...Nghi Truong The Border Within: Vietnamese Migrants Transforming Ethnic Nationalism in Berlin . By Phi Hong Su . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2020 . 194 pp. ISBN: 9781503630147 . © 2023 Association for Asian Studies 2023 How does state formation shape...

...Robert Oppenheim Berlin Koreans and Pictured Koreans . By Frank Hoffmann . Vol. 1 of Koreans and Central Europeans: Informal Contacts up to 1950 , edited by Andreas Schirmer. Vienna : Praesens , 2015 . xi, 241 pp. ISBN: 9783706908733 (paper, also available as e...

... succeeds in pushing ahead with his agenda of socio-economic and tax reforms, this might well have positive repercussions for political institutions in the future. DIETRICH REETZ Centre for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin ...

... on his path to what Kono Taeko, herself a devoted admirer of Tanizaki's, has termed in her famous essay of 1976, the "desire for affirmation" (kotei no yokubo). IRMELA HIJIYA-KIRSCHNEREIT Free University, Berlin Learning to Be Modern: Japanese Political Discourse on Education. By B Y R O N K. MARSHALL...

... indispensable an index of painters. HERBERT BUTZ Museum of Far Eastern Art, Berlin (West) Ethical Argumentation: A Study in Hsun Tzu's Moral Epistemology. By A. S. CuA. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1985. xiv, 228 pp. Explorations in Early Chinese Cosmology. Edited by HENRY ROSEMONT, J R . Chico, Calif...

... choice and a part of both individual strategies (spiritual, economic, and so on) and larger political and cultural projects and struggles. INES G. ZUPANOV Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin Subaltern Studies 11: Community, Gender, and Violence. Edited by P...

... in Korean linguistic research but will also inspire studies in the history of Korean religion, literature, and culture. SONJA HA¨ UßLER with WILFRIED HERRMANN Humboldt University, Berlin Kojong sidae u i chaejomyo ng. By YI T AE-JIN. Seoul: T aehaksa, 2000. 452 pp. W 15,000. For the last ten years, Yi T ae...

... and elevated scholars of the examination system in its late imperial stage, including myself. RUI MAGONE Free University of Berlin China Made: Consumer Culture and the Creation of the Nation. By KARL GERTH. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2003. xv, 445 pp. $50.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper...

... of the Babri Mosque in Ayodhya in December 1992 ( Understanding India: Time for Plain Speaking, December 22, 1992, p. 8). MICHAEL SCHIED Society for International Relations, Berlin Monuments, Objects, Histories: Institutions of Art in Colonial and Postcolonial India. By TAPATI GUHA-THAKURTA. New York...

... texts," Berliner Indologische Studien 11/12, 1998:85-108). The names of the type "naksatra-datta" are so common that we cannot assume an identity simply because "no other historical personage named Vasavadatta is known from this general period" (p. 153). It seems necessary to insist that despite...