kindle
Save to Dropbox
Save to Google Drive
Save content to
To save this undefined to your undefined account, please select one or more formats and confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you used this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your undefined account. Find out more about saving content to .

To save this article to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Please be advised that item(s) you selected are not available.
You are about to save
The Journal of Asian Studies
ISSN: 0021-9118

EISSN: 1752-0401

URL: /core/journals/journal-of-asian-studies
Your Kindle email address

Please provide your Kindle email.

@free.kindle.com @kindle.com (service fees apply)

By using this service, you agree that you will only keep content for personal use, and will not openly distribute them via Dropbox, Google Drive or other file sharing services

< Back to all issues

Volume 40 - Issue 3 - May 1981

Contents

Page 2 of 4

Page 2 of 4

The Journal of Asian Studies

Refine listing

Actions for selected content:

Volume 40 - Issue 3 - May 1981

Book Reviews—China

Sources of Shang History: The Oracle-Bone Inscriptions of Bronze Age China. By David N. Keightley. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978. xviii, 281 pp. Notes, Tables, Figures, Appendixes, Bibliographies A and B, Finding List of Inscriptions and Oracle Bones Cited, Index. $25.

Chinese Popular Literature and the Child. By Dorothea Hayward Scott. Chicago: American Library Association, 1980. x, 181 pp. Illustrations, Chronology, Bibliography, Index. $15.

Lu Hsün and His Predecessors. By V. I. Semanov. Translated and edited by Charles J. Alber. White Plains, N.J.: M. E. Sharpe, 1980. xxvii, 175 pp. Appendix, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $25.

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

A Cultural History of Tibet. By David Snellgrove and Hugh Richardson. Boulder, Colo.: Prajñā Press, 1980. 307 pp. Illustrations, Notes, Chronological Table, Bibliography, Index. $11.50.

Book Reviews—Japan

The Medieval Japanese Daimyo. By Peter Judd Arnesen. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979. 256 pp. $17.95.

Shigaraki: Potter's Valley. By Louise Allison Cort. New York: Kodansha International, 1980. 423 pp. Illustrations, Index, Bibliography. $60.

The Poetic Memoirs of Lady Daibu. Translated by Phillip Tudor Harries. Appendixes, Bibliography, Indexes. 324 pp. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1980. $17.50.

A History of Political Institutions in Japan. By Ryosuke Ishii. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1980. 172 pp. Table, Bibliography, Index. N.p.

Live Machines: Hired Foreigners and Meiji Japan. By H. J. Jones. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1980. xvi, 210 pp. Tables, Appendixes, Notes, Bibliography, Index. N.p.

East Asian Medicine in Urban Japan: Varieties of Medical Experience. By Margaret M. Lock. Berkeley: University of California Press (Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care, No. 4), 1980. 311 pp. Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrations, Index. $20.

Noguchi and His Patrons. By Isabel R. Plesset. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1980. 314 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Index. $25.

A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns: Jinnō Shōtōki of Kitabatake Chikafusa. Translated by H. Paul Varley. New York: Columbia University Press, 1980. 300 pp. Appendixes, Bibliography, Index. $22.50.

Book Reviews—Korea

The Middle Hour: Selected Poems of Kim Chi Ha. Translated by David R. McCann. Stanfordville, N. Y.: Human Rights Publishing Group, 1980. xi, 88 pp. N.p.

Virtues in Conflict: Tradition and the Korean Woman Today. Edited by Sandra Mattielli. Seoul: Samhwa (for the Royal Asiatic Society, Korea Branch), 1977. x, 214 pp. Biographical Notes, Bibliography, Tables, Index. N.p.

Book Reviews—South Asia

The Indian Supreme Court and Politics. By Upendra Baxi. Lucknow: Eastern Book, 1980. 272 pp. Appendix. Rs. 75.

The Bhagavadgītā: A New Translation. By Keyes W. Bolle. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979. vi, 318 pp. Bibliography, Indexes. $14.95.

Vedda Villages of Anuradhapura: The Historical Anthropology of a Community in Sri Lanka. By James Brow. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1978. xv, 268 pp. $15.

The Logic of Gotama. By Kisor Kumar Chakrabarti. Honolulu: The University Press of Hawaii (Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, Monograph No. 5), 1977. 147 pp. Bibliography. $4.00 (paper).

The Journal of Asian Studies

Refine listing

Actions for selected content:

Save Search

Volume 40 - Issue 3 - May 1981

Book Reviews—China

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

Book Reviews—Japan

Book Reviews—Korea

Book Reviews—South Asia