...Richard D. Lambert Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1975 1975 VOL. XXXV, No. i JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES NOVEMBER 1975 William Norman Brown 1892-1975 Norman Brown died April 22nd. He was 82. Many of us owe him personal debts for his help at various points in his career; all...

... Wong , turns Lomax into a sixty-year-old rice queen who ends up dumping Suzie for a Thai boy. So why would “the native boy go to the United States of America as the desperate Asian housewife?” (p. 151). For the same reason the Asian woman, who is “queered” in Lim's account by the brown boy, does. I...

...Leonard Casper Little Brown Brother: How the United States Purchased and Pacified the Philippine Islands at the Century's Turn . By Leon Wolff . Garden City : Doubleday , 1961 . 364 . Bibliography, Index. $4.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1961 1961 540...

...Suchitra Samanta Abstract K ālī , the Hindu goddess ‘Time,’ is a ubiquitous presence in contemporary rural and urban Bengali life and occupies a historic place as Calcutta's patron deity. Her prototypes go back to pre-Vedic India (Kinsley 1977:90; MacKenzie-Brown 1985:111). Kālī was incorporated...

...Emily C. Brown American Attitude Towards the Indian Nationalist Movement . By Diwakar Prasad Singh . New Delhi : Munshiram Manoharlal , 1974 . xiv, 362 pp. Bibliography, Index. $13.00. (Dist. by South Asia Books, Columbia, Mo.). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1975...

...Emily C. Brown The Indian Revolutionary Problem in British Diplomacy, 1914–1919 . By Don Dignan . New Delhi : Allied Publishers , 1983 . xvi, 256 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Index. $16. (Distributed by South Asia Books, Columbia, Mo.) The Russian Revolution (1917) and Indian Nationalism...

...Jeremy Brown The Chinese Cultural Revolution: A History . By Paul Clark . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2008 . xii , 352 pp. $80.00 (cloth); $22.99 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009 In this cultural history, Paul Clark...

...Sidney DeVere Brown Modern Japanese Society 1868–1994 . By Ann Waswo New York : Oxford University Press , 1996 . 179 pp. $14.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 237 unidiomatic, carefully charts the withheld breath of time with its...

...David Brown Dare to Change: An Alternative Vision for Singapore . By Chee Soon Juan . Singapore : Singapore Democratic Party , 1994 . 157 pp. To Catch a Tartar: A Dissident in Lee Kuan Yew's Prison . By Francis T. Seow . New Haven, Conn. Monograph 42: Yale Center...

...Robert L. Brown The Mists of Rāmañña: The Legend That Was Lower Burma . By Michael A. Aung-Thwin . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2005 . xi, 433 pp. $59.00 (cloth). Ancient Pagan: Buddhist Plain of Merit . By Donald M. Stadtner . Photography by Michael Freeman...

...C. Mackenzie Brown The Myths of Narasimha and Vāmana: Two Avatars in Cosmological Perspective . By Deborah A. Soifer . Albany : State University of New York Press , 1991 . xii, 321 pp. $49.50 (cloth); $16.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993...

...Philip C. Brown Abstract Early modern rulers in asia and europe frequently sought to secure a better grasp of the land and other resources that provided them with the economic resources t o maintain their governments, expand their power, and permit them to conquer new lands (see, for example, Tilly...

...Ian Brown Abstract This article is a preliminary exploration of the impact of the world depression of the early 1930s on the rural populations of Southeast Asia. The first section of the essay considers some of the statistical evidence relating to living standards and economic welfare in rural...

...Colin Brown Sjahrir: Politics and Exile in Indonesia . By Rudolf Mrazek . Ithaca, N.Y. : Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University , 1994 . x, 526 pp. $24.25 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 862 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES discounting...

...Sidney D. Brown Ōkubo Toshimichi: the Bismarck of Japan . By Masakazu Iwata . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1964 . viii, 376 , Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $7.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1965 1965 BOOK REVIEWS 149...

...Robert L. Brown The Architecture of the Indian Sultanates . Edited by Abha Narain Lambah and Alka Patel . Mumbai : Marg Publications , 2006 . 116 pp. $66.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009 The period of the Indian sultanates runs from...

...Donald E. Brown A History of Brunei . By Graham Saunders . Kuala Lumpur : Oxford University Press , 1994 . xx, 212 pp. $39.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 1156 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES weak institutionalization of interest groups in the final...

...W. Norman Brown The Wonder That Was India . A Survey of the Culture of the Indian Sub-Continent before the Coming of the Muslims. By A. L. Basham . New York : Macmillan , 1955 (London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1954 ). xxiv, 568 . 89 Plates, 26 Line Drawings, Maps, Chronology, Bibliography...

...Delmer M. Brown Interdisciplinary Bibliography on Nationalism, 1935–53 . By Karl W. Deutsch . Cambridge, Mass. : Technology Press of M.I.T. 1956 . 165 . Index. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1957 1957 600 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES deal with his subject...