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... harsh in his early appraisal of Chinese independent filmmaking. That Paul Pickowicz is a treasure of experience and expertise on Chinese film is amply showcased in his new book, China on Film: A Century of Exploration, Confrontation, and Controversy . Largely a collection of previously published...

...Nachiket Chanchani Feeding a Thousand Souls: Women, Ritual, and Ecology in India—An Exploration of the Kōlam . By Vijaya Nagarajan . New York : Oxford University Press , 2019 . 336 pp. ISBN: 9780190858070 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2021 2021...

...Marjorie Topley Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1981 1981 Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture: An Exploration of the Borderland between Anthropology, Medicine, and Psychiatry . By Arthur Kleinman . Berkeley : University of California Press (Comparative...

..., and sometimes combines the two in a single sentence. The book is also rife with misspellings, even of Korean Romanization. It is unfortunate that such carelessness must mar an otherwise excellent book. The Culture of Fengshui in Korea: An Exploration of East Asian Geomancy . By Yoon Hong-Key . Lanham...

...David Nemeth Land and Life: A Historical Geographical Exploration of Korea . By Choe Yeong-jun . Translated by Sara Kim . Fremont, Calif. : Jain Publishing , 2005 . xx , 332 pp. $80.00 (cloth) . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2008 2008 On first...

...Brian J. Murton An Exploration of India: Geographical Perspectives on Society and Culture . Edited by David E. Sopher . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press , 1980 . 334 pp. Author Index, General Index. $19.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1981 1981 BOOK...

...Michael H. Fisher The Pundits: British Exploration of Tibet and Central Asia . By Derek Waller . Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky , viii, 327 pp. $30.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER ASIA 909 A few points...

...Beth Roy Purity and Communal Boundaries: Women and Social Change in a Bangladeshi Village . By Santi Rozario . London and New Jersey : Zed Press , 1992 . xii, 200 pp. $39.95. The Womb of Mind: A Sociological Exploration of the Status-Experience of Women in Delhi . By Renuka...

...Michael Adas Scientist of Empire: Sir Roderick Murchison, Scientific Exploration and Victorian Imperialism . By Robert A. Stafford . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1989 . xii, 293 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990 892 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Robert A. Kapp Chinese Perceptions of the U.S.: An Exploration of China's Foreign Policy Motivations . By Biwu Zhang . Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books , 2012 . xvi, 266 pp. $70.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2012 2012 This is a workmanlike analysis...

...Tze-Ki Hon Language, Ontology, and Political Philosophy in China: Wang Bi's Scholarly Exploration of the Dark (Xuanxue) . By Rudolf G. Wagner . SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture. Albany : State University of New York Press , 2003 . viii , 261 pp. $81.50 (cloth); $27.95...

...Allen Guttmann Pachinko Monogatari: Soziokulturelle Exploration der japanischen Glücksspielindustrie . By Wolfram Manzenreiter . Munich : Iudicium , 1998 . 157 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 435 widely only in the late...

... impenetrable to men on the ground; but what would have happened to the upper storeys if a well-directed catapult attack, to breach the wood-and-plaster walls, had been followed by fire-arrows? Institute of Fine Arts ALEXANDER SOPER Mount Everest. Formation, Population and Exploration of the Everest Region...

...Walter A. Fairservis, Jr Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972 1972 The Prehistory of China, An Archeological Exploration . By Judith M. Treistman . New York : Published for The American Museum of Natural History, The Natural History Press, Doubleday & Company...

...C. M. Foust Soviet Strategies in Southeast Asia, An Exploration of Eastern Policy under Lenin and Stalin . By Charles B. McLane . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1966 . xv , 563 pp. Map, Epilogue, Short Biographies, Chronology, Bibliography, Index. $12.50. Copyright ©...

...Earl D. Thorp Tibet. A Chronicle of Exploration . By John MacGregor . New York : Praeger Publishers , 1970 . 347 pp. Epilogue, Bibliography, Index. $13.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1971 1971 BOOK REVIEWS 903 trally located institutions most important...

...Vincanne Adams Moral Knowing in a Hindu Sacred City: An Exploration of Mind, Emotion, and Self . By Steven M. Parish . New York : Columbia University Press , 1994 . xii, 342 pp. $49.50 (cloth); $17.50 (paper). The Rulings of the Night: Ethnography of Nepalese Shaman Oral Texts...

...Walter A. Fairservis, Jr. Kulli: An Exploration of an Ancient Civilization in South Asia . By Gregory L. Possehl . Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press , 1986 . xiv, 168 pp. Figures, Plates, Notes, Tables, Bibliography. $29.75. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1987...

...Lewis D. Wurgaft The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self Under Colonialism . By Ashis Nandy . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1983 . xx, 121 pp. Index. $16.95. Crippled Minds: An Exploration into Colonial Culture . By Susantha Goonatilake . Delhi : Vikas , 1982 . xii...