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...Shirley Chang The Mouth That Begs: Hunger, Cannibalism, and the Politics of Eating in Modern China . By Gang Yue . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 1999 . 447 pp. $64.95 (cloth); $20.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Richard G. Wang Accidental Incest, Filial Cannibalism, and Other Peculiar Encounters in Late Imperial Chinese Literature . By Tina Lu . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2008 . viii , 306 pp. $39.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010...

.... Skinner's argument? I can only echo and applaud Mr. Freedman's final sentences, and commend their eloquence: “Cooperation which amounts to ingestion is cannibalism. The usefulness of social science to Chinese studies depends on its being allowed to be itself.” Amen . The point of no return in the care...

... involves unexpected engagement with the literary antecedents to Lu Xun's work. By examining the transculturation of cannibalism and insanity in the works of Lu Xun, Liang Wern Fook, Ōe Kenzaburō, and Leonid Andreev, among others, this article reveals how “Diary of a Madman” as an object in between projects...

... debates about the meaning of the famine, and it analyzes images of women and cannibalism as examples of the “semiotics of starvation” (p. 159ff). Edgerton-Tarpley convincingly demonstrates that for survivors and observers, interpretations of the Incredible Famine varied widely. By juxtaposing local...

... be enjoyed as an allegory of ethnographic anxieties, failures, first contacts, and mis-takes. By cannibalizing footage from the earlier film, Tidikawa: At The Edge of Heaven attempts to look back to 1970, a year for living primitively, in order to take measure of the present. In 1970, the Bedamini "remained...

... in "Home Town"flowsfrom an assertion of the meaning and effect of human will. To take up the second example, after discussing the major theme of "Diary of a Madman" the madman's despair of ever being able to cure the Chinese of the deeply rooted, traditional "cannibalism" Lyell concludes that the madman...

..., and cannibalisms" (p. 40; incidentally, the reference to cannibalism is misplaced). It should finally be noted that although the author cites his sources, he fails to indicate that he has often copied them verbatim, whole paragraphs at a time. The net result is a pastiche of poorly assimilated material. University...

...: "the inhabitants on the Amur deserted their villages, being deeply impressed with Khabarof's torture, abduction, death, and cannibalisms" (p. 40; incidentally, the reference to cannibalism is misplaced). It should finally be noted that although the author cites his sources, he fails to indicate that he has often...

..., and cannibalisms" (p. 40; incidentally, the reference to cannibalism is misplaced). It should finally be noted that although the author cites his sources, he fails to indicate that he has often copied them verbatim, whole paragraphs at a time. The net result is a pastiche of poorly assimilated material. University...

... were of an "enormous number," and accompanied by worked bone in the middens described on pp. 69-72.) About the absence of cannibalism, another trait, he says, "If we may accept the evidence of the kitchen middens there has never at any time been cannibalism in the Andamans, although the practice...

... Press . Uchida , Jun . 2016 . “ From Island Nation to Oceanic Empire: A Vision of Japanese Expansion from the Periphery .” Journal of Japanese Studies 42 , no. 1 : 57 – 90 . Weaver-Hightower , Rebecca . 2007 . Empire Islands: Castaways, Cannibals, and Fantasies of Conquest...

... the classification of the Onges (or the Andamanese in general) as a true paleolithic people. It would be more reasonable to class them as pre-lithic" (p. 147). (These slivers were of an "enormous number," and accompanied by worked bone in the middens described on pp. 69-72.) About the absence of cannibalism, another...

... treated the natives worse than slaves. And speaking of Siberian natives, where did Mr. Lengyel learn the fable, which on his page 39 he trades off as a fact, that the Samoyeds of West 386 THE FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY Siberia once were cannibals and killed their daughters to feed the flesh to their guests...

... destruction that accompanied dynastic change. In rebellion, food shortages often forced the rebels and their pacifiers to pillage the countryside. Peasants were shorn of a desire to continue to produce. Famine worsened. In extreme cases, cannibalism occurred. Desolation in the countryside was matched...

..., even though its JAS reviewer, Lawrence Olsen, recommended it as "required reading in all courses on modern Japan" (JAS 36, 1 [Nov. 1976]: 150-52). The section on Japanese "cannibalism" in China (pp. 196-217) gives a vivid, to say the least, portrayal of the ultimate meaning of the fascistic ideas...

..., such as the cell phone and horror, gambling, and cannibalism, makes it possible for him to create unexpected juxtapositions of Western, Asian, and Asian American texts and chart out a comparative field that is both lively and transnational. For instance, the book begins with a chapter that studies the “wed[ding...

... itself through narration, denying sovereignty to the “ethnographic state.” It was in the routine cannibalization of the effort of the “native scholar” or the appropriation of the stories of the “old ayah,” accomplished through deploying the tropes of scientism, that colonial anthropology and folklore...

... of themes from cannibalism and contamination to army mores and the Anglo-Indian's hyphenated body works remarkably well; her analysis of Anglo-Indian identity as a somatic paradox is truly illuminating. Next, “ Abstinence ” continues to showcase Roy's achievement, in her careful perusal of Gandhi (1927...

... by the cases of intersemiotic translations read partially in light of Brazilian concrete poetry, translation studies scholars might wonder about the absence of in-depth discussions of Haroldo de Campos's concept of “cannibalism,” which has been one of the touchstones for studying postcolonial translation...