...Gerard R. Moran; Robert E. Knowlton Burmese Law Tales. The Legal Element in Burmese Folk-lore . By Maung Htin Aung . London : Oxford University Press , 1962 . x , 159 . Appendix, Bibliography, $2.90. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1963 1963 228 JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

..., it discovers meanings and values as well as limitations and weaknesses in the poetry it reads. Each generation must reassess for itself the glory that was Greece or the grandeur of Japan—so that the attempt to describe the formative elements which underlie Japanese poetic expression is more than a single essay...

...Cecil Hobbs Folk Elements in Burmese Buddhism . By Maung Htin Aung . London : Oxford University Press , 1962 . xii , 140 . Bibliography. $2.90. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1963 1963 BOOK REVIEWS 497 major defects, and even specialists interested...

... hsiang chu-kung-tiao (photo repro., Shanghai : Commercial Press , 1955 ) . The Elements of Yiian Opera JAMES I. CRUMP Elements of Structure YUAN opera, if we limit our material to the one hundred examples found in the Yuan-ch'u hsilan (YCH), seems to be a well defined genre, the numerous formal...

... not correspond to the price, but it does to the format. The book has been produced by a photographic process and with unjustified right margins. Georgetown University HAROLD C. HINT ON Elements of Chinese Historiography. By HAN YU-SHAN. Hollywood: W. M. Hawley, 1955. 246. $7.50. This interesting survey...

...Young Kun Kim Elemente im Politischen Denken des Yǒn'am Pak Chiwǒn . By Dieter Eikemeier . Leiden : E. J. Brill , 1970 . xii, 256 pp., n. p. 1. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1975 1975 154 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES trol as a result of satori, ethic may change...

...Matthew T. Kapstein Tibetan Elemental Divination Paintings: Illuminated Manuscripts from The White Beryl of Sangs-rgyas rGya-mtsho, with the Moonbeams Treatise of Lo-chen Dharmaśrī . Commentary and translations By Gyurme Dorje . London : John Eskenazi in association with Sam Fogg , 2001...

...Pamela Price Abstract From the 1920s to the late 1960s, Tamil nationalism in India was characterized by elements of radical innovation which made the Dravidian movement a mobilization for cultural revolution, in Tamil terms, as well as for the defense of Tamil interests vis-à-vis the central...

... the third millennium B.C. to the present offers to the student a picture of a continuing entity, a kind of moving picture in which the successive events of a plot seem to be informed and given a special character and vitality by some pervasive element running through the story, an element which might...

...Anthony H. Johns Abstract The galaxy of non-indigenous elements confronting the student of Indonesian cultural history has often obscured the fact that, in order to elucidate a valid picture of their role and significance, these elements need to be studied in their own terms, in relation...

..., to point out certain instances in which the main tradition embraced smaller group-cultures and incorporated regional elements. As this culture became consolidated throughout India, it employed certain characteristic methods wherever it went, not only in India and the peripheral regions, but in all those...

...—operational units whose peculiarity is determined by the interaction of a number of essential technical, organizational, and social elements. Some of these essential elements are not necessarily specific: they may be compatible with several types of society. But they may become specific through...

... and unchanging culture, before it was appreciably influenced by Sanskritic culture from the North. Thus a study of early Tamil reveals elements which were contributed to India by this culture and which were later assimilated by the rest of India. Other sources for this culture—the Sattasaī in Māhārāṣṭrī...

...Shelly Errington Abstract Like the European written genre history , court literature from the traditional kingdoms of Southeast Asia often relates historical events and possible or probable genealogies. Yet, like the myths of tribal peoples, these accounts are characterized by mythical elements...

...Shannon McCune Abstract French Indochina is a union not only of different states bur of geographically diverse areas. Both the physical and cultural-geographic elements have variety in their distribution on the land. This lack of uniformity presents problems for those attempting to create national...

...—both actual and ideal—their view of the cosmos and their place in it, their hierarchy of values. Thus, for example, Akbar's palace city of Fatehpur Sikri is more than a vainglorious display of newly-won power; its subtle blending of Hindu and Islamic elements symbolizes Akbar's dream of an ecumenical...

... objective reporters speak, in greater or lesser detail, of residual elements in Burmese religion which owe little or nothing to Buddhism. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1963 1963 1 Embree John F. , The Japanese Nation ( New York , 1945 ), p. 213 . 2...

... and leadership necessary to organize their work efficiently. Gotō also had the initiative and ability to make the right strategy move or policy decision when the occasion demanded. He possessed a unique talent for discerning which elements in the traditional society could be used to strengthen modern...

... established for all subsequent Chinese history. The Ch'in Dynasty had indicated one direction, but its collapse had revived many of those elements present at the end of the third century B.C. which could logically have developed into a limited open society. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

... appear to harmonize on the basis of common motifs whose origins are capable of the kind of reconstruction suggested above. The scholarly task in describing the phenomena of India's modern saints should focus on the relationship that obtains between the structural elements of Demonstration, Organization...