Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies(June, 2009)

Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies

[HJAS 69.1 (June, 2009)]
CONTENTS
Editor’s Note
Article Abstracts
ARTICLES
Changing with the Yellow River: An Environmental History of Hebei, 1048-1128
LING ZHANG
Rediscovering Ying Qu and His Poetic Relationship to Tao Qian
PAULINE LIN
Gender and Textual Politics during the Qing Dynasty: The Case of the Zhengshi ji

以詩存仁 以人存詩
XIAORONG LI
Songs of the Righteous Spirit: “Men of High Purpose” and Their Chinese Poetry in
Modern Japan
MATTHEW FRALEIGH
REVIEWS
Lost Soul: “Confucianism” in Contemporary Chinese Academic Discourse, by John
Makeham
STEPHEN C. ANGLE
Tao Yuanming and Manuscript Culture: The Record of a Dusty Table, by Xiaofei Tian
ROBERT ASHMORE
The Taoists of Peking, 1800-1949: A Social History of Urban Clerics, by Vincent
Goossaert Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2007. Pp. xv + 395. $49.95.
T. H. BARRETT
Competition over Content: Negotiating Standards for the Civil Service Examinations in
Imperial China (1127-1279), by Hilde De Weerdt
BEVERLY BOSSLER
The Phantom Heroine: Ghosts and Gender in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Literature,
by Judith T. Zeitlin
MARAM EPSTEIN
Burning for the Buddha: Self-Immolation in Chinese Buddhism, by James A. Benn
VINCENT GOOSSAERT
The Talented Women of the Zhang Family, by Susan Mann
RANIA HUNTINGTON
Reinventing the Wheel: Paintings of Rebirth in Medieval Buddhist Temples, by Stephen F.
Teiser
JOHN KIESCHNICK
Words Well Put: Visions of Poetic Competence in the Chinese Tradition, by Graham
Sanders.
PAUL W. KROLL
Speaking of Yangzhou: A Chinese City, 1550-1850, by Antonia Finnane
PETER C. PERDUE
Ji’an Literati and the Local in Song-Yuan-Ming China, by Anne Gerritsen
RICHARD VON GLAHN