HJAS 84/1&2 Published

The current issue (Volume 84, Numbers 1 & 2) includes:

Articles:
AKINOBU KURODA on the importation and uses of old Chinese coins—real and counterfeit—in medieval Japan
MORTEN OXENBOELL on conflicts over forest resources and self-governance among mountain woodsmen in medieval Japan
REINIER H. HESSELINK on the life of a Nagasaki merchant, printer, church elder, and art sponsor during Japan’s “Nanban Moment”
MENGXIAO WANG on the fusion of ritual and theater in a Qing-era Buddhist play and its staging for edification and entertainment

Review Essays:
SEONMIN KIM on two scholarly arguments for Chosŏn Korea’s centrality in the history of imperial Chinese designs
MARIANA MÜNNING comparing a pair of recent studies about the creation of a national language for China

Biographical Essay:
MARY ELIZABETH BERRY on Elizabeth Huff (1912–1988), Harvard grad & founder of the UC Berkeley East Asian Library

and reviews of books by Peter Bol, Michael Bourdaghs, Paul Cha, Wai-yee Li, Hwasook Nam, Morgan Pitelka, Janine Sawada, Nathan Vedal, Lan Wu, and Lawrence Zhang

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.