The latest issue of the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies has been published, including several articles and reviews that will be of interest to blog readers.
The journal is available online through Project Muse at https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/39157. Submission and subscription information is available at http://hjas.org/.
HJAS (Vol. 78, No 1) Contents
Editorial Preface
About the Cover
a character created by Ge Zhongxuan 葛中選 as a compound phonetic symbol (ca. 1618)
Articles
New Scripts for All Sounds: Cosmology and Universal Phonetic Notation Systems in Late Imperial China
Nathan Vedal
The Art of Reframing the News: Early Meiji Shinbun Nishiki-e in Context
Chelsea Foxwell
From Land Reclamation to Land Grab: Settler Colonialism in Southwest China, 1680–1735
John E. Herman
The Last Words of Confucius
Michael Hunter
Review Essays
The Natural History of Japanese Colonialism
Angus Lockyer
Spirituality, Transcendence, and the Circulatory History of Modern Asian Religion
David A. Palmer
Analects for Schoolgirls and Underemployed Warriors: Testing a Cultural History of Confucianism in Japan
David Mervart
Reviews
Barbara Ambros, Women in Japanese Religions (Heather Blair)
Xiaomei Chen, Staging Chinese Revolution, Theater, Film, and the Afterlives of Propaganda (Rosemary Roberts)
Hilde De Weerdt, Information, Territory, and Networks: The Crisis and Maintenance of Empire in Song China (Charles Hartman)
Jiahong He, Back from the Dead: Wrongful Convictions and Criminal Justice in China (Matthew H. Sommer)
Minghui Hu, China’s Transition to Modernity: The New Classical Vision of Dai Zhen (Dagmar Schäfer)
Maki Isaka, Onnagata: A Labyrinth Of Gendering In Kabuki Theater; Satoko Shimazaki, Edo Kabuki In Transition: From The Worlds Of The Samurai To The Vengeful Female Ghost (Carolyn Morley)
Christopher M. S. Johns, China and the Church: Chinoiserie in Global Context (Kristina Kleutghen)
Terry F. Kleeman, Celestial Masters: History and Ritual in Early Daoist Communities (Stephen Bokenkamp)
Nayoung Aimee Kwon, Intimate Empire: Collaboration and Colonial Modernity in Korea and Japan (Samuel Perry)
Jianmei Liu, Zhuangzi and Modern Chinese Literature (Mabel Lee)
Michael Lucken, Imitation and Creativity in Japanese Arts: From Kishida Ryūsei to Miyazaki Hayao (Miryam Sas)
Christopher Rea, The Age of Irreverence: A New History of Laughter in China (Thomas Moran)
Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt, China’s Early Mosques (Wei-Cheng Lin)
Travis Workman, Imperial Genus: The Formation and Limits of the Human in Modern Korea and Japan (Michael Kim)
