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...Ravee Raghavan Poverty and Social Change in Southeast Asia (Selections from the Proceedings, Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies, 1978.) . Edited by Ozay Mehmet . Ottawa : University of Ottawa Press , 1979 . 283 pp. Tables, Maps. N.p.l. (paper). Copyright © The Association...

...Kathleen L. Lodwick A Sensitive Independence: Canadian Methodist Women Missionaries in Canada and the Orien, 1881–1925 . By Rosemary R. Gagan . Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press , 1992 . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 114 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...David Fahy Nature and Identity in Canadian and Japanese Literature . Edited by Kinya Tsuruta and Thedore Goossen . Toronto : University of Toronto and York University , Joint Centre for Asian Pacific Studies, 1988 . x, 176 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Karen Minden Missionary Medicine in China: A Study of Two Canadian Protestant Missions in China Before 1937 . By Yuet-wah Cheung . Lanham, Md. : University Press of America , 1988 . xii, 179 pp. $22.25. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 350 T H E J O U...

...Raymond L. Whitehead Saving China: Canadian Missionaries in the Middle Kingdom, 1888–1959 . By Alvyn J. Austin . Toronto : University of Toronto Press , 1986 . xviii, 395 pp. Map, Photographs, Epilogue, Notes and Sources, Index. Canadian $27.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

..., with a fascinating transnational history unfolding in wartime China. When the PUMC returned to Beijing in 1946, as chapter 7 (1946–49) shows, a similar baccalaureate nursing program came into existence at the WCUU under the leadership of Canadian missionary Cora Kilborn. Students of the WCUU, nevertheless...

... Indo-Canadian Institute, New Delhi Monk, Householder, and Tantric Priest: Newar Buddhism and Its Hierarchy of Ritual. By D A V I D N . GELLNER. Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. xxiii, 428 pp. $79.95. The title of this book succinctly...

...H. L. Keenleyside Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1954 1954 Canada and the Far East, 1940–1953 , by H. F. Angus . Issued under the auspices of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs and the Institute of Pacific Relations. Canada : University of Toronto...

... Directorate, Department of the Secretary of State and the Canadian Government Publishing Centre, Supply and Services Canada, 1982 . 369 pp. Notes, Maps, Glossary, Appendix Tables, Selected Bibliography, Index. N.p. (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1986 1986 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA...

... and the hubris of the post World War II development decade, have taken to promoting their foreign policy agenda as one of bringing modernity to the Islamic Middle East. And with this book, Canadian sociologist Kamala Elizabeth Nayar has resurrected mid-twentieth-century modernization theory, complete...

... D. Mitra Barua's Seeding Buddhism with Multiculturalism , an ambitious and meticulously researched study of dhamma education programs at two Canadian Sri Lankan Buddhist temples in the Toronto area, represents an important contribution to the emerging literature on North American Buddhist...

... as a result of the contact of Canadians with Chinese and Japanese: a selective study of their historical background, and some suggestions for their solution." Judging by the number of pages occupied with it, the most salient problem is that of the Chinese and Japanese alien in Canada and the Canadian citizen...

... in Canadian and Japanese Literature. Edited by KINYA TSURUTA and THEDORE GOOSSEN. Toronto: University of Toronto and York University, Joint Centre for Asian Pacific Studies, 1988. x, 176 pp. We may define comparative literature as the study of the interaction of writers and works across national boundaries...

... by Norman, is simply the most recent reminder of how the great Canadian historian of Japan's modernity continues to galvanize the gaze of either admirers or detractors who displace their concerns and problems (obsessions, I should say) in the image they construct of Norman and his work. But a displaced...

... of the post World War II development decade, have taken to promoting their foreign policy agenda as one of bringing modernity to the Islamic Middle East. And with this book, Canadian sociologist Kamala Elizabeth Nayar has resurrected mid-twentieth-century modernization theory, complete with invocations...

...David Bachman Red Capitalism . Produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 1994 . Distributed by Filmakers Library, 124 East 40th Street, New York, N.Y. 10016, 212-808-4980. 60 minutes. Video. $350.00; rental $75. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995...

...-building has resumed and, finally, this gargantuan project may begin. Damming the Three Gorges argues against it, contending that life, treasure, and political power are at stake. Chinese democrats in exile have joined with Canadian environmentalists to obtain documents from a feasibility study done...

... in West China about his trip to Ottawa to urge recognition of the People's Republic. The minister and deputy minister of external affairs, two East Asian specialists, and the leading Canadian representative in China were all sons of clergymen or missionaries. Naturally he felt "quite at home" (p. 308...

... and confrontation of the white bill requiring Chinese laborers to pay a $30 license and Oriental populations of the province. It de- fee twice a year. A general strike of Chinese scribes the problems of development in a province workers ensued and the law was soon declared that barely considered itself Canadian...

..., in gritty detail, a scholarly biography of John Calvin Ferguson (1866–1945), also known by his Chinese name of Fu Kaisen 福開森. A Perpetual Fire chronologically narrates Ferguson's activity as a Canadian-American missionary, Chinese official, sinologist/sinophile, dealer, and collector. Specialists...