HJAS 86/1 Published

The current issue has 3 articles, 2 review essays, and 13 book reviews, as described below:

Articles

YA-HWEI HSU on the social trends reflected in the tomb epitaphs of Liao, Song, and Jin China
TINA LU on the connection of literati aesthetics with enslavement in late imperial China
MATTHEW WILD on evidential scholarship’s links to the poetics of ancient song in the Qing

Review Essays

AMY STANLEY on the study of women, agency, and structure in the social history of Edo Japan
ALLEN HOCKLEY on two recent books reexamining the arts of the Meiji period

And reviews of books by Deng Xiaonan, Lewis Doney et al., William Fleming, Christopher Hanscom, Charlotte Horlyck, Matthew Kapstein, Jungwon Kim, Peter Kwon, Matsuoka Shinpei, John Phan, Ying Qian, Akiko Yano, and Zhang Zhen et al.

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.