HJAS 83/2 Published

The current issue (Volume 83, Number 2) includes:

Research Articles:
XIN WEN on Khotanese kings’ adoption of the trappings of Chinese imperial rulership in post-Tang Central Asia
PAIZE KEULEMANS on reevaluating the Ming novel Outlaws of the Marsh through the lens of its video-game remediation
JEFFREY WENG on the material and economic constraints facing Chinese character simplification during the Nanjing decade

Review Essays:
PETER BOL on three recent studies using historical data to theorize China’s late-imperial challenges
DIANE WEI LEWIS on four studies examining the persistence of hegemonic masculinities in East Asia’s media sphere

and reviews of books by Alexander Des Forges, Bernard Faure, Christine M. E. Guth, Robert Hellyer, Reginald Jackson, Kyung Hyun Kim, Mark Edward Lewis, Markus Nornes, Victor Seow, and Atsuko Ueda

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.