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...Yoonkyung Lee The Internet, smartphones, and social media have indeed created their own spaces and culture. Still, they do not stand completely on their own. These digital spaces and their users are inescapably embedded in and linked to real politics, economy, and social movements. The two...

...Amin Sweeney From Class to Culture: Social Conscience in Malay Novels Since Independence . By David J. Banks . Monograph Series 29. New Haven : Yale University, Southeast Asia Studies , 1987 . x, 200 pp. $17.00 (paper). Modern Malay Literary Culture: A Historical Perspective...

...Lennox A. Mills The Making of Greater India: A Study in Southeast Asian Culture Change . By H. G. Quaritch Wales . London : Bernard Quaritch , 1951 . 209 p. 25s. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1952 1952 BOOK REVIEWS 407 The Making of Greater India: A Study...

...Harold C. Hinton BOOK REVIEWS 565 the Li-tai ming-ch'en tsou-yi are important sources, as often for what is not said as for what is. The author hopes that the work under review will show "what can be done in future studies of a whole culture." By this he means histories done under rubrics...

... of past and present movements in future studies. University of Washington MARIUS B. JANSEN A Report from Hokkaido: The Remains of Russian Culture in Northern Japan. By GEORGE ALEXANDER LENSEN. Hakodate: The Municipal Library of Hakodate, 1954. xv, 216. This book, a by-product of Dr. Lensen's more serious...

...Kuo-P'ing Chou Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1955 1955 Language in Culture . Proceedings of a Conference on the Interrelations of Language and Other Aspects of Culture. Edited by Harry Hoijer . The American Anthropologist , Vol. 56 , No. 6, Part 2, Memoir No. 79...

...Adriaan J. Barnouw Abstract The peoples of Indonesia differ widely in culture. All stages of social JL development are represented among them, from the nomad life of the Orang Laut, who wander in their praus upon the sea, and the Orang Kubu, who were, until recently, nomads of the forests in South...

... College KENNETH DUNCAN The native culture of the Marianas Islands (Bernice P. Bishop Museum bulletin 185). BY LAURA THOMPSON. Honolulu, T . H.: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, 1945. 48 p. This small monograph draws together the relatively meager data which can now be assembled on the pre-white "Chamorro...

... Casey, fig. 2; (15) Rolston, 213; (16) Parkinson, Dreissig jahre, 239, fig. 39; (17) Krause, 123, fig. 87 b; (18) van der Sande, 1: pi. 24, figs. 2 and 3; 2: 247, figs. 1 and 2; (19) van der Hoop, fig. 51-A-E. SOME PROBABLE BRONZE AGE INFLUENCES IN MELANESIAN CULTURE ALPHONSE RIESENFELD* The American...

...E.H.P. A syllabus of the history of Chinese civilization and culture . By L. Carrington Goodrich and Henry C. Fenn . 3rd ed. New York : China Society of America , 1941 . 56 p. $.75. A selected list of books and articles on Japan . Compiled by Hugh Borton , Serge Elisséeff...

... of Chicago Press, 1948. xvii, 459 p. $5.00. The megalithic culture of Melanesia. BY ALPHONSE RIESENFELD. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1950. x, 736 p. Guilders 35. This survey of a Fijian village is a valuable addition to the mere handful of carefully recorded local community studies available in the voluminous...

...Julia K. Murray Picturing the True Form: Daoist Visual Culture in Traditional China . By Shih-shan Susan Huang . Harvard East Asian Monographs 342. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2012 . xxv, 526 pp., 368 ill. (80 color, 46 halftone, 242 line art). $69.95 (cloth...

... or in Jiangnan. Honey is almost apologetic for emphasizing the Guangdong-themed poems of the writers whom he studies, rather than other poems that won some of these Cantonese poets empire-wide fame. He states that his book “focuses on the process of legitimizing local literati culture, even though the reverse...

...V. Raghavan Abstract Even if one uses Sanskrit only as the instrument of investigation, it is apparent that Indian culture was a current which, as it flowed and spread, was fed by many a stream and absorbed many a small and stagnant pool. With volume, it gathered often bewildering variety, which...

...Fred Eggan The Philippine Plaza Complex: A Focal Point in Culture Change . By Donn V. Hart . New Haven : Yale University Southeast Asia Studies , 1955 . v, 57 (multilithed). Charts, Bibliography. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1956 1956 634 FAR EASTERN...

... “The Indianization of China: A Case Study in Cultural Borrowing” in Independence, Convergence, and Borrowing , Harvard Tercentenary Publications (Cambridge, 1937 ), pp. 219 – 247 . The last sentence of this essay reads: “With the new aids of modern science and technology, and of the new social and historical...

...Max Loehr Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1958 1958 Bronze Culture of Ancient China . An Archaeological Study of Bronze Objects from Northern Honan, dating from about 1400 B.C.–771 B.C. Museum Studies No. 5. By William Charles White . Toronto : University...

...: 9780300214673 (cloth). Kyoto Visual Culture in the Early Edo and Meiji Periods: The Arts of Reinvention . Edited by Morgan Pitelka and Alice Y. Tseng . London : Routledge , 2016 . xii, 187 pp. ISBN: 9781138186613 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019  2019...

...Laura Nenzi Cultivating Femininity: Women and Tea Culture in Edo and Meiji Japan . By Rebecca Corbett . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2018 . x, 189 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019  2019 While the leadership of tea schools remains...

...Jonathan Abel Writing Technology in Meiji Japan: A Media History of Modern Japanese Literature and Visual Culture . By Seth Jacobowitz . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2015 . xii, 299 pp. ISBN: 9780674088412 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...