...Clifford R. Jones Abstract In the present renaissance of India's traditional arts, a great deal of attention is being focused upon dance and dance-drama. Much has been done for their revival, and several attempts have been made to relate the present survivals of traditional dance and dance-drama...

...Earle Ernst Theatre in the East: A Survey of Asian Dance and Drama . By Faubion Bowers . New York : Thomas Nelson , 1956 . xi, 374 . Illustrations, Bibliography, Index. $7.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1956 1956 114 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Theatre...

... ? DOUGLAS H. MENDEL, JR. University of California at Los Angeles Early No Drama, Its Background, Character and Development 1300-1450. By P. G. O'NEILL. London: Lund Humphries, 1959. xi, 223. Illustrations, Notes, Bibliography, Index. 45/. It is a pleasure to greet a book about Japan not addressed...

...Ellsworth C. Carlson Drama at the Doctor's Gate. The Story of Doctor Edward Hume of Yale-in-China . By Lotta Carswell Hume . New Haven : The Yale-in-China Association , 1961 . ix, 160 . Illustrated. $3.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1961 1961 86 JOURNAL...

...Robert H. Brower The Ballad-Drama of Medieval Japan . By James T. Araki . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1964 . xvi, 289 , Appendix, Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrations, Index. $7.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1966 1966 342...

...Constantine Tung Modern Drama from Communist China . Edited by Walter J. Meserve and Ruth I. Meserve . New York : New York University Press and London: University of London Press, 1970 , 368 pp., $10.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1971 1971 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Andrew T. Tsubaki Guide to Japanese Drama . By Leonard C. Pronko . Boston : G. K. Hall & Co. , 1973 . 125 pp. Index. $9.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1975 1975 BOOK REVIEWS 533 tailed monthly if not daily exaction over all other economic activity...

...H. C. Chuang Chinese Literature: Popular Fiction and Drama . By H. C. Chang . Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press ; Chicago: Aldine Publishing Co., 1973 . x, 466 pp. £3.50. $8.75. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1975 1975 BOOK REVIEWS 515 and a "drifting-sand...

...Clifford Reis Jones Nandikeśvara's Abhinayadarpaṇam : A Manual of Gesture and Posture Used in Ancient Indian Dance and Drama . Edited, annotated, and translated by Manomohan Ghosh . 3d rev. ed. Calcutta : Manisha Granthalaya , 1975 . Illustrations, Sanskrit Text, Select Bibliography...

...John B. Alphonso Karkala Perspectives on Indian Drama in English . Edited By M. K. Naik and S. Mokashi-Punekar . Madras and New York : Oxford University Press , 1977 . x , 214 pp. Bibliography, Index. Rs. 40.00; $6.95 Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1978 1978...

...John K. Gillespie Japanese Drama and Culture in the 1960s: The Return of the Gods . By David G. Goodman . Armonk, N.Y. : M. E. Sharpe , 1988 . xii, 363 pp. $35.00 (cloth); $15.95 (paper). Five Plays by Kishida Kunio . By Kishida Kunio . Edited by David G. Goodman . Cornell...

... University of California, Santa Barbara Inside the Drama-House: Rama Stories and Shadow Puppets in South India. By STUART BLACKBURN. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. xvi, 291 pp. $50.00 (cloth); $20.00 (paper). Stuart Blackburn begins this study of the tol pdva kuttu shadow-puppet tradition...

...Devesh Soneji The Sun King's Daughter and King Saṃvaraṇa: Tapatī-Saṃvaraṇam and the Kūṭiyāṭṭam Drama Tradition {Text with Vivaraṇa Commentary) . By N. P. Unni and Bruce M. Sullivan . Delhi : Nag Publishers , 1995 . vi, 320 pp. Rs. 300 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian...

... information in the descriptions of artists' lineages, but with the caveat to beware the subjunctives. ELLEN S. SMART San Diego, California The Agrarian Drama: The Leftists and the Rural Poor in India, 1934 1951. By A M I T K U M A R G U P T A . New Delhi: Manohar, 1996. xiv, 516 pp. Rs. 550.00 (cloth...

...Barbara E. Thornbury Avatars of Vengeance: Japanese Drama and the Soga Literary Tradition . By Laurence R. Kominz . Ann Arbor : Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan , 1995 . xiii, 282 pp. $42.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998...

... Grassland Drama DEE MACK WILLIAMS . D T H N I C MONGOL HERDERS IN NORTH CHINA have traditionally enjoyed a distinctive cultural landscape. In contrast to the way dense population and intensive agriculture strictly regimented land-use practices among Han Chinese, dispersed settlement and mobile stock-herding...

... Puppet Theater]. Tokyo : Kazama shoten . Yoshio Yuda . 1975 . Zenkō “Shinjū ten no Amijima ” [The Complete Annotation of “Love Suicides at Amijima”]. Tokyo : Shibundō . Tragedy and Salvation in the Floating World: Chikamatsu's Double Suicide Drama as Millenarian Discourse STEVEN HEINE...

...Pamela Myers-Moro Dance, Drama, and Theatre in Thailand: The Process of Development and Modernization . By Mattani Mojdara Rutnin . Tokyo : The Centre for East Asian Cultural Studies for Unesco , 1993 . xv, 303 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994...

...Darius L. Swann Kathakali: An Introduction to the Dance-Drama of Kerala . By Clifford R. Jones and Betty True Jones . San Francisco : American Society for Eastern Arts , 1970 . 115 pp. Footnotes, Glossary, n.p.l. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972 1972 980...

...Hua-yuan Li Mowry Drama in the People's Republic of China . Edited by Constantine Tung and Colin MacKerras . Albany : State University of New York Press , 1987 . viii, 353 pp. $49.50 (cloth); $16.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988 1988 BOOK...