...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...

...John Whittier Treat Brown Boys and Rice Queens: Spellbinding Performance in the Asias . By Eng-Beng Lim . New York : New York University Press , 2014 . 256 pp. $75.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015  2015 Eng-Beng Lim is interested in many...

...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...

...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...

...D. Mackenzie Brown Conquest of Violence—The Gandhian Philosophy of Conflict . By Joan V. Bondurant . Princeton : Princeton University Press . 1958 . xv, 269 . Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $5.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1959 1959 BOOK REVIEWS 521...

...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...

...W. Norman Brown Abstract One of the problems recurring in the Buddhist Pali Texts is the question of what it is that transmigrates. Buddhism accepts as axiomatic the doctrine of rebirth, a process of “renewal of becomings” until the attainment of complete knowledge, whereupon the process terminates...

...Ichirō Ishida; Delmer M. Brown Abstract When tea ceremony, flower arrangement, Noh drama, linked verse ( renga ), monochrome painting, and dry-landscape gardening are said to represent Japanese culture, it is usually assumed that they were produced and fostered by Zen Buddhism. If we are fully...

...Sidney DeVere Brown The Modernization of China and Japan . By George M. Beckmann . New York : Harper & Row , 1962 . 724 , Bibliog., Glossary. $7.80. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1963 1963 BOOK REVIEWS The Asians; Their Heritage and Their Destiny...

...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 Banned: Controversial Literature and Political Control in British India, 1907–1947 . By N. Gerald Barrier . Columbia : University of Missouri Press , 1974 . xii, 324 pp. Bibliography, Index. $12.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1975 1975 854...

...Shana J. Brown Revolution as Restoration: Guocui xuebao and China's Path to Modernity, 1905–1911 . By Tze-ki Hon . Leiden Series in Comparative Historiography, Edited by Axel Schneider and Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik . Leiden : Brill , 2013 . xiv, 135 pp. $119.00 (cloth...

...Shana J. Brown Places of Memory in Modern China: History, Politics, and Identity . Edited by Marc Andre Matten . Leiden : Brill , 2012 . x, 285 pp. $151.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013 2013 The concept of the politically charged “site...

...Sidney Devere Brown Abstract Ōkubo Toshimichi (1830–1878) emerged as the dominant figure of the Meiji oligarchy in November 1873. He retained that uneasy position until his death under his assassins' swords on May 14, 1878. During the four and one-half year interval Ōkubo served Japan well...

...Delmer M. Brown Tojo and the Coming of the War . By Robert J. C. Butow . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1961 . vii, 584 . Bibliography, Index. $10.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1962 1962 BOOK REVIEWS 231 mal sculpture), and so did Han art (human...

...D. Mackenzie Brown Abstract Lokamanya Tilak (1856–1920) represents the full tide of ideological activity in the Indian Nationalist movement. Long overshadowed by his younger contemporary, Gandhi, his life and thought are only now, a third of a century after his death, receiving due recognition...

...W. Norman Brown Indian Painting . Introduction and Notes by W. G. Archer . Iris Books . New York and Toronto : Oxford University Press , 1957 . 22 . 15 color plates, 6 figures. $8.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1958 1958 BOOK REVIEWS 651 with or disrupt...

...Delmer M. Brown Religion in Japanese History . By Joseph M. Kitagawa . New York : Columbia University Press , 1966 . x, 475 pp. Chronological Table, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $10.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1967 1967 BOOK REVIEWS 711 "Asiaism...

...Sidney de Vere Brown 152 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES terpretations or broad generalizations. He does not ask, for instance, how imperialistic was Japanese imperialism; nor does he explore the cultural, psychological, and racial aspects of Anglo-Japanese relations. Rather, the book focuses...