...Mary Lago E. M. Forster's Passages to India . By Robin Jared Lewis . New York : Columbia University Press , 1979 . xii, 157 pp. Appendix, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $16.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1980 1980 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 839 book...

... he has so far made the best analysis of this problem in his The Novels of E. M. Forster ( New York , 1957 ) . 2 All such references are to the 1924 Harcourt, Brace and Company edition of A Passage To India . 3 Forster E. M. , The Hill of Devi ( London , 1953 ), p...

...Robin Jared Lewis The Hill of Devi and Other Indian Writings . By E. M. Forster . Edited by Elizabeth Heine . London : Edward Arnold , 1983 . (The Abinger Edition of E. M. Forster 14.) lviii, 419 pp. Appendixes, Source and General Notes, Textual Notes, Index, Illustrations. $55.00...

... include a theoretical introduction and an epilogue, the most substantial—and successful—ones focus on the novelists Rudyard Kipling, E. M. Forster, and Salman Rushdie. Of these three writers, Forster's focus on the body is the most direct and least “metaphorical”; he sees it as “the fundamental condition...

... that any scholar will soon replace this comprehensive study. It is a work that demands the close attention of scholars and students of modern Indian social and religious change. KENNETH W. JONES Kansas State University E. M. Forster's Passages to India. By ROBIN JARED LEWIS. New York: Columbia University...

... is that of the Western mind's passage to India, considered by this book in parts: the first headed "The Passage Out," the second "The Passage Back." The four chapters in part 1 examine E. M. Forster, Sir William Jones, Apollonius of Tyana, and Pythagoras; the three in part 2 focus on Alexander of Macedonia (more exactly...

... of this material in The Hill of Devi in 1953, but there is a striking resemblance between the atmosphere of Forster's claustrophobic memoir and the alleged sexual assault of Adela Quested in the Marabar Caves, which takes place in April, "when irritability and lust spread like a canker." Forster sought...

...Andrew J. Nathan Rebellion and Factionalism in a Chinese Province: Zhejiang, 1966–1976 . By Keith Forster . Armonk, N.Y. : M. E. Sharpe , 1990 . Studies on Contemporary China, xiii, 338 pp. $45.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 384 THE JOURNAL...

..., on Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's The Turkish Embassy Letters and Montesquieu's Lettres persanes; Flaubert's letters, memoirs, and fictions of the Orient such as Salammbo; E. M. Forster's A Passage to India; Julia Kristeva's Des chinoises, Roland Barthes's Alors la Chine?, and several other "Chinese" texts...

.... It is a slender work 104 pages, if one ignores the notes and bibliography. It restricts its view to five writers: Rudyard Kipling, E. M. Forster, Edward Thompson, George Orwell, and John Masters. Even within this small group it is selective, choosing in each case two or three books to study so that the real sweep...

... . 273 pp. $40.00. Green Gold: The Political Economy of China's Post-1949 Tea Industry . By Dan M. Etherington and Keith Forster . Hong Kong : Oxford University Press , 1993 . 290 pp. $55.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 830 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

.... Chapters on Kipling and Forster set forth representations of India supporting imperialist claims to ownership. Kipling's fiction rehearses a conservative, Orientalist 570 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES viewpoint that affirms essential differences between Indian communities to discredit nationalist claims...

... The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1980 1980 840 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES A very few illustrations show the soundness of the links that Lewis has forged between Forster's own experiences and the novel. Forster recorded in his diary Mohammed Ali's melodramatic reactions to the Balkan War: " T h i s...

...: Zhejiang, 1966-1976. By K E I T H FORSTER. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1990. Studies on Contemporary China, xiii, 338 pp. $45.00. This first full-length study of the Cultural Revolution in a single province should stimulate others to fill in the picture for other places, but it also stands as a warning...

.... As far as individuals go, Scott is given the deference due to a classic, Markandaya and James Gordon Farrell are very kindly treated, E. M. Forster and Jhabvala quite unkindly. Two names, two bodies of work that might, and perhaps should, have been mentioned are Sara Jeannette Duncan, who wrote some...

... treated, E. M. Forster and Jhabvala quite unkindly. Two names, two bodies of work that might, and perhaps should, have been mentioned are Sara Jeannette Duncan, who wrote some of the best Anglo-Indian fiction (although before 1947), and Edward Said, whose ideas about orientalism are so much in the air...

..." (p. 114). Several objections come to mind. The diverse Orient lends itself to neither racial nor ethnic definitions; Forster's generalization is qualified by the word "most"; it is also valid, as many travelers, oriental or occidental, can testify; and hospitality, like ideas of family, friendship...

..., or indeed of any of the many rich setsuwa collections from this period, but he has done it with accuracy and meticulous attention to detail. Heretofore, the 1965 Forster translation of fifty-five of the one hundred ninty-seven tales was the most extensive in English. Fortunately, the Mills translation has...

... (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 834 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Etherington and Forster's findings about the inefficiency of small household production and local tea manufacturing facilities suggests a return to many of the patterns documented so well...

... of their arguments. At times his discussion also omits key individuals and institutions without any explanation for their exclusion. In his chapter on the imperial imagination he mentions E. M. Forster, but not Passage to India, which some literary critics consider one of the major English novels of the early...