.... It is more likely to interest the general reader than the specialist. ELLSWORTH C. CARLSON Oberlin College Notes on Chinese Literature: With Introductory Remarks on the Progressive Advancement of the Art. By A. WYLIE. Introduction by HOWARD S. LEVY. New York: Paragon Reprint Corp., 1964 (2d. ed xxxx, 307...

...Richard H. Minear Abstract With rare exceptions, Asian historians in the United States are practicing teachers. Through grim necessity, many of us teach courses in fields other than Asia. Most of us teach survey courses in Asian history, usually to large enrollments. Some of us teach advanced...

...Roger Dingman 150 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES The Fateful Choice: Japan's Advance Into Southeast Asia, 1939-1941. Edited by JAMES WILLIAM MORLEY. New York: Columbia University Press, 1980. 366 pp. Appendixes, Notes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index, Maps. $25. Forty years ago, Japan sent her armies...

...Françoise Pommaret One Hundred Thousand Moons: An Advanced Political History of Tibet . By Tsepon Wangchuk Deden Shakabpa . Translated and annotated by Derek F. Maher . Leiden : E. J. Brill , 2010 . Vol. 1, xlviii, 574 pp.; vol. 2, viii, 612 pp. $398.00 (cloth). Copyright ©...

... and depth,” assuredly increases the reader's appreciation for this vast enterprise. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 Lach Donald F. , and Kley Van , Edwin J . Asia in the Making of Europe . Volume III: A Century of Advance . Book One: Trade...

...Michael Lewis Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 Japan and Singapore in the World Economy: Japan's Economic Advance into Singapore, 1870–1965 . By Hiroshi Shimizu and Hitoshi Hirakawa . London and New York : Routledge , 1999 . xxxvii , 279 pp. $95.00...

...Sanjay Subrahmanyam Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume III, Book 1: A Century of Advance . By Donald F. Lach and Edwin J. Van Kley . Chicago : The University of Chicago Press , 1993 . xxvi, 597 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Bruce J. Esposito Energy in China's Modernization: Advances and Limitations . By Vaclav Smil . Armonk, N.Y. : M. E. Sharpe , 1988 . xiv, 250 pp. $37.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988 1988 872 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES on labor force is mainly...

...John T. Roberts Hindi Stories: A Dual Language Reader for Area and Advanced Language Students . Translated by Usha Saksena Nilsson . Madison : South Asian Language and Area Center, University of Wisconsin–Madison (Publication Series, No. 1), 1975 . xix, 324 pp. Glossary, Abbreviations...

...Benjamin A. Batson Thailand and Japan's Southern Advance, 1940–1945 . By E. Bruce Reynolds . New York : St. Martin's Press , 1994 . xvi, 334 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 633 which it is located would have greatly...

...George H. Kakiuchi Japan Advances: A Geographical Study . By Prue Dempster . London : Methuen and Company, Ltd. , 1967 . xvii, 329 pp. Maps and Figures, Plates, Glossary, Bibliography, Selected List of Large-Scale Maps, Index. $12.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...). Crisis or Recovery in Japan: State and Industrial Economy . Edited by David Bailey , Dan Coffey , and Phil Tomlinson . Northampton, Mass. : Edward Elgar , 2007 . ix , 224 pp. $110.00 (cloth). Japan's Great Stagnation: Financial and Monetary Policy Lessons for Advanced Economies . Edited...

...Moss Roberts Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1967 1967 Advanced Chinese . By John deFrancis . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1967 . Comparative transcription table: Pinyin-Yale-Wade Giles. 540 pp. Glossary, Index. $6.00. BOOK REVIEWS 131 versy 1880...

...Carlo Coppola Advance [sic] Hindi Reader in the Social Sciences . By Ved Prakash Vatuk . Hayward : California State College, Auxiliary Foundation , 1968 . np. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1970 1970 BOOK REVIEWS 465 appointed by, the treatment of Hamilton's...

... the instructor with enough misconceptions of China to correct for the rest of the year. The instructor himself had better read it first. School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University PAUL M. A. LINEBARGER Official Relations between China and Japan, 1368-1549. By WANG Yl-T'UNG. Harvard...

... much abstract discussion of structure. The sui generis for 1961. book represents a solid addition to the ethnog- DONN V. HART raphy of New Guinea. Syrcause University ROBBINS BURLING Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford Kinship and Marriage in a New Guinea Vil- lage. By H. IAN...

... with considerable success; therefore na- tionalists from Southeast Asia as well as outsiders working in the area will profit from perusing this book. It ranks among the most significant contributions to our understanding of Southeast Asian governmental policies. JOHN BADGLEY School of Advanced International Studies...

... analytic tools and diverse theoretical frameworks. With more extensive philological and ethnographic spadework, such an imaginative socio-semantic mapping of the \ai\et concept could provide a refreshingly synthetic understanding of the living religion of Bali. JAMES A. BOON The Institute for Advanced...

... and countryside mentalites which reveal some kind of "relationship between mythic return and modern advance." He is, furthermore, on very sound historical grounds which would be easy to trace in this case directly back to the Ming period when he objects that Hobsbawm's categories for social banditry scarcely fit...