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...Bell Yung A Critical Study of Chu Tsai-yü's Contribution to the Theory of Equal Temperament in Chinese Music . By Kenneth Robinson . Additional Notes by Erich F. W. Altwein; Preface by Joseph Needham. Wiesbaden : Franz Steiner Verlag (Sinologica Coloniensia Band 9), 1980 . x, 136 pp...

... of Sun's pʻing-chün ti-chʻüan —“equalization of land rights”—as a specifically urban taxation device raises a question concerning the original scope and purpose of this major aspect of the min sheng program. Taken by itself, “equalization of land rights” has an agrarian land tenure reform connotation...

...Jake Werner China's Twentieth Century: Revolution, Retreat, and the Road to Equality . By Wang Hui . Edited by Saul Thomas . London : Verso , 2016 . 368 pp. ISBN: 9781781689066 (paper, also available in cloth and as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2018...

... In presenting the stories of various people who are deemed imperfectly and only partially Japanese, we see they are both nevertheless equally part of the national society. Their struggles for belonging and rights reveal “Japan” in the making, as a process, not a given. The intellectual task of doing away...

...Lelah Dushkin Equality through Privilege: A Study of Special Privileges of Scheduled Castes in Haryana . By Partap C. Aggarwal and Mohd Siddiq Ashraf . New Delhi : Shri Ram Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources , 1976 . vii , 206 pp. References Cited, Appendixes, Index...

...Walter K. Andersen Ethnicity and Equality: The Shiv Sena Party and Preferential Policies in Bombay . By Mary Fainsod Katzenstein . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 1979 . 237 pp. Appendixes, Index. $15. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1982 1982 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH...

...Paul Wallace 792 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES India's Preferential Policies: Migrants, the Middle Classes, and Ethnic Equality. By MYRON WEINER and MARY FAINSOD KATZENSTEIN. With K. V Narayana Rao. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982. vii, 153 pp. Notes, Index. $16.50 (paper). India, self...

...Victor N. Kobayashi Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1981 1981 Education and Equality in Japan . By William K. Cummings . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 1980 . xvi, 305 pp. Tables, Figures, Bibliography, Index. $20 (cloth); $9.75 (paper). 132 JOURNAL...

...Robert A. Huttenback Racism, Struggle for Equality and Indian Nationalism . By Nemai Sadhan Bose . Calcutta : Firma Klm , 1981 . x , 239 pp. Notes and References, Bibliography, Index. Rs. 80 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1982 1982 182 JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Jose Ignacio Cabezon Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988 1988 Equality and the Religious Traditions of Asia . Edited by R. Siriwardena . New York : St. Martin's Press , 1987 . 157 pp. $29.95. BOOK REVIEWS ASIA GENERAL 331 of the feminine, female roles...

...Jennifer Estes At the Edges of States: Dynamics of State Formation in the Indonesian Borderlands . By Eilenberg Michael . Leiden : KITLV Press , 2012 . xvi, 355 pp. €29.90 (paper). Anarchic Solidarity: Autonomy, Equality, and Fellowship in Southeast Asia . Edited by Thomas Gibson...

...Mark E. Caprio The Korean Paekjong Under Japanese Rule: The Quest for Equality and Human Rights . By Joong-Seop Kim . London and New York : Routledge , 2003 . xi , 212 pp. £60.00/$104.95 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 482 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S...

...Ruth W. Dunnell China among Equals: The Middle Kingdom and Its Neighbors, 10th–14th Centuries . Edited by Morris Rossabi . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1983 . xiv, 419 pp. $28.50 (cloth); $12.50 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1984 1984 194...

...Barbara R. Joshi Halfway to Equality . By Partap C. Aggarwal . New Delhi : Manohar , 1983 . 279 pp. Index. $20. (Distributed in U.S. by South Asia Books, Columbia, Mo.) Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1985 1985 628 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES there is no evidence...

...Marguerite Ross Barnett Competing Equalities: Law and the Backward Classes in India . By Marc Galanter . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1984 . xxvi, 625 pp. Tables, Appendix, Bibliography, General Index, Index of Cases. $36.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

... it isn't medicine, it must be religion is equally simplistic. Both models are useful when applied appropriately, but can be misleading when overgeneralized out of context; both may fail to meet experience on its own terrain. Claus's argument against the problem-oriented approach of applied anthropology...

... process of identity formation that created dynamic equalization between the national and the global, mental laborers and manual laborers, as well as men and women. Through reading a series of cultural and literary works, this article shows that the dignified laborer was an inclusive modern identity...

... history” (1981, 45). Quotations from the past were equally the mark of architectural styles that were forged in colonial and postcolonial societies, as history became a resource for defining new ideals of beauty. If the retreat into (classical European) history was a striking feature of public...

... arrangements for tension reduction or expression. This conception of stability does not assume that all relatively stable cultures are equally productive of psychological well-being, even assuming this nebulous condition could be specified. Nor does it assert that all stable cultures are equally adaptive...