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Table of Contents

Law, Deities, and Beyond: From the Sanyan Stories to Xingshi yinyuan zhuan

Xiaoqiao Ling
pp. 1-42
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jas.2014.0001
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Poets, Paragons, and Literary Politics: Sugawara no Michizane in Imperial Japan

Robert Tuck
pp. 43-99
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jas.2014.0004
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The Ming Prince and Daoism: Institutional Patronage of an Elite by Richard G. Wang (review)

Lucille Chia
pp. 101-108
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jas.2014.0007
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Courtesans, Concubines, and the Cult of Female Fidelity: Gender and Social Change in China, 1000–1400 by Beverly Bossler (review)

Christian de Pee
pp. 108-115
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jas.2014.0009
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Rewriting Medieval Japanese Women: Politics, Personality, and Literary Production in the Life of Nun Abutsu by Christina Laffin (review)

Chaw B. D’Etcheverry
pp. 116-120
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jas.2014.0011
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Strange Eventful Histories: Identity, Performance, and Xu Wei’s Four Cries of a Gibbon by Shiamin Kwa (review)

Yuming He
pp. 120-129
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jas.2014.0014
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Traversing the Frontier: The Man’yōshū Account of a Japanese Mission to Silla in 736–737 by H. Mack Horton (review)

Gustav Heldt
pp. 130-137
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jas.2014.0000
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Letters and Epistolary Culture in Early Medieval China by Antje Richter (review)

Charles Holcombe
pp. 137-140
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jas.2014.0003
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Memory, Violence, Queues: Lu Xun Interprets China by Eva Shan Chou (review)

Charles A. Laughlin
pp. 140-144
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jas.2014.0006
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What Remains: Coming to Terms with Civil War in 19th Century China by Tobie Meyer-Fong, and; Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War by Stephen R. Platt (review)

Lillian M. Li
pp. 145-161
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jas.2014.0008
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Women’s Poetry of Late Imperial China: Transforming the Inner Chambers by Xiaorong Li (review)

Wai-yee Li
pp. 162-167
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jas.2014.0010
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Reinventing Modern China: Imagination and Authenticity in Chinese Historical Writing by Huaiyin Li (review)

Paul G. Pickowicz
pp. 167-176
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jas.2014.0013
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Knowing the Amorous Man: A History of Scholarship on Tales of Ise by Jamie L. Newhard (review)

Paul Gordon Schalow
pp. 176-183
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jas.2014.0016
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Empire of the Dharma: Korean and Japanese Buddhism, 1877–1912 by Hwansoo Ilmee Kim (review)

Vladimir Tikhonov
pp. 184-192
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jas.2014.0002
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Kokugaku in Meiji-period Japan: The Modern Transformation of ‘National Learning’ and the Formation of Scholarly Societies by Michael Wachutka (review)

Anne Walthall
pp. 192-198
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jas.2014.0005
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