HJAS 80/2 Published

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The latest issue of HJAS (Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies) is now available on Project Muse

Cover of HJAS issue 80/2 showing a late nineteenth-century painting by Qian Hui’an entitled Su Shi (Su Dongpo) Admiring Ink Stones The current issue (Volume 80, Number 2) includes:

research articles:
THOMAS KELLY on the Song poet Su Shi and ink making
RUTH YUNJU CHEN on Song innovations in managing medical knowledge
JAMES REICHERT on fetishism, allegory, and irony in Bushūkō hiwa
STEPHEN R. BOKENKAMP on animal rebirth in Buddhism and Daoism

review essays:
LIVIA KOHN on medieval Chinese Daoism
RAJA ADAL on sound, music and speech in modern Japan
KIRK W. LARSEN on movements across Korea’s border

and reviews of books by Raja Adal, Claudine Ang, Rostislav Berezkin, Sayaka Chatani, Robert Culp, Barend J. ter Haar, Richard M. Jaffe, Hwansoo Ilmee Kim, Donald S. Lopez Jr and Thupten Jinpa, Michael J. Sweet (trans.) and Leonard Zwilling (ed.), Daniel Patrick Morgan, Stephen Owen, Gregory Smits, Suyoung Son, Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt, and Xiaofei Tian

To view the full table of contents, please visit the HJAS website. The full issue is available on Project MUSE.

About HJAS: Founded in 1936 under the auspices of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies (HJAS) has without interruption pursued its mission to disseminate original, outstanding research and book reviews on the humanities in Asia, focusing at present on the areas of China, Japan, Korea, and Inner Asia.

For a complete run of back issues online, with a five-year moving wall, see JSTOR. Starting with Volume 69 (2009), issues are also available through Project MUSE. For more information, please visit the HJAS official website.

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