... States from the Burmese Law Tales. The Legal Element in time of the Atjeh War between the Atjehnese Burmese Folk-lore. By MAUNG HTIN and the Dutch in 1873, when America had AUNG. London: Oxford University Press, certain political interests in northern Sumatra, 1962. x, 159. Appendix, Bibliography...

..., 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...

...J. K. Fairbank Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1955 1955 Elements of Chinese Historiography . By Han Yu-Shan . Hollywood : W. M. Hawley , 1955 . 246 . $7.50. 566 FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY (migrations, the t'u-ssu system, ethnic distribution, etc with the result...

...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...

...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...

...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...

... 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...

...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...

...—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...

... 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...

...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...

..., 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...

... 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...

...Phi-Vân Nguyen Abstract Most studies of the Republic of Vietnam's nation-building programs have focused on its security and land reforms. Yet spirituality was a fundamental element of Ngô Đình Diệm's Personalist Revolution. This article analyzes how the Republic of Vietnam attempted to channel...

... of the trade route that connected India and China along the coasts of Southeast Asia at that time; the evidence of Brahmans from India in early Southeast Asia, including northern Vietnam; and evidence of Hindu elements in Vietnamese texts. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2017  2017...

.... Now the country was assailed by bands of missionaries, principally American Protestants, persistently evangelistic in purpose. Beyond that, the legal system, literature, and whole culture of the West were so permeated tjy religious elements that many thinking Japanese reluctantly concluded...

..., characteristics, and role in the various intra-Party struggles remain one of the least studied or understood elements in our knowledge of Chinese Communist history. 43 In an interview with the author in the summer of 1965, Mr. Rung Chu (author of Wo yü Hung-chun [The Red Army and I], Hong Kong: South...

... for the spread of materialism in China in the next few decades. Although the precise relationship between pragmatism and Chinese Communism remains undefined to this day, the pragmatic element in Chinese Communism is a popular theme which has gained wide currency among some recent interpretations. Copyright ©...