... Abstract The Journal 's August 1995 issue (54.3) carried an error in Brian Woodall's review of Albrecht Rothacher's The Japanese Power Elite , pp. 223–24. Paragraph 1, line 6 reads “…with some ¥400 elderly men…” The yen sign should not have appeared in the text. The Journal 's August 1995 issue...

... Abstract The February 1998 issue (57.1) of the Journal carried an error in the title of the book by N. P. Unni and Bruce M. Sullivan (57.1:268–69). The title appeared as The Sun King's Daughter and King Saṃvarana: Tapatī-Saṃvaraṇam and the Kūṭiyāṭṭam Drama Tradition . The title of the book by Unni...

... Abstract The Journal' s November 1998 issue (57.4:1223) incorrectly identified Paul H. Kratoska's book as Malaya and Singapore During the Chinese Occupation . It should have been cited as Malaya and Singapore During the Japanese Occupation . Due to a production error in the Journal' s February...

... Abstract The Journal 's May 1995 issue (54.2) carried an error in the Japan section of Other Books Received (p. 650). The second citation should have read: Van Staaveren, Jacob. An American in Japan, 1945–1948: A Civilian View of the Occupation . Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1994. xvii...

... Abstract As a result of an editing error, the word “and” is missing from the third sentence of the first paragraph of Myron L. Cohen's article, “Lineage Organization in North China” [49.3 (August): 509]. The sentence should read, “The characteristics of the lineages in Yangmansa, a village...

...James J. Y. Liu Abstract In my article, “The Study of Chinese Literature in the West” ( JAS , XXXV, 1, Nov 1975), I erroneously stated that Jean-Pierre Dieny's Aux origines de la poésie classique en Chine was concerned with the shih (p. 27). The book is in fact concerned with the yüehfu. The error...

... Abstract In Derk Bodde's review of Lev Tolstoi i Vostok on page 363 of Vol. XXI, Number 3 (May, 1962), Lev was mistakenly altered twice to Leo ; Lao Shih should also have been printed as Lao Shê . The Journal regrets both of these errors. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1962...

... Abstract The Journal's November 1996 issue (55.4) carried an error in Carolyn Cartier's review of Faure and Siu's, Down to Earth: The Territorial Bond in South China , pp. 979–81. On page 980 in the second paragraph, the second sentence was misedited to read: “In the introduction, David Faure...

... Abstract The Journal 's May 1997 issue (56.2) carried an error in Roger B. Jeans's review of Nick Knight's Li Da and Marxist Philosophy in China . On page 478, the third sentence was misedited to add the word “the” before the word “China.” The same sentence should read: “In this dense work, Knight...

... Abstract The Journal's August 1998 issue (57.3) carried an error in Martha Ann Selby's review of Buck and Paramasivam (trans.), The Study of Stolen Love: A Translation of Kaḷaviyal eṉṟa with Iṟaiyaṉār Alapporuḷ Commentary by Nakkīraṉār (pp. 896–97). The correct title is The Study of Stolen Love...

... Abstract The Journal of Asian Studies wishes to correct the error appearing on pages 467 and 468 which gives an incorrect listing of the Executive Membership of the Chinese Language Teachers Association. The list should read: Kun Chang, University of California; Theodore Chen, University...

..., question.” Castigating what he sees as a general approach to explain Indonesian politics on the premise of “What is wrong with Indonesia?,” he concludes that “perhaps our basic error all along has been to examine Indonesia with Western eyes; or, to be more precise and more generous, with eyes that, though...

... Abstract The Journal 's February 1998 issue (57.1) carried an error in Thomas R. Metcalf's review of Marina Carter, Servants, Sirdars and Settlers: Indians in Mauritius, 1834–1874 . On page 250, Hugh Tinker's A New System of Slavery was erroneously cited as published in 1994 instead of 1974...

... surrounding childbirth in remote times and places, usually recorded these as superstition or the products of naive empiricism. The consequent interpretation of the history of medicine as the gradual replacement of error by science retains its positivist appeal even today. Copyright © Association for Asian...

... Abstract We report with regret the following errors in the February 1982 (41, 2) issue. p. 307. The name of Doctor James C. Thomson, the first of the three authors of Sentimental Imperialists: The American Experience in East Asia , was mispelled. In the body of the review, the title of the book...

... Abstract McKim Marriott's item of correspondence, “Interpreting Indian Society: A Monistic Alternative to Dumont's Dualism,” JAS , XXXVI (1976), pp. 189–95, contains the following editorial error: p. 193, paragraph 3 begins, “Dumont's withdrawal from indology …” This should read, “Dumont's...

... Abstract The Journal of Asian Studies wishes to acknowledge the following error which appeared in the review of Life in a Leyte Village , page 357 of the February 1967 issue. The reviewer reported that a wife often acts succorantly toward her husband but not toward her father or mother. Author...

... Abstract Because of an editorial error, an author's name was misspelled in the May 1989 issue. The publishing data should read: Running Amok: An Historical Inquiry . By John C. Spores. Monographs in International Studies, Southeast Asia Series 82. Athens: Ohio University/Swallow Press 1988. x, 179...

... Abstract The Journal's November 1999 issue (58.4:1141) carried an error in William A. Marotti's review of David G. Goodman's CD Concerned Theatre Japan: The Graphic Art of Japanese Theatre 1960–1980 . At the end of the fourth paragraph, it states “… which reiterates the position of Yasuda Yojuro...

... Kiê`u; Nguyê`n Thê´ Ahn. We regret the error. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 Erratum In the review of Pham Van Bich's The Vietnamese Family in Change: The Case ofthe Red River Delta by Stephen M. Graw (JAS 61.3, 1123-24), a number of diacritical markings were...