Table of Contents HJAS 72.1 (June 2012)

CONTENTS

Article Abstracts

ARTICLES

Woman, Man, Abacus: A Tale of Enlightenment 

HANSUN HSIUNG

Sympathetic Response: Vocal Arts and the Erotics of Persuasion in the Buddhist Literature of 

Medieval Japan

CHARLOTTE EUBANKS 

Vocabularies of Pleasure: Categorizing Female Entertainers in the Late Tang Dynasty

BEVERLY BOSSLER 

Howling Plants and Animals: Kim Suyŏng’s Sovereign Language and Rereading “Grasses”

YOUNG-JUN LEE

REVIEWS

Reproducing Women: Medicine, Metaphor, and Childbirth in Late Imperial China, by Yi-li Wu

CAROL A. BENEDICT  

Polygamy and Sublime Passion: Sexuality in China on the Verge of Modernity, by Keith 

McMahon

ALEXANDER DES FORGES 

Ancestral Leaves: A Family Journey through Chinese History, by Joseph W. Esherick

HENRIETTA HARRISON2

Imperial Politics and Symbolics in Ancient Japan:  The Tenmu Dynasty, 650-800, by Herman 

Ooms 

SAMUEL C. MORSE

Hokkeji and the Reemergence of Female Monastic Orders in Premodern Japan, by Lori Meeks

FABIO RAMBELLI

The Transport of Reading: Text and Understanding in the World of Tao Qian (365-427), by 

Robert Ashmore 

PAUL ROUZER 

Songs of Contentment and Transgression: Discharged Officials and Literati Communities in 

Sixteenth-Century North China, by Tian Yuan Tan

PATRICIA SIEBER

Tropics of Savagery: The Culture of Japanese Empire in Comparative Frame, by Robert Thomas 

Tierney

EMMA J. TENG 

Sound and Script in Chinese Diaspora, by Jing Tsu

KAREN THORNBER 

Playwrights and Literary Games in Seventeenth-Century China: Plays by Tang Xianzu, Mei 

Dingzuo, Wu Bing, Li Yu, and Kong Shangren, by Jing Shen

SOPHIE VOLPP

Defining Engagement: Japan and Global Contexts, 1640-1868, by Robert I. Hellyer

BRETT L. WALKER