... for “humanizing” life in rural China, for providing an “intimate” look at “real” Chinese people as they are but rarely glimpsed in the West. When students have first been primed with readings from William Hinton's two classic prose documentaries of life in Long Bow Village ( Fanshen [1968] and Shenfan [1984...

...Joseph M. Kitagawa The Catalpa Bow: A Study of Shamanistic Practices in Japan . By Carmen Blacker . London : George Allen & Unwin , 1975 . Notes, Select Bibliography, Glossary, Index. $18.75 Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1977 1977 BOOK REVIEWS 359 nese...

... continually translated as "dirt," which for non-Americans carries a connotation very different from "earth The Aiokdvaddna makes much of the interface between the Sangha and the state. The ministers are disturbed by Asoka bowing in salutation before the monks and feel that the status of the king is lowered...

... yellow men" (p. 56), or as "ugly, little bow-legged men" (p. 75). But it is regrettable that the editor did not edit out such racist stereotyping, to say nothing of such tired old cliches as, "Face, to an Oriental, is all-important" (p. 259)! Mrs. Sams was also ill-served by her editor's lack...