... them as analogous to courts is seriously misleading. VOL. XLII, N O . 2 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES FEBRUARY 1983 Excommunication as Everyday Event and Ultimate Sanction: The Nature of Suspension from an Indian Caste ROBERT M. HAYDEN E xcommunication, or outcasting, is generally thought to be the most...

...James L. Hevia Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 History in Three Keys: The Boxers as Event, Experience, and Myth . By Paul A. Cohen . New York : Columbia University Press , 1997 . xviii, 428 pp. $34.50 (cloth). 484 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Col...

..., fled with their one-year-old son to Rotterdam and then to London. The sense of “grievous loss” that animates Feuchtwang's book is rooted in his own family history. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013 2013 After the Event: The Transmission of Grievous Loss in Germany...

...Brijen K. Gupta Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 British Rule in India; An Assessment . By Ram Gopal . New York : Asia Publishing House , 1963 . x, 364. Index. $7.75. How the British Occupied Bengal: A Corrected Account of the 1755–1765 Events...

...Howard Warshawsky Agreements of the People's Republic of China: A Calendar of Events, 1966–1980 . By Hungdah Chiu . New York : Praeger Special Studies , 1981 . xviii, 331 pp. Tables, Index. $32.95. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1983 1983 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA...

... of the title pair {titik derdjat hamba jang penghabisan), and might be questioned a few lines earlier for the choice of "rapidly reproduce" for berbiak. But perhaps a translator's thoughtful judgments deserve questioning no more than do an author's. LINDA K. YODER Morgantown, W.Va. White Love and Other Events...

... unconvincing. It is fair to add, however, that Bywater did ap- preciate the effectiveness of air-borne torpedoes and used them a number of times to great advantage. In the 320 pages of this book the reader will find many surprising parallels between Bywater's picture of the Pacific war and the events...

...Nianshen Song East Asia in the World: Twelve Events That Shaped the Modern International Order . Edited by Stephan Haggard and David C. Kang . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2020 . 320 pp. ISBN: 9781108790895 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Pauline Kolenda Critical Events: An Anthropological Perspective on Contemporary India . By Veena Das . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1995 . viii, 230 pp. $22.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 1124 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Critical...

... the plays suitable for the undergraduate classroom. Altogether, we are fortunate to count Strange Eventful Histories among the increasing number of texts that allow us to gain a fuller picture of the richness and diversity of the late imperial Chinese world of theater. While sharing the focus...

...William S. Metz Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968 1968 North-West Frontier: People and Events, 1839–1947 . By Arthur Swinson . New York : Frederick A. Praeger , 1967 . 354 pp. Maps, Illustrations, Epilogue, Bibliography, Index. $7.95. 908 JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...-day Agnicayana; he has described every ritual event; he has included many superb photographs (by Adelaide de Menil); he has collected essays on the various aspects of the Agnicayana, including comparisons with rituals of Tibet, Bali, and Java and discussions of pre-Vedic ritual. The book falls short...

...Richard T. Chang Abstract Often the availability of new sources raises the need for reinvestigation of established historical events. This is true of the events that lead to the failure of the Far Eastern phase of railroad magnate Edward H. Harriman's proposed world-girdling transportation system...

..., and with relatively little interference. The events on the China mainland since 1950 are often described as “the most large scale experiment in social change in world history.” Yet these events cannot be studied in the way social scientists prefer to do their research. Moreover, the most dramatic social events do...

... involving Wang Ching-wei. This is, of course, a delicate subject.” Because of the highly controversial nature of the event, as it involved Chiang Kai-shek and the Communists, no serious and scholarly study on the subject has ever been undertaken in either Mainland China or Taiwan. Historians in the West...

...Yoshio Sakata; John Whitney Hall Abstract The Meiji Restoration of 1868 constitutes one of the great turning points in Japanese history. Standing as the culminating events of the political struggle which agitated Japan in the years following the forcible “opening” of the country to the Western...

...Susan Rodgers Abstract In Sumatra's Angkola Batak culture, rituals celebrating major kinship-related events such as marriage have many layers of social and symbolic meaning; they have political, kinship, musical, mythic, and philosophical dimensions as lengthy, oratory-filled ceremonies that unite...

... at Jessfield Park, they were met by a contingent of Italian ladies—allies in the anti-Comintern pact—waving Japanese flags. The event lasted until 3 p.m. and involved all 6000 Japanese troops stationed in the city. The next day a smaller contingent of troops marched in orderly fashion from Garden Bridge south...