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Record of Daily Knowledge and Collected Poems and Essays: Selections. By Gu Yanwu . Translated and edited by Ian Johnston . New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. xviii + 323 pp. $65, £54.95 (cloth), $64.99, £54.95 (ebook).

example, the four octaves by Zheng Yin 鄭愔 (d. 710) on Emperor Zhongzong’s 中宗 (r. 684, 705–710) visit to Shangguan Wan’er’s ward show how one of Shangguan’s supporters perceive her and her relation with the emperor. The octaves could also be used to compare and contrast with some of the aforementioned twenty-five poems in which Shangguan perhaps writes about herself or her group of court elites. Yet only two couplets are briefly discussed (96). Another example is the seventeen octaves on Wu Zhao’s visit to Shicong 石淙 in 700 (105–107), written respectively by Wu Zhao and the sixteen people who accompanied her, including her two sons, her courtiers, and her “male favorites.” Wu Zhao was at the height of her power at that time, and these poems reveal how the sixteen people perceive her as well as her self-perception. However, only six couplets, written respectively by three people, are briefly analyzed, and the discussion again departs from the main focus on “female-related images” for which the author gives only one example (Queen Mother of the West). Chapter 2 contains a few typos in Chinese characters. for example, xiang響 (should be xiang饗, 75),mi泌 (should be qin沁, 86), yang仰 (should be ying迎, 92), ye葉 (should be xie叶, 94), xiang相 (should be xiang湘, 94, note 92), lai萊 (should be ying瀛, 101), and di 第 (should be ce 策, 104). There are also some minor issues of authorship and dating. It is highly likely that Shangguan Wan’er is not the author of all the twentyfive poems on visiting Princess Changning’s estate.1 In addition, there is no internal or external evidence that these twenty-five poems were written in the year 710 (97, 100). Lastly, as Doran notes in the introduction, she did not “engage extensively with the rich corpus of Japanese sources pertaining to this period, a direction in research that awaits future work” (20). Sources and studies listed in the bibliography (239–49) are in English and Chinese languages. One looks forward to future studies that address the aforementioned issues in chapter 2 of this volume, include sources and scholarship in other languages in addition to English and Chinese, and continue the research that Transgressive Typologies has started.