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...Leon Hurvitz A First Zen Reader . Compiled and Translated by Trevor Leggett . Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, Japan : Charles E. Tuttle Company , 1960 . 236 . Illustrated. $3.75. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1961 1961 532 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES ized Sanskrit...

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... in self-cultivation became wrapped up with a rising discourse of nationalism… . [S]elf-cultivation through the martial arts became firmly based in a nationalist desire to cultivate a truly Chinese self” (p. 202). Lorge's is not the first academic book to appear on Chinese martial arts, but it has...

...Charles F. Doran How do the authors get around this? First, they escape confronting the issue by collapsing all other theories into some “more generic power-transition category”—including my own theory of the “power cycle,” which at its core has always vigorously and completely rejected all...

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...Richard Smethurst Japan's First General Election . By R. H. P. Mason . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1969 . viii, 254 pp. Appendices, Notes, Sources, Bibliography, Index. $7.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1969 1969 172 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

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...Jean Chesneaux China in Revolution, The First Phase, 1900–1913 . Edited by Mary C. Wright . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1968 , xiii , 505 pp. Appendixes, Glossary, Contribution, Index. $15.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1970 1970 1 See...

...Thomas R. Trautmann Decipherment of the Proto-Dravidian Inscriptions of the Indus Civilization: A First Announcement . By Asko Parpola , Seppo Koskenniemi , Simo Parpola , and Pentti Aalto . Copenhagen : The Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies , 1969 . 71 pp. Notes, Tables, Maps...

...Theodore McNelly The Constitution of Japan: Its First Twenty Years, 1947–1967 . By Dan F. Henderson . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 1969 . vx , 309 pp. Appendix, Index, Contributors. $9.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1970 1970 BOOK REVIEWS 453...

...Richard W. Lieban Proceedings of the First National Colloquium on the Philippines: Research and Development Research in the Social Sciences . Edited by Charles O. Houston . Kalamazoo : Institute of International and Area Studies , 1969 . iv, 118 pp. $2.25. Copyright © The Association...

... Time to the End of the First War with British India . By Sir Arthur P. Phayre . New York : Augustus M. Kelley , (1883) 1969 . xii, 311 pp. Appendices, Chronological Table, Index. $10.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1970 1970 228 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Hopefully...

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..., as well conducted as it is, only underscores the major weakness of the book the inadequate reconsideration of the major assumptions on which our foreign policy is based. FRED WARNER NEAL Claremont Graduate School The Economic Development of Manchuria in the First Half of the Twentieth Century. BY KUNCTU...

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