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...Brandon Marsh Call of Empire: From the Highlands to Hindostan . By Alexander Charles Baillie . Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press , 2017 . xii, 468 pp. ISBN: 9780773551244 (cloth). The Ruler's Gaze: A Study of British Rule over India from a Saidian Perspective...

...Brandon Dotson Despite such shortcomings, this work and its numerous contributions should not be dismissed. Taenzer has highlighted several documents and brought forth many facts that enhance the fields of Dunhuang studies and early Tibetan studies. More problematic is Taenzer's approach...

...Brandon Dotson In the final analysis, most of the chapters are appropriate readings for undergraduates, and the book as a whole is a very good introduction to the history of Dunhuang and to Dunhuang studies. The book's status as a translation of a Chinese book, Dunhuang xueshi ba jiang...

...Barak Kushner Brandon addresses the manner in which kabuki followed current events but the work does not ask the corollary question, why did it follow? It may be because he spends so much time on the precise detail of the performances and explanations of how the industry operated during...

...Hildred Geertz On Thrones of Gold: Three Javanese Shadow Plays . Edited with an introduction by James R. Brandon . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1970 . xvi, 407 pp. Appendices, Note on Sources, Illustrations, Bibliography, Index. $15.00. Copyright © The Association...

...Steven T. Brown Nō and Kyōgen in the Contemporary World . Edited by James R. Brandon . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1997 . x, 249 pp. $39.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 189 JAPAN No and Kyogen in the Contemporary...

..., and Historical Context. BY JAMES R. BRANDON, WILLIAM P. MALM, AND DONALD H. SHIVELY. Hawaii: The University Press of Hawaii, 1978. xv, 183 pp. Notes, Bibliographies, Index, Notes on Authors, 33 plates, 15 musical notations. $6.50 (paper). At once scholarly and readable (but marred by a horrendous number...

...Susan Matisoff Chūshingura: Studies in Kabuki and the Puppet Theater . Edited by James R. Brandon . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1982 . vii, 231 pp. Illustrations, Contributors, Index. $30. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1984 1984 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 541...

...A. L. Becker Theatre in Southeast Asia . By James R. Brandon . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 1967 . xiii, 370 pp. Maps, Tables, Illustrations, Bibliography, Index. $12.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968 1968 BOOK REVIEWS 911 of the book...

...Phillip B. Zarrilli The Cambridge Guide to Asian Theatre . Edited by James R. Brandon . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1993 . xiii, 253 pp. $49.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 892 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Putting aside the issues...

...Tsuguhito Takeuchi This brilliant work by Brandon Dotson and Guntran Hazod deserves a high evaluation and will remain a standard reference not only for students of Tibetan studies but for all those who are interested in Asian cultures and history. The book is carefully edited with only a few...

... the Malays and their country. Cornell University D. G. E. HALL Theatre in Southeast Asia. BY JAMES R. BRANDON. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1967. xiii, 370 pp. Maps, Tables, Illustrations, Bibliography, Index. $12.50. This is an ambitious book, almost encyclopedic in conception. In but 370...

...Kathryn Hansen Sanskrit Drama in Performance . Edited by Rachel Van M. Baumer and James R. Brandon . Honolulu : The University Press of Hawaii , 1981 . xiv , 318 pp. Photographs, Notes, Glossary, Index. N.p. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1982 1982 BOOK REVIEWS...

...E. Taylor Atkins Fighting for the Enemy: Koreans in Japan's War, 1937–1945 . By Brandon Palmer . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2013 . vii, 242 pp. ISBN 9780295992570 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2016  2016 Korea's “nationalist...

... work. ULKU BATES Hunter College, City University of New Yor\ On Thrones of Gold: Three Javanese Shadow Plays. EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JAMES R. BRANDON. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970. xvi, 407 pp. Appendices, Note on Sources, Illustrations, Bibliography, Index. $15.00. Despite...

... on the heels of Brandon's "On Thrones of Gold." Dr. Ulbricht is content to cover well trodden ground in this modest study which is intended as a guide for the uninitiated. He has drawn upon acknowledged sources such as Kats, Mangkoenogoro VIII, Hardijowirago and Mellema, among others. The book achieves its...

.... Illustrations, Sources, Bibliography, Glossary. $7-75- The author of "Wayang Purwa" is a German physician practising in Java and his book is the second on the shadow play to be published recently, having followed hard on the heels of Brandon's "On Thrones of Gold." Dr. Ulbricht is content to cover well trodden...

... to our understanding of Hindu civilization. LAWRENCE A. BABB Am herst College Sanskrit Drama in Performance. Edited by RACHEL VAN M. BAUMER and JAMES R. BRANDON. Honolulu: The University Press of Hawaii, 1981. xiv, 318 pp. Photographs, Notes, Glossary, Index. N . p . This volume is a collection of papers...

... University of Wisconsin-Madison The Cambridge Guide to Asian Theatre. Edited by JAMES R. BRANDON. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. xiii, 253 pp. $49.95. Originally published in 1988 as part of The Cambridge Guide to World Theatre under the general editorship of Martin Banham, this revised...

... the author pinpoints the convention. For example, which of the seventeen Uzaemons was so determined to put his stamp of individuality on a role that he tied his hat with a white cord (p. 121), and which of the three Sadanjis tied it with a purple? The tvarizerifu (split dialogue) translated by Brandon (pp...