...Kenneth Perry Landon Abstract IN this study Southeastern Asia is limited to the land area on the continent of Asia which is south of China and east of India. In particular it includes Burma, Thailand, Indo-China, and Malaya. Nationalism has more than one connotation. Every people has a nationalism...

... than its widest possible connotation in terms of human freedom and reflect on how the British Empire in India provided a critical arena for the exercise of sovereign power in the name of both freedom and responsibility. It might be worth stressing that the term “liberal” itself, with its various...

... of Sun's pʻing-chün ti-chʻüan —“equalization of land rights”—as a specifically urban taxation device raises a question concerning the original scope and purpose of this major aspect of the min sheng program. Taken by itself, “equalization of land rights” has an agrarian land tenure reform connotation...

... ) was more than mere land tax and connotes a tax on income corresponding to bhaga in Indian law books. By the fourteenth century, if not earlier, there had been a fundamental change. Rather than a tithe from each class of land in the village, the king received the whole of the produce of certain fields...

..., de la richess, à condition de donner à ce mot sa connotation mnong: on n'accumule des biens que pour les engloutir dans de grands sacrifices), ce mot kuang désigne un animal adulte mâle, notamment dans rpuh kuang “grand buffle mâle” taille de l'âme buffle d'un homme puissant, d'un kuang. C'est dans...

... ,” literally meaning “American products,” but loaded with postwar Okinawan perceptions of America, its military, and the social contexts of the goods themselves. Connotations have shifted over the postwar period, at times suggesting Okinawan appropriation of American power through consumption of “luxurious...

... "official titles"; rather the reverse. If there are difficulties in finding an adequate English rendition, it is most likely due to syntactical and morphological differences between the two languages, but rarely to the absence from the English lexicon of a fairly suitable equivalent. Thus, the connotations...

... that I include the traditional and basic connotation of “put the waters in their channels,” in reference to the supposed hydraulic accomplishments of the Great Yü, even though this sense remains alive for many educated readers of Chinese. 8 For non-antiquarians: the great seventh century...

... texts with notes taken during his visits. He assembles a global picture of lives led in tension within the Buddhist order and between government and the order. Rejecting anthropology's functional analysis of society as over-simple, he sees in society a complex of symbols with connotations as well...

... of the Paranirmitavasavartin devas, is not being referred to. Hence there are no separate and distinct legends of a number of different Maras who are devas of this cosmological order,31 though an inherent ambivalence results from the double usage of the term. Mara can connote both the title of a deva in this universe as well...

... “Semasiology of Some Primary Confucian Concepts,” 330 (cited in note 1 above), he definitely gives preference to “co-humanity” on the ground that this avoids the European and non-Chinese connotations evoked by “humanity.” 25 Mencius , VIIb, 16 ; Doctrine of the Mean , chap. 28; Book of Rites...

... to local identity categories, three popular Chinese-language terms are employed: ren , min , and jia . All of them can be translated as “people” or “person,” but each also has its distinct connotations. Most of the identity categories I collected in my research were referred to with the term ren...

... of both the connotations of crime and of maleness, and women also describe themselves in this way.7 Nevertheless, although the vocabulary has been subverted, there are still distinct words to describe men and women, with the words used to describe women, such as jai nakleng, stripped of the connotations...

... century on “to also connote ‘religion’ in its Western formulation of a reified system of beliefs, practices, and ethics” (p. 301). This is undoubtedly partly true, but Gottschalk may be putting too much reliance on the idea of religion as an arbitrary concept. Against this, I would claim that many early...

... as with the more distant, yet arguably more suffusing, Indonesian state. The idea of the kampung holds powerful valences for Indonesians and Indonesianists alike, primarily because of its elastic ability to hold a wide spectrum of meanings, ranging from positive connotations of authenticity and community...

... a close textual-literary reading of the entire novel. It is intended to serve as a textbook for advanced students of Hindi interested in learning how to approach a Hindi text as literature, using three distinct analytic methods: narratology, connotations, and cultural background. The introduction contains...

..., Inc. 1985 1985 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 203 of a temple's buildings have multiple denotations but connote to the discerning viewer a single message: the life of the Buddha in quest of release from suffering. For instance, amulets not only protect the wearer but by connotation they are sachets...

...: they were either regarded as merely utilitarian, lacking artistic value and religious connotations (pp. 1, 4), or, when noted in a religious context, were not appreciated for their architectural merit (pp. 5 6). Hegewald sets out to rectify this situation by familiarizing the reader in the second...

... of Esoteric Buddhist art in Japan, to reveal the aesthetic values of the material as well as its religious connotations, and to explore the historical background from which these works derive. Both the publisher and the author are to be congratulated on the excellent presentation of the material. Although...

... connoting mutation, is written differently and refers solely to the animal 蜴; the goat with thin horns is extinct. The retained dog, pig, horse, and rat could also have been subsumed under simpler radicals. The dog 犬 could have disappeared under any of the four strokes that constitutes it: 丶, 一, 丿or 丶...