Asian history Books

Book SynopsisThe creation of a Greek Frontier in Central Asia was one of the most famous and far-reaching achievements of Alexander the Great. Yet the process was shaped as much by the political traditions of the natives as by the cultural traditions of the newcomers. This book examines this key historical clash from both sides, and shows that the birth of Hellenistic Bactria was a traumatic one eliciting more bitterness than 'brotherhood'. The book is composed of four major parts: Part I provides an introduction to both Bactrian and Alexander studies; Part II surveys the land and peoples of Central Asia prior to Alexander's 'conquest'; Part III covers the Graeco-Macedonian invasion and the effects of colonization; Part IV treats the aftermath, from the death of Alexander to the accession of Seleucus.Trade Review'...a valuable monograph which attempts to look at Alexander's campaign in Central Asia from the Sogdian side...The enlightening volume is accompanied by a rich bibliography and a short index.' Short Bibliographical Notices, 1996.

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Book SynopsisIn the course of millennia of dealing with problems of violence, South Asia has not only elaborated the ideal of total avoidance of violence in a unique manner, it also developed arguments justifying and rationalizing its employment under certain circumstances. Some of these arguments seemingly transform all sorts of ‘violence’ into ‘non-violence’. Historical and cultural aspects of the tensions between violence and its denial and rationalization in South Asia are taken up in the contributions of this volume which deal with topics ranging from the origins of the concept of ahiṃsā, to the iconography and interpretation of a self-beheading goddess, and violent heroines in Ajñeya’s Hindi short stories.Trade Review'...a rewarding volume that should serve diverse scholarly interests for years to come.’ Frederick M. Smith, Religious Studies Review, 2002.

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Book SynopsisThis second volume on Christianity in China covers the period from 1800 onwards up to the present, divided into three main periods, and dealing with the complexities of both Catholic and Protestant aspects. Also in this volume the reader will be guided to and through the Chinese and Western primary and secondary sources by carefully selected major scholars in the field. Produced with financial support from the Ricci Institute at the University of San Francisco Center for the Pacific Rim.Trade Review"The handbook offers a stock-taking of the archival resources: gives insight to the present stage, contents and achievements of historical research; it indicates as well the fields where further investigation is needed; and finally, it serves as a most helpful guide to anybody undertaking a study and research into the rich and lively history of Christianity in China." - Paul B. Steffen, SVD Bibliographia Missionaria, LXXXIV, 2010 "This grand tome of a reference volume, weighing in at over four pounds, has been long awaited in the ever-growing world of Chinese Christian studies." Chloë Starr, Yale Divinity School, International Bulletin of Missionary Research, Vol. 34, No. 3, July 2010 "In short, this is a volume of a gold mine of resources, references and bibliographic sources both in Chinese and English." Samuel H. Chao, Ph.D., China Ministry Report, No. 213-228, November 2010-April 2012

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Book SynopsisThe Mongol Empire was founded by Chinggis Khan in the early thirteenth century. Within the span of two generations it embraced most of Asia. It left a lasting impact on this area and its people, which was often far from negative! The volume offers fresh perspectives on the Mongol Empire and its legacy. Various authors approach the matter from a variety of views, including political, military, social, cultural and intellectual. In doing so, they shed a new light on the Mongol Empire. This publication has also been published in hardback, please click here for details.Trade ReviewFrom reviews of the hardcover edition: 'Scholars fascinated with Chinggis Khan and the Eurasian steppe will not be disappointed.' Charles C. Kolb, National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington DC 20506, Religious Studies Review, 1999. 'The book is a must-read for the specialist and worth a close look by generalists. Recommended.' Word Trade, 1999. 'The volume is a welcome and useful addition to the growing body of modern studies on the Mongol empire, offering fresh perspectives and shedding new light on some old problems.' Peter B. Golden (Rutgers University), The International History Review, 2000.Table of ContentsList of Maps and Figure List of Abbreviations Notes on Dates and Transliterations List of Contributors Introduction Early History of the Mongol Empire What the Partridge Told the Eagle: A Neglected Arabic Source on Chinggis Khan and the Early History of the Mongols, Robert G. Irwin From Ulus to Khanate: The Making of the Mongol States, c. 1220-c. 1290, Peter Jackson The Mongols in the Middle East Mongol Nomadism and Middle Eastern Geography: Qīshlāqs and Tümens, John Masson Smith, Jr. Mongol Imperial Ideology and the Ilkhanid War against the Mamluks, Reuven Amitai-Preiss The Īlkhān Öljeitü’s Conquest of Gīlān (1307): Rumour and Reality, Charles Melville The Āthār wa ahyāʾ of Rashīd al-Dīn Fadl Allāh Hamadānī and His Contribution as an Agronomist, Arboriculturist and Horticulturist, A.K.S. Lambton The Letters of Rashīd al-Dīn: Īlkhānid Fact or Timurid Fiction? A.H. Morton The Mongols in China and the Far East Mongol Empire and Turkicization: The Evidence of Food and Foodways, Paul D. Buell Notes on Shamans, Fortune-tellers and Yin-Yang Practitioners and Civil Administration in Yüan China, Elizabeth Endicott-West Qubilai Qaʾan and ʾPhags-pa bLa-ma, Sh. Bira Qubilai Qaʾan and the Historians: Some Remarks on the Position of the Great Khan in Pre-modern Chinese Historiography, T.H. Barrett The Legacy of the Mongol Empire China as a Successor State to the Mongol Empire, Hidehiro Okada Some Comments on the Consequences of the Decline of the Mongol Empire on the Social Development of the Mongols, Udo B. Barkmann How Mongol were the Early Ottomans? Rudi Paul Lindner The Early History of the Moghul Nomads: The Legacy of the Chaghatai Khanate, Hodong Kim The Legitimacy of Khanship among the Oyirad (Kalmyk) Tribes in Relation to the Chinggisid Principle, Junko Miyawaki The Vicissitudes of Mongolian Historiography in the Twentieth Century, Thomas N. Haining Index

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Book SynopsisThis is a collection of original essays which focuses on the causes, meanings and significance of female suicides in Ming and Qing China. It is the first attempt in English-language scholarship to revise earlier views of female self-destruction that had been shaped by the May Fourth Movement and anti-Confucian critiques of Chinese culture, and to consider the matter of female suicide in the wider context of more recent scholarship on women and gender relations in late imperial China. The essays also reveal the world of tensions, conflicting demands and expectations, and a variety of means by which both women and men made moral sense of their lives in late imperial China. The volume closes with an extensive bibliography of relevant and important Chinese, Japanese, and Western publications related to female suicide in late imperial China.

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Book SynopsisThis volume offers a reconstruction of the court culture of the taifa kings of al-Andalus (11th century A.D.), using both visual and textual evidence. A focus of particular attention is the court of the Banū Hūd at Zaragoza, and that dynasty's palace, the Aljafería. Principle written sources are not histories and chronicles, but the untranslated poetic anthologies of al-ḥimyarī and al-Fatḥ ibn Khāqān. The first part of the book addresses taifa visual and literary languages, with especial emphasis on connections between the literary and visual aspects of taifa aesthetics. The sections on the Aljafería's ornamental program will be of particular interest, not only to historians of Islamic art, but to students of all visual traditions with strong non-figural components. In addition, Part One also proposes that taifa court culture has been considered as a culture of "courtly love," and this argument also forms the point of departure for Part Two. The second part of the study uses luxury objects of Islamic and Limousine production as a point of departure for a detailed comparison of the thematics of taifa poetry in classical Arabic on the themes of courtly love and pleasures with those of the better-known Provençal tradition.Table of ContentsDedication Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Glossary of Arabic Terms Introduction Part One: The Culture of Courtly Love in al-Andalus, 1005-1134 A.D. Introduction To Part One: Posing the Problem: The Aljafería and its Historiography 1. Initial Impressions: First Readings of Space and Ornament 2. Approaches and Academic Contexts Chapter One: Ceremonial Space, Pleasurable Space, and the Majlis al-Uns in Later Taifa Court Culture 1. Introduction 2. Ceremonial Space and the Aesthetic of Variety 3. The Realm of Ritual Pleasure: An Aesthetic of the Ambiguous Chapter Two: Models of Good Behavior: Early 11th-century Precedents for Culture of Courtly Love at the Courts of the Later Mulûk al-Tawâ’if 1. The Politics of Legitimacy: Panegyric and the Construction of Royal Identity Under the ' mirî Rulers and during the Fitna 2. Al-Himyarî’s Badî` fi Wasf al-Rabî` and Its Subjects, the Kuttâb: an Andalusî Anthology 3. The Andalusî “Loving Subject:” Early Appearances at the ` mirî Courts 4. TheElegant King: The Beginnings of "Courtly" Royal Panegyric in al-Andalus 5. The Cult of Pleasure and the “Courtly” Sovereign at the Court of the Banû Hamm 6. Images of “Courtliness:” Depicting the Majlis and the Courtly Sovereign Chapter Three: Analogy, Metaphor and Courtly Love: A Reconstruction of the Nadîm’s Sensibilities 1. The Analogical Habit of Thought 2. A World of Similarities: Badî` and the Wondrous Possibilities of Metaphor 3. The Esthetics of Metaphor: Badî` in a Later Taifa Court Context 4. Mystical Possibilities: the Symbol as a Point in Common between Mystical and Philosophical Paths Toward Illumination 5. Courtliness, Love and Language Chapter Four: The Makings of Paradise: The Consequences of Analogical Thought for Palace Ornament and its Reception in a Later Taifa Court Context 1. Introduction 2. The Nadîm Looks Up and Listens 3. Seeing Paradise 4. Philosophical Implications 5. The Majlis: Analogical Portal to the Seven Heavens Conclusion To Part One: Tawhîd: The Unity of Sacred and Profane in the Aljafería’s Microcosmos Part Two: Courtly Courts as a Sites of Cultural Interaction Intro To Part Two: The Case of the Two Caskets: Comparative Considerations Chapter One: A Question of Influence?: Some Considerations on the Muwashshaha Chapter Two: In the Context of Courtliness Chapter Three: The Question of Language Chapter Four: The Andalusî-Occitan Panegyric: Poetics of Courtly Love Chapter Five: Al-`Arab wa-l-`Ajam: Cultural Interaction Along the Northern Frontier in the 11th Century Conclusion: The Two Caskets Again: Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn 1961 Robert van Gulik published his pioneering overview of Sexual Life in Ancient China. This edition of the work is preceded by an elaborate introduction by Paul Rakita Goldin assessing the value of Van Gulik’s volume, the subject itself, and its author. The introduction is followed by an extensive and up-to-date bibliography on the subject, which guides the modern reader in the literature on the field which appeared after the publication of Van Gulik's volume. One of the criticisms in 1961 regarded the Latin translations of passages deemed too explicit by Van Gulik. In this 2002 edition all Latin has for the first time been translated into unambiguous English, thus making the full text widely available to an academic audience.Trade Review"...brilliant and unexpectedly enlightening…" – Donald Holzman, in: T'oung Pao "...brings many precious and thorough statements on social, cultural and sexual habits of Ancient China…" – T. Pokora and J. Mellan, in: Archiv Orientální

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Book SynopsisThe archive of the Kong Koan constitutes the only relatively complete archive of a “diaspora” Chinese urban community in Southeast Asia. The essays in the present volume offer important and new insights into many different aspects of Overseas Chinese life between 1780-1965. The Kong Koan of colonial Batavia was a semi-autonomous organization, in which the local elite of Jakarta’s Chinese community supervised and coordinated its social and religious matters. During its long existence as a semi-official colonial institution, the Kong Koan collected sizeable Chinese archival holdings with demographic data on marriages and funerals, account books of the religious organisations and temples, documents connected with educational institutions, and the meetings of the board itself.

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Book SynopsisThis the first critical biography of Zahīr al-Dīn Muhammad Bābur, the founder of one of the great premodern Islamic empires, the Timurid-Mughul empire of India. It contains an original evaluation of his life and writings as well as fresh insights into both the nature of empire building and the character of the Timurid-Mughul state. Based upon recently published critical editions of Bābur's autobiography and poetry, the book examines Bābur's life from the time he inherited his father's authority in the Ferghanah valley, east of Samarqand, in 1494, until his death in Agra, India in 1530. The book is written in an alternating series of thematic and narrative chapters. The thematic or analytical chapters examine his major writings, discuss his cultural personality and his reaction to Indian culture, while the narrative chapters relate the story of his life while critically commenting on his autobiographical intent. The book contributes to the history of the Timurid period, the study of early modern Islamic empires and the nature of autobiographical literature in Islamic and Asian societies. It is illustrated with fifteen colour plates and four maps.Trade Review'…a highly accessible piece of scholarship in which Dale's humor and humanity combine with Bābur's own to bring his story to life. These qualities mean that it is likely to be treasured by those interested in the Tῑmῡrid-Mughuls, early modern empire building, and autobiographical writings in an Asian or Islamic context.' Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, The Journal of Asian Studies, 2005. "The Garden of the eight Paradises is a remarkable biography of a remarkable figure, and it deserves a place on the shelf of anyone interested in Central Asian history, Mughal history, world history, and Islamicate historiography, to name just a few areas." Sholeh Quinn, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 2008

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Book SynopsisBeyond Tradition and Modernity is a collection of original essays which considers the complexities behind the dramatic changes generated in China during the last decades of the nineteenth and the first decades of the twentieth century. As men and women literally-or metaphorically- crossed into new geographical worlds, they came to express their understanding of the expanding universe in a variety of ways which cannot be neatly labeled either traditional or modern. The contributors to this volume demonstrate how the creativity of these writers marked a new moment in historical and literary practices transcending this usual binary and simple teleology. Their essays expose how the ethnographic, literary, and educational projects of these men and women gave voice to new ideals and ideas that reflect the changing boundaries of gender at this time.

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Book SynopsisThe interaction between the Eurasian pastoral nomads - most famously the Mongols and Turks - and the surrounding sedentary societies is a major theme in world history. Nomads were not only raiders and conquerors, but also transmitted commodities, ideas, technologies and other cultural items. At the same time, their sedentary neighbours affected the nomads, in such aspects as religion, technology, and political culture. The essays in this volume use a broad comparative approach that highlights the multifarious nature of nomadic society and its changing relations with the sedentary world in the vicinity of China, Russia and the Middle East, from antiquity into the contemporary world.Trade Review'...new ground in the study of Eurasian nomadic interactions with sedentary peoples from 1100 BCE to 1999 CE...excellently written work...Summing up: Essential.' L.A. Kimbal, Choice, July/August 2005.

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Book SynopsisThe essays in this volume focus on the relationship between Josephus’ Judean and Jewish identity on the one hand, and his life and writings in the context of Flavian Rome on the other. From very different points of view the various contributions to this volume, which is the fruit of an international colloquium entitled ‘Josephus between Jerusalem and Rome’ held in the city of Rome in 2003, shed light on the complex cultural interplay in Josephus’ writings. After examining more general historiographical and literary questions, the volume proceeds to address specific issues of Josephus’ presentation of Judaism and of historical “data”, inter alia about the war of 66-70 CE. A final section deals with the translation and transmission of his works.

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Book SynopsisThis volume examines the Russo-Japanese War in its military, diplomatic, social, political, economic, and cultural context. Through the use of research from newly opened Russian and little used Japanese sources the editors assert that the Russo-Japanese War was, in fact, World War Zero, the first global conflict in the 20th century. The contributors demonstrate that the Russo-Japanese War, largely forgotten in the aftermath of World War One, actually was a precursor to the catastrophe that engulfed the world less than a decade after the signing of the Treaty of Portsmouth. This study not only further reveals the weaknesses of Imperial Russia but also exhibits Japan as it entered its fateful 20th century. Contributors: Oleg Rudolfovich Airapetov; Boris Vasilevich Ananich; Michael Auslin; Paul A. Bushkovitch; John Bushnell; Frederick R. Dickinson; Tatiana Aleksandrovna Filippova; David Goldfrank; Antti Kujala; Dominic Lieven; Igor Vladimirovich Lukoianov; Pertti Luntinen; Steven Marks; Yoshihisa Tak Matsusaka; David Maclaren Mcdonald; Bruce W. Menning; Edward S. Miller; Ian Nish ; Dmitrii Ivanovich Oleinikov; Nicholas Papastratigakis; Paul A. Rodell; Norman E. Saul; Charles Schencking; Barry Scherr; David Schimmelpenninck Van Der Oye; Evgenii Iurevich Sergeev; Naoko Shimazu; Yokote Shinji; John W. Steinberg; Richard Stites; James T. Ulak; David Wolff; Don Wright.Table of ContentsPreface List of Maps and Illustrations Conventions Introduction John W. Steinberg, Bruce W. Menning, David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, David Wolff, Shinji Yokote Part I In the Shadow of War Chapter One Japanese Strategy, Geopolitics and the Origins of the War, 1792-1895 Michael Auslin Chapter Two The Immediate Origins of the War David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye Chapter Three Stretching out to the Yalu: A Contested Frontier, 1900-1903 Ian Nish Chapter Four The Bezobrazovtsy Igor Lukoianov Chapter Five Crimea Redux? On the Origins of the War David Goldfrank Part II War on Land and Sea Chapter Six The Operational Overview John W. Steinberg Chapter Seven Neither Mahan nor Moltke: Strategy in the War Bruce W. Menning Chapter Eight The Russian Army’s Fatal Flaws Oleg Airapetov Chapter Nine Human Bullets, General Nogi, and the Myth of Port Arthur Y. Tak Matsusaka Chapter Ten The Russian Far Eastern Squadron’s Operational Plans Nicholas Papastratigakis with Dominic Lieven Chapter Eleven The Russian Navy at War Pertti Luntinen Chapter Twelve Japanese Subversion in the Russian Empire Antti Kujala Chapter Thirteen Russian Military Intelligence Evgenii Sergeev Chapter Fourteen Intelligence Intermediaries: The Competition for Chinese Spies David Wolff Illustrations Part III The Home Front Chapter Fifteen The Specter of Mutinous Reserves: How the War Produced the October Manifesto John Bushnell Chapter Sixteen The Far East in the Eyes of the Russian Intelligentsia Paul Bushkovitch Chapter Seventeen Love Thine Enemy: Japanese Perceptions of Russia Naoko Shimazu Chapter Eighteen Battling Blocks: Representations of the War in Japanese Woodblock Art James Ulak Chapter Nineteen Russian Representations of the Japanese Enemy Richard Stites Chapter Twenty Images of the Foe in the Russian Satirical Press Tatiana Filippova Chapter Twenty-One The War in the Russian Literary Imagination Barry Scherr Part IV The Impact Chapter Twenty-Two Russian War Financing Boris Ananich Chapter Twenty-Three Japan’s Other Victory: Overseas Financing of the War Ed Miller Chapter Twenty-Four The Kittery Peace Norman Saul Chapter Twenty-Five The War in Russian Historical Memory Dmitrii Oleinikov Chapter Twenty-Six Commemorating the War in Post-Versailles Japan Frederick Dickinson Chapter Twenty-Seven Tsushima’s Echoes: Asian Defeat and Tsarist Foreign Policy David McDonald Chapter Twenty-Eight Interservice Rivalry and Politics in Post-War Japan Charles Schencking Chapter Twenty-Nine “That Vital Spark:” Japanese Patriotism in Russian Military Perspective Don Wright Chapter Thirty “Bravo, Brave Tiger of the East!” The War and the Rise of Nationalism in British Egypt and India Steven Marks Chapter Thirty-One Inspiration for Nationalist Aspirations? Southeast Asia and Japan’s Victory Paul Rodell Maps Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis book analyzes the role of oral stories in Chinese witch-hunts. Successive chapters deal with the implications of Chinese versions of the Little Red Riding Hood story; the use of parts of the adult human body, children and foetuses, to draw out their life-force; attacks by mysterious creatures, causing open wounds, suffocation, the loss of hair and the like; the presence of a Drought Demon in the corpses of recently deceased women; and finally the emperor forcibly recruiting unmarried women for his harem. Of interest to historians and anthropologists working on oral traditions, folklore and witch-hunts (also from a comparative perspective), but also to those working on anti-Christian movements and the intersection of popular fears and political history in China.

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Book SynopsisThis publication offers a wide-ranging account of the Mongols in western and eastern Asia in the aftermath of Genghis Khan's disruptive invasions of the early thirteenth century, focusing on the significant cultural, social, religious and political changes that followed in their wake. The issues considered concern art, governance, diplomacy, commerce, court life, and urban culture in the Mongol world empire as originally presented at a 2003 symposium at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and now distilled in this volume. This collection of 23 papers by many of the main authorities in the field demonstrates both the scope and the depth of the current state of Mongol-related studies and will undoubtedly inspire and provoke further research. The text is profusely illustrated by 27 color and 110 black-and-white illustrations.Trade Review"...this is a highly important collection which stresses the significance and fertility of cultural transmission in Mongol Eurasia and particularly its expressions in western Asia." Michal Biran in MESA Bulletin 41.2 (2007), 204-205.

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Book SynopsisThis richly illustrated book provides a glimpse into the belief system and the material wealth of the social elite in pre-Imperial China through a close analysis of tomb contents and excavated bamboo texts. The point of departure is the textual and material evidence found in one tomb of an elite man buried in 316 BCE near a once wealthy middle Yangzi River valley metropolis. Particular emphasis is placed on the role of cosmological symbolism and the nature of the spirit world. The author shows how illness and death were perceived as steps in a spiritual journey from one realm into another. Transmitted textual records are compared with excavated texts. The layout and contents of this multi-chambered tomb are analyzed as are the contents of two texts, a record of divination and sacrifices performed during the last three years of the occupant’s life and a tomb inventory record of mortuary gifts. The texts are fully translated and annotated in the appendices. A first-time close-up view of a set of local beliefs which not only reflect the larger ancient Chinese religious system but also underlay the rich intellectual and artistic life of pre-Imperial China. With first full translations of texts previously unknown to all except a small handful of sinologists.

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Book SynopsisLike Volume one, Volume two of The Russo-Japanese War in Global Perspective examines the Russo-Japanese War in its military, diplomatic, social, political, and cultural context. In this volume East Asian contributors focus on the Asian side of the war to flesh out the assertion that the Russo-Japanese War was, in fact, World War Zero, the first global confl ict of the 20th century.Table of ContentsPreface, The Editors Introduction, Iriye Akira I.Military Visions and Revisions 1. Study Your Enemy: Russian Military and Naval Attaches in Japan - Wada Haruki 2. Miscalculating One's Enemies: Russian Intelligence Prepares for War - Bruce Menning 3. Differences Regarding Togo's Surprise Attack on Port Arthur - Aizawa Kiyoshi 4. Between Two Japano-Russian Wars: Strategic Learning Re-appraised - Yokote Shinji 5. Military Observers, Eurocentrism and World War Zero - David Jones 6. Approaching Total War: Ivan Bloch's Disturbing Vision - Tohmatsu Haruo II.The Home Front 7. Japan Justifies War by the "Open Door": 1903 as Turning Point - Kato Yoko 8. Riding the Rails: The Japanese Railways Meet the Challenge of War - Steven Ericson 9. Japan's Monetary Mobilization for War - Ono Keishi 10. Patriotic Recession: Kyoto Responds to War - Takemoto Tomoyuki 11. Why Did Japan Fail to Become the "Britain" of East Asia? - Tadokoro Masayuki 12. Unsuccessful National Unity: The Russian Home Front in 1904 - Tsuchiya Yoshifuru III.The Cultural Prism 13. Shifting Contours of Memory and History, 1904-1980 - Chiba Isao 14. White Hope or Yellow Peril?: Bushido, Britain and the Raj - Hashimoto Yorimitsu 15. Natsume Soseki's Nuanced Views of the Conflict - Tsukamoto Toshiaki 16. Serial War: Egawa Tatsuya's Tale of the Russo-Japanese War - Kitamura Yukiko IV. Regional Relations during and after the War 17. A Damocles Sword?: Korea's Hopes Betrayed - Ku Daeyeol 18. The War and US-Korean Relations - Kim Ki-jung 19. The "Eastern Miscellany" Informs the Chinese Public - Li Anshan 20. Qing China's Northeast Crescent: The Great Game Revisited - Nakami Tatsuo 21. Portsmouth Denied: The Chinese Attempt to Attend - Hirakawa Sachiko 22. The "Rat Minister": Komura Jutaro and US-Japan Relations - Tosh Minohara

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Book SynopsisThis book deals with a provincial town attending to its day-to-day business against the backdrop of an exacting war fought far afield against the Habsburgs (1683-99). The dynamics of long-term economic growth were temporarily disturbed by the wartime economy while realignment in center-periphery relations affected the local power structure and practices of status management. Meanwhile, the local elite continued to dominate public life, hence the lives of commoners. This study opens a window onto this world through a close examination of the court records of the town.

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Book SynopsisThis volume deals with specific issues related to Tibetan art, ranging from the earliest Buddhist buildings in central, southern and eastern geocultural Tibet up to the artistic traditions flourishing in the 20th century. The papers are arranged following the chronology of the sites or the themes taken into consideration in the first part and logical criteria in the latter part. Illustrated with numerous black-and-white pictures and 32 pages of colour plates, its contents are of special interest to scholars and specialists, while a large part is accessible to non-specialists, too, which makes the book useful also to university students interested in the subject as well as amateurs of Tibetan art.Table of ContentsPlease note that Cameron David Warner's name is spelled correctly in this table of contents, the contents in the book contains an error. List of Illustrations Erberto Lo Bue—Foreword History Cameron David Warner—a Prolegomenon to the Palladium of Tibet, the Jo bo Śākyamuni André Alexander—Rme ru rnying pa, an Extant Imperial-Period Chapel in Lhasa Christian Luczanits—On the Iconography of Tibetan Scroll Paintings (Thang ka) Dedicated to the Five Tathāgathas Eva Allinger—Thang kas Dedicated to the Vajradhātumaṇḍala. Questions of Stylistic Connections Helmut and HeidI Neumann—The Wall Paintings of the Mgon khang of Lcang Sgang ha Michael Henss—Liberation from the Pain of Evil Destinies: the Giant Appliqué Thang kas (gos sku) at Gyantse (Rgyal rtse dpal ’khor chos sde) Irmgard Mengele—New Discoveries about the Life of Chos dbyings rdo rje, the Tenth Karma pa of Tibet 1606–1674) Gabrielle Yablonski—The Scarcely Known Temple of Maṇi Lhakhang, Dechen County, Central Tibet:a Possible Bka’ gdams pa Foundation? Sarah E. Fraser—Sha bo tshe ring, Zhang Daqian and Sino-Tibetan Cultural Exchange, 1941–1943: Defining Research Methods for A mdo Regional Painting Workshops in the Medieval and Modern Periods 'Minor’ Arts, Iconography, TechnIques, MaterIals and Photographic Records Dralha Dawa Sangpo—A Survey Report on a Carved Stone Tibetan “Go” Board: Newly Found Evidence of the Tibetan Culture of “go” Tenpa Rabten—A Brief Discussion of the Origin and Characteristics of the Decorative Design on Tibetan Rlung rta (Prayer Flags) Zara Fleming—The Ritual Significance of Zan par John Clarke—Non-Sculptural Metalworking in Eastern Tibet 1930–2003 Shunzo Onoda—De’u dmar dge bshes’s Method of Compounding Colours: Lac-dye Brown, Vermilion Brown and the Colours Derived from Them Kimiaki Tanaka—On the Tradition of the Vairocanāsambodhi-sūtra and the Garbhamaṇḍala in Tibet Serinity Young—The Buddhist Discourse on Gender in Tibetan Medical Iconography Sjoerd De Vries—A Present from the Tzar Knud Larsen—A Newly-Discovered Old Perspective Drawing of Lhasa

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Book SynopsisHow did the the descendants of Tamerlane, collectively known as the Timurids, make the transition from a nomadic empire to a sedentary polity based on the Perso-Islamic model , and what effect did the process of transition have on their Turko-Mongolian customs and identity? This volume seeks to answer these questions by utilizing the Weberian concepts of the “routinization” of charismatic authority and the patrimonial household state. Focusing on the period of the last Timurid ruler, Sulṭān-Ḥusain Bayqara (1469–1506), the author examines the impact of the introduction of Persian modes of bureaucratic administration on the evolution of Timurid government and describes the development of the agrarian economy of the eastern Iranian province of Khorasan through the Islamic institution of the pious endowment. Based on an exceptionally broad range of sources in Persian, Arabic, and Turkic languages, the book provides a new paradigm for understanding the Timurids within the framework of post-Mongol history and offers fresh insights into Turko-Persian relations and the problem of acculturation in medieval Iran.Trade Review"Thoroughly researched and elegantly presented, this volume offers valuable insights into questions that stand at the heart of medieval Islamic and Central Asian history." Ron Sela (Indiana University), Journal of Asian Studies Vol. 68:2 (2009) 'Subtelny has produced a fine book, which draws on an extremely impressive range of sources, many of them still unpublished, and remains clear and admirably readable even wehn dealing with intractable matters like agronomy and fiscal management.' Peter Jackson, Keel University, Speculum July 2009.Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGEMENTS NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION AND STYLE MAPS, TABLES, AND ILLUSTRATIONS INTRODUCTION CHAPTER ONE. THE ROUTINIZATION OF CHARISMA: THE TIMURID PATRIMONIAL HOUSEHOLD STATE CHAPTER TWO. POLITICAL VAGABOND TO POTENTATE: THE CAREER OF SULṬĀN-ḤUSAIN BAYQARA CHAPTER THREE. THE CHALLENGE OF CHANGE: CENTRALIZING REFORMS AND THEIR OPPONENTS CHAPTER FOUR. THE SEARCH FOR LONG-TERM SOLUTIONS: KHORASAN AND THE AGRICULTURAL IMPERATIVE CHAPTER FIVE. PIETY AND PRAGMATISM: THE ROLE OF THE ISLAMIC ENDOWMENT CHAPTER SIX. SAINTS AND SCRIBES: TIMURID SHRINES AS VEHICLES FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT AND AGROMANAGEMENT CONCLUSION APPENDIX ONE. SURVEY OF ENDOWMENT DEEDS FROM THE TIMURID PERIOD APPENDIX TWO. A TIMURID DEED OF ENDOWMENT: THE VAQFIYYA OF AFAQ BEGIM APPENDIX THREE. AN EDICT OF SULṬĀN-ABŪ SA‘ĪD CONCERNING COMPLETION OF THE GULISTĀN DAM AT MASHHAD APPENDIX FOUR. A DIPLOMA OF APPOINTMENT ISSUED BY SULṬĀN-ḤUSAIN FOR THE SUPERVISOR OF THE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT AT THE ‘ALID SHRINE AT BALKH APPENDIX FIVE. BILLS OF PURCHASE AND SALE RELATING TO THE PRIVATIZATION OF STATE LAND IN THE BALKH REGION BY SULṬĀN-ḤUSAIN FACSIMILE EDITION BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

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Book SynopsisThis collection offers a challenging new interpretation of technical knowledge in Chinese thought and practice. Conveying technical knowledge in China through charts, plans or drawings (tu) dates back to antiquity. Earlier studies focused on specialised forms of tu like maps or drawings of machines. Here, however, tu is identified in Chinese terms, viz. as a philosophical category of knowledge production: visual templates for action, spanning a range from mandala to modernist mapping projects, inseparable from writing but with distinctive powers of communication. A distinction is made between two principal types of tu: ritual/symbolic and representational, highlighting essential issues such as historical shifts in their significance, the relations between tu and political power, media for inscribing tu and the impact of printing, and encounters with the West.Trade Review"This massive and engaging volume, edited by sinologists Francesca Bray, Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann, and Georges Métailié, is an important addition to the literature. Devoted mainly to the study of Chinese graphic elements, the book examines their role in society, history, and culture. The volume’s significance lies as much in its methodology as in its broad coverage.(...) These essays, and particularly Bray’s introduction, set up a framework for the study of Chinese tu and raise many questions for further study. They will appeal to students and scholars of visual culture and of the history of science, the history of art, and the history of science, in both China and the West." Jinbang Song, East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (2011) 5 "a large and important book. We can congratulate the editors and contributors for a very useful set of essays and and introduction that goes as far as possible toward making them cohere." Nathan Sivin, China Review International 2008: 15/4.

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Book SynopsisFor centuries, the Chinese have been intermarrying with inhabitants of the Philippines, resulting in a creolized community of Chinese mestizos under the Spanish colonial regime. In contemporary Philippine society, the “Chinese” are seen as a racialized “Other” while descendants from early Chinese-Filipino intermarriages as “Filipino.” Previous scholarship attributes this development to the identification of Chinese mestizos with the equally “Hispanicized” and “Catholic” indios. Building on works in Chinese transnationalism and cultural anthropology, this book examines the everyday practices of Chinese merchant families in Manila from the 1860s to the 1930s. The result is a fascinating study of how families and individuals creatively negotiate their identities in ways that challenge our understanding of the genesis of ethnic identities in the Philippines. “…[This book] helps contribute to the revision of the existing literature on the Chinese and Chinese mestizos with a new perspective that highlights the emerging field of transnational studies.” - Prof. Augusto Espiritu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “…the author does an outstanding job and we recommend that citizens of the Philippine ‘nation,’ whether they see themselves as ‘Chinese’ or ‘Filipino’ would do well to read this work and understand the origins of the racial stereotypes that influence the way they look at particular members of Philippine society, particularly in Manila.” - Prof. Ellen Palanca and Prof. Clark Alejandrino, Ateneo de Manila University "...an ambitious study of the Chinese and first-generation Chinese mestizos of Manila...[the author] has added valuable research materials from Philippine and American archival collections and...a wide range of published primary sources...The book is meticulously annotated and rich in descriptive detail..." - Michael Cullinane, University of Wisconsin-MadisonTrade Review"[Chu] succeeds in showing a wide variety of ways in which the Chinese and Chinese mestizo merchants and their families pursued social and economic strategies that reflect the transnational and multicultural resources available to them...[Chinese and Chinese Mestizos of Manila] is both a detailed compendium of well-documented and carefully analyzed case studies and a model for anyone just beginning empirical research on local cases...It is a weighty volume and a welcome one." – Jerry Dennerline, Amherst College, in China Review International18.1 (2011). "This book is an important study, unprecedented in the study of the Chinese and Chinese mestizos of Manila on several counts...This is a significant contribution to the literature on the Chinese and the Chinese mestizos in the Philippines." –Bernardita Reyes Churchill, in The Journal of History LVII (January-December 2011). "Chinese and Chinese Mestizos seeks to understand the process by which hitherto fluid 'Chinese' and 'Filipino' ethnic identities became mutually exclusive as boundaries between them hardened in the Philippines, but eschews the assimilation-vs-integration debate and other 'nation- state metanarratives' that have colluded in the 'reification and essentialization' of ethnic identities.[...] [Chinese and Chinese Mestizos] adopts a microhistorical approach that [...] offers nuanced case studies that demonstrate the 'variegated and constantly changing meanings of identities...'" – Caroline S. Hau, CSEAS, 東南アジア研究49 巻3 号Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables List of Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction To be a “Filipino” and “Chinese” in the Philippines Chapter 1 The Minnan Region of Fujian: History and Society Chapter 2 The Chinese in Late Spanish Colonial Manila: An Overview Chapter 3 The Chinese Merchants in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Manila: Precursors of Modern Chinese Transnationalism in the Philippines Chapter 4 Catholic Conversion and Marriage Practices among Chinese Merchants Chapter 5 Family Life and Culture in Chinese Merchant Families Chapter 6 Rethinking the Chinese Mestizos and Mestizas of Manila Chapter 7 Early American Colonial Rule in the Philippines and the Construction of “Filipino” and “Chinese” Identities Chapter 8 Chinese Merchant Families: Family, Identity, and Culture in the Early Twentieth Century Chapter 9 Negotiating Identities within Chinese Merchant Families: To be “Filipino” or to be “Chinese” Conclusion Glossary of Chinese Characters References Index

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Book SynopsisThe ceiling paintings in the Hall of Justice of the Alhambra have not received serious scholarly attention for the past thirty years, perhaps due to their difficult incorporation into a discrete program of Christian vs. Islamic art, categories that until recently remained unchallenged themselves. The Alhambra itself continues to elicit the interest of many scholars, and several recent interpretations of the function of the Palace of the Lions, which houses the paintings, have been put forth. This collection brings together art historians, literary critics and historians who suggest new ways of approaching the paintings through their immediate social, historical, architectural and literary contexts, proposing a porous and flexible model for the production of culture in Iberia. Contributors are Jerrylin Dodds, Ana Echevarria, Jennifer Borland, Rosa María Rodríguez Porto, Oscar Martin, Amanda Luyster, Cynthia Robinson and Simone Pinet.Table of ContentsSimone Pinet and Cynthia Robinson, Introduction Cynthia Robinson, Arthur in the Alhambra? Narrative and Nasrid Courtly Self-Fashioning in the Hall of Justice Ceiling Paintings Ana Echevarria, Painting Politics in the Alhambra Rosa María Rodríguez Porto, Courtliness and its Trujumanes: Manufacturing Chivalric Imagery across the Castilian–Grenadine Frontier Jerrilynn D. Dodds, Hunting in the Borderlands Jennifer Borland, The Forested Frontier: Commentary in the Margins of the Alhambra Ceiling Paintings Amanda Luyster, Cross-Cultural Style in the Alhambra: Textiles, Identity and Origins Simone Pinet, Walk on the Wild Side Oscar Martín, Allegories of Love: The Alhambra Ceilings and The Evolution of Sentimental Fiction

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Book SynopsisAlexander's alleged Wall against Gog and Magog, often connected with the enclosure of the apocalyptic people, was a widespread theme among Syriac Christians in Mesopotamia. In the ninth century Sallam the Interpreter dictated an account of his search for the barrier to the Arab geographer Ibn Khurradadhbih. The reliability of Sallam's journey from Samarra to Western China and back (842-45), however, has always been a highly contested issue. Van Donzel and Schmidt consider the travel account as historical. This volume presents a translation of the source while at the same time it carefully looks into other Eastern Christian and Muslim traditions of the famous lore. A comprehensive survey reconstructs the political and topographical data. As so many other examples, also this story pays witness to the influence of the Syriac Christian tradition on Koran and Muslim Traditions.

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Book SynopsisCloth has always been the most global of all traded commodities. It is an illuminating example of the circulation of goods, skills, knowledge and capital across wide geographic spaces. South Asia has been central to the making of these global exchanges over time. This volume presents innovative research that explores the dynamic ways in which diverse textile production and trade regions generated the ’first globalization’. A series of experts connect this global commodity with the dramatic political and economic transformations that characterised the Indian Ocean in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Collectively, the essays transform our understanding of the contribution of South Asian cloth to the making of the modern world economy.Trade Review"There are few books that can equal [this book] in providing readers with an appreciation of the variety of interconnections between different regions of the world before the nineteenth century. Cloth, it clearly demonstrates, is an invaluable entry point into global economic history." – Douglas Haynes, Dartmouth College, in: H-Net "How India Clothed the World is an ambitious book which takes a comprehensive look at South Asian textiles from the minutiae of technology and procurement to the global movement of products and 'invisible cargoes'." – Anand V. Swamy, William College, in: Journal of Economic History "Until recently, the production and exchange of textiles were understood as purely economic activities in which production technology, weavers, merchants, companies, and markets played a prominent role. This volume, instead, invokes consumer choice, fashion, gender, social hierarchy, aesthetics, and the dissemination of knowledge as playing important roles in determining the consumption and production of textiles in both Asia and Europe." – Ghulam Nadri, Georgia State University, in: Economic History ReviewTable of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Maps List of Figures List of Tables Preface Introduction: The World of South Asian Textiles, 1500-1850, Giorgio Riello and Tirthankar Roy I. REGIONS OF EXCHANGE: TEXTILES IN THE INDIAN OCEAN AND BEYOND 1. Southeast Asian Consumption of Indian and British Cotton Cloth, 1600-1850, Anthony Reid 2. Cloths of a New Fashion: Indian Ocean Networks of Exchange and Cloth Zones of Contact in Africa and India in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Pedro Machado 3. English versus Indian Cotton Textiles: The Impact of Imports on Cotton Textile Production in West Africa, Joseph Inikori 4. British Exports of Raw Cotton from India to China during the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries, H. V. Bowen 5. The Resurgence of Intra-Asian Trade, 1800-1850Kaoru Sugihara II. REGIONS OF PRODUCTION: TEXTILES IN SOUTH ASIA 6. The Textile Industry and the Economy of South India, 1500-1800, David Washbrook 7. Four Centuries of Decline? Understanding the Changing Structure of the South Indian Textile Industry, Ian Wendt 8. From Market-determined to Coercion-based: Textile Manufacturing in Eighteenth-Century Bengal, Om Prakash 9. The Political Economy of Textiles in Western India: Weavers, Merchants and the Transition to a Colonial Economy, Lakshmi Subrahmanian 10. Competition and Control in the Market for Textiles: The Weavers and the English East India Company in the Eighteenth Century, Bishnupriya Gupta III. REGIONS OF CHANGE: INDIAN TEXTILES AND EUROPEAN DEVELOPMENT 11. The Indian Apprenticeship: The Trade of Indian Textiles and the Making of European Cottons, Giorgio Riello 12. The French Connection: Indian Cottons and their Early Modern Technology, George Bryan Souza 13. Fashioning Global Trade: Indian Textiles, Gender Meanings and European Consumers, 1500-1800, Beverly Lemire 14. Quality, Cotton and the Global Luxury Trade, Maxine Berg 15. Historical Issues of Deindustrialisation in Nineteenth-Century South India, Prasannan Parthasarathi Glossary Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisWilt Idema is one of the world's leading scholars and translators of Chinese literature, with research interests ranging from classical poetry to premodern fiction, performance literature and women's writing. His oeuvre is exceptional in its inclusiveness and its ability to let different historical periods, genres and issues speak to one another, and to make the riches of Chinese literature accessible to a wide range of readers. In honor of his work, this collection brings together new research by twenty-two prominent scholars in a field of tremendous scope and diversity, on topics including genre characteristics, literary representations of social and political history, gender and cultural identity, music, autobiography, women's writing, internet literature and more.Trade Review"In sum, this is an extremely rich collection of essays. As the editors of the volume put it, this collection of essays 'bears witness to the huge advances that the study of Chinese culture has made since the 1970s, when [Wilt Idema] started his career' (p.1). Having benefitted from Idema's impressive scholarship both as a reader and as a long-distance student of his, I can understand why he inspired so extensive a Festschrift." – JIE GUO, University of South Carolina, in: MCLC Resource Center Publication (October 2010)

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Book SynopsisThis study of a series of artistic representations of the Asia Pacific War experience in a variety of Japanese media is premised on Walter Davis' assertion that traumatic events and experiences must be 'constituted' before they can be assimilated, integrated and understood. Arguing that the contribution of the arts to the constitution, integration and comprehension of traumatic historical events has yet to be sufficiently acknowledged or articulated, the contributors to this volume examine how various Japanese authors and other artists have drawn upon their imaginative powers to create affect-charged forms and images of the extreme violence, psychological damage and ideological contradiction surrounding the War. In so doing, they seek to further the process whereby reading and viewing audiences are encouraged to virtually engage, internalize, 'know' and respond to trauma in concrete, ethical terms.Trade Review'Stahl and Williams (...) make a solid contribution to understandings of trauma and Japanese art, literature, and film, complementing other recent works like Legacies of the Asia-Pacific War.' Erik Ropers, Towson University, Melbourne Historical Journal, 40

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Book SynopsisThe history of Iranian Jews after the establishment of the Safavid State in Iran in 1501 C.E. has formed the subject of growing academic and broader interest over the last few decades. However, despite the significant increase in the quantity and quality of the publications in this area, some of the main aspects and periods in the history of Iranian Jews have received little or no systematic treatment. Dealing with some broad but closely related areas of history, community, society, and culture among the Jews of nineteenth-century Iran, the present book provides sources of information as well as discussions and explanations related to some of the main conditions and realities that shaped the lives of the Iranian Jews prior to their accelerated transformation in the course of the twentieth-century. Included among the eight sections and over forty annotated and analyzed sources in the book are those that shed light on some of the major areas of Jewish life in nineteenth-century Iran.Table of ContentsCONTENTS SECTION I: LEGAL POSITION AND GENERAL CONDITION Source 1 Regarding the Legal Position of Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians (Ahl-i Kitab) within the Shiʻite State, according to Jamiʻi-i ʻAbbasi Source 2 The Condition and Disabilities of the Jews in Iran in the 1850s, according to the Jewish Explorer I.J. Benjamin, Known as Benjamin II Source 3 On the Legal and Actual Condition of the Jews of Iran in the Year 1873, as Reported in The Jewish Chronicle of London on September 12, 1873 Source 4 The Jews of Iran in the Mid-Nineteenth Century, as Observed by Dr. Jacob E. Polak Source 5 The State of the Jews in Iran in 1876, as Reflected in the Report of the Anglo-Jewish Association (1876–7) Source 6 The Jews of Iran in the Year 1888, as Reported by Morris Cohen, Educator and Communal Officeholder in the Jewish Community of Baghdad Source 7 Regarding the Proper Manners of Association with Unbelievers and Adversaries Source 8 Jews in the Eyes of the City Mob, as Reflected in a Street Song that was Chanted in Tehran towards the End of the Nineteenth Century Source 9 The Jews of Yazd Being Forced to Dispose of the Charred Bodies of the Followers of Bāb, Massacred in 1891 SECTION II: DEMOGRAPHY AND GEOGRAPHICAL DIFFUSION Source 10 The Jewish Population of Iran in the Year 1868, according to a Report Submitted by the British Legation in Tehran on April 28, 1868 Source 11 The Demographic Size of the Jewish Communities and Settlements of Iran Following the Great Famine of 1871–2, as Reported by the Anglo-Jewish Association in 1875 Source 12 Estimates and Figures on the Jewish Population of Iran During the Years 1889–1903, according to European Sources SECTION III: ECONOMY AND MATERIAL EXISTENCE Source 13 Jewish Trades and Occupations in Nineteenth-Century Iran According to Contemporary European Sources Source 14 Recollections of an Itinerant Jewish Physician of Gulpaygan, Regarding the Year 1811 Source 15 Jewish Minstrels and Dancers of Shiraz in 1888, as Witnessed and Described by the Late Professor E.G. Browne Source 16 Details of a Commercial Partnership and Dispute between Two Jewish Merchants of Yazd, ca. 1880, Referred for Judicial Decision to Rabbi Yosef Hayyim of Baghdad SECTION IV: COMMUNAL ORGANIZATION AND INNER COMMUNAL RELATIONS Source 17 The Old Synagogue in the City of Hamadan in the Mid-Nineteenth Century, as Described in the Year 1850 by Dr. Abraham de Sola, Chief Rabbi of the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation of Montreal, Canada Source 18 Standard Formula Used for the Appointment of the Head of the Jewish Community (Heb. Nasi ) in the City of Urumia, ca. 1898 Source 19 Communal Agreement Signed and Issued by the Religious Leaders of the Jewish Community of Sanandaj on 22 of Tevet 5635 (December 30, 1874) SECTION V: CULTURE AND EDUCATION Source 20 Jewish Culture and Education in Iran in the Nineteenth Century, according to the Late Professor Ezra Sion Melammed (1903–1994) Source 21 The Educational System in the Jewish Community of Hamadan in the 1840s, according to Dr. Abraham de Sola’s Account, Published in 1850 Source 22 A Passage from a Judeo-Persian Homiletic Commentary on Leviticus, Composed by Commentator and Poet Binyamin, Son of Eliyahu of Kashan, ca. 1824 Source 23 Song of Praise and Prayer for Sir Moses Montefi ore SECTION VI: RELIGION AND SPIRITUAL LIVES Source 24 From the Memoirs of a Learned Rabbi of Shiraz: Mulla Rahamim Melammed ha-Cohen (Sept. 16, 1864, Shiraz–Jan. 12, 1932, Jerusalem) Source 25 An Account of Pilgrims on Their Way to the Tomb of the Prophet Ezekiel (Located about 15 Kilometers to the North of Al-Najaf, in Southern Iraq ), in the Year 1809 Source 26 A Question in Matters of Family Law, in the Jewish Community of Tehran, Addressed to the Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Palestine in 1898 SECTION VII: ASPECTS OF LIFE AND HISTORY IN THE LARGER COMMUNITIES Source 27 The Jewish Community of Yazd in the Nineteenth Century, according to Azaria Levy, Scholar of Jewish Communities of Iran Source 28 The Jews of Shiraz in the 1890s Source 29 The Jewish Community of Isfahan in the Year 1888, as Depicted by the Heads of the Community in the Hebrew Weekly Habazeleth, January 25, 1889 Source 30 The Jewish Community of Kashan during the Great Famine of 1871–2: Testimony of Asher, Son of Yusef, a Native of Kashan (ca. 1872) Source 31 On the Jewish Community of Tehran in the Year 1875, as Reported by the Chief Rabbi of that Community to Isaac Adolphe Crémieux, President of the Alliance Israélite Universelle, Paris Source 32 The Jewish Community of Tehran and the Cholera Epidemic of 1892, Reported by Mirza Nurullah Hakim, in the Jewish Missionary Intelligence, London, March 1893, pp. 44–45 Source 33 On the Condition of the Jewish Community of Hamadan in the Year 1864, according to a Letter by the Heads of that Community to Jewish Leaders and Organizations of Western Europe Source 34 Letter from the Community of Urumia with Regard to the Condition of the Jews of Western Azerbaijan in the Years 1888–1893 Source 35 Letter by the Heads of the Jewish Community of Tehran to Jewish Organizations of Europe with Regard to the State of the Community of Barfurush, Following the Pogrom in that Community in May 1866 SECTION VIII: MAJOR EVENTS AND PROCESSES Source 36 Earliest Reports in the Jewish Press of Western Europe Concerning the Jews of Iran and Their Hardships: The Voice of Jacob, London, April 25, 1845 Source 37 Report of the British Consul in Jerusalem Concerning the Condition of Persian Immigrants in Ottoman Palestine in 1892. FO 195/1765, No. 6 Source 38 The Great Famine of 1871–2 in Iran and the Beginning of Organized Activity Abroad on Behalf of Iranian Jews. From the Report of the Persian Famine Relief Fund, Published by the Board of Deputies of British Jews, London 1873, pp. 8–16 Source 39 Presentation of Addresses to the Shah on Behalf of the Jews of Persia, The Jewish Chronicle, June 27, 1873, pp. 213–214 Source 40 Situation of the Jews in Hamadan, in October 1892, as Reported by AJA, 22 (1892–1893), pp. 55–63

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Book SynopsisThis book deals with the history of the Jews in Muslim countries, and consists of four parts; the central part is the second one which is a comprehensive history of the Jews of Iraq and Iran, from the seventh to the thirteenth centuries; the first part discusses the origin of the Jews in Yathrib (al-Madina) and the references to Jews in the founding document of the Muslim umma; the third part is a history of Sicily and its Jews during the period of Muslim rule; the fourth part deals with the role played by Jews in the economic life of the Muslim countries in the early Middle Ages. The studies are based mainly on Arab writings and on documents from the Cairo Geniza. Jews in Islamic Countries in the Middle Ages has been selected by Choice as Outstanding Academic Title (2005).Trade ReviewChoice Outstanding Academic Title 2004

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Book SynopsisDealing with the central issue of style in literature, this groundbreaking study is a must for sinologists, but also for all students of comparative literature. Michel Hockx takes as a point of departure the observation that most writers of the Republican period adhered to a distinctly traditional practice of gathering in literary societies, while at the same time displaying a marked preference for publishing their works through the modern medium of the literary journal. The first part of the book analyses different types of societies and their journals. The case studies in part two convey the wider impact of literary collectives and journal publications on literary practice. Convincingly breaking with the 'May Fourth' paradigm, the author proposes a radically new way of understanding the relationship between New Literature and other styles of modern Chinese writing.Trade Review'Graduate students for decades have been sent into the stacks of libraries to acquaint themselves with journals and their appearance and content, but perhaps never with the rigor and scope that Hockx has brought to this task of making journals the text of study, rather than the context. Edward M. Gunn, MCLC, 2004. 'In the end, the number of questions raised by Hockx's study is the surest testimony to its richness: it takes on most of the major issues that should be involved in the study of modern Chinese literature, including many that have been heretofore swept under the rug. The controversies the book will inevitably raise will in many ways provide our field with a new agenda that should finally help us to transcend the old politically engendered paradigms that have hobbled us for so long.' Theodore D. Huters, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 2005.

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Book SynopsisThis richly illustrated book provides a glimpse into the belief system and the material wealth of the social elite in pre-Imperial China through a close analysis of tomb contents and excavated bamboo texts. The point of departure is the textual and material evidence found in one tomb of an elite man buried in 316 BCE near a once wealthy middle Yangzi River valley metropolis. Particular emphasis is placed on the role of cosmological symbolism and the nature of the spirit world. The author shows how illness and death were perceived as steps in a spiritual journey from one realm into another. Transmitted textual records are compared with excavated texts. The layout and contents of this multi-chambered tomb are analyzed as are the contents of two texts, a record of divination and sacrifices performed during the last three years of the occupant’s life and a tomb inventory record of mortuary gifts. The texts are fully translated and annotated in the appendices. A first-time close-up view of a set of local beliefs which not only reflect the larger ancient Chinese religious system but also underlay the rich intellectual and artistic life of pre-Imperial China. With first full translations of texts previously unknown to all except a small handful of sinologists. Originally published in hardcover

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Book SynopsisFrom as early as the 1600s, Dutch scholars and scholarship have displayed a keen interest in the studies of the Islamic world. Over the centuries, they have collected a wealth of source texts in various languages, Turkish texts being prominent among them. The present catalogue is the fourth and final volume in a series that covers the Turkish manuscripts preserved in public libraries and museums in the Netherlands. The volume gives a detailed description of Turkish manuscripts in minor Dutch collections, found in libraries and museums in Amsterdam, Groningen, The Hague, Leiden, Rotterdam and Utrecht, which hitherto have received little or no attention.Trade Review'The book is of great value for the research in the Ottoman literature and history due to the large number of manuscripts described with unique accuracy in it. It offers all the necessary information regarding an enormous corpus of manuscripts kept in The Netherlands, and thus, it is an indispensable guide to all interested in the Ottoman letters and history.' Demetrios Papastamatiou, in Journal of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 22, 2013

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Book SynopsisConquête ottomane de l’Égypte (1517) propose de mesurer l’impact de la défaite mamelouke face aux Ottomans sur les structures sociales, politiques et culturelles de l’Égypte, ainsi que sur les équilibres géopolitiques en Méditerranée, et d’étudier comment les contemporains perçurent l’événement. Conquête ottomane de l’Égypte (1517) examines how far Selīm Ist’s victory and the subsequent fall of the Mamluk sultanate altered the political, social and cultural structures in Egypt, how far it transformed the balance of powers in the Mediterranean, and how contemporaries perceived this major event.Table of ContentsSOMMAIRE Liste des illustrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii Notices biographiques des contributeurs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix Remerciements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv Préface Gilles Veinstein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii Introduction : Les échelles de l’événement Benjamin Lellouch et Nicolas Michel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 ANTÉCÉDENTS Ottoman-Mamluk Relations and the Complex Image of Bāyezīd II Cihan Yüksel Muslu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 LA CONQUÊTE DANS LA GÉOPOLITIQUE MÉDITERRANÉENNE The Ottoman Conquests of Egypt and Algeria Svat Soucek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Venetians in the Levant in the age of Selīm I Maria Pia Pedani . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 La république de Venise face à la conquête ottomane de l’État mamelouk Benjamin Arbel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Les Chevaliers de Rhodes face à la conquête de l’Égypte Nicolas Vatin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 D’UN ORDRE À L’AUTRE : DESTRUCTIONS ET SURVIVANCES La politique mamelouke de Selīm Ier Benjamin Lellouch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 Lellouch_Book 1.indb v 10-8-2012 14:29:24 Egyptian Civilian Society and Tax-Farming in the Aftermath of the Ottoman Conquest Nelly Hanna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211 « Les Circassiens avaient brûlé les registres » Nicolas Michel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 La ville démobilisée : Ordre urbain et fabrique de la ville au Caire avant et après 1517 Julien Loiseau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269 L’IMPACT CULTUREL DE LA CONQUÊTE The Ottoman Conquest and Egyptian Culture Michael Winter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287 The Ottoman Conquest of Egypt and the Arts Doris Behrens-Abouseif . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303 IMAGES ET REPRÉSENTATIONS L’opinion italienne sous-évalue-t-elle la conquête de l’Égypte ? Quelques témoignages et un contexte (1516-1521) Giovanni Ricci . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329 Portraits d’un conquérant. Selīm Ier au miroir de la culture artistique italienne de la Renaissance (1517-1575) Guy Le Thiec . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339 Les Mille et Une Nuits et les débuts des Ottomans en Égypte Jean-Claude Garcin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381 Fini “la belle vie des Circassiens” : La conquête de l’Égypte reconsidérée dans le Durar al-aṯmān d’Ibn Abī al-Surūr al-Bakrī (m. après 1653) Albrecht Fuess . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401 Index géographique et ethnique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417 Index des noms de personnes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425

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Book SynopsisThe Netherlands have a long and proud history in Chinese studies. This volume collects not only articles that trace the historical development of Chinese studies in the Netherlands from the middle of the nineteenth century to the present and beyond, but also studies that deal with Dutch research in specific disciplines within Chinese studies. Chinese studies in the Netherlands originated from the needs of the Dutch colonial administration in the Dutch East Indies, but developed a strong philological emphasis in the first part of the twentieth century, to turn increasingly towards disciplinary research on modern and contemporary China in the last few decades. Contributors include Leonard Blussé, Maghiel van Crevel, Barend ter Haar, Albert Hoffstädt, Wilt Idema, Mark Leenhouts, Oliver Moore, Frank Pieke and Rint Sybesma.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines forms of Chinese historical production happening outside the mainstream of academic history, through such new measures as the publication of textbooks, the writing of local history, the preservation of archival materials, and government attempts to establish orthodox historical accounts. The book does so in order to broaden the scope of modern Chinese historiography, when it focuses primarily on a small group of writers such as Liang Qichao, Gu Jiegang, and Fu Sinian. Directly linking historical writings to the formation of the nation, the justification of elite authority, and the cultivation of active citizenry, this book shows that historiography is essential to understanding the uniqueness of Chinese modernity. Originally published in hardcover.Table of ContentsPreface Fan-sen Wang List of Contributors Introduction Tze-ki Hon and Robert J. Culp PART ONE: THE NEW SCHOOL SYSTEM AND NEW EDUCATED ELITE The New Schools and National Identity: Chinese History Textbooks in the Late Qing Peter Zarrow Classifying Peoples: Ethnic Politics in Late Qing Native-place Textbooks and Gazetteers May-bo Ching Educating the Citizens: Visions of China in Late Qing History Textbooks Tze-ki Hon PART TWO: GENERAL HISTORY AND WORLD HISTORY Discontinuous Continuity: The Beginnings of a New Synthesis of “General History” in 20th-Century China Mary G. Mazur Zhang Yinlin’s Early China Brian Moloughney Contending Memories of the Nation: History Education in Wartime China, 1937-1945 Wai-keung Chan “Weak and Small Peoples” in a “Europeanizing World”: World History Textbooks and Chinese Intellectuals’ Perspectives on Global Modernity Robert J. Culp PART THREE: NATIONAL HISTORY AND ITS CHALLENGES Archives at the Margins: Luo Zhenyu’s Qing Documents and Nationalism in Republican China Shana J. Brown How to Remember the Qing Dynasty: The Case of Meng Sen Madeleine Yue Dong Liberalism and Nationalism at a Crossroads: The Guomindang’s Educational Policies, 1927-1930 Chiu-chun Lee Index

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Book SynopsisHow does China project its image in the world? Why and how has the world come to form certain impressions of the Chinese and their way of life? These are issues that preoccupy Chinese citizens in the globalizing 21st century as they travel overseas, riding on the capacity of the country’s newly acquired economic power. In Visualizing China, the authors join forces to launch a broader inquiry aimed at a synergistic understanding of the larger story of visuality in modern China. The essays cluster around several nodal points including photographs, advertising, posters and movies, spanning from the 1840s to the 1960s, and devote special attention to modern Chinese practices in the visualization of things Chinese.Table of ContentsIntroduction. China Visualised: What Stories do Pictures Tell? - Christian Henriot and Wen-Hsin Yeh List of Illustrations PART I THE CHINA PHOTOGRAPHS: THREE READINGS: The Lives and Deaths of Photographs in Early Treaty Port China - Robert Bickers Obscene Vignettes of Truth. Construing Photographs of Chinese Executions as Historical Documents - Jérôme Bourgon Street Culture, Visual Fragments and Everyday Life: Narrating Peddlers in Shanghai Modern - Christian Henriot PART II THE VISIBILITy OF CHINESE WOMEN AND HOME: Portraits of Republican Ladies: Materiality and Representation in Early Twentieth Century Chinese Photographs - Joan Judge Images of Houses, Houses of Images: Some Preliminary Thoughts on a Socio-Cultural History of Urban Dwellings in Pre-1940s Canton - Virgil K.Y. Ho PART III ADVERTISING AND PROPAGANDA: THE VISUAL IN PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS: From Viewing to Reading: The Evolution of Visual Advertising in Late Imperial China - Jen-Shu Wu and Ling-Ling Lien Imagined Communities Divided: Reading Visual Regimes in Shanghai’s Newspaper Advertising (1860s–1910s) - Barbara Mittler Contextualising (Propaganda) Posters - Stefan Landsberger The Dialectics of Mao’s Images: Monumentalism, Circulation and Power Effects - Pang Laikwan PART IV MOVING PICTURES: Single Women and the Men in their Lives: Zhang Ailing and Post-War Visual Images of the Big Metropolis - Paul Pickowicz and Yap Soo Ei An Ordinary Shanghai Woman in an Extraordinary Time: A View from Post-War Popular Cinema - Fu Poshek Index Plate section

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Book SynopsisThe present book investigates three short late Mamluk treatises about land properties (waqf) in the Palestinian city of Hebron, which the prophet Muhammad granted to Tamīm al-Darī. The treatise entitled Ḍawʾ al-sārī li-maʿrifat ḫabar Tamīm al-Dārī by al-Maqrīzī (d. 845/1442) is the core of the book. It is edited here for the first time on the sole basis of the copy corrected by the author. A facsimile of the manuscript is also provided at the end of the book. In order to illuminate the discourse on property rights and donation that prevailed in the Mamluk period and al-Maqrīzī’s position, two additional treatises dealing with the same issue are included. The first is al-Ǧawāb al-ǧalīl ʿan ḥukm balad al-Ḫalīl by Ibn Ḥaǧar al-ʿAsqalānī (d. 852/1448). The second is al-Faḍl al-ʿamīm fī iqṭāʿ Tamīm by al-Suyūṭī (911/1505). The three texts are fully translated and annotated and preceded by a thorough introduction.Trade Review"These editions are clear and straightforward. Prof. Frenkel has done his excellent work here as he has with the translations, which read well and are accurate. These works, along with the detailed introduction, are a great boon not only for al-Maqrīzī studies, but also for the social, cultural and economic history of the Mamluk Sultanate, the history of Palestine and the region of Hebron, questions of land tenure, legal studies, and early Islamic tradition and its later reception and ramifications. Prof. Frenkel's efforts here are impressive, and we should all be grateful with the result." Reuven Amitai in sehepunkte 16 (2016), Nr. 7/8.

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Book SynopsisKorea 2012: Politics, Economy and Society contains concise overview articles covering domestic developments and the economy in both South and North Korea as well as inter-Korean relations and foreign relations of the two Koreas in 2011. Additional papers deal with topics such as South Korea’s foreign trade drive, the death of Kim Jong Il, South Korea as a middle power, the portrayal of North Koreans in ROK cinema, graphic novel representations of food issues in post-famine North Korea, and North Korean views of foreigners. A detailed chronology complements the articles.Table of ContentsPreface - Rüdiger Frank List of Refereed Articles Published since 2007 Chronology - Susan Pares South Korea in 2011: Domestic Politics, the Economy and Social Issues - Patrick Köllner North Korea in 2011: Domestic Developments and the Economy - Rüdiger Frank Relations Between the Two Koreas in 2011 - Sabine Burghart Foreign Relations of the Two Koreas in 2011 - James E. Hoare KORUS, KOREU and Beyond: South Korea’s Free Trade Drive - Patrick Köllner/Parick Flamm North Korea after Kim Jong Il: The Kim Jong Un Era and its Challenges - Rüdiger Frank The Concept of Middle Power and the Case of the ROK: A Review - Dong-min Shin Northerners on Southern Screens: From Shiri (1999) to The Yellow Sea (2010) - Mark Morris A New Deal: Graphic Novel Representations of Food Issues in Post-famine North Korea - Martin Petersen Special Economic Zones, Trade and Economic Reform: The Curious Case of Rason Special City - Bernhard Seliger The North Korean Philosophy of Foreigners - Tatiana Gabroussenko

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Book SynopsisThis publication offers a wide-ranging account of the Mongols in western and eastern Asia in the aftermath of Genghis Khan’s disruptive invasions of the early thirteenth century, focusing on the significant cultural, social, religious and political changes that followed in their wake. The issues considered concern art, governance, diplomacy, commerce, court life, and urban culture in the Mongol world empire as originally presented at a 2003 symposium at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and now distilled in this volume. This collection of 23 papers by many of the main authorities in the field demonstrates both the scope and the depth of the current state of Mongol-related studies and will undoubtedly inspire and provoke further research. The text is profusely illustrated by 30 color and 112 black-and-white illustrations. Contributors are: Sheila S. Blair, Jonathan M. Bloom, Devin DeWeese, Teresa Fitzherbert, Bert G. Fragner, Robert Hillenbrand, Dietrich Huff, Ralph Kauz, Linda Komaroff, Dickran Kouymjian, Mark Kramarovsky, Donald P. Little, Charles Melville, David Morgan, Bernard O'Kane, Judith Pfeiffer, George Saliba, Noriyuki Shiraishi, Marianna Shreve Simpson, Eleanor Sims, John Masson Smith Jr., Abolala Soudavar, Oliver Watson and Elaine Wright.Trade Review“…this is a highly important collection which stresses the significance and fertility of cultural transmission in Mongol Eurasia and particularly its expressions in western Asia.” Michal Biran in MESA Bulletin 41.2 (2007), 204-205.Table of ContentsIntroduction Culture and Commerce in the Mongol World Empire (5 chapters) Lifestyles at the Court of the Ruling Elite (4 chapters) The Arts of the Book in Ilkhanid Iran (5 chapters) The Arts and Artistic Interchange (4 chapters) State and Religion in Ilkhanid Iran (4 chapters) Concluding Remarks Bibliography Color Plates Black and White Figures Index

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Book SynopsisIn Hakata: The Cultural Worlds of Northern Kyushu, experts in various fields have collaborated to produce an interdisciplinary collection offering diverse insights on a region yet to be fully addressed in English. A historic port situated in a strategically vital region as the closest point of contact with the Asian continent, Hakata has long served as a key hub in the transcultural networks linking Japan with the outside world. This volume explores the rich legacy of these wider interactions, in particular the cosmopolitan, international dimension deeply embedded in Hakata's urban culture. With an identity all its own and quite distinct from other regions in Japan, it is a culture once again increasingly relevant in today's world of borderless communications.

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Book SynopsisIn the year 57 C.E., the court of Later Han dynasty presented a gold seal to an emissary from somewhere in what is now Japan. The seal soon vanished from history, only to be unearthed in 1784 in Japan. In the subsequent two-plus centuries, nearly 400 books and articles (mostly by Japanese) have addressed every conceivable issue surrounding this small object of gold. Joshua Fogel places the conferment of the seal in inter-Asian diplomacy of the first century and then traces four waves of historical analysis that the seal has undergone since its discovery, as the standards of historical judgment have changed over these years and the investment in the seal’s meaning have changed accordingly.

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Book SynopsisThe Quest for Civilization illuminates the origins of modern Japan through the lens of its cultural contact with the Netherlands providing a rare contribution to the field in English-language literature. Following the “opening” of the country in the 1850s, Japan encountered Western modernity through a quest for knowledge personified by Nishi Amane and Tsuda Mamichi, two young scholars who journeyed to Leiden in 1863 as the first Japanese sent to study in Europe. For two years they were tutored by Simon Vissering – one of the leading Dutch economists of the nineteenth century. Following their return home, their work as government officials and intellectuals played a key role in the introduction of the European social sciences, jurisprudence, and international law to Japan, thereby exerting a decisive influence on the establishment of the modern Japanese state and the redefinition of the international and cultural order in East Asia.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface to the English Edition Introduction 1. Seeking the Bridge between Edo and Meiji Japan 2. The Study Mission to the Netherlands of Nishi Amane and Tsuda Mamichi 1. The Dutch Constitution of 1848 and the Meiji Restoration 1. Dutch Jurisprudence and the Development of Constitutional Thought 2. Vissering’s Legal World: Natural Law, Historical Jurisprudence, and Liberal Reform 3. The Dutch Constitution of 1848 and Taisei kokuhō ron 4. The Sorai School and the Reexamination of Confucianism 5. Nishi Amane’s “Gidai sōan”: A New Concept of Government 6. The Founding of the Meirokusha and the Birth of a New Knowledge 2. The Rise of Statistical Thinking in Meiji Japan 1. The Beginning of Statistical Studies in Japan 2. Fukuzawa Yukichi’s Outline of a Theory of Civilization 3. The Intellectual World of Tsuda Mamichi’s Hyōki teikō: Dutch Statistical Administration and the Leiden University Lecture Notes 4. Sugi Kōji’s Proposal for a Central Statistical Bureau and the Political Crisis of 1881 3. Dutch Political Economy and Nishi Amane’s Philosophical Encounter with Utilitarianism 1. Political Economy as the Twin Sister of Statistics 2. The Lectures on Political Economy and Aiseiyō no michi 3. Mill’s Utilitarianism and the Deepening of Nishi Amane’s Political Philosophy 4. International Law and the Quest for Civilization 1. International Law and the Opening of Japan 2. The Place of International Law in Vissering’s Curriculum: Law, Civilization, Practice 3. Transcripts of the Leiden University Lectures on Diplomatic History and the Study of International Law in the Netherlands 4. The Intellectual World of Vissering’s Lectures on International Law 193 5. Two Views of International Law: Vissering and Wheaton 6. Debates in the Meiroku zasshi 7. Regarding Asia: Tsuda Mamichi and the Sino-Japanese Treaty of Amity 247 Conclusion 1. Philosophy and Utilitarianism 2. International Law and the Vicissitudes of Foreign Policy 3. The Establishment of Constitutional Government 4. Legacy for a New Generation Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisRevolution as Restoration examines the journal Guocui xuebao (1905-1911) to elucidate the momentous political and social changes in early twentieth-century China. Rather than viewing the journal as a collection of documents for studying a thinker (e.g., Zhang Taiyan), a concept (e.g., national essence), or an intellectual movement (e.g., cultural conservatism), this book focuses on the global network of commerce and communication that allowed independent publications to appear in the Chinese print market. As such, this book offers a different perspective on the Chinese quest for modernity. It shows that, from the start, the Chinese quest for modernity was never completely orchestrated by the central government, nor was it static and monolithic as the teleology of revolution describes.Trade Review"Whether one believes that the national essence thinking of the late Qing has much to say about the problem of modernity today, it played a major role in shaping Chinese self-understanding in the twentieth century. In six brisk chapters, Hon captures the essence of this progress, reminding us that even what today appear to be bizarre theories and arbitrary textual readings were part of an extraordinarily fertile period of rethinking Chinese culture." Peter Zarrow, MCLC Resource Center Publication (May 2013) “Hon Tze-ki’s book is concise, well argued, and important. Hon is thorough in documenting earlier studies of the National Essence Group, but makes clear his own contribution. Bringing attention to this group of late-Qing reformers that were neither revolutionary nor reactionary is an important contribution to the field, and all scholars of modern China will benefit from reading this book carefully.” James Carter, Saint Joseph’s University, Monumenta Serica: Journal of Oriental Studies, 64. 2, December 2016 "[Hon Tze-ki's] study is an important contribution to emerging scholarship in the intellectual history of modern China that showcases the multi-faceted, globally-oriented, and refreshingly original work of thinkers who reject the simplistic dualism of tradition versus modernity in interpreting China's present and future...his study offers crucial insight into dilemmas of modernization that are still ongoing, including how Chinese culture can find a legitimate place among a plurality of other (still largely nation-based) cultures and histories on the global level." Leigh K. Jenco, Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science, Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy , 15.4, December 2016Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Allure of the Nation 1. The Paradox of Global Competition 2. New Roles of the Educated Elite 3. The Law of Social Evolution 4. The Public Realm 5. Local Self-Government 6. Memories of Resistance Conclusion: Lost in Transition

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Book SynopsisPost-Cold War historiography of modern Central Asia has been characterized by a focus on cultural history. Most of this scholarship rests on a set of assumptions about traditional institutions and social practices which merely reflect the bias of Soviet or even Tsarist-era historiography. 'Explorations in the Social History of Modern Central Asia addresses the need for a remedy to this state of affairs and thus offers new insights on a number of subjects relating to the social history of the region. It includes essays dealing with property relations, resource management, forms of local administration, the constitution of new social groups, the construction of identity categories, and an enquiry into the landscape of Islamic practices among the nomads.Trade Review'If social history is ‘one of the less fashionable intellectual enterprises of these days’, this edited volume more than makes the case for a revival of the discipline.(...) the overall accomplishments of this volume, which identifies exciting new directions of research in between, and beyond, these fragmented ‘singular stories.’ Jennifer Griffiths, School of Slavonic & East European Studies, University College London, Central Asian Survey 2014.Table of ContentsA Note on Conventions List of Figures List of Contributors INTRODUCTION: ON THE SOCIAL IN CENTRAL ASIAN HISTORY: NOTES IN THE MARGINS OF LEGAL RECORDS - PAOLO SARTORI CHAPTER ONE: AMLĀKDĀRS, KHWĀJAS AND MULK LAND IN THE ZARAFSHAN VALLEY AFTER THE RUSSIAN CONQUEST - ALEXANDER S. MORRISON CHAPTER TWO: MANAGING RURAL LANDSCAPES IN COLONIAL TURKESTAN: A VIEW FROM THE MARGINS - BEATRICE PENATI CHAPTER THREE: WHO SHOULD MANAGE THE WATER OF THE AMU-DARYA? CONTROVERSY OVER IRRIGATION CONCESSIONS BETWEEN RUSSIA AND KHIVA, 1913–1914 - AKIFUMI SHIOYA CHAPTER FOUR: HIGH RANK AND POWER AMONG THE NORTHERN KIRGHIZ: TERMS AND THEIR PROBLEMS, 1845–1864 - DANIEL G. PRIOR CHAPTER FIVE: PERFORMANCE AND POETICS IN KYRGYZ MEMORIAL FEASTS: THE DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITY CATEGORIES -SVETLANA JACQUESSON CHAPTER SIX: USING TURKI-LANGUAGE QAZAQ LETTERS TO RECONSTRUCT LOCAL HISTORY OF THE 1820S-30S -VIRGINIA MARTIN CHAPTER SEVEN: A MONTH AMONG QAZAQS IN THE EMIRATE OF BUKHARA: OBSERVATIONS ON ISLAMIC KNOWLEDGE IN A NOMADIC ENVIRONMENT - ALLEN J. FRANK CHAPTER EIGHT: CREATING THE FAÇADE OF A DESPOTIC STATE: ON ĀQSAQĀLS IN LATE 19TH-CENTURY BUKHARA - ANDREAS WILDE CHAPTER NINE: FATHERS AND SONS: RE-READINGS IN A SAMARQANDI PRIVATE ARCHIVE - THOMAS WELSFORD INDEX

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Book SynopsisFor nearly a millennium, a large part of Asia was ruled by Turkic or Mongol dynasties of nomadic origin. What was the attitude of these dynasties towards the many cities they controlled, some of which were of considerable size? To what extent did they live like their subjects? How did they evolve? Turko-Mongol Rulers, Cities and City-life aims to broaden the perspective on the issue of location of rule in this particular context by bringing together specialists in various periods, from pre-Chingissid Eurasia to nineteenth-century Iran, and of various disciplines (history, archaeology, history of art). Contributors include: Michal Biran, David Durand-Guédy, Kurt Franz, Peter Golden, Minoru Inaba, Nobuaki Kondo, Yuri Karev, Tomoko Masuya, Charles Melville, Jürgen Paul and Andrew PeacockTable of ContentsPreface List of Figures List of Abbreviations Notes on Dates and Transliteration List of Contributors Introduction Chapter 1. Courts and Court Culture in the Proto-urban and Urban Developments among the Pre-Chinggisid Turkic Peoples. Chapter 2. Sedentary Rulers on the Move: The Travels of the Early Ghaznavid Sultans. Chapter 3. From Tents to City: The Royal Court of the Western Qarakhanids between Bukhara and Samarqand. Chapter 4. The Tents of the Saljuqs. Chapter 5. Court and Nomadic Life in Saljuq Anatolia. Chapter 6. Seasonal Capitals with Permanent Buildings under the Great Qans and the Ilkhans. Chapter 7. Rulers and City Life in Mongol Central Asia (1220-1370). Chapter 8. Dynastic Mausolea of the Timurids and Their Ornaments: Propaganda and Memorial. Chapter 9. The Itineraries of Shahrukh b. Timur (1405-47). Chapter 10. A Landscape of Fortresses: Central Anatolia in Astarabadi's Bazm wa razm. Chapter 11. The Castle and the Country: Spatial Orientations of Qipchaq Mamluk Rule. Chapter 12. Between Tehran and Sultaniyya. Early Qajar Rulers and their Itineraries. Index

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Book SynopsisIn Herrschergenealogie und religiöses Patronat, Annette Schmiedchen analyses some 250 inscriptions from the time of the early medieval royal dynasties of the Rāṣṭrakūṭas, Śilāhāras, and Yādavas, who reigned in central India from the 8th to the 13th centuries. The information derived from copper-plate charters and stone inscriptions primarily consists of genealogies of the ruling kings as well as of data regarding their religious foundations and endowments and the donations of other members of society. Annette Schmiedchen shows how genealogical accounts were modified to legitimize individual claims to power, and she convincingly proves that the 10th and 11th centuries were a period of religious change, which witnessed a shift in patronage patterns and a closer link between Vedic Brahmanism and Hindu temple worship.

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Book SynopsisThe practice of everyday life in Tana Toraja (South Sulawesi, Indonesia) is structured by a series of public events, of which funerals are the most important. Even after Indonesia was hit by an economic crisis in the late 1990s, thousands of extravagant funeral ceremonies, requiring huge expenditures, were still organized each year. To understand the paradoxes and complexities of Torajan livelihoods, Edwin de Jong develops an approach that goes beyond existing economically biased perspectives on livelihoods by including both the cultural and the economic realm, positioned in the socio-political world with a transnational perspective, placed against a historical background, while not losing sight of diversity and individual creativity. It also advances the ethnography of Tana Toraja and the comparative study between numerous similar societies.Trade Review"In my opinion, Making a Living between Crises and Ceremonies in Tana Toraja is the best reference on the culture and economic development of Tana Toraja. It would be useful material for anyone interested in gaining an understanding of the historical and current economic situation for ritual ceremonies of ethnicity in Southeast Asia." – Quynh Huong Nguyen, Graduate School of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University, in Southeast Asian Studies 7/3 (2018).

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