... devil.” Reports of widespread attacks on women in mid-2011 by this shadowy, ubiquitous, and powerful being led to heightened levels of vigilance and fear across large parts of rural and peri-urban Sri Lanka. It had a particularly strong impact on the formerly war-torn northeastern part of the island...

...Nicholas Clifford Foreign Devils: Expatriates in Hong Kong . By May Holdsworth . New York : Oxford University Press , 2002 . 298 pp. $24.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 1345 scholar-officials in the medieval period...

...Michael W. Charney Angels and Devils: Thai Politics from February 1991 to September 1992—A Struggle for Democracy? . By David Murray . Bangkok : White Orchid Press , 1996 . xxvii, 314 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA...

...John F. Cady Asian Nationalism and the West . By William L. Holland , editor, and George MC T. Kahin , Philippe Devillers , T. H. Silcock and Ungku Aziz , contributors. New York : The Macmillan Company , issued in cooperation with the Institute of Pacific Relations, 1953 , viii, 422...

... Vietnam in order to safeguard their hold on its southern half. French historian Philippe Devillers was the first to explore the complex chain of events leading to the outbreak of war in his 1952 classic, L'Histoire du Vietnam de 1940 a 1952 (Paris: Le Seuil, 1952). Over three decades later, he published...

... and Administration in the Democratic Republic of Viet-Nam , rev. ed. ( New York , 1956 ). 5 Devillers Philippe , Histoire du Viet-Nam de 1940 à 1953 ( Paris : Éditions du Seuil , 1952 ). 6 Mus Paul , Viet-Nam, Sociologie d'une Guerre ( Paris : Éditions du Seuil , 1952...

... and translates with an ease, clarity, and fluency that many of us can only aspire to emulate. ROEL STERCKX Cambridge University Foreign Devils: Expatriates in Hong Kong. By M A Y H O L D S W O R T H . New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. 298 pp. $24.95 (cloth). The dust jacket calls Foreign Devils...

... stars. Ge is perhaps China's favorite male lead, with expert talents that meld easily into repertory casting, one of the Chinese film industry's greatest strengths. Subsequent chapters explore the well-known films The Devils on the Doorstep , Beijing Bicycle , and Suzhou River and the works...

... . Meyer Birgit . 1999 . Translating the Devil: Religion and Modernity among the Ewe in Ghana . Trenton, N.J. : Africa World Press . Otto Rudolf . 1958 . The Idea of the Holy . Translated...

... in which a local tyrant was turned into the archetype of the landlord class and enemy of the socialist nation in the Water Dungeon narratives and the Rent Collection Courtyard sculptures (p. 202). In chapter 6, “Foreign Devils,” Lee emphasizes the contingency and marginality of “cosmopolitanism...

... theatre forms. He learns of the four schools of Indian dance as well as of productions of Murder in the Cathederal by the Bombay Theatre Unit and of the use of dance in Indianfilms.In Ceylon there are devil-dances and Kandyan dances but little modern theatre. Lower Burma has its classical zat pw6...

... matured into a scholar-explorer, convinced of his righteousness of purpose, until his final moments and subsequent burial in the Christian cemetery of Kabul. The reader is introduced to the controversy surrounding Stein as one of the foreign devils who plundered China from the perspective of some, while...

... today. So, for example, in his third chapter Sarkisyanz discusses Leo Taxil's fraudulent anti-Masonic diatribes which equated Masonry with devil worship. Despite Taxil's later recant of his fabrications, his falsehoods had been embraced by the Spanish Church, which had to ignore the original lie...

.... Some of the transliterations, in fact, can be avoided by using English equivalents or phrase translation; for instance, "ghost of mountain" for "lei-mei," "fierce devils" for "chu-t(uang" (not "hsiiuang" as appearing in the book), and "devils of marshes" for "fang-liang" (p. 6). The translations...

... Lanka: Explaining the Grease Devil Crisis,” whose author, R ajesh V enugopal , is a scholar of international development. These articles examine canine terms and symbolism over millennia in East Asia's largest country, in the first case, and recent rumors in a South Asian island nation, in the second...

.... Some of the transliterations, in fact, can be avoided by using English equivalents or phrase translation; for instance, "ghost of mountain" for "lei-mei," "fierce devils" for "chu-t(uang" (not "hsiiuang" as appearing in the book), and "devils of marshes" for "fang-liang" (p. 6). The translations...

.... As is, a ma- the devil, presumably because Sukra is the puro- jority of the verses determined to be spurious, hita of the asuras. Are the asuras devils in the and therefore left out in the present text, are biblical sense of the word? A structural analysis also the ones that are poetically excellent. should...

.... As is, a ma- the devil, presumably because Sukra is the puro- jority of the verses determined to be spurious, hita of the asuras. Are the asuras devils in the and therefore left out in the present text, are biblical sense of the word? A structural analysis also the ones that are poetically excellent. should...

... on the Marathas Bend in the Ganges (1964) and The Devil's Wind consists largely of uncritical, undocumented his- (1972). He analyzes these novels as history and as torical narratives. The book is marred by impreci- "initiation stories" (p. 97), emphasizing Malgon- sion, cliches, and superficial critical...