...Richard A. Frasca 384 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES are trends that they see in all civilizations. Their comparative treatment of civilizations as organismic cultural entities draws from Toynbee a drive to personify each civilization; chart its moments of rise, crisis, and decay; and find...

... (Tsou 1986). One of the tremendous changes occurred in the cultural realm. In the mid and late 1980s thousands of Chinese cultural intellectuals, from well-known professors to junior university students, were caught up in a nonofficially initiated cultural movement, which has been widely called...

... The Cultural Revolution in China . Keesing's Research Report. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons , 1968 . 62 pp. $3.50. This is Communist China . Edited by Robert Trumbull . New York : David McKay Company , 1968 . v, 274 pp. Index. $5.95. The ‘Diary’ of the Cultural...

...Ethan Mark The Long Defeat: Cultural Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Japan . By Akiko Hashimoto . New York : Oxford University Press , 2015 . ISBN: 9780190239152 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). The Fascist Effect: Japan and Italy, 1915–1952...

...Pil Ho Kim Their approach, however, takes a different tack than previous social scientific assessments on the Park Chung Hee era. Youngju Ryu, the editor of Cultures of Yusin , boldly states, “South Korean society as we know it today was born in the 1970s” (Ryu, p. 3). Then it tottered...

...Vilma Seeberg Cultural Exclusion in China: State Education, Social Mobility and Cultural Difference . By Lin Yi . London and New York : Routledge , 2008 . x, 176 pp. $150.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 The impression of China...

...Sunkyung Kim Flowering Plums and Curio Cabinets: The Culture of Objects in Late Chosŏn Korean Art . By Sunglim Kim . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2018 . xi, 292 pp. ISBN: 9780295743417 (paper). A New Middle Kingdom: Painting and Cultural Politics in Late Chosŏn Korea...

... La chanson de Damson , translated and edited by Leopold Sabatier (Paris: Leland & Trautman, 1928), preface by Roland Dorgelès. 2 Fromm Erich , Escape from freedom ( New York : Farrar & Rinehart , 1941 ) . THE POTENTIAL CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE MOI TO THE CULTURAL...

...Virginia Thompson; Richard Adloff Abstract Culturally Indochina has suffered considerably, though less as a result of the war than of the strife which has followed it, and the damage sustained has been in the fields of both personnel and material equipment. The losses of the Ecole française...

...R. P. Dore Meiji bunka shi: Shūkyō-hen [Cultural History of Meiji: Vol. VI, Religion] . Ed. Kishimoto Hideo . Tokyo : Yōyōsha , 1954 . ix, 577 . Chronology. 450/1000 yen. Japanese Religion in the Meiji Era . Comp. and ed. Kishimoto Hideo . Tr. John F. Howes . Japanese Culture...

...I. H. Qureshi Cultural Freedom in Asia . Ed. Herbert Passin . Tokyo : Tuttle , 1956 . viii, 296 . Illustrations. $2.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1957 1957 BOOK REVIEWS 601 ments remain unaltered, nor have they been significantly affected by recent...

...Lauriston Sharp Abstract In 1961 our Association President, Norman Brown, discussed with us the problem of the content of cultural continuity in India. He pointed out that in spite of many variations in time and local differentiations in space, the highly developed civilization of India from...

... for Asian Studies, Inc. 1961 1961 1 Generally following Warren H. C. , Buddhism in Translations ( Cambridge, Mass. , 1909 ), pp. 130 – 133 . The Content of Cultural Continuity in India W. NORMAN BROWN ONE OF THE problems recurring in the Buddhist Pali Texts is the question...

...Robert N. Bellah Abstract It has become customary among many Western scholars to consider Japan as part of an East Asian cultural area, or as a participant in Chinese or Sinic civilization. In a general conception of Asian culture viewed as consisting of East Asian, South Asian, and Middle Eastern...

...Otis H. Shao China's Cultural Diplomacy . By Herbert Passin . New York : Frederick A. Praeger , Publisher, 1962 . vi , 133 . $4.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1963 1963 130 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES alists to visit the Soviet Union; and he became...

...Lea E. Williams The Chinese of Sukabumi: A Study in Social and Cultural Accommodation . By Gioklan Tan . Ithaca : Cornell University , 1963 . Modern Indonesia Project, xii, 314 . Appendix, Maps. $3.50. (paper) Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Alfred Bloom The East and West; A Study of Their Psychic and Cultural Characteristics . By Sidney Lewis Gulick . Rutland, Vt. and Tokyo, Japan : Charles E. Tuttle , 1963 . 425 . $6.95. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 460 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

.... Economic Development as a Cultural Problem . By Soedjatmoko . Translation Series, Modern Indonesia Project, Cornell University , 1958 . iii, 23 . $0.50. An Approach to Indonesian History: Towards an Open Future . By Soedjatmoko . Translation Series, Modern Indonesia Project, Cornell...

...James B. Parsons India and China: A Study of Cultural Relations . By K. M. Panikkar . Bombay : Asia Publishing House , 1957 . xi, 107 . Rs. 4.75. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1958 1958 462 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES golden age," "mission," or "self...

...R. P. Dore Personal Character and Cultural Milieu . Ed. Douglas G. Haring . Syracuse : Syracuse University Press , 3rd rev. ed., 1956 . xi, 834 . Bibliography, Illustrations. $7.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1958 1958 BOOK REVIEWS 453 points, it is only...