...Mary N. Layoun The Rhetoric of Confession: Shishōsetsu in Early Twentieth-Century Japanese Fiction . By Edward Fowler . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1988 . xxx, 333 pp. $32.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 158 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...W. Allyn Rickett Abstract A unique feature of traditional Chinese law was the provision by statute that an offender who voluntarily surrendered and confessed before discovery and who made full restitution was entitled to remsision of punishment. Offenders who physically harmed their victims...

...Charles E. Hamilton Confessions of a Mask . By Yukio Mishima . Tr. Meredith Weatherby. New York : New Directions , 1958 . 255. $3.75. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1959 1959 294 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES a restatement of, rather than a contribution to, existing...

...John Schrecker Our Ordered Lives Confess: Three Nineteenth-Century American Missionaries in East Shantung . By Irwin T. Hyatt, Jr. Cambridge : Harvard University Press (Harvard Studies in American-East Asian Relations 8), 1976 . vi, 323 pp. Illustrations, Map, Glossary, Index. $18.50...

...Yoko McClain Confessions of Love . By Uno Chiyo . Translated by Phyllis Birnbaum . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1989 . x, 157 pp. $27.00 (cloth); $12.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 881 the book suffers from...

... something in which one would find at least most of the answers to the major problems which the ghazal presents to us who study it with the values of the modern West. Hitherto this hope has not been realized, and for that reason I now attempt to set out my own views—spurred on, I should confess, by Muhammad...

..., describing them as “a great pick-me-up for Asia” which kindled his nationalism and his determination to “fight for India.” Eager to learn more of the Japanese experience, “I invested in a large number of books on Japan and tried to read some of them.” But he confesses ruefully (perhaps recalling an account...

... of Chinese stories and novels must confess. Unconsciously conditioned as are we all to the premises and achievements of European fiction, we cannot fail to weigh this fiction of another culture in the same balance and find it vaguely wanting. In the following pages I intend to isolate several of the factors...

... of the Horiuji confessed that tradition ascribed the contents of the shrine to Corean work of the days of Suiko, but that it had not been opened for more than two hundred years. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 List of References Abe Stanley K. Forthcoming. “Inside...

... Studies, Inc. 2019  2019 Visakesa Chandrasekaram's The Use of Confessionary Evidence under the Counter-Terrorism Laws of Sri Lanka is the most comprehensive description and critique of the use and impact of confessions under the Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act No. 48 of 1979 (PTA...

.... These documents were catalogued and microfilmed by Cornell University in 1991. A second archive of related documents was presented by the Cambodian government to an affiliate of the Cambodian Genocide Program established by Yale University in 1995. Among the documents from S-21 were 4,300 "confessions...

..., and “confess” that their unworthiness might have been responsible. But this did not involve real shame or a public “loss of face.” 15 See footnote 6. 16 Bunzel R. , and Weakland J. H. , “An Anthropological Approach to Chinese Communism,” Columbia University Research...

... collected here are representative of available written evidence of the regime. Seven of the documents are among relatively scarce surviving internal documents of the Khmer Rouge. An eighth document, quite different in character, is the forced confession of Hu Nim, the DK 202 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Leonard A. Gordon Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1969 1969 1 My interview with Alok Chakravarty, cousin of Harikumar Chakravarty and M. N. Roy, now 72. Vide also Phani Charakravarty's confession. 2 My interview with Alok Chakravarty. 3 Phani...

... and medi- tations, he will turn them to account either in the confession, more or less dramatic, or in the quiet, impressionistic "spiritual autobiography." Of the two kinds of shi-shosetsu, the confessional and the contemplative, it would be hard to say which has been more severely criticized.3 Few modern...

... on interrogation of suspects with the intent of extracting confessions, with subsequent investigations focused on finding evidence to support those confessions. Effective interrogation depends to a large extent on access to the suspect, and in the case of Japan access is normally facilitated by the detention...

..." and "the mysterious East," and a confession that he cannot read Japanese. But as one should not judge a book by its cover, one should not judge A. Didrick Castberg's work on the Japanese criminal justice system by its preface. Those who continue reading will discover a significant study of a neglected subject. While...

...Susan Rodgers BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 1003 clothing, or the separation of cadres from their families. Once an acceptable confession was produced, the prisoner was executed. Faced with such extraordinary material, Chandler poses the question: Why did the DK keep the archive? After all, its...

... misread, but the second is a mistake for ^o*. The work in question is not called Gentei ya\usho, but Gen\o sha\ushol D. E. MILLS School of Oriental and African Studies University of London Confessions of a Mask. By YUKIO MISHIMA. Tr. Meredith Weatherby. New York: New Directions, 1958. 255. $3.75...

.... 56 . 29 Examples of coerced confessions can be found in such case books as the T'ang-yin-pi-shih . The common phrase was “he wrongly confessed because he could not stand the questioning under torture.” Van Gulik cites eleven cases (out of 144 which he translated) where a conscientious...