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...Mark Naidis David Scott in Northeast India, 1802–1831, A Study in British Paternalism . By Nirode K. Barooah . New Delhi , Mumshiram Manoharlah , 1970 . xiii, 278 pp. Appendices, Maps, Bibliography, Index. Rs. 30.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1971 1971...

...David Sneath Francis J. Steingass's dictionary, which Golden cites, gives many terms for qawm , including “people, nation” (not kinship terms), “a sect, some, a certain person, a company of men … The followers of King Abrahah.” Earlier translators, such as Étienne Quatremère ( 1836 , 97) used...

...Peter Golden Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 “Tribe,” “subtribe,” and “clan” are troublesome terms, inadequately refracted in our sources. This is widely known, accepted, and noted in my review. David Sneath continues to ignore Kâšgharî, an “insider” who...

...John E. Van Sant Dr. David Murray: Superintendent of Education in the Empire of Japan, 1873–1879 . By Benjamin Duke . New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press , 2019 . vi, 385 pp. ISBN: 9780813594972 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2020 2020...

... University, on the site of his alma mater Yenching University. While there, he suffered a sudden heart attack and succumbed a day later. We have lost a fine scholar, a delightful colleague, and a warm friend. He greatly enriched our lives. W M . THEODORE DE BARY Columbia University David M. Farquhar (1927...

...Mario D. Zamora Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1987 1987 Obituaries David G. Mandelbaum (1911-1987) David G. Mandelbaum, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, died on April 19, 1987, at the age of 76. Born in 1911 in Chicago...

... chapters 2–4 from previous editions, but merely updates them. At the Edge of the Forest: Essays on Cambodia, History and Narrative in Honor of David Chandler is the published version of papers originally presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies in 2001. The introductory...

...Catherine B. Asher Brick Temples of Bengal: From the Archives of David McCutchion . Edited by George Michell . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 1983 . xvii, 254 pp. 803 Illustrations, Maps, Bibliographies. List of Principal Temples and Index. $85. Copyright ©...

...Thomas J. Bellows A Sensation of Independence: A Political Biography of David Marshall . By Chan Heng Chee . Singapore : Oxford University Press , 1984 . xii, 260 pp. $25.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988 1988 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 695...

...John A. Pope Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1954 1954 Illustrated Catalogue of Tung, Ju, Kuan, Chün, Kuang-tung and Glazed I-Hsing Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art . By S. Yorke Hardy . Section I, London , 1953 . 44, xvi plates. 346 FAR EASTERN...

...Benjamin I. Schwartz; Douglas S. Paauw BOOK REVIEWS DAVID MITRANY'S MARX AGAINST THE PEASANT:' Two Comments on its Implications for the Far East BENJAMIN I. SCHWARTZ DOUGLAS S. PAAUW Harvard University I would strongly recommend this book whatever its shortcomings to any one interested...

...Mark R. Peattie Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 Obituaries DAVID C. EVANS 1940-1999 The fields of East Asian and naval history lost an accomplished scholar and the University of Richmond lost a distinguished teacher and administrator when Professor David...

...Bruce Matthews The Genesis of an Orientalist: Thomas William Rhys Davids and Buddhism in Sri Lanka . By Ananda Wickremeratne . New Delhi : South Asia Books, Motilal Banarsidass , 1985 . xxviii, 232 pp. Glossary, Index. N.p. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1986 1986...

...Jonathan K. Ocko; David Gilmartin Abstract This paper uses the concept of the “rule of law” to compare Qing China and British India. Rather than using the rule of law instrumentally, the paper embeds it in the histories of state power and sovereignty in China and India. Three themes, all framed...

...David Biggs Abstract A recent trend of regreening formerly bare hills in central Vietnam is often described in the media as a form of recovery from 1960s wartime destruction. However, this modern framework of wartime “wasting” and regreening obscures a longer history of bare hills. Colonial...

...David Arnold Abstract The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has produced two different narratives in India. One, here described as “historical,” looks back to the pandemics of the colonial past—bubonic plague from 1896, influenza in 1918–19—as a source of comparisons, lessons, and dire warnings...

..., and is discussed piece-by-piece in five chapters BOOK REVIEWS 145 devoted to the fourteenth, fifteenth (early, mid, and late), and sixteenth centuries. Thirty-two pieces are ascribed to the fourteenth century, mainly in accordance with criteria established by the famous vases in the David Foundation...

...David Luesink Abstract This article argues that the establishment of anatomo-power in China preceded and set the foundation for biopower. Anatomo-power is disciplinary power over live bodies in the military, schools, and hospitals, but also the power of the medical profession over dead bodies...

...Rian Thum; Justin Jacobs; Tom Cliff; David Brophy; Kwangmin Kim; Madlen Kobi Abstract Perhaps no area of China-related scholarship has taken longer to recover from the access limitations of the mid-twentieth century than the study of Xinjiang. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries...