Asian history Books

Book SynopsisIn Chinese and Indian Merchants in Modern Asia, the contributors put together an important and lucid study of overseas Chinese and Indian merchants and their impacts on the emerging global economy from the nineteenth to twentieth centuries. In contrast to the conventional focus on the merchants’ networks per se, the chapters of this volume uncover their “networking,” the process in which they constructed and utilized linkages based on the shared concepts such as caste, kin alliances, and religion. By analyzing the interactions between the merchants and the European and Japanese empires, along with Asian states, this volume provides the critical insights into the configuration of the regional economic order in the past and at present.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures and Tables List of Contributors Introduction  Chi-cheung Choi, Takashi Oishi and Tomoko Shiroyama Part 1: Businesses and Relationships: Networking by Chinese and Indian Merchants 1 Changing Approaches to Diasporic Chinese Entrepreneurship  Hong Liu and Xin Fan 2 Hometown Connections and Chaozhou Business Networks: A Case Study of Kin Tye Lung, 1850–1950  Chi-cheung Choi 3 Overseas Chinese Remittances in the Mid-Twentieth Century  Tomoko Shiroyama 4 Family, Caste, and Beyond: The Business History of Salt Merchants in Bengal, c. 1780–1840  Sayako Kanda Part 2: Empires, States, and Networks: The Formation of the Asian Regional Economy Section 1: The British EmpireSection 1 5 Indian Merchant Networks and the British Empire: Instrumentality and Agency in a Global Imperial Context  Claude Markovits 6 Bringing a Local Towns into the Global Economy: The Role of Nattukottai Chettiyars on the Malay Peninsula  Tsukasa Mizushima 7 Comparative Perspectives on the Intraregional Networks of Indian Merchants: A Review of the Match Economy from the Perspective of the State and “Big Business”  Takashi Oishi Section 2: Japan and Its Colonies 8 The Asian Merchants’ Networks and Japan’s Trade Recovery from the Great Depression in the 1930s  Naoto Kagotani 9 Culture, Market, and State Power: Taiwanese Investment in Southeast Asia, 1895–1945  Man-houng Lin Section 3: The Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China 10 Structure and Flexibility in Chinese Merchant Networks: Chinese Chambers of Commerce Overseas in the First Half of the Twentieth Century  Laixing Chen 11 Chinese Migration in Northeast Asia, 1860–1945  Takako Ueda Conclusion

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Book SynopsisIn Alcohol in Early Java: Its Social and Cultural Significance, Jiří Jákl offers an account of the production, trade, and consumption of alcohol in Java before 1500 CE, and discusses a whole array of meanings the Javanese have ascribed to its use. Though alcohol is extremely controversial in contemporary Islamic Java, it had multiple, often surprising, uses in the pre-Islamic society.Table of ContentsContents Preface List of Figures Introduction  1 Old and Middle Javanese Textual Sources: What Can Be Known? part 1: Drinking Landscape in Ancient Java  Introduction to Part 1 1 Twak: Production and Types of Palm Wine  1 Tapping  2 Production  3 Waragaṅ  4 Baḍyag  5 Buḍur  6 Sajəṅ  7 Sayub 2 Beers and Lalasti Inebriating Snacks 3 Fruit Wines and Sugar Cane Wine  1 Sugar Cane Wine and ‘Rums’ in Pre-Islamic Java  2 Māstawa and Sīdhu: Rums in Pre-Islamic Java? 4 Drākṣa: Imported Grape Wine or Chinese Rice Beer? 5 Tuber Beer and Intoxicating Mushroom Brews 6 Distilled Beverages  1 Arrack below the Winds  2 Tampo, pǝṭar, and paṅasih: Alternative Terms for Distilled Drinks 7 Cups That Cheered: Drinking Paraphernalia  1 Drinking Vessels from Natural Materials  2 Pottery Vessels: Earthenware, Stoneware and Porcelain  3 Glass Cups and Vessels from Silver and Gold 8 Drinking Comportment part 2: Alcohol, Hospitality, and Identity in Java before 1500 CE  Introduction to Part 2 9 Drinking Ascetics and the Status of Alcohol before 1500 CE 10 Palm Wine for Sale: Ambulant Vendors and Market Stalls 11 Alcohol, Intoxication, and the Court Society 12 Alcohol in Marriage Festivities and Conjugal Rituals 13 Alcohol and Its Importance in Javanese Warfare 14 Ancestor Worship, Alcohol, and sīma Ceremonies 15 Alcohol in Javanese Bhairavism and Its Use among the Buddhists  1 Javanese Tantric Systems and Alcohol  2 Alcohol and Its Use and Significance among the Buddhists and Siddha Alchemists 16 Inebriated Men and Intoxicated rākṣasas: Drunkenness 17 Habitual Drinkers: Alcoholism in Pre-Islamic Java? 18 Islamization and Alcohol after 1500 CE Conclusion Figures Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMahāmudrā in India and Tibet presents cutting-edge research by European and North American scholars on the Indian origins and Tibetan interpretations of one of the most popular and influential of all Tibetan meditation traditions, Mahāmudrā, or the great seal. The contributions shed fresh light on important areas of Mahāmudrā studies, exploring the Great Seal’s place in the Mahāyāna Samādhirājasūtra, the Indian tantric Seven Siddhi Texts, Dunhuang Yogatantra texts, Mar pa’s Rngog lineage, and the Dgongs gcig literature of the ’Bri gung, as well as in the works of Yu mo Mi bskyod rdo rje, the Fourth Zhwa dmar pa Chos grags ye shes, the Eighth Karma pa Mi-bskyod rdo rje, and various Dge lugs masters of the 17th–18th centuries. Contributors are: Jacob Dalton, Martina Draszczyk, Cecile Ducher, David Higgins, Roger R. Jackson, Casey Kemp, Adam Krug, Klaus-Dieter Mathes, Jan-Ulrich Sobisch, and Paul Thomas.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction  Klaus-Dieter Mathes and Roger Jackson 1 The Samādhirājasūtra and “Sūtra Mahāmudrā”: A Critical Edition and Translation of Verses 1–118 from Chapter 32 of the Samādhirājasūtra  Paul Thomas 2 The Seven Siddhi Texts (Grub pa sde bdun): Remarks on the Corpus and Its Employment in Sa skya-Bka’ brgyud Mahāmudrā Polemical Literature  Adam C. Krug 3 Mahāmudrā and Samayamudrā in the Dunhuang Documents and Beyond  Jacob P. Dalton 4 A Neglected Bka’ brgyud Lineage: the Rngog from Gzhung and the Rngog pa Bka’ brgyud Transmission  Cécile Ducher 5 ’Jig rten gsum mgon’s Dgongs gcig on the Relation between Mahāmudrā and the Six Yogas of Nāropa  Jan-Ulrich Sobisch 6 The Definitive Meaning of Mahāmudrā according to the Kālacakra Tradition of Yu mo Mi bskyod rdo rje’s Phyag chen gsal sgron  Casey A. Kemp 7 Mahāmudrā as Revelatory of the Key-Point of the Third Dharmacakra according to the Sixty Verses on Mahāmudrā by Zhwa dmar Chos grags ye shes  Martina Draszczyk 8 Mi bskyod rdo rje on the Question of What Remains (lhag ma, avaśiṣṭa)  David Higgins 9 Maitrīpa’s Amanasikāra-Based Mahāmudrā in the Works of the Eighth Karma pa Mi bskyod rdo rje  Klaus-Dieter Mathes 10 Assimilating the Great Seal: the Dge lugs pa-ization of the dge ldan bka ’brgyud Tradition of Mahāmudrā  Roger R. Jackson Index

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Book SynopsisChina’s Old Churches, by Alan Sweeten, surveys the history of Catholicism in China (1600 to the present) as reflected by the location, style, and details of sacred structures in three crucial areas of north China. Closely examined are the most famous and important churches in the urban settings of Beijing and Tianjin, as well as lesser-known ones in rural Hebei Province. Missionaries built Western-looking churches to make a broad religious statement important to themselves and Chinese worshippers. Non-Catholics, however, tended to see churches as sociopolitically foreign and culturally invasive. The physical-visual impact of church buildings is significant. Today, restored old churches and new sacred structures are still mostly of Western style, but often include a sacred grotto dedicated to Our Lady of China--a growing number of Catholics supporting Marian-centered activities.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Special Terms and Acronyms List of Abbreviations 1 An Introduction to Old Churches 2 Church Building and Church Buildings 3 The Historic Churches of Central Beijing 4 Greater Beijing’s Old Church Sites and Churches 5 Tianjin’s Old Sacred Structures 6 Old Churches in Hebei’s Small Cities, Towns, and Villages 7 The Churches of Rural Zhuozhou, Past and Present 8 The Catholic Legacy Appendix 1: Chinese Catholics, Estimates by Year and Place Appendix 2: Additional Ecclesiastical Divisions for Zhili/Hebei Appendix 3: Currency Exchange Rate Estimates Appendix 4: The South Church’s Stelae Appendix 5: The North Church’s Stelae Appendix 6: The West Church’s Stone Tablets Appendix 7: The Government Memorial at Tianjin’s Wanghailou Church Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhat was the cultural impact of early meetings between Chinese and Europeans? This book explores visual, literary, and scholarly representations of the Celestial Empire and Western countries against the backdrop of actual encounters. Based on rare Chinese and, correspondingly, European (especially Dutch) sources and archival documents, the volume covers a range of cultural expressions from the applied arts to philosophy. Special attention goes to the ideals and realities of trade and diplomacy of the Dutch East India Company in China. Foreign Devils and Philosophers approaches global history from a cultural perspective and illuminates the reciprocal dynamic of aversion and admiration: Chinese and Westerners could appear as sages or savages in each other’s eyes.

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Book SynopsisThis book aims to shed light on the juridical field of the Khanate of Khiva at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. The ‘Khanate of Khiva’ is the term employed in Western historiography to denote the political formation that was put in place by the Qonghrats. The latter was a dynasty of Uzbek origin that ruled roughly between the last quarter of the 18th century and 1920. It ruled over the region known as Khorezm (Ar. Khwārazm), one of the biggest oases of Central Asia, traversed by the Amu Darya and nestled within the territory of what is today Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan. The main objective of this work is to show that prior to Sovietization the dispensation of justice in Khorezm depended mostly on a group of officials who represented the dynasty in power, but who lacked any specialised legal training. It is important to reflect on this particular aspect of the legal system developed by the Muslim principality that we refer to as ‘the Khanate of Khiva,’ for conventional wisdom says that the practice of law in pre-modern Muslim societies was usually the business of the ʿulamāʾ, i.e., the scholars of Islam.Trade Review"Paolo Sartori und Ulfat Abdurasulov haben sich beide in den letzten Jahren intensiv um die Erkundung zentralasiatischer Archivmaterialien verdient gemacht. [...] Neben der vor allem in der Einleitung vorgetragenen Darstellung und Analyse dieses auf den Herrscher zentrierten Rechtswesens ist der Band auch eine beachtliche editorische Leistung. Die Autoren – und Herausgeber – haben aus dem sehr großen Corpus der im Staatsarchiv von Usbekistan in Taschkent aufbewahrten Urkunden ein Sample von 73 Stücken ausgesucht, die das analysierte Verfahren veranschaulichen und gleichzeitig die Analyse stützen. Die Urkunden werden mit einem zusammenfassenden und erläuternden Text eingeleitet, was nötig ist, weil Leser sonst die Eigenheiten des Falles erst aus der spezifischen Sprache herauslesen müssten. Die Übersetzungen folgen, diese halten sich eng genug an die Vorlage, sind aber keine Interlinearversionen. Oft werden zentrale Passagen auch in der Originalsprache, aber in Umschrift gegeben. Die gleichen Urkunden hat man dann auch in der Lesung und als Faksimile. [...] Eine hervorragende Leistung!" – Jürgen Paul, in OLZ 116.4–5 (2021).Table of ContentsContents Preface and Acknowledgments Note on Transcription and Nomenclature Glossary Introduction  1 Crime and Punishment in an Uzbek Khanate  2 The Historical Setting  3 Who Were the Yasāvulbāshīs?  4 ʿArż as a Form of Governance  5 On Protocol  6 Documents  7 What Was the Cost of the ʿarż? Documents 1 Rescripts  Document 1 28 Ẕī al-ḥijja 1328 / 30 December 1912. A Rescript by the yasāvulbāshī about a Dispute over Inheritance  Document 2 9 Shavvāl 1328 /13 October 1913 A Rescript by the yasāvulbāshī about a Dispute over the Payment of Dowry  Document 3 13 Shavvāl 1328 /17 October 1913. A Rescript by the yasāvulbāshī about a Dispute over Landownership  Document 4 23 Ẕī al-ḥijja 1328 / December 25 1910. A Rescript by the yasāvulbāshī about a Marital Dispute  Document 5 17 Ẕī al-ḥījja 1328 / 19 December 1910. A Rescript by the yasāvulbāshī about a Dispute over Debts  Document 6 7 Shavvāl 1328 / 11 October 1910. A Rescript by the yasāvulbāshī about a Dispute over an Ancestral Undivided Property  Document 7 17 Shavvāl 1328 / 21 October 1910. A Rescript by the yasāvulbāshī Instructing an Attendant to Investigate the Circumstances of a Dispute  Document 8 13 Ẕī al-qaʿda 1336 / 20 August 1918. A Rescript by the yasāvulbāshī about a Dispute over a Contested Inheritance  Document 9 7 Rabīʿ al-s̱ānī 1336 / 19 January 1918. A Rescript by the yasāvulbāshī about a Dispute over Landownership  Document 10 24 Rabīʿ al-avval 1335 / 7 January 1917. A Rescript by the yasāvulbāshī about a Dispute over Landownership  Document 11 17 Shaʿbān 1328 / 26 May 1918. A Rescript by the yasāvulbāshī about a Case of Murder 2 Reports  Document 12 8 Shavvāl [?]. A Report by qāżīs to the yasāvulbāshī about a Marital Dispute  Document 13 4 Rabīʾ al-s̱ānī 1335 /27 January 1917. A Report by a Provincial Governor to the yasāvulbāshī about a Dispute over Custody  Document 14 24 Ṣafar 1334 / 30 December 1915. A Report by a Provincial Governor to the yasāvulbāshī about a Dispute over a Dowry  Document 15 Jumādī al-s̱ānī 1336 / March 1918. A Report by a Provincial Governor to the yasāvulbāshī about a Case of Robbery  Document 16 Rabiʿ al-avval 1335 / December 1916. A Report by a Provincial Governor to the yasāvulbāshī about a Case of Domestic Violence  Document 17 27 Rajab [1330] / 12 July [1912]. A Report by a Provincial Governor to the yasāvulbāshī about a Dispute over Water Rights  Document 18 22 Jumādī al-avval 1335/ 15 March 1917. A Report by a Provincial Governor to the yasāvulbāshī about Maintenance Works of the Irrigation System  Document 19 1328 / 1910. A Report by qāżīs to the yasāvulbāshī on Land Assessment Works  Document 20 19 Ẕī al-ḥijja 1334 / 16 October 1916. A Report by a Provincial Governor to the yasāvulbāshī about a Marital Dispute  Document 21 27 Ramażān 1336 / 6 July 1918. A Report by a Provincial Governor to the yasāvulbāshī about a Dispute over Debts  Document 22 16 Rabīʿ al-s̱ānī 1335 / 8 February 1917. A Report by Provincial Governor and the qāżīs to the yasāvulbāshī about a Dispute over Landownership  Document 23 27 Shaʿbān 1336 / 08 June 1918. A Report by a Provincial Governor to the yasāvulbāshī about the Death of a Man Involved in an Altercation  Document 24 Jumadī al-s̱ānī 1336 / March–April 1918. A Report by a Provincial Governor to the yasāvulbāshī about Malfeasance  Document 25 7 Muḥarram 1336 / 23 October 1917. A Report to the yasāvulbāshī about a Case of Murder  Document 26 19 Jumādī al-s̱ānī 1332 / 14 May 1330. A Report by a Provincial Governor to the yasāvulbāshī about a Dispute over Landownership  Document 27 1335 / 1916-1917. A Report by a Provincial Governor to the yasāvulbāshī about a Case of Robbery  Document 28 8 Muḥarram 1335 / 3 November 1916. A Report by qāżīs to the yasāvulbāshī about a Case of Extortion  Document 29 9 Shaʿbān 1334 / 10 June 1916. A Report by a Provincial Governor to the yasāvulbāshī about a Dispute over Losses Caused by Yomut Turkmens  Document 30 28 Ramażān 1336 / 7 July 1918. A Report by a Provincial Governor to the yasāvulbāshī about Malfeasance  Document 31 10 Rabīʿ al-s̱ānī 1332 / 7 March 1914. A Report to the yasāvulbāshī about the Extinguishment of a Debt  Document 32 15 Shavvāl 1328 / 9 October 1910. A Report by a Provincial Governor to the yasāvulbāshī about the Extinguishment of Debt  Document 33 9 Rabīʿ al-avval 1335 / 2 November 1917. A Report by a Provincial Governor to the yasāvulbāshī about the Extinguishment of Debt  Document 34 n.d. A Report of qāżīs to the yasāvulbāshī about a Dispute over Landownership  Document 35 8 Ramażān 1336 / 17 June 1918. A Report by a Provincial Governor to the yasāvulbāshī about Rights on a Thoroughfare  Document 36 Jumādī al-avval 1336 / February–March 1918. A Report by a Group of Officials to the yasāvulbāshī about a Dispute over Taxes in Favor of Yomut Turkmens 3 Notifications  Document 37 8 Ramażān 1334 / 8 July 1916. A Notification by a Provincial Governor to the yasāvulbāshī about a Case of Assault and Robbery  Document 38 25 Ẕī al-qaʿda 1334 / 22 September 1916. A Notification by a Provincial Governor to the yasāvulbāshī about a Case of Robbery  Document 39 25 Ẕī al-qaʿda 1334 / 22 September 1916. A Notification by a Provincial Governor to the yasāvulbāshī about a Case of Animal Theft  Document 40 15 Jumādī al-s̱ānī 13[?] / [?]. A Notification by a Provincial Governor to the yasāvulbāshī about a Case of Armed Robbery  Document 41 5 Rajab 1336 / 16 April 1918. A Notification by a Provincial Governor to the yasāvulbāshī about a Case of Robbery and Assault  Document 42 n.d. A Notification by qāżīs to the yasāvulbāshī about a Case of Domestic Violence  Document 43 Shaʿbān 1335 / May–June 1917. A Notification by a Provincial Governor and qāżīs to the yasāvulbāshī about a Man’s Death  Document 44 18 Shaʿbān 1334 / 19 June 1916. A Notification by a Provincial Governor to the yasāvulbāshī about a Case of Bride-Kidnapping  Document 45 26 Jumādī al-avval 1336 / 09 March 1918. A Notification by a Provincial Governor to the yasāvulbāshī about a Case of Bride-Kidnapping  Document 46 7 Jumādī al-s̱ānī 1336 /19 March 1918. A Notification by a Provincial Governor to the yasāvulbāshī about a Case of Robbery and Homicide  Document 47 17 Rabīʿ al-s̱ānī 1335 / 9 February 1917. A Notification by a Provincial Governor to the yasāvulbāshī about a Case of Assault  Document 48 22 Rabīʿ al-s̱ānī 1335 /14 February 1917. A Notification by a Provincial Governor to the yasāvulbāshī about a Case of Animal Theft  Document 49 22 Rabīʿ al-avval 1335 / 15 January 1917. A Notification by a Provincial Governor to the yasāvulbāshī about a Double Homicide  Document 50 18 Rajab 1336 / 29 April 1918. A Notification by a Provincial Governor to the yasāvulbāshī about Multiple Cases of Robbery and Homicide  Document 51 Dhī al-s̱ānī 1335 / September–October 1917. A Notification by a Provincial Governor to the yasāvulbāshī about a Case of Robbery  Document 52 5 Shaʿbān 1336 / 15 May 1918. A Notification by a Provincial Governor to the yasāvulbāshī about a Dispute over Rights of Inheritance  Document 53 12 Ẕī al-qaʿda 1336 / 19 August 1918. A Notification by a Provincial Governor to the yasāvulbāshī about a Case of Animal Theft  Document 54 15 Jumādī al-avval 1335 / 8 March 1915. A Notification by a Provincial Governor to the yasāvulbāshī about a Case of Homicide  Document 55 5 Jumādīʾ al-avval 1329 / 3 March 1911. A Notification to the yasāvulbāshī about a Case of Homicide  Document 56 25 Ṣafar 1335 / 20 December 1916. A Notification by a Provincial Governor to the yasāvulbāshī about a Case of Robbery  Document 57 2 Jumādī al-avval 1335 / 24 February 1917. A Notification by Provincial Governor to the yasāvulbāshī about a Case of Robbery  Document 58 27 Rajab 1339 / 5 April 1921. A Notification by a Provincial Governor to the yasāvulbāshī about a Case of Robbery  Document 59 1334 / 1915–1916. A petition to the yasāvulbāshī regarding a Case of Robbery and Assault  Document 60 1335 / 1916–1917. A Notification by a Provincial Governor to the yasāvulbāshī about a Dispute over an Unpaid Debt  Document 61 14 Ẕī al-qaʿda 1337 / 10 August 1919. A Letter by the Turkmen Yomut Leader Junayd Khān to the yasāvulbāshī about the Appointment of a New qāżī to Solve Conflicts among the Ata Turkmens  Document 62 8 Ramażān 1332 / 30 July 1914. A Notification by a Provincial Governor to the yasāvulbāshī about the Intention of the Disputing Parties to Solve the Dispute before the khan  Document 63 24 Rabīʿ al-s̱ānī 1332 / 21 March 1914. A Notification by a Provincial Governor to the yasāvulbāshī about the intention of the disputing parties to solve the Dispute before the khan 4 Qāżīs’ Reports  Document 64 n.d. A Report by a qāżī-raʾis about the Intention of the Disputing Parties to Solve the Dispute before the khan  Document 65 7 Shaʿbān 1267 / 6 June 1851. A Report by a qāżī-raʾis to Authorities in Khiva about the Outcome of a Conflict at a Local Bazaar  Document 66 n.d. A Report by a qāżī to the Royal Court about a Dispute over Land Ownership  Document 67 n.d. A Report by a qāżī to the Royal Court about an Unspecified Dispute  Document 68 n.d. A Report by a qāżī to the Royal Court about a Conflict over an Unpaid Fee and an Ensuing Case of Assault  Document 69 n.d. A Report by a qāżī to the Royal Court about a Case of Homicide  Document 70 n.d. A Report a qāżīs to the Royal Court about a Case of Homicide  Document 71 n.d. A Report by a qāżī to the Royal Court about a Case of Homicide  Document 72 n.d. A Report by a qāżī to the Royal Court about a Case of Homicide  Document 73 n.d. A Report by a qāżī to the Royal Court about a Case of Homicide  Facsimiles Bibliography Index of Places Index of Proper Names

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Book SynopsisLu Jia's New Discourses: A Political Manifesto from the Early Han Dynasty is a readable yet accurate translation by Paul R. Goldin and Elisa Levi Sabattini. Celebrated as “a man-of-service with a mouth [skilled] at persuasion”, Lu Jia (c. 228-140 BCE) became one of the leading figures of the early Han dynasty, serving as a statesman and diplomat from the very beginning of the Han empire. This book is a translation of Lu Jia’s New Discourses, which laid out the reasons for rise and fall of empires. Challenged by the new Emperor to produce a book explaining why a realm that was conquered on horseback cannot also be ruled on horseback, Lu Jia produced New Discourses, to great acclaim.

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Book SynopsisIn The City of Ye in the Chinese Literary Landscape, Joanne Tsao demonstrates how the city of Ye changed from an iconic space that represented Cao Cao’s heroic enterprise to a symbol of the fruitlessness of human endeavour, and then finally to a literary landmark, a synecdoche for the vicissitudes of human life caught in the predictable cycles of dynastic rise and decline. Through a close reading of literary works on Ye, she illustrates how the city transformed from a lived to imaginative space to become a symbol in the poetic lexicon. Making use of literary and historical texts on Ye and its material remains through the Song and beyond she shows the potency of place as a generative force in literary production and in historical discourse.Trade Review"This is a well-researched, comprehensive study with attentive care to the translation and interpretation of primary literary texts, a valuable addition to the field of early medieval Chinese literature and cultural history. [...] The well-founded scholarship we find in this book is based on a broad knowledge of the secondary literature and solid philological expertise in both textual and literary criticism. It should be of interest to readers who study early medieval Chinese literature and culture, cities and their cultural history, and reception history. This book lays a good foundation on which future works can build, since, as Tsao notes, many poems on Ye have survived that are beyond the scope of this book. Period-specific works will be able to devote more space to contextualizing and examining how Ye, Cao Cao, 'Jian’an literature,' or the 'terrace' as a site may be related to other cultural issues of that period." – Lu Kou, Bard college, in JAOS 141/3 (2021).

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Book SynopsisRoger Des Forges here examines the puzzle of Li Yan, a Chinese scholar who advised the rebel Li Zicheng (1605-1645), and helped him to overthrow the Ming, only to die at his hands. For more than three centuries, Li Yan’s identity and even existence were seriously questioned. Then, in 2004, there was discovered a genealogical manuscript which includes a Li Yan (1606-1644). He now appears to be the principal historical reality behind the Li Yan story, which became a powerful metaphor for the rise and fall of Li Zicheng’s rebellion. Offering a fresh theory of Chinese and world history, the author elucidates Li Yan’s historical significance by comparing and contrasting him with similar figures in other times and places around the globe.

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Book SynopsisWomen, Islam and Familial Intimacy in Colonial South Asia highlights the rich tradition of protest and defiance among the Muslim women of colonial India. Bringing together a range of archival material including novels, pamphlets, commentaries and journalistic essays, it narrates a history of Muslim feminism conversing with, and confronting the dominant and influential narratives of didactic social reform. The book reveals how discussion about marriage and family evoked claims of women’s freedom and rights in a highly charged literary and cultural landscape where lesser-known female intellectuals jostled for public space alongside well-known male social reformers. Definitions of Islamic ethics remained central to these debates, and the book illustrates how claims of social obligation, religious duty and freedom balanced and negotiated each other in a period of nationalism and reform. By doing so, it also illuminates a story of Muslim politics that goes beyond the well-established accounts of Muslim separatism and the Pakistan movement.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations A Note on Transliteration Introduction 1 Women, Islam and Social Reform 2 Ethics and the Question of Family 3 Urdu Public Sphere 4 Gender and Nationalism 5 Structure of the Book 1 Familial Ethics and the Critique of Social Reform 1 Nineteenth Century Debates on Akhlaq: Ethics as Relationships 2 Reformist Censorship and the Battle for Women’s Voice 3 Fatherhood and Contentious Advice 4 Disruption of Social Reform: ‘Respectability’ as Oppression 5 Parent-child Relations, Rights and Social Authority 6 Conclusion 2 Marital Consent and the Discourse of ‘Women’s Freedom’ 1 Coercive Marriage and the Vision of Compatibility 2 Marital Compatibility as Social Practice 3 Marital Consent in Urdu Magazines 4 Pardah: Seclusion and/ or Participation 5 ‘Women’s Freedom’ 6 Conclusion 3 Conjugal Sexuality and the Politics of Reproduction 1 Bodily Health and Conjugality 2 Masculinity and Global “Anti-Vice” Campaigns 3 Sexual Pleasure, Female Sexual Desire and Reproduction 4 Eugenics and Family 5 Niyaz Fatehpuri: Colonial Knowledge and History of Sexuality 6 Conclusion 4 Polygyny 1 Sexuality and ‘Legitimate Polygyny’ 2 Social Reform and Its Advocacy of ‘Legitimate Polygyny’ 3 Critiques of Polygyny 4 Muslim Women’s Conference, 1918, Lahore 5 Polygynous Marriage of Saiyid ?Abid Husain and Saliha ?Abid Husain 6 Conclusion 5 Marital Annulment and Separation of Family 1 Talaq (Divorce) 2 Divorce and Male Authority 3 Respectability, Equality and Marital Annulment 4 Debating Strategies for Change 5 Women’s Freedom, Female Apostasy and Marriage 6 Two Men on Divorce: Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act of 1939 7 Mahr and the Economy of Marriage 8 Ethical Dilemmas: Non-Legal Familial Conflict 9 Conclusion Postscript 1 Saiyida Bano Ahmad: Intimacy outside Marriage Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisOver the past seven decades—since the 1949 Revolution—every aspect of Chinese society has been profoundly transformed multiple times. No sector has experienced more tumultuous twists and turns than industry. The eight articles contained in this volume examine these twists and turns, focusing on those aspects of industrial relations that involve contention and power, that is, factory politics. They were selected among articles that have appeared in the Chinese journal Open Times (开放时代) over the past decade. Because Open Times has a well-earned reputation for publishing diverse viewpoints, it has been able to attract some of the very best scholarship in China.Trade Review"[Factory Politics in China] is fluidly translated and it fills important gaps in existing research. It applies concepts developed by theorists in China and abroad to developments in the “workshop of the world”—and then quietly tweaks those same theories. It alters our understanding of the country’s labour history in significant ways, e.g., by raising the status of the Great Leap Forward and its immediate aftermath and lowering that of the Cultural Revolution and early Reform Era. But most importantly, it introduces a thoughtful, creative, and committed group of scholars who should be followed closely by anyone concerned with social justice and worker power in China or elsewhere." -Manfred Elfstrom, University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna in Pacific Affairs: Vol. 94, No. 3 (Sept. 2021)Table of ContentsList of Contributors Introduction 1 From Passion to Deception – Daily Life at the Grassroots under State Control of Production before and after the Great Leap Forward: an Investigation of TY Factory in Guangzhou (1956–1965)  Jia Wenjuan (贾文娟)  Translated by Shayan Momin 2 Research into the Implementation of the Staff and Workers Congress System in State-Owned Enterprises: a 60-Year Case Study of One Factory  Cai He (蔡禾) and Li Wanlian (李晚莲)  Translated by Roderick Graham Flagg 3 A Simple Control Model Analysis of Labor Relations in Industrial SOEs  Tong Xin (佟新)  Translated by Roderick Graham Flagg 4 Changes in Production Models within State-Owned Enterprises under the “Double Transformations:” the Rise of Internal Labor Subcontracting in City A’s Nanchang Factory (2001–2013)  Jia Wenjuan (贾文娟)  Translated by Shayan Momin 5 Sustaining Production: Spatial Interactions between Han and Uyghur Workers at the Kashgar Cotton Mill  Liu Ming (刘明)  Translated by Heather Mowbray 6 Corporate Social Responsibility in the Global Toy Industry’s Supply Chain: an Empirical Study of Walmart Supplier Factories in China  Yu Xiaomin (余晓敏)  Translated by Shayan Momin 7 Direct Labor Union Elections: Lessons from Guangdong  Wen Xiaoyi (闻效仪)  Translated by Matthew A. Hale 8 Patterns of Collective Resistance among the New Generation of Chinese Migrant Workers: from the Politics of Production to the Politics of Life  Wang Jianhua (汪建华) and Meng Quan (孟泉)  Translated by Matthew A. Hale

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Book SynopsisIslam in South Asia: Revised, Enlarged and Updated Second Edition traces the roots and development of Muslim presence in South Asia. Trajectories of normative notions of state-building and the management of diversity are elaborated in four clusters, augmented by topical subjects in excursuses and annexes offering an array of Muslim voices. The enormous time span from 650 to 2019 provides for a comprehensive and plural canvas of the religious self-presentation of South Asian Muslims. Making use of the latest academic works and historical materials, including first-hand accounts ranging from official statements to poetry, Malik convincingly argues that these texts provide sufficient evidence to arrive at an interpretation of quite a different character. With major and substantial revisions, changes, abridgements and additions follow the academic literature produced during the last decades.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Abbreviations Introduction Part 1: Early Muslim Expansion & Cultural Encounter 1 Muslim Expansion: Trade, Military & the Quest for Political Authority in South Asia (Approx. 700–1300)  Excursus: Historiography & Sources  Annex: al-Baladhuri, al-Biruni 2 Muslim Space & Religious Specialists (Approx. 1000–1300s)  Annex: ʿAli Kufi, al-Hujwiri, Ganj-e Shakar Part 2: The Establishment of Muslim Empires: Between Islamic & Islamicate 3 Slaves, Sultans & Dynasties (Approx. 1000–1400)  Excursus: Shiʿis  Annex: Nizam al-Din Awliya‌ʾ, al-Barani, Chiragh-e Dehli, Amir Khusraw 4 Muslim Heterogeneity: Margins Becoming Centres of Muslim Power (Approx. 1300–1500)  Excursus: Caste  Annex: Hamadani, Maneri, Chakki-nama & Charkha-nama, al-Maʿbari 5 Cultural Integration towards a Politics of Universal Dominion: The Mughals (Approx. 1450–1650)  Excursus: Conversion & Mission  Annex: Gulbadan, ʿAbd al-Hakim, Dabistan-e Madhahib, Badayuni, Dara Shikoh, Sirhindi 6 From Universal Dominion to Principalities (Approx. 1650–1800)  Annex: Zeb al-Nisa, Wali Allah, ʿAbd al-Latif, Bullhe Shah Part 3: Territorial States & Colonial Rule: Accommodation & Differentiation of Muslim Cultures 7 Regional States, National Markets & European Expansion (Approx. 1700–1800)  Excursus: Islamic Endowments  Annex: Shahr-e ashob 8 Cultural Encounter, Reciprocities & Muslim Responses (Approx. 1750–1870)  Annex: Lalon Shah, Shah ʿAbd al-ʿAziz, Shah Ghulam ʿAli 9 From Appropriation to Collision & Colonial Stabilisation (Approx. 1820–1900)  Excursus: The Language Issue—Urdu  Annex: Risala & fatwa 1857; Ghalib, Shahr-e ashob 1857 10 Institutionalisation of Muslim Communities & the Quest for a New Islamicity (Approx. 1860–1900)  Excursus: Gender  Annex: Altaf Hussain “Hali”, Sayyid Ahmad Khan, Shibli Nuʿmani 11 Colonial Reforms, the Khilafat Movement & Muslim Nationalism (ca. 1900–1947)  Excursus: Communalism  Annex: Fatwa-ye Hijrat 1920, Nazrul Islam, Rahmat ʿAli, Rashid Jahan Part 4: Negotiating Muslim Pluralism & Singularity 12 The Muslim Public Divided (Approx. 1930–1960s)  Annex: Madani, Abu al-Kalam Azad, Mawdudi, Naqi Naqwi 13 The Integration of Nation-State & Secession (Approx. 1947–1990s)  Excursus: Islamic Fundamentalism, Political Islam & Post-Islamism  Annex: Bhashani, I.H. Qureshi, Abdul Gafur Hali 14 From the Pulpit to the Parade Ground & Religious Violence (Approx. 1970–2018)  Annex: Benazir Bhutto, Asma Jahangir, Fahmida Riaz, Ghamidi 15 Indian Muslims or Muslim Indians? (Approx. 1947–2018)  Excursus: The Social Structure of Muslims in India  Annex: Wahiduddin Khan, Hilal Ahmed, Rakhshanda Jalil, Zoya Hasan Afterword Bibliography Glossary Chronology Index of Names Index of Places, Rivers & Regions Index of Keywords

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the mutual constitutions of visuality and empire from the perspective of gender, probing how the lives of China’s ethnic minorities at the southwest frontiers were translated into images. Two sets of visual materials make up its core sources: the Miao album, a genre of ethnographic illustration depicting the daily lives of non-Han peoples in late imperial China, and the ethnographic photographs found in popular Republican-era periodicals. It highlights gender ideals within images and develops a set of “visual grammar” of depicting the non-Han. Casting new light on a spectrum of gendered themes, including femininity, masculinity, sexuality, love, body and clothing, the book examines how the power constructed through gender helped to define, order, popularise, celebrate and imagine possessions of empire.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements List of Figures Introduction: The Chinese Imperial Model in the Southwest Borderland: Gender, Visuality and Transitions  1 Observational Practices: Detractor, Defender and Truth  2 Ethnographic Illustrations in Chinese History: Long Tradition, Multiple Genres and Various Pictorial Practices  3 Ways of Seeing: a Visual Grammar of Gender, the Power of Representation  4 Empire, Visuality and Structure of Feelings: Engendering the Ethnic Minorities in China’s Southwest Borderland  5 Imperial Context: Native Chieftain System, Gaitu Guiliu and Miao Rebellions  6 Wartime China: the Reproduction of Borderland Images  7 Chapter Organisation 1 Gender Inversion and the Power of Representation: Imagining and Visualising Ethnic Minority Women’s Masculinity  1 Women in Power: the Fancy of Images of “Nüguan 女官 (Female Government Official)”  2 Interpreting “Nanyi Nülao 男逸女勞 (Men Relax, While Women Work)” as “Nangui Nüjian 男貴女賤 (Men are Exalted, while Women are Humble)”: Defaming Women’s Work through Space  3 The Most Respected Women in China: Refashioning Images of Non-Han Women at Work in Republican China  4 China’s Domestic Feminists?: Reinterpreting Non-Han Gender Roles  5 The Essentialness of Work: “Women Question” and Family Status  6 Concluding Remarks 2 Dancing in the Moonlight: Fashioning Sexuality of Non-Han People  1 Naked Female Bodies: Images of the Duanqun Miao and Shuibai Yi  2 Chuzi Shuangfu 處子孀婦 (the Virgin and the Widow): Copulation and Chastity  3 Dancing under the Moonlight: Marriage Customs, Rites and Sexual Regulation  4 Encountering Sexuality: Enlightenment Plans and the Diversity of Representation  5 Refashioning Moon Dancing: The Freedom of Lian’ai 戀愛 (love)  6 A Romantic Land with Freedom: Ze’ou 擇偶 (Choice), Lihun 離婚 (Divorce) and Taohun 逃婚 (Escape before the Wedding Night)  7 Freedom, Xing 性 and Women’s Desire  8 Concluding Remarks 3 Yiguan Zhuangmao衣冠狀貌 (Clothes, Hat, and Physical Body): Materialising and Symbolising Human Variations  1 Delineating a Typical Non-Han Face in the Southwest: Black Skin, Deep Eyes, White Teeth and Hooked Nose  2 Highlighting Xianzu 跣足 (Bare Feet)  3 The Hierarchy of Dressing: the Representation of the Non-Han Subject in Simple and Casual Clothes  4 Republican Anthropometric Photography: New Styles and the Ambiguity of Racial Differences  5 Conceptualising and Visualising an Ethnographic Body: the Implications in China  6 Ambiguous Attitudes: How Should the Statistics of Body Measurements be Interpreted?  7 Shengzhuang 盛裝 (Festival Costumes): New Ways of Visualising the Non-Han  8 Collecting, Exhibiting and Preserving Non-Han Material Culture  9 Concluding Remarks 4 Imperial Images? Rethinking Miao albums and Ethnographic photography  1 Zhengqi Haoyi爭奇好異(Competing over Eccentricity and Chasing Exoticism): the Anxiety of Pleasure  2 Multiple Viewers: the Growing Market for Popular Ethnography  3 Making Ethnographic Truth? The Paradox of Copying and the Participation of Artists in the Market Place  4 Resurrection in Republican China: Collection, Preservation, Reproduction and New Styles  5 Beyond Identity: Commercial Ethnographic Photography  6 Concluding Remarks Conclusion Appendix: Table of Miao Albums with Collection Date and Original Collector Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe essays in Powerful Arguments reconstruct the standards of validity underlying argumentative practices in a wide array of late imperial Chinese discourses, from the Song through the Qing dynasties. The fourteen case studies analyze concrete arguments defended or contested in areas ranging from historiography, philosophy, law, and religion to natural studies, literature, and the civil examination system. By examining uses of evidence, habits of inference, and the criteria by which some arguments were judged to be more persuasive than others, the contributions recreate distinct cultures of reasoning. Together, they lay the foundations for a history of argumentative practice in one of the richest scholarly traditions outside of Europe and add a chapter to the as yet elusive global history of rationality.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction: Toward a History of Argumentative Practice in Late Imperial China  Martin Hofmann, Joachim Kurtz, and Ari Daniel Levine Part 1: Comparison, Collation, Validation  1 Historical and Political Arguments: Debates on the Veritable Records in the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644)   Peter Ditmanson  2 A Performance of Transparency: Discourses of Veracity and Practices of Verification in Li Tao’s Long Draft   Ari Daniel Levine  3 Learning with Metal and Stone: On the Discursive Formation of Song Epigraphy   Jeffrey Moser Part 2: Visualization, Demonstration, Calculation  4 The Persuasive Power of Tu: A Case Study on Commentaries to the Book of Documents   Martin Hofmann  5 Inductive Arguments in the Midst of Smoke: “Proving” Rhetorically and Visually That Algorithms Work   Andrea Bréard  6 Keeping Your Ear to the Cosmos: Coherence as the Standard of Good Music in the Northern Song   Ya Zuo  7 The Textual Nature of Nature: Astronomical Debates in Eighteenth-Century China   Ori Sela Part 3: Verification, Evaluation, Authentication  8 Identity Verification as a Standard of Validity in Late Imperial Civil Service Examinations   John Williams  9 Standards of Validity and Essay Grading in Early Qing Civil Service Examinations   Li Yu虞莉  10 Some Problems with Corpses: Standards of Validity in Qing Homicide Cases   Matthew H. Sommer  11 Value and Validity: Seeing through Silver in Late Imperial China   Bruce Rusk Part 4: Corroboration, Refutation, Presentation  12 Philological Arguments as Religious Suasion: Liu Ning and His Study of Chinese Characters   Pingyi Chu  13 A Moral Verdict of Reasonable Doubts: Ouyi Zhixu’s Argumentative Strategies in the Collection of Refutations against Vicious Doctrines   Manuel Sassmann  14 Reasoning in Style: The Formation of “Logical Writing” in Late Qing China   Joachim Kurtz Index

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Book SynopsisText and Context in the Modern History of Chinese Religions: Redemptive Societies and Their Sacred Texts is an edited volume (Philip Clart, David Ownby, and Wang Chien-chuan) offering eight essays on the modern history of redemptive societies in China and Vietnam by an international cast of scholars. The focus of the volume is on the texts produced by the various groups, examining questions of textual production (spirit-writing), textual traditions (how to “modernize” traditional discourse), textual authority (the role of texts in making a master a master), and the distribution of texts (via China’s experience of “print capitalism”). Throughout, the goal is to explore in depth what some scholars have called the most vital aspect of Chinese religion during the Republican period.Trade Review"For everybody interested in new religious movements in China, the new book edited by Philip Clart, David Ownby, and Wang Chien-chuan, Text and Context in the Modern History of Chinese Religions: Redemptive Societies and Their Sacred Texts is a gift." -Massimo Introvigne in Bitter Winter, June 27th, 2020 "Clart and Ownby lament in the introduction that "redemptive societies" have thus far received essentially no mention in modern scholarly works of contemporary Chinese history. This volume certainly succeeds in addressing this problem." -Joseph Chadwin in Religious Studies Review, Vol. 46, No. 4 (December 2020) "In brief, this volume is a collection of excellent, fine-grained case studies that will open the way for a comprehensive history of the production, distribution, and use of religious texts in modern China. This may still be on the distant horizon, but Text and Context brings it significantly closer by providing several methodological models and sets of questions that are sure to prove fruitful across the various religious traditions, and by showing how many fascinating sourcess there exist when one looks for them." - Vincent Goossaert in Journal of Chinese Religions, Vol. 49, No. 1 (May 2021)Table of ContentsContents On the Contributors Introduction  Philip Clart and David Ownby 1 Giving Believers Back Their Voice: Agency and Heresy in Late Imperial China  Barend J. ter Haar 2 The Composition and Distribution of the Scriptures of the Tongshanshe, with a Focus on the Ten Thousand Buddha Scripture (1917–1949)  Wang Chien-chuan Translated by David Ownby 3 The Religious Texts of the Moral Studies Society: Print Publications, Photographs, and Visual Presentations  Fan Chun-wu Translated by David Ownby 4 Science and Spirit-Writing: the Shanghai Lingxuehui 靈學會 and the Changing Fate of Spiritualism in Republican China  Matthias Schumann 5 Text and Context: a Tale of Two Masters  David Ownby 6 Transmission and Revision: Scripture Production in the Vietnamese Tứ n Hiếu Nghĩa Movement  Chung Yun-Ying (Translated by Philip Clart) 7 The Bible of the Great Cycle of Esotericism: from the Xiantiandao Tradition to a Cao Ðài Scripture in Colonial Vietnam  Jeremy Jammes and David A. Palmer 8 Text and Context in the Study of Spirit-Writing Cults: a Methodological Reflection on the Relationship of Ethnography and Philology  Philip Clart Index

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Book SynopsisThierry Meynard and Dawei Pan offer a highly detailed annotated translation of one of the major works of Giulio Aleni (1582 Brescia–1649 Yanping), a Jesuit missionary in China. Referred to by his followers as “Confucius from the West”, Aleni made his presence felt in the early modern encounter between China and Europe. The two translators outline the complexity of the intellectual challenges that Aleni faced and the extensive conceptual resources on which he built up a fine-grained framework with the aim of bridging the Chinese and Christian spiritual traditions.Trade Review“Formatted as facing pages of Chinese (the original language of the work) and English, Meynard and Pan's English translation and annotation of Giulio Aleni's A Brief Introduction to the Study of Human Nature is an impressive rendering of the 17th-century Jesuit missionary/scholar's introduction to China of Aristotelian anthropology [...] In Meynard and Pan's hands, Aleni's testimony to the early modern European encounter with China and the charitable and academic attempt to unite harmoniously two philosophical traditions is made accessible to a new audience. This is yet another impressive addition to the Jesuit Studies series.” J. Sienkiewicz, Benedictine College, in: Choice Connect, July 2021 “This book will be useful for sinologists, missiologists, theologians, historians, and anyone interested in the general subject. It presents a bridge in the exchange of ideas between two different cultures during early modern times. It is written on a high scientific level and may well help form the foundation for a further understanding of the history between East and West.” Claudia von Collani, Universität Würzburg. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 76, No. 1 (Spring 2023), pp. 294–295.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Foreword: Reading Giulio Aleni’s A Brief Introduction to the Study of Human Nature in Light of the Cursus Conimbricensis-“Urtext”  Mário S. de Carvalho Introduction  Thierry Meynard, S.J., and Dawei Pan A Brief Introduction to the Study of Human Nature / 性學觕述 A Brief Introduction to the Study of Human Nature  Preface to A Brief Introduction to the Study of Human Nature  Preface to The Study of Human Nature  Foreword to The Study of Human Nature  Preface to A Brief Introduction to the Study of Human Nature Appendix: Tables 1–8 Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHistorians of the Middle East in the long nineteenth century have often considered empire-building the preserve of European powers. This book revises that picture by exploring how the Ottomans re-conquered and ruled large parts of present-day Yemen between 1849 and the end of World War I, after more than two centuries of independence under local dynasties. Drawing on a wide range of sources and on recent scholarship on empire and colonialism, Empire, Islam, and Politics of Difference shows how the concepts and practices of Ottoman imperial rule were shaped through the encounters between Ottoman officials, their European rivals, and local communities. The result is a fresh look at the nature of governance in the late Ottoman Empire more generally.Trade Review'Thomas Kuehn's remarkable book breaks new ground by drawing the late Ottoman Empire into comparative imperial studies. His history of late-nineteenth century Yemen examines Ottoman methods of conquest and rule that drew as much on the experience of European colonial empires as on Istanbul's own practices of ruling remote Arab lands. Drawing on the widest range of Ottoman archival sources, reinforced by contemporary Arabic references, Kuehn presents a lucid and persuasive analysis of the successes and shortcomings of the Ottomans' civilizing mission in Yemen. The sectarian order the Ottomans left behind has proven a divisive legacy that marks Yemen down to the present day. A brilliant book that deserves the widest possible readership among scholars of late nineteenth century empire and the Ottomans' place in that order'. Eugene Rogan St Antony's College, Oxford 'Thomas Kuehn's book is an illuminating contribution to scholars' efforts to study empires not simply in comparison to each but in relation to their interactions and rivalries. Ottomans, he shows, did not govern Yemen in the same way they governed other parts of their empire in the era of Tanzamat reforms; they marked the "difference" and "backwardness" of the people they now ruled, rather than seek to integrate them into a homogenizing Ottomanness. But what Kuehn terms "colonial Ottoman" was not Ottoman colonialism. It borrowed from but did not copy policies of a "civilizing mission" and "indirect rule" from French and British colonial projects of the time. Ottomans administrators balanced incorporation with differentiation, efforts to change Yeminis' way of life with tacit and shifting arrangements with local elites. They did not implement in Yemen the censuses, cadastral surveys, and conscription mechanisms that were hallmarks of Ottoman rule elsewhere, but when an Ottoman parliament sat, representatives of Yemen were included. Kuehn shows that Ottomans shared other imperial powers' interest in the production of knowledge of the societies' they conquered, but that the forms of knowledge were part of a distinct repertoire of rule. By stressing the differences and similarities in forms of imperial governance within the Ottoman empire and between different empires in the same era he reveals to us how particular imperial systems functioned in a world of competing imperial powers. The result is a book that will be of great interests not just to Ottomanists, but to any reader interested in rethinking the nature of imperial rule in 19th and 20th centuries'. Frederick Cooper co-author of Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference 'Empire, Islam, and Politics of Difference examines the roots of modern Yemen during the incorporation and consolidation of southwestern Arabia by the Ottoman Empire in the second half of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. Thomas Kuehn brings into play cutting edge theoretical insights on colonial constructions of difference in this textured narrative based on painstaking research in primary Ottoman documents and other contemporary sources. The author inserts the Ottoman state into the age of new imperialism not only as an actor resisting European expansionism but also one selectively adopting and implementing elements of European colonialism in its own efforts to extend imperial reach to outlying areas. He assesses under the rubric of "colonial Ottomanism" the discursive and political strategies devised to maintain an intricate equilibrium between incorporation and differentiation. This hybrid policy, Kuehn argues, while premised on perceived cultural inferiority of local society in southwestern Arabia, differs from forms of European colonialism in its inclusionary and non-discriminatory thrust. The book analyzes Yemen as a site of Ottoman modernity, where incorporation (e.g., the implementation of the standard Ottoman provincial organization) and institutionalized differentiation (e.g., a judicial system cognizant of local religious tradition) were deployed to uphold Ottoman rule. The very strategies, in turn, primed local society for its empire to nation transition during the post-World War I twilight of the Ottoman state. 'Empire, Islam, and Politics of Difference is a richly researched and theoretically informed contribution to recent scholarship on the Arab provinces in the late Ottoman Empire, and more broadly, to comparative empire studies. The book's nuanced intervention into debates on internal colonialism is compelling for historians. The wealth of new historical information on Yemen presented with an accessible prose makes this a timely book for the general reader interested in the history of modern Yemen'. Hasan Kayali University of California, San Diego 'Kuehn skillfully weaves several themes together to demonstrate the tensions of Ottoman rule in a frontier province in the age of high European imperialism. He draws clear and convincing comparisons between the European colonial and imperial enterprise in the late nineteenth century and the modern Ottoman endeavor to create what he dubs “colonial Ottomanism” in Yemen. The Ottoman bureaucrats and military men that conquered and then created the administrative structures of Yemen employed techniques of government built on a set of distinctions between tribal and civilized, between rural and urban, between governance according to “local” Islamic norm and governance through modern administration. In their attempt to govern Yemen, the late imperial Ottomans looked similar to the late British imperialist. Their colonial enterprise, however, was distinctly Ottoman. It was from the beginning shaped by the fact that the Ottomans viewed themselves as Muslim rulers bringing into the imperial fold a Muslim frontier threatened by European encroachments. Their bureaucrats viewed the Yemenis as subjects that needed to be turned into modern Ottomans loyal to the only surviving Muslim state. Kuehn’s book should be of great interest to historians and graduate students focused on the study of comparative empires as well as scholars who work on imperial frontiers. Is it a welcome edition to the growing and exciting field of nineteenth century Ottoman history'. Dina Rizk Khoury George Washington UniversityTable of ContentsCONTENTS Acknowledgements ............................................................................ ix Note on Transliteration and Date Conversion ............................. xv Abbreviations ..................................................................................... xvii Maps ..................................................................................................... xix 1. Introduction .................................................................................. 1 2. The ‘Return of the Turks’: The Campaigns of 1871–73 and the Context of Tanẓīmāt Imperialism ............. 31 3. Imperial Visions: Knowledge Production, Empire, and the Creation of Difference, 1849–75 .................. 53 4. ‘According to Their Customs and Dispositions’: Elaborating Politics of Difference in Ottoman Yemen, 1874–91 .............. 91 5. Struggling for a Righteous Order: The Rise of the Zaydī imāms and the Reconfiguration of Difference, 1890–1908 .... 147 6. An Imperial Borderland as Colony? The Daʿʿān Agreement and the Reaffirmation of Colonial Ottomanism, 1905–19 .... 201 Conclusion .......................................................................................... 247 Bibliography ........................................................................................ 253 Index .................................................................................................... 271

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Book SynopsisThe essays collected in Fate and Prognostication in the Chinese Literary Imagination deal with the philosophical, psychological, gender and cultural issues in the Chinese conception of fate as represented in literary texts and films, with a focus placed on human efforts to solve the riddles of fate prediction. Viewed in this light, the collected essays unfold a meandering landscape of the popular imaginary in Chinese beliefs and customs. The chapters in this book represent concerted efforts in research originated from a project conducted at the International Consortium for Research in the Humanities at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. Contributors are Michael Lackner, Kwok-kan Tam, Monika Gaenssbauer, Terry Siu-han Yip, Xie Qun, Roland Altenburger, Jessica Tsui-yan Li, Kaby Wing-Sze Kung, Nicoletta Pesaro, Yan Xu-Lackner, and Anna Wing Bo Tso.Table of ContentsForeword: Chinese Literati and Intellectuals on Mantic Arts: A Philosophy of Divination? Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction: Fate and Prognostication in the Chinese Literary Imagination  Kwok-kan Tam, Michael Lackner, Monika Gaenssbauer and Terry Siu-han Yip 1 Fate and Destiny: Yuan as Ming in “Matrimony Inn” and Eileen Chang’s Half a Lifelong Romance and “Love in a Fallen City”  Terry Siu-han Yip 2 Prophecy, “Ming” and the Lost Self in The Legend of Mi Yue  Xie Qun 3 Popular Response to Natural Disaster in Eighteenth Century Shandong: Views from below as Represented in Prosimetric Vernacular Narrative  Roland Altenburger 4 Fate, Reincarnation and Medicinal Cannibalism in Lillian Lee’s Dumplings  Jessica Tsui-yan Li 5 Recurring Fate in Two Hong Kong Films: Life after Life and Reincarnation of Golden Lotus  Kaby Wing-Sze Kung 6 Dream-Scenes, the Concept of Time and Prognostication in Wong Kar-wai’s Ashes of Time  Monika Gaenssbauer 7 Psycho-Fatalism in Xi Xi’s Story “A Girl Like Me”  Kwok-kan Tam 8 The Clash between Personal Fate, Future, and Society in Ge Fei’s Latest Fiction  Nicoletta Pesaro 9 The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Historical Allusions and Oracles  Yan Xu-Lackner 10 Divination or Death Traps? The Semiotic Language in Chinese Folklore and Fortune-Telling  Anna Wing Bo Tso Index

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Book SynopsisHua Yan (1682-1756) and the Making of the Artist in Early Modern China explores the relationships between the artist, local society, and artistic practice during the Qing dynasty (1644–1911). Arranged as an investigation of the artist Hua Yan’s work at a pivotal moment in eighteenth-century society, this book considers his paintings and poetry in early eighteenth-century Hangzhou, mid-eighteenth-century Yangzhou, and finally their nineteenth-century afterlife in Shanghai. By investigating Hua Yan’s struggle as a marginalized artist—both at his time and in the canon of Chinese art—this study draws attention to the implications of seeing and being seen as an artist in early modern China.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments List of Figures Introduction  1 Seeing Hua Yan  2 Painting in Early Modern China 1 The Mountain Man of Xinluo  1 Portraiture and Persona  2 The Zhe School Poets  3 The Sojourning Artist 2 Lyricism in Words and Images  1 On Transformation  2 Artist and Patron  3 The Human Experience  4 Singing of the Object 3 Painting the Garden from Life  1 The Art of Social Distinction  2 Hua Yan’s Circle, 1740s and 1750s  3 Garden and Society 4 Picturing People, Past and Present  1 Literary Gatherings as Aspirational Subjects  2 Gender and the Garden  3 Borders, Travel, and Empire  3 Seasons of Life 5 The Xinluo School  1 The Zhejiang Legacy in Yangzhou  2 Defining the Xinluo School  3 The Shanghai School Epilogue: Lives of Jiangnan Artists, 1700–1900 Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Physiognomy in Ming China: Fortune and the Body, Xing Wang investigates the intellectual and technical contexts in which the knowledge of physiognomy (xiangshu) was produced and transformed in Ming China (1368-1644 C.E.). Known as a fortune-telling technique via examining the human body and material objects, Xing Wang shows how the construction of the physiognomic body in many Ming texts represent a unique, unprecedented ‘somatic cosmology’. Applying an anthropological reading to these texts and providing detailed analysis of this technique, the author proves that this physiognomic cosmology in Ming China emerged as a part of a new body discourse which differs from the modern scholarly discourse on the body.Trade Review"This volume would be of immense use to those interested in Chinese religion. On a much broader level, this volume has the potential to be of immense use to those interested in general divination practices. In Wang’s own words, the understanding one will gain from this volume will “allow us to re- examine other kinds of techniques that have existed in different religions and social communities, as well as look at how religion, divination, and popular cultivation are techniques central to human life.” – Joseph Chadwin, University of Vienna, Religious Studies Review 47/3 (2021).

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Book SynopsisGiulia Falato’s work on Alfonso Vagnone S.J.’ s (1568-1640) Tongyou jiaoyu 童幼教育 (On the Education of Children) offers a systematic study of the earliest treatise on European pedagogy and its first annotated translation in English. In particular, it highlights the role of Tongyou jiaoyu as a cultural bridge between the Chinese and Western traditions. Drawing from archival materials and multi-language literature, Falato produces an insightful account of the Jesuit’s background, the pedagogical debate in late-Ming China, and the making and main sources of the treatise. Through the diachronic analysis of a selection of philosophical terms, this work also provides a fresh perspective on the Jesuits’ lexical innovations and contribution to the formation of the modern Chinese lexicon.Trade Review'This volume by Giulia Falato is admirable in terms of clarity, structure, extension, and precision, and it definitely succeeds in highlighting Alfonso Vagnone’s contribution to the history of the transmission of ideas and cultural relations between China and Europe. Moreover, this valuable work will hopefully pave the way to further stylistic, lexical, structural, and exegetical analysis of the other works by Vagnone, who was a very prolific author of Chinese works, many of which were written in the same period as Tongyou jiaoyu.' Emanuele Raini, Università degli Studi di Napoli L'Orientale, Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu, vol. xc, fasc. 180 (2021-II).

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Book SynopsisIn An Chunggŭn: His Life and Thought in his own Words, Jieun Han and Franklin Rausch provide a complete translation of all of An’s writings and excerpts from his trial and appeal. Though An is most famous for killing Itō Hirobumi, the contents of this volume show that there was much more to him than that. For instance, far from being anti-Japanese, An thought deeply about how China, Japan, and Korea could work together to build a regional peace that would eventually spread throughout the world. Now, for the first time, all of An’s extant writings have been assembled together into an English translation that includes annotations and an introduction that places An and his works in their historical context. This translation was funded by the Institute of Korean Studies, Yonsei University.Table of ContentsList of Figures Introduction: An Chunggŭn’s Pioneering Idea and Design for a Pax Humanus Centered on Humanism, Asian Integration, and Perpetual Peace Translators’ Introduction 1 安應七歷史 / History of An Ŭngch’il  壹千九百九年旧十一月一日 (十二月十三日) 始述 / Begun the first day of the eleventh month (December 13), 1909 2 Miscellaneous Writings  On Uniting Human Hearts  The Thoughts of the Korean An Ŭngch’il  An’s Final Farewell  An’s Final Statement 3 Excerpts from An Chunggŭn’s Trials  Excerpt from the Transcripts of the First Trial Session  Excerpt from the Transcripts of the Third Trial Session  Transcripts of the Fifth Trial Session  Excerpt from the Transcripts of the Sixth Trial Session 4 Notes on An’s Post-trial Hearing 5 Prison Report 6 東洋平和論 / On Peace in the East  東洋平和論 序 / On Peace in the East: Introduction  東洋平和論 目錄 / On Peace in the East: Table of Contents  前鑑 / Mirror of the Past 7 Prison Letters  An’s Prison Letters 8 An Chunggŭn’s Calligraphy Afterword Appendix 1: A Brief Timeline of An Chunggŭn’s Life Appendix 2: The Genealogy of An Chunggŭn Appendix 3: Map of An Chunggŭn’s Activities Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe concept, practice, institution and appearance of ‘the state’ have been hotly debated ever since the emergence of history as a discipline within modern scholarship. The field of medieval Islamic history, however, has remained aloof from most of these debates. Rather it tends to take for granted the particularity of dynastic trajectories within slow-changing bureaucratic contexts. Trajectories of State Formation promotes a more critical and connected understanding of state formation in the late medieval Sultanates of Cairo and of the Timurid, Turkmen and Ottoman dynasties. Projecting seven case studies onto a broad canvas of European and West-Asian research, this volume presents a trans-dynastic reconstruction, interpretation and illustration of statist trajectories across fifteenth-century Islamic West-Asia. The contributors are: Georg Christ, Kristof D’hulster, Jan Dumolyn, Albrecht Fuess, Dimitri J. Kastritsis, Beatrice Forbes Manz, John L. Meloy, Jo Van Steenbergen, and Patrick Wing.Table of Contents Acknowledgements  List of Figures, Tables and Maps  List on Contributors  Introduction: State Formation in the Fifteenth Century and the Western Eurasian Canvas: Problems and Opportunities  Jo Van Steenbergen  Maps  Part 1: Whither the Fifteenth Century?  1 From Temür to Selim: Trajectories of Turko-Mongol State Formation in Islamic West-Asia’s Long Fifteenth Century  Jo Van Steenbergen  2 Studying Rulers and States across Fifteenth Century Western Eurasia  Jan Dumolyn and Jo Van Steenbergen  Part 2: From Cairo to Constantinople: The Construction of West-Asian Centers of Power  3 The Road to the Citadel as a Chain of Opportunity: Mamluks’ Careers between Contingency and Institutionalization  Kristof D’hulster  4 The Syro-Egyptian Sultanate in Transformation, 1496–1498: Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad b. Qaytbay and the Reformation of mamlūk Institutions and Symbols of State Power  Albrecht Fuess  5 Tales of Viziers and Wine: Interpreting Early Ottoman Narratives of State Centralization  Dimitri Kastritsis  Part 3: From Khwaf to Alexandria: The Accommodation of West-Asian Peripheries of Power  6 Iranian Elites under the Timurids  Beatrice F. Manz  7 The Judges of Mecca and Mamluk Hegemony  John L. Meloy  8 The Syrian Commercial Elite and Mamluk State-Building in the Fifteenth Century  Patrick Wing  9 Settling Accounts with the Sultan: Cortesia, Zemechia and Venetian Fiscality in Fifteenth Century Alexandria  Georg Christ  Index

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Book SynopsisCrossroads of Cuisine provides a history of foods, and foodways in terms of exchanges taking place in Central Asia and in surrounding areas such as China, Korea or Iran during the last 5000 years, stressing the manner in which East and West, West and East grew together through food. It provides a discussion of geographical foundations, and an interlocking historical and cultural overview going down to the present day, with a comparative country by country survey of foods and recipes. An ethnographic photo essay embracing all parts of the book binds it all together, and helps make topics discussed vivid and approachable. The book is important for explaining key relationships that have not always been made clear in past scholarship.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements List of Illustrations and Table Introduction 1 The Eurasian Heartland: Overview of a Link between Worlds  1 Physical Geography  2 Vegetation  3 Animal Life  4 Nations of Today  5 Agriculture and Environment  6 Integrating Agriculture and Livestock  7 Nomads  8 The Crossroads  9 Overall View of Foods  10 Building Foodways 2 Prehistory and History: The Long Record of Foodways  1 Prehistory: From Hunting to Agriculture  2 Prehistory: Domestication  3 Domesticated Plants  4 Domestic Animals  5 Languages  6 The Origins of Civilization and High Culture in the Eurasian Heartland  7 Religion 3 Histories  1 Ancient and Medieval History (Before the Mongols)  2 Chinese Food Meets Western Food on the Silk Road  3 China after Tang  4 Witnesses: Travel Accounts from Late Antiquity and Early Medieval Times  5 Medicine and Food in Medieval Central Asia  6 History during the Mongol Empire  7 The Eurasian Heartland and Its Silk Roads in Mongol Times  8 Food and Medicine in Mongol Times  9 History after the Mongols  10 Travels and Excursions after  11 On to the Twentieth Century 4 Contemporary Food  1 Lifestyles  2 Bread  3 The All-Important Noodle  4 Other Grain Foods  5 Cooking Meat  6 Dairy Foods  7 Other Drinks  8 Vegetables  9 Sweets  10 Spicing  11 Cooking Utensils 5 Food by Country  1 Afghanistan’s Food 1.1  Dopiaza  2 Eastern Iran’s Food  3 Uzbekistan’s Food  4 Tajik Food  5 Kyrgyz Food  6 Kazakh Food  7 Azerbaijan food, and Central Asian Food in Turkey  8 Uighur Food  9 Mongol Food  10 Kalmyk Food  11 Chinese Food, the Central Asian Connections in Ming and Today  12 Chinese Food Today: The Central Asian Connection  13 Korea and the Eurasian Heartland Conclusion, The Next Step: Silk Road as Metaphor, Seattle, the Silk Road, and the Pacific Rim Appendix: Summary of Western Plants in the YSZY and the HHYF Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAlbert Hoffstädt, a classicist by training and polylingual humanist by disposition, has for 25 years been the editor chiefly responsible for the development and acquisition of manuscripts in Asian Studies for Brill. During that time he has shepherded over 700 books into print and has distinguished himself as a figure of exceptional discernment and insight in academic publishing. He has also become a personal friend to many of his authors. A subset of these authors here offers to him in tribute and gratitude 22 essays on various topics in Asian Studies. These include studies on premodern Chinese, Indian, Japanese, and Korean literature, history, and religion, extending also into the modern and contemporary periods. They display the broad range of Mr. Hoffstädt's interests while presenting some of the most outstanding scholarship in Asian Studies today.Table of ContentsContents List of Figures Notes on Contributors Albert Hoffstädt: A Tribute  The Editors  1 What Language Was Spoken by the People of the Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex?  Alexander Lubotsky  2 India’s Past Reconsidered  Johannes Bronkhorst  3 A Trust Rooted in Ignorance: Why Ānanda’s Lack of Understanding Makes Him a Reliable Witness to the Buddha’s Teachings  Jonathan A.Silk  4 On the Early History of the Brahmanical Yugas  Vincent Eltschinger  5 Size Matters: The Length of Korea’s History and the Size of Its Historical Territory  Remco Breuker  6 Polyglot Translators: Chinese, Dutch, and Japanese in the Introduction of Western Learning in Tokugawa Japan  Martin J.Heijdra  7 Overcoming Distance  Richard Bowring  8 Beyond Nativism: Reflections on Methodology and Ethics in the Study of Early China  Martin Kern  9 Taking Horace to the Yellow Springs: Notes on Death and Alcohol in Chinese Poetry and Philosophy  Jan De Meyer  10 On Some Verses of Li Bo  Paul W.Kroll  11 An Early Medieval Chinese Poem on Leaving Office and Retiring to the Countryside  David R.Knechtges  12 Lu Ji’s Theory of Reading and Writing: Medieval Chinese Anxieties about Literary Creation  Wendy Swartz  13 Terms of Friendship: Bylaws for Associations of Buddhist Laywomen in Medieval China  Stephen F.Teiser  14 Women in the Religious and Publishing Worlds of Buddhist Master Miaokong (1826–1880)  Beata Grant  15 Chinese Dualism Revisited  John Lagerwey  16 An Ant and a Man, a Rock and a Woman: Preliminary Notes toward an Alternate History of Chinese Worldviews  Robert Ford Campany  17 Self-Portrait of a Narcissist  Pierre-Étienne Will  18 The Mask of Comedy in A Couple of Soles  Robert E.Hegel  19 Making Up for a Loss: The Tragedy of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai in Modern Zaju  Wilt L.Idema  20 Transgression as Rule: Freebooters in Chinese Poetry  Maghiel van Crevel  21 Horatius Sinensis  Michael Lackner  22 The Hazards of the Use of English as a Default Language in Analytic Philosophy: An Essay on Conceptual Biodiversity  Christoph Harbsmeier Index

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Book SynopsisIn Turbulent Streams: An Environmental History of Japan’s Rivers, 1600–1930, Roderick I. Wilson describes how the rivers of Japan are both hydrologically and historically dynamic. Today, these waterways are slowed, channeled, diverted, and dammed by a myriad of levees, multiton concrete tetrapods, and massive multipurpose dams. In part, this intensive engineering arises from the waterways falling great elevations over short distances, flowing over unstable rock and soil, and receiving large quantities of precipitation during monsoons and typhoons. But this modern river regime is also the product of a history that narrowed both these waterways and people’s diverse interactions with them in the name of flood control. Neither a story of technological progress nor environmental decline, this history introduces the concept of environmental relations as a category of historical analysis both to explore these fluvial interactions and reveal underappreciated dimensions of Japanese history.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures and Tables Note to Readers Introduction  1 A Riparian History of Ogura Lake  2 Crossing the River between Nature and Society  3 Riparian Relations: An Expanded Understanding of Rivers  4 Chapter Organization Part 1: Regional River Regimes in the Tokugawa Period 1 Riparian Relations in the Kantō Region  1 Producing the Kantō Region and Its Riverscapes during the Seventeenth Century  2 Water Worlds of Farmers, Fishers, and Boat Pilots  3 Conclusion 2 Regional River Regime under the Tokugawa Government  1 Establishing Tokugawa Governance over the Waters of the Kantō Region, 1590–1700  2 Maintaining Riparian Governance in the Kantō Region, 1700–1783  3 Losing Ground against Continued Flooding, 1783–1868  4 Conclusion Part 2: Techno-Politics of River Engineering in Imperial Japan 3 Engineering and River Engineers in the Age of Imperialism  1 The Home Ministry’s Early Riparian Policies  2 The Fudō River Worksite  3 Dutch Engineers in Japan  4 Educating Japanese Engineers: The French Connection  5 Conclusion 4 Confluence along the Yodo River  1 The Yodo River  2 Home Ministry Engineers  3 Local Communities  4 Conclusion 5 Constructing the Modern River Regime in Japan  1 Making Modern River Regimes  2 Techno-Politics of Flood Control  3 The 1910 Flooding of Tokyo and Paris  4 The Effects of Building Japan’s Modern River Regime  5 Conclusion Epilogue Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisConflicting Memories is a study of how the Tibetan encounter with the Chinese state during the Maoist era has been recalled and reimagined by Chinese and Tibetan authors and artists since the late 1970s. Written by a team of historians, anthropologists, and scholars of religion, literature and culture, it examines official histories, biographies, memoirs, and films as well as oral testimonies, fiction, and writings by Buddhist adepts. The book includes translated extracts from key interviews, speeches, literature, and filmscripts. Conflicting Memories explores what these revised versions of the past chose as their focus, which types of people produced them, and what aims they pursued in the production of new, post-Mao descriptions of Tibet under Chinese socialism. Contributors include: Robert Barnett, Benno Weiner, Françoise Robin, Bianca Horlemann, Alice Travers, Alex Raymond, Chung Tsering, Dáša Pejchar Mortensen, Charlene Makley, Xénia de Heering, Nicole Willock, M. Maria Turek, Geoffrey Barstow, Gedun Rabsal, Heather Stoddard, Organ Nyima. "Conflicting Memories is a truly marvellous book. It has assembled critical readings of Tibetan memories of their fateful encounters with the Chinese Communists who came uninvited as their ‘liberators’ and ‘friends’. Supplemented with excerpts from key Tibetan writings or oral reminiscences, the volume brings forth hitherto unheard of Tibetan voices. Yet, these were not hidden voices, but often commissioned by Chinese authorities or in dialogue with them, each trying to juggle the promissory pronouncements and an unsavoury reality. Taken together, the contrapuntal reading of these memories masterfully showcases Tibetan people’s resourcefulness in dealing with a regime that often redefines its relations with Tibet while always aiming for total ownership." - URADYN E. BULAG, author of Collaborative Nationalism: The Politics of Friendship on China's Mongolian Frontier "Conflicting Memories offers an invaluable collection aiding us to think through the complex and much contested ramifications of Tibet's incorporation into Maoist China. The mix of analytical articles by some of the best scholars now working in the area and original documents translated from the writings of astute Tibetan observers is particularly welcome. The volume will be required reading for all serious students of contemporary Tibet." - MATTHEW KAPSTEIN, author of The Tibetans "This remarkable book offers unequalled access to the Tibetan experience of Communist nation-building. By examining how the Maoist encounter has been remembered and misremembered across many media—under the influence of ever-changing political conditions—the authors communicate both the trauma of those years and the persisting difficulty of coming to terms with it, for Chinese as well as Tibetans. The chapters, enhanced by numerous first-hand accounts and illustrations, represent the best scholarship of this field. Strongly recommended for readers interested in the history of the People’s Republic and its ethnic minorities." - DONALD S. SUTTON, co-author of Contesting the Yellow Dragon: Ethnicity, Religion and the State in the Sino-Tibetan Borderland (with XIAOFEI KANG) "This groundbreaking work sheds unprecedented light on the various processes of historical rewriting about Tibet since the death of Mao. The multivocal composition of the book offers rich and diverse accounts of a set of key events and epochal moments that attest to the numerous obstacles in retelling the Maoist past and the experience of suffering. Countering state narratives and claims of historical truth, the volume brilliantly gives life to the deeply affective and existential components of history-making. What kind of recovery can historical narratives offer? How do remembrance and forgetfulness help to heal the wounds of past memories? Trauma caused by the period of high socialism resurfaces in often indirect, scripted ways in the intimate accounts included in this collection and, while no Tibetan scholars living in Tibet or China could openly write on such a sensitive topic, expression is given to their absent voices. This volume problematizes the “memory work” at play and the stakes involved, demonstrating that historical writing is like shifting sands – no sooner has it settled than another revisionist wave rolls in and knocks you off balance, precipitating you into an unsteady or even life-threatening situation. The contributors demonstrate the resilience of subaltern voices and the nuanced ways in which historical retellings can restore Tibetan agency in spite of continuous party-state control over history writing." - STÉPHANE GROS, Centre for Himalayan Studies, CNRS, FranceTrade Review"Conflicting Memories is a truly marvellous book. It has assembled critical readings of Tibetan memories of their fateful encounters with the Chinese Communists who came uninvited as their ‘liberators’ and ‘friends’. Supplemented with excerpts from key Tibetan writings or oral reminiscences, the volume brings forth hitherto unheard of Tibetan voices. Yet, these were not hidden voices, but often commissioned by Chinese authorities or in dialogue with them, each trying to juggle the promissory pronouncements and an unsavoury reality. Taken together, the contrapuntal reading of these memories masterfully showcases Tibetan people’s resourcefulness in dealing with a regime that often redefines its relations with Tibet while always aiming for total ownership." - URADYN E. BULAG, author of Collaborative Nationalism: The Politics of Friendship on China's Mongolian Frontier "Conflicting Memories offers an invaluable collection aiding us to think through the complex and much contested ramifications of Tibet's incorporation into Maoist China. The mix of analytical articles by some of the best scholars now working in the area and original documents translated from the writings of astute Tibetan observers is particularly welcome. The volume will be required reading for all serious students of contemporary Tibet." - MATTHEW KAPSTEIN, author of The Tibetans "This remarkable book offers unequalled access to the Tibetan experience of Communist nation-building. By examining how the Maoist encounter has been remembered and misremembered across many media—under the influence of ever-changing political conditions—the authors communicate both the trauma of those years and the persisting difficulty of coming to terms with it, for Chinese as well as Tibetans. The chapters, enhanced by numerous first-hand accounts and illustrations, represent the best scholarship of this field. Strongly recommended for readers interested in the history of the People’s Republic and its ethnic minorities." - DONALD S. SUTTON, co-author of Contesting the Yellow Dragon: Ethnicity, Religion and the State in the Sino-Tibetan Borderland (with XIAOFEI KANG) "This groundbreaking work sheds unprecedented light on the various processes of historical rewriting about Tibet since the death of Mao. The multivocal composition of the book offers rich and diverse accounts of a set of key events and epochal moments that attest to the numerous obstacles in retelling the Maoist past and the experience of suffering. Countering state narratives and claims of historical truth, the volume brilliantly gives life to the deeply affective and existential components of history-making. What kind of recovery can historical narratives offer? How do remembrance and forgetfulness help to heal the wounds of past memories? Trauma caused by the period of high socialism resurfaces in often indirect, scripted ways in the intimate accounts included in this collection and, while no Tibetan scholars living in Tibet or China could openly write on such a sensitive topic, expression is given to their absent voices. This volume problematizes the “memory work” at play and the stakes involved, demonstrating that historical writing is like shifting sands – no sooner has it settled than another revisionist wave rolls in and knocks you off balance, precipitating you into an unsteady or even life-threatening situation. The contributors demonstrate the resilience of subaltern voices and the nuanced ways in which historical retellings can restore Tibetan agency in spite of continuous party-state control over history writing." - STÉPHANE GROS, Centre for Himalayan Studies, CNRS, France "The book brilliantly demonstrates the complementarity between official accounts (given the roles of the authors and the context of their writings) and those of ordinary people to better understand contemporary Tibetan history and the divergent historical interpretations (Chinese and Tibetan, as well as between protagonists, actors, and witnesses)." - Fabienne Jagou, Chinese Perspectives 2022/1 "The outstanding quality of many of the contributions makes this collection an encouraging statement of progress in the academic study of modern Tibetan history, particularly as several of the contributors belong to a new generation of up-and-coming scholars. The essays are supplemented by relevant documents in translation, which add welcome substance and perspective, as well as a comprehensive introduction by coeditor Robert Barnett; it all amounts to a considerable bulk, nearly 700 pages, but lucid presentation and careful editing make light of the material." - MATTHEW AKESTER, independent scholar, JAS, doi:10.1017/S0021911822000614. '

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Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary volume addresses the history, literature and material culture of peoples of Turkish origins in India over the eleventh to eighteenth centuries. Although many ruling dynasties and members of the elite in this period claimed Turkish descent, this aspect of their identity has seldom received much scholarly attention. The discussion is enriched by a focus on connections and comparisons with other parts of the broader Turko-Persian world, especially Anatolia. Although discussions of Turkish-Muslim rulers in India take account of their Central Asian origins and connections, links with Anatolia, stretching back to the medieval period, were also important in the formation of Turkish society and culture in India, and have been much less explored in the literature. The volume contains contributions by some of the leading scholars in the field.Trade Review"This is a valuable and accessible volume." – R.W. Zens, Le Moyne College, in Choice Connect "[...] the authors have produced a valuable collection of scholarship that promises leads and new questions to inspire a broad range of readers, whether their interests be Turkish identity, the Islamicate world, Indian history, cultural syncretism, or any of the other myriad entryways opened here." – Teoman Kenn Küçük, University of Naples Federico II, in Insight Turkey 24.1 (2022). "This volume is an important contribution and paves the way for future studies in this field." – The Muslim World Book Review 42.3 (2022).Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements List of Figures A Note on Transliteration and Dates Notes on Contributors Introduction  A.C.S. Peacock and Richard Piran McClary Part 1: Turkish Origins, Identity and History in India  1 Warfare and Environment in Medieval Eurasia: Turkic Frontiers at Dandanqan, Somnath and Manzikert  George Malagaris  2 Turks, Turks and türk Turks: Anatolia, Iran and India in Comparative Perspective  Stephen Frederic Dale  3 The “Advent of the Turks” and the Question of Turkish Identity in the Court of Delhi in the Early Thirteenth Century  Blain Auer  4 Merchants, Young Heroes and Caliphs: Revisiting Maḥmūd Gāwān  Maya Petrovich  5 The Trouble with Lineage: On Why the Timurid Prince Muḥammad Zamān Mīrzā Did Not Become Emperor  Ali Anooshahr  6 Remembering Turkish Origins in the Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century Deccan: The Qaraqoyunlu Past in the Persian Chronicles of the Qutbshahi Dynasty  A.C.S. Peacock Part 2: Art, Material Culture, Literature and Transregional Connections  7 Transregional Connections: The “Lion and Sun” Motif and Coinage between Anatolia and India  Shailendra Bhandare  8 When Brick Met Stone: Turko-Iranian Brick Architecture and its Interaction with the Lithic Traditions of India and Anatolia  Richard Piran McClary  9 The Jami Masjid Miḥrāb of Bijapur: Inscribing Turkic Identities in a Contested Space  Sara Mondini  10 “Made in Istanbul, Delhi or Agra”: Serving Imperial and Princely Courts in the Ottoman and Mughal Worlds  Suraiya Faroqhi  11 Mapping the Boundaries of the World: India and the Indian Ocean in the Early Modern Ottoman Geographical Imagination  Pınar Emiralioğlu  12 Turki Language and Literature in Late Mughal India as Reflected in a Unique Collection of Texts  Benedek Péri Index

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Book SynopsisBody and Cosmos is a collection of articles published on the occasion of the 70th birthday of Professor Emeritus Kenneth G. Zysk. The articles revolve thematically around the early Indian medical and astral sciences, which have been at the center of Professor Zysk’s long and esteemed career within the discipline of Indology. The volume is divided into three parts. The first part is devoted to the medical sciences, the second part to the astral sciences, and the third part to cross-cultural interactions between India and the West, which runs like an undercurrent throughout the work of Professor Zysk. The articles are written by internationally renowned Indological scholars and will be of value to students and researchers alike.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures and Tables Part 1 Introduction 1 Kenneth G. Zysk and the University of Copenhagen  Erik Reenberg Sand 2 Kenneth G. Zysk as the Narains Remember Him  Kamal Sheel Part 2 History of Medicine 3 Agni and Soma Revisited: A Primordial Āyurvedic Concept?  Vitus Angermeier 4 Humoral Constitutions in the Carakasaṃhitā  Philipp Maas 5 Diachronic Migration of Ancient Indian Medical Literature: Divisions and Paratextual Elements in the Carakasaṃhitā  Cristina Pecchia 6 A New Translation of Carakasaṃhitā, Vimānasthāna, Chapter 1, Based on the Vienna Critical Edition  Dominik Wujastyk 7 On the Textual History of the Suśrutasaṃhitā, (2): An Anonymous Commentary and Its Identified Citations  Andrey Klebanov 8 On Attaining Special Powers through Rasāyana Therapies in Sanskrit Medical Literature  Dagmar Wujastyk 9 Karman, Prāyaścitta, and Disease: A Reading of the Karmavipāka Digression in Mādhavācārya’s Parāśaramādhavīya  Mikael Aktor 10 Plagues and Brahmins: Did a Combination of Epidemics and Ideology Empty India’s Cities?  Johannes Bronkhorst 11 Allegory and History, Life and Embodiment  Anthony Cerulli Part 3 Astral Sciences 12 The Ritualization of Omens in Late Vedic Ritual: A Consideration of Early Evidence  Marko Geslani 13 The Rāmāyaṇa and the Yugas  Luis González-Reimann 14 The Size of the Universe in Indian Astronomy  Michio Yano 15 Trigonometry through Geometry: Bhāskarācārya’s Generation of Sines  Krishnamurthi Ramasubramanian and Clemency Montelle 16 Mathematics and Presentation of Eclipse Diagrams in Sanskrit Astronomy  Kim Plofker 17 Numerical Systems Followed in Grantha Manuscripts  Saraju Rath Part 4 Interactions across Culture and Time 18 Inventing the Pothi: The Adoption and Spread of a New Manuscript Format in Indian Buddhism  Stefan Baums 19 Indian Physicians in Greco-Roman Literature?  Klaus Karttunen 20 Greco-Indian Astrological Theories on Conception and Childbirth: Chapters Three and Four of Mīnarāja’s Vṛddhayavanajātaka  Bill M. Mak 21 Modern Sāṃkhya: Plurality of Sāṃkhya Traditions in Modern India  Knut A. Jacobsen The Works of Kenneth G. Zysk Index

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Book SynopsisAs the title implies, New Approaches to Ilkhanid History explores new methodologies and avenues of research for the Mongol state in the Middle East. Although the majority of the Ilkhanate was situated in Iran, this volume considers other regions within the state and moves away from focusing on the center and the Ilkhanid court. New consideration is given to the source material, particularly how they have been composed, but also how the sources can inform on the provinces of the Ilkhanate. Several authors also examine lower-tier personages, groups, and institutions. Contributors include: A.C.S. Peacock; Kazuhiko Shiraiwa; Christopher P. Atwood; Stefan Kamola; Qiu Yihao; Koichi Matsuda; Judith Kolbas; Reuven Amitai; Na'ama O. Arom; Timothy May; Michael Hope; Pier Giorgio Borbone; Dashdondog Bayarsaikhan; Dmitri Korobeinikov.Trade Review"Au-delà de ce défaut, New Approaches to Ilkhanid History est un ouvrage utile, contenant plusieurs études importantes, et qui suggère efficacement des directions et outils d’investigation futurs (11). Il s’inscrira, sans aucun doute, à la longue liste des ouvrages collectifs portant sur l’histoire de l’Empire mongol ou celle de l’Ilkhanat, forme privilégiée dans un champ d’étude particulièrement vaste et éclaté (12)." – Jan Jelinowski, Académie Polonaise des Sciences et Université de Strasbourg, in BCAI 36 (2022).

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Book SynopsisIn an era of environmental crisis, narratives of ‘hidden lands’ are resonant. Understood as sanctuaries in times of calamity, Himalayan hidden lands or sbas yul have shaped the lives of many peoples of the region. Sbas yul are described by visionary lamas called ‘treasure finders’ who located hidden lands and wrote guidebooks to them. Scholarly understandings of sbas yul as places for spiritual cultivation and refuge from war have been complicated recently. Research now explores such themes as the political and economic role of ‘treasure finders’, the impact of sbas yul on indigenous populations, and the use of sbas yul for environmental protection and tourism. This book showcases recent scholarship on sbas yul from historical and contemporary perspectives.Table of ContentsPreface  Geoffrey Samuel, Frances Garrett and Elizabeth McDougal Note on the Locations of the sbas yul Maps Part 1: Introducing the sbas yul Photo Essay: The Terrestrial Buddha Realm of sbas yul Padma bkod: A Visual Pilgrimage  Ian Baker 1 Hidden Lands of Tibet in Myth and History  Geoffrey Samuel Part 2: The sbas yul over Time: Historical Perspectives 2 Healing Mountains and Hidden Lands  Frances Garrett 3 Did sbas yul Play a Part in the Development of Tibetan Book Culture?  Hildegard Diemberger 4 Early Echoes of sbas yul Padma bkod in the Lifestory of Thang stong rgyal po  Annie Heckman 5 Padma bkod through the Lens of Two Pilgrimage Guidebooks: Walking the Body of Rdo rje phag mo  Barbara Hazelton 6 “A Great and Small Padma bkod”: Guidebooks and Individual Journeys  Franz-Karl Ehrhard 7 Prophecy and Fantastical Reality in Sle lung Bzhad pa’i rdo rje’s Journey to Padma bkod  Tom Greensmith 8 The Shapeshifting Goddess: The Consecration of Padma bkod’s Yang Sang Chu Region by the 20th-Century gter ston, Bdud ’joms drag sngags gling pa  Elizabeth McDougal Part 3: The sbas yul in the Modern World: Ethnographic Perspectives 9 The Arising of Padma bkod in the Western World  Samuel Thévoz 10 Voices from the Mountainside: Vernacular sbas yul in the Western Himalaya  Callum Pearce 11 Pachakshiri: A Little-Known Hidden Land between Tsa ri and Padma bkod in the Eastern Himalaya  Kerstin Grothmann 12 How Is This Sacred Place Arrayed? Pacification, Increase, Magnetism, and Wrath in the Establishment of an Eastern Himalayan sbas yul  Amelia Hall Photo Essay: Glimpses of a Hidden Land: The sbas yul of Yol mo  Jon Kwan with Khenpo Nyima Dondrup Part 4: Two Guidebooks to the Hidden Land of Padma Bkod ’Ja’ tshon snying po’s Guidebook to the Hidden Land of Padma bkod  Translated by Barbara Hazelton Bdud ’joms gling pa’s Hidden Sacred Land of Padma bkod  Translated by Barbara Hazelton Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Martyrs of Japan, Rady Roldán-Figueroa examines the role that Catholic missionary orders played in the dissemination of accounts of Christian martyrdom in Japan. The work combines several historiographical approaches, including publication history, history of missions, and “new” institutional history. The author offers an overarching portrayal of the writing, printing, and circulation of books of ‘Japano-martyrology.’ The book is organized into two parts. The first part, “Spirituality of Writing, Publication History, and Japano-martyrology,” addresses topics ranging from the historical background of Christianity in Japan to the publishers of Japano-martyrology. The second part, “Jesuits, Discalced Franciscans, and the Production of Japano-martyrology in the Early Modern Spanish World,” features closer analysis of selected works of Japano-martyrology by Jesuit and Discalced Franciscan writers.Trade Review“Roldán-Figueroa explores their [i.e. Japano-martyrological texts] production, language context, and authors with a reference to the respective orders involved: The Jesuits, the Dominicans, and the Discalced Franciscans. Roldán-Figueroa stresses the fact that publishing was part of the missionary agenda in order to receive donations and in-kind contributions as well as preferential treatment by the European nobility. However, this was not the only aim: As he amply shows in Part Two of the volume, missionaries tended to portray the lives of martyrs as the culminating achievements of Christians who, being ready to sacrifice their lives, demonstrated their authentic faith. The heroism and zeal of Catholic missionaries, with their cult and veneration as saints, aimed at the recruiting of new missionaries.” Marzia Alteno, University of Vienna. In: Religious Studies Review, Vol. 47, No. 4 (2021), p. 560. “ ...el libro es un trabajo de calidad que nos acerca a un mejor conocimiento de las políticas de publicación dirigidas por las órdenes religiosas a través de las relaciones de los autores con sus instituciones. Por tanto, es un destacado aporte historiográfico a la cultura intelectual del clero y a los horizontes planetarios en los que actuaron.” Daniel Atienza-Atienza, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. In: Anuario de Historia de la Iglesia, Vol. 31 (2022), pp. 671–672. “Stressing the popularity of religious literature in Spain and its overseas possessions, Roldán-Figueroa argues that one cannot neatly dissect these texts into decontextualized parts to meet current research needs. One must focus on their religious character, because religious men were their primary authors. This self-evident conclusion is often overlooked, especially the fact that Jesuit and mendicant writers were deeply influenced by their orders' spiritual practices and institutional cultures. Roldán-Figueroa rightly links the many tasks and responsibilities of missionary offices to the very act of writing itself and hence the content and narrative structures of religious literature. A major strength of The Martyrs of Japan is Roldán-Figueroa's qualitative analysis of Japano-martyrological texts. Drawing primarily on the Laures Kirshita [sic. Kirishitan, rrf] Bunko Database, he identified 382 publications that referenced Christian martyrdom in Japan between 1598 and 1700 (numbered and organized by date in a separate bibliography). Based upon the available bibliographic data, Roldán-Figueroa found that members of the religious orders—especially the Jesuits— were the primary authors of these texts; that they were printed in seventy-eight cities in Europe, New Spain, and the Philippines; and that they were published in nine European languages, with Spanish, Italian, and French being the most predominant. Unlike the other mission histories where missionaries are early modern ethnographers or scientists, in The Martyrs of Japan they are administrators, editors, promoters, carriers of manuscripts, and book distributors.” Jason Dyck, University of Western Ontario. In: Journal of History (University of Toronto Press), Vol. 57, No. 3 (December 2022), pp. 497–499. “The book presents a comprehensive and detailed analysis of hagiographic literature related to Catholic missions in Japan, especially in the context of the Spanish Empire. In both parts of the publication, the author pays great attention to the role of individual religious orders and order policies, which were a key factor in the history of early modern Christian missions in East Asia, as well as to the specifics of Japano-martyrological publications among individual orders. […]. The author’s work is valuable in that it illustrates the early history of Christianity in Japan and deepens our understanding of how the missionary activities of the Catholic Church were presented to the Catholic public in other countries, and how missionary activities were linked through hagiography with the life and spirituality of Christians in countries where Christianity was already established. His combined quantitative and qualitative research approach to analyzing the publication history of religious literature can be a methodological inspiration for other areas, not exclusively those focused on missions." Ondřej Pazdírek, Masaryk University. In: Studia Theologica, Vol. 25, No. 1 (2023), pp. 238–241 [translated from the Czech].

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Book SynopsisIn Divination in Exile, Alexander K. Smith offers the first comprehensive scholarly introduction to the performance of divination in Tibetan speaking communities, both past and present. While Smith surveys a variety of ritual practices, the volume focuses on divination and its associated rites in the contemporary Tibetan Bon tradition. Drawing from multi-site ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Himachal Pradesh and the translation of previously unpublished Tibetan language materials, Divination in Exile offers a valuable, social scientific contribution to our understanding of the perception and usage of ritual manuscripts in contemporary Tibetan cultural milieus.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Introduction: Interdisciplinary Perspectives 1 The Study of Tibetan Divination  1 Introduction  2 The Study of Tibetan Divination in the West  3 Divination in European and American Scholarship  4 Divination Eliminates Anxiety and Facilitates Decision Making  5 Divination, Dialogue, and Rationality 2 Tibetan Divination and the Bon Tradition  1 A Brief Introduction to Tibetan Divination  2 Remarks on Tibetan Buddhist Historiography and the Origins of Divination  3 General Remarks on the Bon Religion  4 Bonpos in the Contemporary Diaspora Community  5 Two Classifications of Bon Religious Teachings: the sGo bzhi mdzod lnga and Theg pa rim pa dgu  6 The Classification of Divination and Its Origins in the Bon Tradition: Excerpts from the gZi brjid  7 Divination Manuscripts in the Bon Canon 3 lDe’u ‘phrul Divination  1 Introduction  2 lDe’u ‘phrul Divination  3 lDe’u ‘phrul Origin Narratives  4 Location  5 Outline of the lde’u ‘phrul Rite  6 lDe’u ‘phrul Prognostics: Major and Minor Results  7 The Interpretation of Prognostics 4 The Divination of sMra ba’i seng ge  1 Introduction to the sMra seng rdel mo gsal ba’i me long  2 Transliteration Guidelines  3 Translation of MS Conclusion: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Tibetan Divination? Appendix 1: The Divination Gods: Excerpts from the MSAP Appendix 2: Facsimiles of sMra sing rdel mo gsal ba’i me long bzhugs so Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is the winner of the Marthe Engelborghs-Bertels Prize for Sinology 2023, awarded by the Academy for Overseas Sciences (ARSOM), Brussels. In John Fryer and The Translator’s Vade-mecum, Tola offers for the first time a comprehensive study of the collection of scientific and technical glossaries, with English-Chinese parallel translation, compiled by the English scholar John Fryer (1839–1928). Other than contributing to the history of modern Chinese lexicon and translation in late Qing China, Tola analyses the role of The Translator’s Vade-mecum in the diffusion of ideas and terms between China and the West, at the same time providing new insights on the connection between religious efforts by missionaries in late Qing China and their secular attitude towards translation. The great number of resources presented also show a new perspective on the transcultural flows of knowledge, China’s modernisation process in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and the history of nineteenth-century Protestant missions in China.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations Introduction 1 John Fryer and The Translator’s Vade-mecum  1 Introduction  2 John Fryer: Between Translation and Scientific Divulgation  3 The Translator’s Vade-mecum: An Authoritative Work  4 Conclusion 2 Planning, Publication, and Setbacks: The Translator’s Vade-mecum  1 Introduction  2 Various Dating Problems  3 Translator’s Vade-mecum and Chinese and English Technical Vocabularies  4 Planning and Birth of The Translator’s Vade-mecum  5 Conclusion 3 Fryer’s Theories on Translation into Chinese  1 Introduction  2 Religious Views and Technical Nomenclature: Discrepancies and Responsibilities  3 Between “The Descriptive” and “The Phonetic” Methods  4 Advice of the Translator: Fryer’s Suggestions  5 Conclusion 4 Published Glossaries  1 Introduction  2 Vocabulary of Mineralogical Terms  3 Vocabulary of Names of Chemical Substances  4 Vocabulary of Names of Materia Medica  5 Vocabulary of Terms Relating to the Steam Engine  6 Vocabulary of Proper Names  7 Conclusion 5 Unpublished Glossaries  1 Introduction  2 “Vocabulary of Terms in Naval Architecture”  3 “List of Botanical Terms”  4 Case Study—Sources of the “List of Botanical Terms”: An Analysis  5 “Vocabulary of Geological Terms”  6 “Botanical Terms from William’s Syllabic Dictionary of the Chinese Language”  7 “List of Geographical Names”  8 “Syllabary for the Transfer of Foreign Names into Chinese”  9 “Vocabulary of Proper Names”  10 Conclusion 6 Lexicological Features and Translation Choices: Conveying New Concepts with Old Terms and Lexical Innovations  1 Introduction  2 Phonemic Loans  3 Hybrids  4 Calques  5 Descriptive Labelling  6 Multiple Translations  7 Using Existing Nomenclature  8 Neologisms: Dating Back through Etymological Dictionaries  9 Neologisms: Dating Back through Databases  10 Beyond Lexical Innovations  11 Conclusion 7 The Translator’s Vade-mecum: Role, Diffusion, and Influence on Later Texts  1 Introduction  2 Encyclopaedias, Collectanea, and Periodicals  3 Dictionaries, Vocabularies, and Glossaries  4 Yan Huiqing’s Ying-Hua da cidian  5 Other Works  6 Conclusion 8 The Translator’s Vade-mecum: Later Aftermath  1 Introduction  2 Chemistry: Texts by the Guoli Bianyiguan and Other Committees  3 Beyond Chemistry: Other Branches of Science  4 Lexicological Legacy: Acknowledgement and Appraisal Conclusions Appendix: Synoptic Tables and Reproductions—Contents of the TVM Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFrom the Greeks to the Arabs and Beyond written by Hans Daiber, is a six volume collection of Daiber’s scattered writings, journal articles, essays and encyclopaedia entries on Greek-Syriac-Arabic translations, Islamic theology and Sufism, the history of science, Islam in Europe, manuscripts and the history of oriental studies. It also includes reviews and obituaries. Vol. V and VI are catalogues of newly discovered Arabic manuscript originals and films/offprints from manuscripts related to the topics of the preceding volumes.

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Book SynopsisFrom the Greeks to the Arabs and Beyond written by Hans Daiber, is a six volume collection of Daiber’s scattered writings, journal articles, essays and encyclopaedia entries on Greek-Syriac-Arabic translations, Islamic theology and Sufism, the history of science, Islam in Europe, manuscripts and the history of oriental studies. It also includes reviews and obituaries. Vol. V and VI are catalogues of newly discovered Arabic manuscript originals and films/offprints from manuscripts related to the topics of the preceding volumes.Table of ContentsAbbreviations Rules of Transliteration Introduction Description of the Texts Aligarh, India Baghdad, Iraq Beirut, Lebanon Berlin, Germany Birmingham, Great Britain Bursa, Turkey Cairo, Egypt Cambridge, Great Britain Cambridge (Mass.), USA Damascus, Syria Delhi, India Dublin, Ireland Escorial, Spain Evora, Portugal Florence, Italy Gotha, Germany Hyderabad, India Istanbul, Turkey Leiden, Netherlands Lisbon, Portugal London, Great Britain Lucknow, India Manisa, Turkey Mosul, Iraq Munich, Germany Najaf, Iraq New Haven, USA Oxford, Great Britain Paris, France Patna (Bankipore), India Princeton, USA Qumm, Iran Rampur, India Taʿizz, Yemen Tarim, Yemen Tashkent, Uzbekistan Tehran, Iran Toledo, Spain Tonk, India Vatican City State Vienna, Austria Washington, USA Manuscripts of Barhebraeus’ Works Rare or Unpublished Books and Articles The Arabic Inscription of the Madrasa al-Mustanṣiriyya, Baghdad (founded 631/1234) Indices Literature and its Abbreviations Photos of Selected Manuscripts The Power of the Word  The Linguistic Form of Greek-Arabic Translations  Unknown Views of Orientalists on Franz Taeschner, Die Psychologie Qazwīnīs (1912) Indices “The Power of the Word” Postscriptum

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Book SynopsisThe Muslim community's political and socio-economic role in Jerusalem under Ottoman administration during the 1830s is analyzed in this volume from a natural law perspective. A bitter political contest between Sultan Mahmud II and Muhammad Ali Pasha resulted in the military occupation of Syria and imposition of a brutal new political and legal regime which crushed the indigenous elites of southern Syria. Through a careful analysis of the archives of the Islamic law court of Jerusalem, the study offers a fresh appraisal of how the Ottoman Empire ruled Jerusalem and considers the Muslim response, elucidating the reasons for the breakdown of their relations with non-Muslim Ottoman subjects and differentiating the Ottoman understanding of law and government from that of their enemies, the Wahhabis.Trade Review"Sacred Law in the Holy City is an admirably researched and neatly documented study of a distinct episode in the history of […] Bilad al-Sham […] In all, the work is a solid contribution to a field and period that is underdeveloped and will be an important secondary source for future studies of modern Syria and Palestine." - Michael J. Reimer, American University of Cairo, in: Digest of Middle East Studies, no. 2 "Rood’s detailed account is one of very few published studies in English that addresses the nature of Muhammad Ali’s regime in Palestine. […] Altogether, this is a timely book that addresses a very important theme." - Adel Manna, Jerusalem van Leer Institute, in: International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 38, no. 2 "This book is a remarkable piece of original work, which utilizes the rich Jerusalem Islamic court records in order to analyze an era of significant changes in the history of Palestine: the 1830's, when Egyptian rule provoked massive political disruption. Sacred Law in the Holy City breaks important new ground in showing the sources of both major changes and significant continuity in this critical period in Palestinian history, when important social and religious transformations took place." - Rashid Khalidi, Columbia University

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Book SynopsisIn 2008, an international team of climbers discovered a large collection of Tibetan manuscripts in a cave complex called Mardzong, in Nepal’s remote Mustang district. The following year, the entire cache—over five thousand folios from some sixty different works of the Buddhist and Bön religions, some more than seven centuries old—were removed to the safe keeping of a monastery, where they were later examined by experts from different disciplines. This book is the result of their findings. The authors present what they have been able to discover about the content of these manuscripts, their age, the materials with which they were made, the patrons who commissioned them and the scribes and artists who created them. Contributors include: Agnieszka Helman-Ważny, Charles Ramble, Nyima Drandul Gurung, Naljor Tsering, Sarah Skumanov, Emilie Arnaud-Nguyen and Bazhen ZerenTable of ContentsPreface Preface to the 2nd Edition Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables 1 Introduction to Mustang (Lo) and Its Heritage  Agnieszka Helman-Ważny  1 Accounts of History and Religion  2 Climate, Landform, People and the Trade along Kali Gandaki River  3 Cultural Heritage of Mustang 2 A Note on Interdisciplinary Methods  Agnieszka Helman-Ważny  1 General Information  2 Writing/copying  3 Format and Layout  4 Elements of Ornamentation  5 Ownership and Authentication Marks  6 Materials 3 The Mardzong Texts in Relation to the Bon Canon  Charles Ramble, Agnieszka Helman-Ważny, Nyima Drandul Gurung and Bazhen Zeren  1 The Khams chen  2 The Ka ‘dus  3 The gZer mig  4 The Klu ʼbum  5 Buddhist dhâraṇî Volume 4 A Codicological Study of the Mardzong Manuscripts  Agnieszka Helman-Ważny  1 The Khams chen  2 The Ka ‘dus  3 The gZer mig  4 The Klu ʼbum  5 Buddhist dhâraṇî Volume 5 Comparative Study of Paper Found at Archaeological Sites in Mustang  Emilie Arnaud-Nguyen and Agnieszka Helman-Ważny  1 Links between Paper Dating and Its Manufacturing Process  2 Characteristics of the Samples Studied  3 The Process of the Degradation of Paper  4 Fibre Analysis  5 A Higher Degree of Deterioration  6 A Medium Degree of Degradation  7 Conclusion 6 Missing Manuscripts from the Mardzong Cave Repository  Charles Ramble  1 The Context  2 The Missing Manuscripts: Content Description  3 Buddhist Works  4 Bon Works  5 Secular or Indeterminate Works 7 On the Dating and Origin of the Mardzong Manuscripts  Agnieszka Helman-Ważny and Charles Ramble 8 Book-Making Practices in Mustang  Agnieszka Helman-Ważny  1 Paper  2 Ink  3 Layout  4 Calligraphy 9 Preservation of the Mardzong Manuscripts Collection  Sarah Skumanov  1 Preservation of Cultural Heritage in Mustang  2 The State of Preservation of the Mardzong Manuscripts 10 Translations of Selected Works from the Mardzong Collection  Charles Ramble  1 Khams chen Dedication  2 Triten Norbutse Dedication  3 Khams chen Dedication  4 Triten Norbutse Dedication  5 Mardzong BA  6 Mardzong J Text and Translation  7 Mardzong K Text and Translation 11 A Rare Treatise on Toxicology from the Mardzong Collection: Translation and Preliminary Remarks  Charles Ramble and Naljor Tsering  1 Introduction  2 Poisoning in Tibet  3 Indian Traditions of Toxicology  4 Structure and Content of Mardzong A  5 Features of the Manuscript and Presentation of the Text  6 Text and Translation Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Unveiling the Hidden—Anticipating the Future: Divinatory Practices Among Jews Between Qumran and the Modern Period, Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas and Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum collect ten studies based on primary sources ranging from Qumran to the modern period and covering Europe and the Mediterranean basin. The studies show Jews practising divination (astrology, bibliomancy, physiognomy, dream requests, astral magic, etc.) and implementing the study and practice of the prognostic arts in ways that allowed Jews to make them "Jewish," by avoiding any conflict with Jewish law or halakhah. These studies focus on the Jewish components of this divination, providing specific firsthand details about the practices and their practitioners within their cultural and intellectual contexts—as well as their fears, wishes, and anxieties—using ancient scrolls and medieval manuscripts in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Judaeo-Arabic. Contributors are Michael D. Swartz, Helen R. Jacobus, Alessia Bellusci, Blanca Villuendas Sabaté, Shraga Bar-On, Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas, Amos Geula, Dov Schwartz, Joseph Ziegler, and Charles Burnett.Trade Review"This is a groundbreaking collection of papers on different aspects of divination in the Jewish world that provide vivid testimony to the popularity of divination among Jews and excellent starting points for the study of the social locations of diviners within Jewish society. Thus, this book seeks to establish Jewish divination as an important field of study, and does so in a remarkably successful manner."– Gideon Bohak, Tel Aviv University "This collection of excellent studies written by outstanding scholars intheir fields fills a real gap and sheds new light on both the history of divination as practiced by Jews (and as documented in texts partly edited for the first time in this volume), and on the intricate religious, legal, philosophical and epistemological problems that arise from it on the theoretical scale." – Reimund Leicht, The Hebrew University of JerusalemTable of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures and Tables Table for the Transliteration of the Hebrew Characters Table for the Transliteration of the Arabic Characters Notes on the Contributors Introductory Essay: Divination in Jewish Cultures—Some Reflections on the Subject of This Book  Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas 1 Divination as Transaction: Rhetorical and Social Dimensions of Ancient Jewish Divination Texts  Michael D. Swartz 2 Aramaic Calendars and the Question of Divination in Late Second Temple Judaism  Helen R. Jacobus 3 Jewish Oneiric Divination: From Daniel’s Prayer to the Genizah Šeʾelat Ḥalom  Alessia Bellusci 4 Dream Interpretation Reinterpreted in the Light of Judaeo-Arabic Fragments Attributed to Ḥai Gaon  Blanca Villuendas Sabaté 5 If You Seek to Take Advice from the Torah, It Will Be Given—Jewish Bibliomancy through the Generations  Shraga Bar-On 6 Judah bar Barzillai and His Role in Abraham bar Ḥiyya’s Letter on Astrology  Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas 7 Abraham bar Ḥiyya’s Letter to Judah bar Barzillai—Translation  Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas and Amos Geula 8 Maimonides on Magic, Astral Magic and Experimental Science  Dov Schwartz 9 On the Various Faces of Hebrew Physiognomy as a Prognostic Art in the Middle Ages  Joseph Ziegler 10 Inscriptio characterum: Solomonic Magic and Palaeography. With an Appendix on the Making of the Grimoire by Nicholas Pickwoad  Charles Burnett Bibliography Index of Names (People, Places, and Texts) Index of Quotations and Citations of Biblical, Pseudepigrapha, Qumran, and Rabbinic Texts Index of Subjects

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Book SynopsisThe Huihui Yaofang was an encyclopedia of Near Eastern medicine compiled under the Mongol Yuan Dynasty for the benefit of themselves and the then Chinese medical establishments. Some 15% of the work survives, from a Ming Dynasty edition, and is here translated for the first time into English. We extensively introduce the translation with introductions situating it within the history of western and Chinese medicine, and provide critical apparatus for understanding. We provide accounts of the medicines and foods, with comparisons to other works of the time and to modern folk uses of these medicines in the Middle East. We show that the work is solidly western Asian, specifically derived from Persian-speaking Central Asia, and is adapted to Chinese use in several ways but without losing its western character.

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Book SynopsisJesuit Mission and Submission explains how the Jesuits entered the Manchu world after the Manchus conquered Beijing in 1644. Supported by Qing court archives, the book discovers the Jesuits’ Manchu-style master-slave relationship with the Kangxi emperor. Against the backdrop of this relationship, the book reconstructs the back and forth negotiations between Kangxi and the Holy See regarding Chinese Rites Controversy (1705-1721), and shows that the Jesuits, although a group of foreign priests, had close access to Kangxi and were a trusted part of the Imperial circle. This book also redefines the rise and fall of the Christian mission in the early Qing court through key events, such as the Calendar Case and Yongzheng’s prohibition of Christianity.Trade Review"Jesuit Mission and Submission by Swen Litian is a thought-provoking, intelligently researched and presented, and very timely publication that I would advise all students of early Qing China and of the Jesuit missionary enterprise to read without delay." -Lars Peter Laamann, SOAS, University of London Journal of Jesuit Studies, 157-160. "Litian Swen's work Jesuit Mission and Submission expands our understanding of the oft-celebrated Qing-era Jesuit missions through a thorough reorientation of the Jesuit experience as part of preexisting Manchu cultural traditions. By expanding the early modern cultural-conflicts paradigm by situating it in the context of Manchu culture, rather than the traditional Chinese-Western dichotomy, Swen brings a new perspective to well-trod historiographical ground... This work represents a significant shift in our understanding of cultural conflicts in early modern China." -Ashleigh Ikemoto, Georgia College and State University, The Journal of Asian Studies, 187-188. "Swen's persistent focus on individuals (particularly emperors Kangxi and Yongzheng) and their family network also serves to explain how occurrences that elude historical patterns such as coincidences, personal choices, and unpredictable events can all contribute to shape history. It is in this light that Swen recommends historians to reassess the rise and fall of the Jesuit mission to China so as to provide a fresh perspective on a narrative otherwise focused on its inevitable failure. Such an original and well-documented argument, alongside the author’s meticulous analysis of the sources, are only two of the elements that make Swen’s study a valuable and welcome contribution to the field." -Giulia Falato, University of Oxford, Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu, 692-695. "The combination of striking success and dramatic failure of the Jesuit missionaries as advisors to the seventeenth and eighteenth century Chinese imperial court has long attracted the attention of historians. Jesuit Mission and Submission by Swen Litian 孫立天 represents the latest effort to explain the dynamics of this unique historical relationship. As a revision of his dissertation (2019) and as a first book, it is a very impressive effort. The most successful part of the book deals with Swen’s attempt to show how the nature of the Beijing Jesuits’ relationship to the imperial court changed at the time of the Ming–Qing transition." -D. E. Mungello, Baylor University, Monumenta Serica, Journal of Oriental StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Introduction 1 Confusions over the Relationship between Kangxi and the Jesuits 2 The Cultural-Conflicts Paradigm and Its Problems 3 Manchu’s Master-Slave Relationship 4 Booi Slaves and Qing Rulership 5 The Imperial Household Department in the Qing Power Network 6 Missionaries and the Imperial Household Department 7 Were the Missionaries Booi Slaves of Kangxi? 8 Viewing Missionaries through the Lens of the Master-Slave Relationship PART 1 The Jesuits’ Identity and Qing Rulership, 1644–1705 1 Jesuits and Their Entrance in the Manchu World 1 Captives in a Battlefield 2 Jesuits as Slaves and the Legacy of the Tong Clan 3 Manchus’ Impression of Europeans 4 Jesuits’ First Helpers 5 Jesuits’ Involvement in the Cannon Business 6 The Tong Clan and the Jesuits 7 Released from the Slave Status 8 Conclusion 2 The Jesuits’ Strategic Turn 1 Missionaries Arrested: the Calendar Case of 1664 2 The Manchu Way or the Chinese Way? 3 Manchu’s Religious Policies 4 Confucian-Christian Relationship on Schall’s Birthday 5 Yang Guangxian: Not a Confucian 6 Divination and Confucianism 7 Schall’s Involvement in Chinese Divination 8 Trials, and Buglio and de Magalhaens’s Manchu Network 9 Conclusion 3 The Jesuits and Kangxi’s Imperial Household Department 1 Kangxi’s Political Backbone 2 Jesuits’ Contributions 3 Jesuits’ Participation in Court Politics 4 Verbiest’s Strategy and Legacy 5 The Edict of Toleration 6 The Jesuits’ Identity in the Kangxi Court 7 The New French Jesuits and Their Network 8 Conclusion PART 2 Emperor Kangxi’s Negotiations with the Pope, 1705–1721 4 Kangxi, the Jesuits, and the First Papal Legation to China 1 The Kangxi Emperor and His Empire before 1705 2 The Papal Legation in Kangxi’s Eyes 3 The First Audience 4 The Chinese Rites Controversy During de Tournon’s Stay in Beijing 5 The Farewell Audience 6 The Jesuits’ Omission 7 After the Farewell Audience 8 Piao< 9 Conclusion 5 Kangxi’s Fourteen-Year Wait and the Second Papal Legation 1 Waiting for a Response from Rome 2 The Red Manifesto: Kangxi’s Open Letter to Europe 3 Kangxi’s Unusual Patience: Why? 4 Making Threats and Making the Deal 5 Conclusion PART 3 The Prohibition in 1724 6 The Yongzheng Emperor and Christian Missionaries 1 Kangxi’s Late Years 2 Yongzheng’s Enthronement 3 Missionaries’ Efforts 4 Why Did Yongzheng Prohibit Christianity 5 Yongzheng’s Own Explanations for Prohibition 6 The Prohibition from the View of Others 7 Buddhism: the Basis of Yongzheng’s Intellectual and Spiritual Mind 8 Buddhism and Its Influence on Yongzheng 9 Yongzheng’s Buddhism and the Prohibition of Christianity 10 Conclusion Postscripts: Coincidences? the Rise and Fall of the Christian Mission Appendix 1 Yongzheng’s Letter to Nian Gengyao Regarding the Master-Slave Relation Appendix 2 Kangxi’s Note to Threaten the Prohibition of Christianity Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisJapan’s Private Spheres: Autonomy in Japanese History, 1600-1930 traces the shifting nature of autonomy in early modern and modern Japan. In this far-reaching, interdisciplinary study, W. Puck Brecher explores the historical development of the private and its evolving relationship with public authority, a dynamic that evokes stereotypes about an alleged dearth of individual agency in Japanese society. It does so through a montage of case studies. For the early modern era, case studies examine peripheral living spaces, boyhood, and self-interrogation in the arts. For the modern period, they explore strategic deviance, individuality in Meiji education, modern leisure, and body-maintenance. Analysis of these disparate private realms illuminates evolving conceptualizations of the private and its reciprocal yet often-contested relationship to the state.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Figures and Tables Keywords (キーワード) Prologue PART 1 Contextualizing the Private Sphere in Japanese History 1 Introduction  The Private “Problem”br/>  1 Contexts of Privacy in Modernizing Japan  2 Challenges and Methodologies 2 Public and Private in Pre-Meiji Thought and Society  1 Introduction  2 Public and Private in the Japanese Context  3 Public and Private in the Medieval Period  4 Public and Private in the Edo Period 3 The Private Self and the Meiji-Taisho State  1 The Individual’s Relationship to the State  2 Prescribed Private Spheres: Religion, the Home, and Leisure  3 Historiography on Modern Japan’s Private Spheres PART 2 The Autonomous Self in the Edo Period (1600–1868) 4 Peripheries as Private Spheres  1 Everything in Its Place: City, Suburb, Countryside  2 Kōetsumura  3 Itami   3.1 Itami Saké   3.2 The Itami Salon  4 Negishi   4.1 Negishi as a Homegrown Living Space   4.2 Resignation and Reclusion 5 Boyhood as an Autonomous Sphere  1 Introduction  2 Practical Childrearing  3 Diaries  4 Role Models and the Moral Authority of the Private 6 “Publicizing” the Private  Self-Interrogation and Self-Indulgence in the Arts  1 Human Difference in Early Modern Thought  2 The Self-Interrogation of Hakuin (1685–1768) and Kinkoku (1761–1832)  3 Self and Self-Portraiture  4 Master Depravity and the Self as Spectacle PART 3 Public and Private Selves in Meiji and Taisho (1868–1926) 7 The Deviant in Meiji Society  Autonomy, Individuality, and Public Power  1 Meiji’s New Normal  2 Loser Literature  3 Anguished Art  4 Ideology and Rupture: Eccentricity and Its Place in Meiji’s Cultural Field 8 The Private Individual in Early Meiji Education (1872–1890s)  1 The Individual in Early Meiji Education  2 On the Practice of Keeping Individuality Charts  3 Early Student Charts in the United States  4 Individuality as Control 9 Education and Public Individuality (1890s–1927)  1 Kosei in Public Education  2 Changes in Student Evaluations  3 Kosei as “Public Individuality” PART 4 The Nationalization of Private Leisure (1868–1930s) 10 Vacationing and Moral Authority  1 School Summer Vacations  2 Moral Authority and Vacationing for Adults  3 Ambivalence and Contestation 11 Nationalizing the Body Physical Exercise as a Public Ethic  1 “Civilizing” the Physical Body  2 Western Athletics  3 Public Fitness as Statecraft (1920s~) 12 Conclusion Can Modern Japan’s Private Spheres Be Moral?  1 Reconciliations of Self and State  Epilogue  Bibliography  Index

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Book SynopsisAfter piloting an emperor the age of a college student through China’s most drastic government reforms before the modern era, Wang Anshi retreated to his Halfway Hill villa at Nanjing, where in late middle age he became one of the Northern Song dynasty’s three or four most innovative poets. He redirected the craft of composing high-stakes policy papers into lighter-than-air evocations of clear-eyed grief, sensuous Buddhism, and intricate reactions to rain on the river or donkey-riding up Bell Mountain. Acrimony over his redesigned government, which he lived just long enough to see totally dismantled, remains relevant to Chinese politics and economics. Published during his thousand-year jubilee, this first full English biography since 1937 draws on Wang’s essays, poems, and his vivid, seldom-explored throne-room diary.Table of ContentsContents Introduction and Acknowledgments Dates, Names, Citations Maps List of Illustration Foreword: The Stone Ox Grotto (ad 1080) part 1: Service 1 Leaving Jiangxi (1021–1036)  1 The Journey Out 2 Marriage—Yangzhou and Yin County (1037–1050)  1 Meeting Zeng Gong, Passing the Jinshi  2 Yangzhou  3 Home Leave at Linchuan; Friendship with the Zengs  4 The Qingli Reforms from a Distance; Leaving Yangzhou  5 Yin County Magistrate  6 Short Means Subtle: An Emerging Way with Words  7 Epitaph 3 Hidden Mountains—Qianshan (1050–1054)  1 Seeking from Wellsprings: Lord Bao’s Stream, the Stone Ox  2 Seeking from Mountains: The Nine-Petalled Peaks  3 Practical Knowledge from Monks  4 Poetry of Public Conscience: Road Scoopers and Monopolizers  5 Glimmerings of Green  6 The Search Can Yield Data: the Baochan Caverns 4 The Herds Office, Changzhou Prefect, Jiangdong Judge (1054–1058)  1 Into Ouyang Xiu’s Circle and the Herds Office  2 Actual Duties in Kaifeng, 1055–1057  3 Changzhou Prefect, Jiangdong Circuit Judge, 1057–1058  4 “Nature Grew This Blackness on Me” 5 Kaifeng Again—Drafter of Edicts (1059–1063)  1 High Aims: The “Ten-Thousand-Word Memorial”  2 Fame through Verse: The Radiant Consort  3 Sima Guang  4 Official Assignments in Kaifeng, 1059–1063  5 Kaifeng Life  6 Anthologies and Quatrains  7 Back to Jinling 6 Sages and Crooks—Wang’s Thought in His Early Forties (1063–1066)  1 “Of Rites and Music”: What Makes a Sage?  2 Oneness  3 How Powerful Is Goodness?  4 Mainstream or Outlier?  5 Was Zanyuan Right?  6 Out of Mourning part 2: Reform 7 Shenzong Clears the Deck (1067–1068)  1 Recruiting and Firing  2 Summoned Out of Turn  3 Wang’s Court Diary  4 Finance and Murder: Wang vs. Sima Guang Again 8 Associate Councillor—the Reforms Begin (1069–1070)  1 First and Second New Policies, Spring & Summer 1069: Finance Planning and Governmental Design Review  2 The Dowagers Fight Back: Wang’s First Resignation, Summer 1069  3 Third New Policy, Fall 1069: Equitable Transport System  4 Fourth New Policy, and Second Resignation, Fall 1069: The Green Sprout Loans  5 Popular Support and the “Three Not-Worths”  6 Fifth New Policy, 1069: Shrinking the Imperial Clan  7 Sixth and Seventh New Policies, 1069–1070: Farmland and Water Projects; the Baojia system  8 Promoted to Grand Councillor, End of 1070; Exiles and Exits 9 Nation Rich, Army Strong—Grand Councillor (1071–1072)  1 Wang’s Plan for the Borders  2 Eighth New Policy, Spring 1071: Civil Service Recruitment  3 Ninth New Policy and Wang’s Third Resignation, 1071: Service For Hire  4 Tenth and Eleventh New Policies, 1072: State Trade System, Horse Breeding System  5 Isolate the Xi Xia, Convert Their Neighbors  6 Forcing Shenzong to Choose: Fourth Resignation, Summer 1072  7 The Kitan Problem; Doubts about State Trade  8 Victory, Danger, and the Twelfth New Policy, 1072: Land Survey and Equitable Tax 10 Trouble at the Gate (1073)  1 Aftermath of the Gate Incident: Wang’s Fifth Resignation, Spring 1073  2 Thirteenth New Policy, Spring 1073: The Scriptural Interpretations Bureau; Lü Brothers Rising  3 Water Projects, 1073–1074  4 Fourteenth New Policy: The Guild Exemption Tax; Tibetan Slaughter and a Belt of Jade  5 More Wars?  6 How to Manage Scoundrels 11 Watcher on the Ramparts (1074–1075)  1 Watcher on the Ramparts: Sixth Resignation and Furlough, Summer 1074  2 The Śramaņa and the Deva  3 Fifteenth New Policy, Fall 1074: Self-Assessment System; Zheng Xia’s Exile, Wang Anguo’s Disgrace  4 Back to Kaifeng, Spring 1075 12 Payback—Wang’s Second Term (1075–1076)  1 The Siege against Lü Huiqing: Third through Tenth Month, 1075  2 Not Provoking and Not Tempting the Kitans, 1072–1075  3 Demoting Lü’s People While Rebuffing the Conservatives, Late 1075  4 Vengeance of Yongzhou, Spring 1076 part 3: Retirement 13 Halfway Hill (1076–1084)  1 Building Banshan  2 Thinking Back  3 News from Kaifeng  4 Green 14 Ghosts  1 Phoenix Hill  2 Ink on Walls  3 Decompression  4 Donkey in the Pines—Unexpected Friends  5 Lord Xie’s Mound  6 White Rooster 15 Words  1 Characters as Aggregates  2 Larger Significance  3 Passion or Duty? 16 Company  1 Su Shi Banished, 1079; Other Purges  2 “To Simmer with Regret,” 1080  3 The Other Side of Sixty  4 Journey to Earthworks Hill, 1081  5 “Uniting and Dispersing;” Letters from Daughters and from Lü Huiqing  6 Zeng Gong Bows Out, 1083  7 “A Tile Smashed Up My Head”: Chan in Late Middle Age, 1074–1084  8 “This Me That Is Is the Me That Was”: Art at Dinglin  9 Rafting Upstream 17 Walk Where It Is Cool  1 “Easy Spring Wind Greens That Southern Shore”: Jinling’s Physical World  2 Lamplight in the Rain  3 Understatement: Southside Paths, Scolding the Spring Wind  4 “Shove the Postern”: Couplet Construction  5 “Cherish Its Swirling Light”: Voyages through Saṁsāra  6 Walk Where It Is Cool: Distillation  7 “Tower Thee Slender, Spring Night So Short”: Lyrics 18 Sand-Grains in the Sea  1 The Mountain Crumbles, 1084  2 Later Afterword: Fox Power Appendix 1: Family Trees Appendix 2: Friends and Associates Appendix 3: Poem Locator Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is the first economic history of the Tangut Empire. With a wealth of historical records: taxes, registers, and contracts, it studies the economic lives and activities, laws and institutions, trade and transactions of Western Xia. It offers a gateway to the outer shape and inner life of the Western Xia (Xixia) economy and society, and rethinks the Tanguts’ influence on the Hexi Corridor and the Silk Road.Table of ContentsTranslator’s Preface  Hansong Li List of Illustrations Introduction  Shi Jinbo 1 The Empire of Western Xia and the Tangut Economy  1 Natural Conditions of Western Xia  2 Dangxiang People and Their Economy before the Tangut Empire  3 Founding of Western Xia and Its Economy  4 Tangut Politics and Economy in the Early Period of Western Xia  5 Tangut Politics and Economy in the Middle Period of Western Xia  6 Tangut Politics and Economy in the Late Period of Western Xia 2 Economic Records in the Corpus of Tangut Manuscripts  1 Economic Regulations in the Laws of Heavenly Prosperity  2 Economic Documents in the Corpus of Tangut Social Documents 3 Tangut Documents of Household Registrations  1 Household Registers and Accounts  2 Household Self-Reports (Shoushi)  3 Analysis of Khara-Khoto Household Registers 4 Tangut Tax Records  1 Accounts of Agricultural Taxes  2 Accounts of Land and Forage Taxes  3 Poll Tax  4 Irrigation Tax  5 Land Tax Increase and Grain Storage  6 Features of Agricultural Taxes in Western Xia 5 Accounts of Grains and Properties  1 Accounts of Grains  2 Accounts of Properties 6 Records of Trade and Transaction  1 Transaction Accounts and Commodity Prices  2 Accounts of Transaction Taxes  3 Accounts of Monetary Loans and Interests  4 Accounts of Grain Loans and Debt  5 Accounts of Land Sales  6 Features of Tangut Trade and Transaction Records 7 Tangut Contracts  1 Types and Formats of Tangut Contracts  2 Loan Contracts  3 Transaction Contracts  4 Lease Contracts  5 Employment Contracts  6 Exchange and Mortgage Contracts  7 Communal Contracts  8 Features of Tangut Contracts 8 Economic Records in Chinese  1 Markets and Materials  2 Contracts Epilogue Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisRead The Taiji Government and you will discover a bold and original revisionist interpretation of the formation of the Qing imperial constitution. Contrary to conventional wisdom, which portrays the Qing empire as a Chinese bureaucratic state that colonized Inner Asia, this book contends quite the reverse. It reveals the Qing as a Warrior State, a Manchu-Mongolian aristocratic union and a Buddhist caesaropapist monarchy. In painstaking detail, brushstroke by brushstroke, the author urges you to picture how the Mongolian aristocratic government, the Inner Asian military-oriented numerical divisional system, the technique of conquest rule, and the Mongolian doctrine of a universal Buddhist empire together created the last of the Inner Asian empires that conquered and ruled what is now China.Trade Review“Despite strongly developed historiography on the Mongolian sources of Qing institutions and political culture, in my view Munkh-Erdene is the first to develop in English the idea of a continuing organic relationship with the Mongolian aristocracy as a central controlling principle of Qing imperial governance. And what he proposes does challenge modern historiography. (…) Not only did taiji governance in Mongolia continue without disruption, it became the foundation of the dominant political values of the Qing state—its constitution. On this point Munkh-Erdene places himself in opposition to David M. Farquhar, Christopher P. Atwood, Nicola Di Cosmo, Johan Elverskog, Peter C. Perdue, Zhang Shiming and others (Oka Hiroki is given an occasional merit for not being entirely sinocentric), who all argue that the Qing used progressive bureaucratization (though in varying degrees) of the governance of Mongolia as its most effective tool for undermining the traditional elites and installing its own tame Mongol aristocrats and religious leaders. (…) No Qing, Mongolia, or Inner Asia specialist who gives The Taiji State an attentive reading will accept stock generalizations about conquest, empire, or Mongolia.” - Pamela Crossley, Journal of Chinese Studies, DOI: 10.29708/JCS.CUHK.202301_(76).0012 "One can read Lhamsuren Munkh-Erdene’s new book in one of two ways: either as a well-documented study of Manchu-Mongolian relations and the concurrent transformation of indigenous Mongolian political institutions in the early seventeenth century or as an ambitious revision of fundamental narratives of Mongolian and Qing history between 1600 and 1911.(...) Whichever angle the reader adopts, this is a work that deserves to be taken seriously and that will certainly inspire lively debate among students of Qing history, Mongolian studies, and comparative empire alike.[T]his is a very rich book, ambitious and wide-ranging, assiduously researched, and clearly organized and presented, which will repay careful reading and rereading." - Mark Elliott, Harvard University, Journal of Asian Studies, 82:2 (2023) doi: 10.1215/00219118-10290740Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Maps and Figures List of Abbreviations Note on Transcription and Translation Introduction 1 The Qing Inner Asian Political Order  1 The Qing Constitution: The Triumph of the Bureaucratic-Colonial Model  2 The Qing Tributary System: Suzerain–Vassal State Relations  3 The Manchu Colonialism: Chinese Defensive Empire into Chinese Conquest Empire  4 Manchu’s Mongolian Social Revolution  5 The Chinggisid Taiji Government and Mongolia and the Qing 2 Alliance to Coalition  1 Pre-1636 Manchu-Mongolian Relations: Alliance to Tutelage?  2 Manchu-Mongolian Princely Treaties: Defensive Alliances  3 Manchu-Khorchin Engagement and Manchu Dependence on Khorchin  4 The Creation of External Mongolia and the Formation of a Multilateral Coalition  5 The Coalition, Assembly, Codes, and Leadership 3 The Manchu Conquest: Winner Takes All  1 Shifting Borders: Qurban Tsönggereg to Shariljitai to Shonkhor  2 Changing Stories: Ligdan’s Flight or Hong Taiji’s Defeat?  3 The Demise of the Mongolian Great State and the Rise of the Daiching State  4 Ligdan: From Lawful Great Khan to Quixotic Delusional Dreamer  5 Charisma: The Very Essence of Inner Asian Politics 4 From the Taishi Government to the Taiji Government  1 The Mongol Empire and the Northern Yuan Dynasty  2 The Taishi Government and Its Demise  3 Dayan Khanid Reign: The Rise of the Taiji Government  4 The Taiji Government Structure: A Federal Constitutional Monarchy 5 The Taiji Government: A Parliamentary Aristocracy  1 The Seven Khoshuus or the Khalkha Tümen  2 An Aristocratic Parliamentary Constitutional Monarchy  3 The Chuulgan: An Aristocratic Parliament  4 The Jasag: An Appointed Central Government  5 The Khoshuu: Autonomous Lordship and Government Unit  6 The Northern Yuan: An Inner Asian Parallel to the Holy Roman Empire 6 The Rise and Fall of the Jaisang Government  1 The Destruction of the Great State: Contrary-to-Government Deeds  2 The Abolishment of Taiji Government: Ligdan’s Reform and Princely Revolts  3 The Dissolution of Tümen-Khanates  4 The Saghang Saga: A Coup and the Demise of the Mongol Empire  5 The Proclamation of the Daiching Ulus: A United Manchu–Mongolian State 7 Aimag and Pre-Modern Mongolia in Modern Euro-Sinocentric Vision  1 Bichurin’s Foresight: Aimag from Principalities to Tribes to Secondary Tribes  2 Aimag and Mongolia in Modern Euro-Sinocentric Vision  3 Archaeology of Aimag or External Aimag  4 The External Aimags: Mongolian Principalities  5 The Internal Aimags: Manchu Principalities 8 The Daiching Ulus and Mongolia: An Inner Asian Aristocratic Federation  1 Conferral Letter: Covenant as Investiture  2 Covenant, Pillars, and Co-Rulers: One Accord, Mutual Reliance, and Tüshiyetü Khan  3 The Daiching Ulus: An Inner Asian Aristocratic Federation  4 The Daiching Gurun as Pax Manjurica and Pax Mongolica 9 The Mongolian World Order and the Daiching Ulus  1 The Chakravartin Monarchy and the Great State of Five Colors and Four Aliens  2 The Altanid Redefinition: The Dyarchy of Aristocracy and Theocracy  3 For the Sake of the Government and the Faith: Seeking the Qubilaid Legitimacy  4 Claiming ’Phags-pa’s Seat 10 The Rivalry of the Daiching Ulus and the Döchin and Dörben  1 The Rise of the Döchin and Dörben  2 The Daiching Ulus and the Döchin and Dörben Hostility  3 The Qing and the Khalkha Treaty  4 Turmoil in the Döchin and Dörben: Structural Problems within the Regime  5 The Khüren Belchir Assembly and Zanabazar’s Justice  6 The Failure at the Khüren Belchir Assembly  7 The Destruction of the Döchin and Dörben 11 The Empire of the Two Norms  1 The Dalai Lama and the Making of the Manjushri Chakravartin Khan  2 The Taiji Government: Mutual Reliance and the Guest State  3 The Manjushri Chakravartin Monarch: The Patron and the Protector of the Faith  4 Surpassing Qubilai: Consolidation of the Government of the Two Norms Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisThrough the biography of an unusual Manchu Chinese female devotee who contributed to the spread of Tibetan Buddhism in Taiwan, the book provides a new angle at looking at Sino-Tibetan relations by bringing issues of gender, power, self-representation, and globalization. Gongga Laoren’s life, actions and achievements show the fundamental elements behind the successful implementation of Tibetan Buddhism in a Han cultural environment and highlights a process that has created new expectations within communities, either Tibetan or Taiwanese, working in political, economic, religious and social contexts that have evolved from martial law in the 1960s to democratic rule today.Trade Review"This is an exceptionally well-researched work, and although one might criticize the somewhat dated methodological use of Weber, this volume grants an undeniably invaluable insight into a figure that has received next to no prior scholarly attention, as well as the intricate world of Tibetan Buddhism in Taiwan as a whole. More broadly, those with an interest in religion and globalization as well as religion and gender and self-representation will have much to gain from this volume. - Joseph Chadwin, University of Vienna, Religious Studies Review https://doi.org/10.1111/rsr.15601 "Gongga Laoren (1903–1997) offers a groundbreaking study of this remarkable figure whose life spanned from the late Qing Dynasty to post-martial law Taiwan and who played a crucial role in initiating the development of Tibetan Buddhism there. This volume will be of great interest to all students of modern Chinese and Tibetan religious life. Additionally, those interested in religion and gender, sociology of religion, or transnational studies more broadly will also find much of value in this volume." - Eben Yonnetti is a PhD candidate in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia, Reading Religion, November 28, 2022.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures Introduction 1 Life in China and in Tibet (from 1903 to 1958)  1 Birth and Early Childhood  2 Youth and Majority  3 Heading towards the Bo Gangkar Monastery  4 From the Bo Gangkar Monastery to Hong Kong 2 Building Religious Legitimacy in Taiwan (from 1958 to 1980)  1 Arrival in Taipei  2 Publication of the First Dictated Autobiography  3 Esoteric Teachings  4 Retreats  5 Using the Secret 3 Contribution to the Development of Tibetan Buddhism in Taiwan (from 1980 to 1997)  1 Vows Taken with the 16th Karmapa Rangjung Rikpé Dorjé  2 Invitations Extended to Karma Kagyü School’s Reincarnated Masters  3 Place in the Karma Kagyü School’s International Network  4 Links with the 14th Dalai Lama 4 Spiritual Heritage  1 Death and Mummification  2 Succession  3 Maintaining Links with the Karma Kagyü School  4 Continuing Charity Projects Conclusion Appendix: Timeline of Gongga Laoren’s Life (1903–1997) Glossary of Tibetan Names Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Making of Modern Japan, Myles Carroll offers a sweeping account of post-war Japanese political economy, exploring the transition from the post-war boom to the crisis of today and the connections between these seemingly discrete periods. Carroll explores the multifarious international and domestic political, economic, social and cultural conditions that fortified Japan’s post-war hegemonic order and enabled decades of prosperity and stability. Yet since the 1990s, a host of political, economic, social and cultural changes has left this same hegemonic order out of step with the realities of the contemporary world, a contradiction that has led to three decades of crisis in Japanese society. Can Japan make the bold changes required to reverse its decline?Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGEMENTS LIST OF TABLE AND FIGURES 1. Introduction  Analytical approach  Outline of the argument  Outline of chapters 2. Lineages of Japanese political economy  Creative conservatism and the developmental state: Japan’s post-war boom  Institutional approaches to the study of Japanese politics  The long decline: Theorizing crisis in Heisei Japan  The welfare state and social reproduction in post-war Japan  Conclusion 3. Towards a Gramscian understanding of Japanese political economy  Historical materialist methodology  Hegemony  Hegemony and hegemonic order  Social reproduction  Conditions for hegemonic order  Historic bloc  Explaining change: Conjunctural and organic  Organic crisis  World order, forms of state, social forces  Relations of force  Caesarism, passive revolution and trasformismo  Political ecology  Towards a Gramscian feminist approach to the Japanese post-war order  Conclusion 4. The post-war hegemonic order  The post-war hegemonic order  Conditions of post-war hegemonic order   Geopolitics: The Yoshida Doctrine and the US-Japan Security Treaty (Anpo)   Global political economy: The Bretton Woods System   The electoral and party system: The rise of LDP dominance   The state form: The rise of bureaucracy-driven governance   Production and capital: Japanese developmentalism and the keiretsu   Production and labour: Enterprise unionism and lifetime employment   Production and the petit bourgeoisie: Clientelism and the old middle class   Gender and the family: Extended families and the gender division of labour   Demography and welfare: Young society, small welfare state   Nation and ideology: The pacifist nationalism of the post-war era   Environment and national resources: Cheap oil  The post-war Japanese historic bloc  Conclusion 5. Contradictions and transitions of the Shōwa era  Structural changes to world order   The Nixon shocks   The oil shocks   American trade frictions and the Plaza Accord  Structural demographic changes   The beginning of an aging society   The decline of extended families   The rise of women in the workforce  Political changes  Institutional changes   The heyday of the kōenkai   The rise of factions and the PARC   Institutional changes and continuities in Japanese business relations   Lifetime employment and the dual system   Clientelism and the construction state  Implications of these changes for hegemonic order   Economic implications   Political implications   Social implications  Conclusion 6. The organic crisis of the Heisei era  Historical background to the crisis   1989-1993: Two electoral shocks   1993-1996: Coalition governments, political reform   1996-2001: LDP’s return to power, administrative and financial reform   2001-2006: Rise of Koizumi, postal privatization   2006-2009: LDP impasse   2009-2012: Rise and fall of the DPJ  Conditions of the crisis   Geopolitics: Security Alliance in a post-Cold War world   Global political economy: Japan in a global neoliberal era   The electoral and party system: Crisis, reform, and the end of LDP rule   The state form: Institutional decay and administrative reform   Production and capital: The Americanization of Japanese capitalism?   Production and labour: Deregulation and the rise of the working poor   Production and the petit bourgeoisie: End of the pork-barrel system?   Gender and the family: The end of the male breadwinner model and shōshika   Demography and welfare: The rise of the ‘pension state’   Nation and ideology: ‘Normal country’ or tan’itsu minzoku?   Political ecology: Climate change, the nuclear turn and 3/11  Implications of the crisis   Summary of the economic accumulation crisis   Summary of the political legitimation crisis   Summary of the social reproduction crisis  Conclusion 7. Caesarism, passive revolution and the return of the LDP under Abe  Abe’s political comeback  Breaking the deadlock: The Caesarism of “Abenomics”   Breaking the deadlock through expansionary Keynesian policy   Breaking the deadlock through neoliberal economic reform   Breaking the deadlock through welfare state expansion   Implications of Caesarism under Abe  The real Abe? Passive revolution, militarism and soft authoritarianism   Asserting control over the LDP   Passive revolution in administrative reform   Passive revolution in domestic security policy   Abe’s passive revolution  Consequences of Abe’s reign for the hegemonic order   Capital accumulation   Political legitimation   Social reproduction  Conclusion 8. Whither post-Abe Japan? Four scenarios for the future  The neo-conservative option   Overview   Relations of force behind neo-conservatism   The neo-conservative solution to organic crisis   Challenges and contradictions of neo-conservatism  The neo-liberal path   Overview   Relations of force behind neo-liberalism   The neo-liberal solution to organic crisis   Challenges and contradictions of neo-liberalism  Back to the future? Neo-communitarianism   Overview   Relations of force behind neo-liberalism   The neo-liberal solution to organic crisis   Challenges and contradictions of neo-liberalism  Counter-hegemony and a democratic socialist future   Overview   Relations of force behind democratic socialism   The democratic socialist solution to organic crisis   Challenges and contradictions of democratic socialism  Conclusion 9. Conclusion  Contradictions for hegemonic order: Political legitimation  Contradictions for hegemonic order: Capital accumulation  Contradictions for hegemonic order: Social reproduction  Overarching theoretical implications of the argument BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

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Book SynopsisThis book introduces the reader to different cases of cultural intersections between Tibet and China in the field of Buddhism. The ten chapters provide a series of insights into Sino-Tibetan exchanges within religious practices and doctrines, material culture and iconography. Spanning from pre-modern encounters in Central Asia to contemporary forms of Sino-Tibetan hybridity in Chinese-speaking environments, Sino-Tibetan Buddhism Across the Ages produces further evidence that, beginning with the very introduction of Buddhism into Tibet, there were constant and fruitful contacts and blending between the Buddhist traditions developing in China and those of Tibet. Contributors are Urs App, Ester Bianchi, Isabelle Charleux, Martino Dibeltulo Concu, Alison Denton Jones, Weirong Shen, Penghao Sun, Wei Wu, Fan Zhang, and Linghui Zhang.

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