{"title":"A History of Cultic Images in China: The Domestic Statuary of Hunan by Alain Arrault, trans. Lina Verchery (review)","authors":"Mario Poceski","doi":"10.1353/jas.2022.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jas.2022.0007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29948,"journal":{"name":"HARVARD JOURNAL OF ASIATIC STUDIES","volume":"82 1","pages":"145 - 151"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47228025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Published by the Harvard-Yenching Institute HJAS 82.1 (2022): 198–205 thesis about the importance of Kangxi’s use of landscape as a rhetorical device for communicating a harmonious and prosperous empire. In sum, Where Dragon Veins Meet is an important case study in how rigorous scholarship can reshape our understanding of even the most famous sites. Whiteman’s detailed analysis not only uncovers the Kangxi-era landscape at the Mountain Estate, long buried under Qianlong’s contributions, but also demonstrates the essential role Kangxi played in the development of Qing visual and material culture. Handsomely produced in full color, this book will undoubtedly serve as a standard reference for scholars interested in Chinese imperial arts, landscape studies, and early modern history for many years.
{"title":"Politics and Literature in Mongolia (1921–1948) by Simon Wickhamsmith (review)","authors":"Phillip P. Marzluf","doi":"10.1353/jas.2022.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jas.2022.0016","url":null,"abstract":"Published by the Harvard-Yenching Institute HJAS 82.1 (2022): 198–205 thesis about the importance of Kangxi’s use of landscape as a rhetorical device for communicating a harmonious and prosperous empire. In sum, Where Dragon Veins Meet is an important case study in how rigorous scholarship can reshape our understanding of even the most famous sites. Whiteman’s detailed analysis not only uncovers the Kangxi-era landscape at the Mountain Estate, long buried under Qianlong’s contributions, but also demonstrates the essential role Kangxi played in the development of Qing visual and material culture. Handsomely produced in full color, this book will undoubtedly serve as a standard reference for scholars interested in Chinese imperial arts, landscape studies, and early modern history for many years.","PeriodicalId":29948,"journal":{"name":"HARVARD JOURNAL OF ASIATIC STUDIES","volume":"82 1","pages":"198 - 205"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46420046","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Seeds of Control: Japan's Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea by David Fedman (review)","authors":"R. Winstanley-Chesters","doi":"10.1353/jas.2022.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jas.2022.0009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29948,"journal":{"name":"HARVARD JOURNAL OF ASIATIC STUDIES","volume":"82 1","pages":"158 - 165"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44172785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Published by the Harvard-Yenching Institute HJAS 82.1 (2022): 187–193 not to be overshadowed by Ottoman, Russian, or even Chinese and English. Future studies of the Manchu language must take into account the extended parameters that Söderblom Saarela has established. My only criticism of this book is that it tells only a partial biography of Manchu. Readers should hope that Söderblom Saarela will consider giving commensurate attention to how Manchu has lived on, through international scholarship and learners who are not heritage speakers, in the twentieth century and the present age in another monographlength work.
{"title":"Land of Strangers: The Civilizing Project in Qing Central Asia by Eric Schluessel (review)","authors":"D. Bello","doi":"10.1353/jas.2022.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jas.2022.0014","url":null,"abstract":"Published by the Harvard-Yenching Institute HJAS 82.1 (2022): 187–193 not to be overshadowed by Ottoman, Russian, or even Chinese and English. Future studies of the Manchu language must take into account the extended parameters that Söderblom Saarela has established. My only criticism of this book is that it tells only a partial biography of Manchu. Readers should hope that Söderblom Saarela will consider giving commensurate attention to how Manchu has lived on, through international scholarship and learners who are not heritage speakers, in the twentieth century and the present age in another monographlength work.","PeriodicalId":29948,"journal":{"name":"HARVARD JOURNAL OF ASIATIC STUDIES","volume":"82 1","pages":"187 - 193"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44881016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Published by the Harvard-Yenching Institute HJAS 82.1 (2022): 193–198 In these crucial respects, Land of Strangers remains peripherally engaged with a larger Qing borderland history that includes Manchus, Mongols, and Buddhists, among others. This larger history encompasses projects that were neither Confucian nor simplistically colonial but that did construct a Xinjiang imperial order memorialized as a golden age by Muslim authors such as Sayrāmī. This wider perspective does not overlook the import of Land of Strangers, most especially in terms of its revisions to anachronistic concepts that inform much work on contemporary Xinjiang and of its intimate accounts of ordinary Muslim negotiations and interpellations. It merely reorients the empire’s multiethnic communities marginally closer to the center— myopic Confucian civilizing projects notwithstanding—as the New Qing History, for all its visible limitations, has long clearly envisioned.
{"title":"Where Dragon Veins Meet: The Kangxi Emperor and His Estate at Rehe by Stephen H. Whiteman (review)","authors":"Aurelia Campbell","doi":"10.1353/jas.2022.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jas.2022.0015","url":null,"abstract":"Published by the Harvard-Yenching Institute HJAS 82.1 (2022): 193–198 In these crucial respects, Land of Strangers remains peripherally engaged with a larger Qing borderland history that includes Manchus, Mongols, and Buddhists, among others. This larger history encompasses projects that were neither Confucian nor simplistically colonial but that did construct a Xinjiang imperial order memorialized as a golden age by Muslim authors such as Sayrāmī. This wider perspective does not overlook the import of Land of Strangers, most especially in terms of its revisions to anachronistic concepts that inform much work on contemporary Xinjiang and of its intimate accounts of ordinary Muslim negotiations and interpellations. It merely reorients the empire’s multiethnic communities marginally closer to the center— myopic Confucian civilizing projects notwithstanding—as the New Qing History, for all its visible limitations, has long clearly envisioned.","PeriodicalId":29948,"journal":{"name":"HARVARD JOURNAL OF ASIATIC STUDIES","volume":"82 1","pages":"193 - 198"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47103080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Blueprints for Making Room: Considering Closure and Hospitality in Anglophone Heian Literary Studies","authors":"Reginald Jackson","doi":"10.1353/jas.2022.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jas.2022.0005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29948,"journal":{"name":"HARVARD JOURNAL OF ASIATIC STUDIES","volume":"82 1","pages":"115 - 130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48342574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This comparative study explores how selected Japanese architects and writers imagined, represented, or visualized the city. Describing in vivid detail their shared investments in what Gardner usefully terms the narrative “elements” of the city, this book offers a captivating mapping of two deeply entangled domains where Japan’s urban imaginaries took on new contours during the decades of the 1960s and 1970s. Deftly attending to the speculative dimensions of both literary and architectural discourses of the city, Gardner’s book opens new interdisciplinary entryways to Japan’s vocabularies of urban environments and planetary urbanization, analyzing the role of speculative futures therein. This volume complements a growing body of scholarship that explores the architectural and visual-cultural histories of the Japanese Metabolist movement, known for its visionary attention to urban design processes that proponents likened to organic processes. This scholarship examines the impact of the Metabolist movement on Japan’s architectural and design history.1 It also includes studies of individual Metabolist architects, such as Isozaki Arata 磯崎新 (b. 1931),
{"title":"The Metabolist Imagination: Visions of the City in Postwar Japanese Architecture and Science Fiction by William O. Gardner (review)","authors":"Franz Prichard","doi":"10.1353/jas.2022.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jas.2022.0010","url":null,"abstract":"This comparative study explores how selected Japanese architects and writers imagined, represented, or visualized the city. Describing in vivid detail their shared investments in what Gardner usefully terms the narrative “elements” of the city, this book offers a captivating mapping of two deeply entangled domains where Japan’s urban imaginaries took on new contours during the decades of the 1960s and 1970s. Deftly attending to the speculative dimensions of both literary and architectural discourses of the city, Gardner’s book opens new interdisciplinary entryways to Japan’s vocabularies of urban environments and planetary urbanization, analyzing the role of speculative futures therein. This volume complements a growing body of scholarship that explores the architectural and visual-cultural histories of the Japanese Metabolist movement, known for its visionary attention to urban design processes that proponents likened to organic processes. This scholarship examines the impact of the Metabolist movement on Japan’s architectural and design history.1 It also includes studies of individual Metabolist architects, such as Isozaki Arata 磯崎新 (b. 1931),","PeriodicalId":29948,"journal":{"name":"HARVARD JOURNAL OF ASIATIC STUDIES","volume":"82 1","pages":"165 - 168"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45889275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
abstract:The sexually explicit contents of Jin Ping Mei have long given the book a notorious reputation. The question remains: What does the novel's language of sex accomplish in terms of its aesthetics and narrative function? The answer requires considering the artful use of language and imagery and also how the author uses such description to comment on characters and situations. The novel's sexually explicit scenes can be divided into two modes. In the high-erotic mode, the author exalts sexual acts in euphemistic and figurative language, albeit also often parodic language. In the graphic mode, he describes sex in terms of its raw sights and sounds, its unfiltered excess. Jin Ping Mei inherits the first mode from its past, but the graphic mode is something that came to fruition in the novel's own Ming era and to which Jin Ping Mei contributed profoundly.摘要:《金瓶梅》的情色描寫向來給它帶來有傷風化的聲名。然而，讀者不應忽略此種描寫在美學與敘述上所起的重要作用。小說中的性描述可分兩種，一為委婉比喻，二為直露狀摹。前者作為傳統由《金瓶梅》承用，後者則是明中晚葉才趨成熟，乃《金瓶梅》對文學史的巨獻。
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Published by the Harvard-Yenching Institute HJAS 82.1 (2022): 151–158 Considering the above, I find the book to be somewhat of a mixed bag. Coming from the perspective of a scholar who is not a specialist on local religion in Hunan, I can readily appreciate all the research that has gone into this book and commend the author for his valuable contribution to scholarship. At the same time, I cannot help but wish that more thought had gone into the overall organizational structure of the book. Providing other researchers with a wealth of objective data is laudable. But can this objective not also be done within a larger interpretative framework that tells the story of the statues and the communities linked with them in a manner that is both engaging and edifying?
{"title":"The Jiankang Empire in Chinese and World History by Andrew Chittick (review)","authors":"K. Knapp","doi":"10.1353/jas.2022.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jas.2022.0008","url":null,"abstract":"Published by the Harvard-Yenching Institute HJAS 82.1 (2022): 151–158 Considering the above, I find the book to be somewhat of a mixed bag. Coming from the perspective of a scholar who is not a specialist on local religion in Hunan, I can readily appreciate all the research that has gone into this book and commend the author for his valuable contribution to scholarship. At the same time, I cannot help but wish that more thought had gone into the overall organizational structure of the book. Providing other researchers with a wealth of objective data is laudable. But can this objective not also be done within a larger interpretative framework that tells the story of the statues and the communities linked with them in a manner that is both engaging and edifying?","PeriodicalId":29948,"journal":{"name":"HARVARD JOURNAL OF ASIATIC STUDIES","volume":"82 1","pages":"151 - 158"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43559878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
abstract:The self-images Yu Xiangdou (ca. 1560–1637) inserted in his printed books are often considered portraits of him and thus a proud assertion of his identity as a successful commercial publisher. I analyze his self-images in terms of the highly conventionalized tropes that he appropriated not merely to enhance the market appeal of his imprints but also to prompt readers to visualize his own intellectual labor. By instantiating the otherwise invisible and therefore uncredited intellectual work of publishers, Yu Xiangdou's self-images served as a link between incorporeal authorship and material proprietorship in the increasingly competitive commercial book market of late imperial China.摘要：:余象斗所印書籍中的本人形象並未強調其特殊的個性，而是採用高度格套化的表現形式，是欲增強其印刷品的市場吸引力，亦為促使讀者直觀化其腦力勞動。其畫像在晚期帝國競爭漸盛的商業書市具象化了出版商的腦力勞動，因而連接了物質所有權和無形的著作權。
abstract:The self-images Yu Xiangdou（ca. 1560–1637）inserted in his printed books are often considered portraits of him and thus a proud assertion of his identity as a successful commercial publisher.I analyze his self-images in terms of the highly conventionalized tropes that he appropriated not merely to enhance the market appeal of his imprints but also to prompt readers to visualize his own intellectual labor.By instantiating the otherwise invisible and therefore uncredited intellectual work of publishers，Yu Xiangdou's self-images served as a link between incorporeal authorship and material proprietorship in the increasingly competitive commercial book market of late imperial China.摘要：：余象斗所印书籍中的本人形象并未强调其特殊的个性，而是采用高度格套化的表现形式，是欲增强其印刷品的市场吸引力，亦为促使读者直观化其脑力劳动。其画像在晚期帝国竞争渐盛的商业书市具象化了出版商的脑力劳动，因而连接了物质所有权和无形的著作权。
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