...Tony K. Stewart The Way and the Goal: Expressions of Devotion in the Early Śrī Vaiṣṇava Tradition . By Vasudha Narayanan . Washington, D.C. : Institute for Vaishnava Studies , 1987 . x, 268 pp. $24.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Stuart R. Schram The Communist Revolution in Asia: Tactics, Goals, and Achievements . By Robert A. Scalapino . Englewood Cliffs, N. J. : Prentice-Hall Inc. , 1965 . 405 , Index. $7.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1966 1966 506 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Kusum Nair Pakistan's Development: Social Goals and Private Incentives . By Gustav F. Papanek . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1967 , xxii, 354 pp. Statistical Appendix, Index. $8.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1970 1970 730 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

... after day without interruption. God's heart was touched by such perseverance and he sent two celestial beings down to earth to carry away the mountains on their backs.” Utopian Goals and Ascetic Values in Chinese Communist Ideology MAURICE MEISNER T HE ethical values and norms which are to guide social...

... to look different from what they once were. Or at least they look different to me. I stress this personal dimension to make clear that everything I say this evening is more autobiography than theory. My remarks about areas, disciplines, and the goals of inquiry record my own experiences...

... is committed to both “socialist transformation and construction,” modernization in China involves two tasks: revolution and development. As for China's rural problems, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regards the commune as the best organization for achieving these two goals during its transition to communism...

...Arif Dirlik Abstract On February 19, 1934, Chiang Kai-shek inaugurated the New Life Movement in Nanchang, Kiangsi, with the express goal of “revolutionizing” Chinese life. The Kuomintang leadership, holding the material and spiritual “degeneration” of the people responsible for China's continued...

...Koji Taira Abstract Economic development makes resources available for a variety of desirable social goals. However, many of these goals are not automatically related to the economic mechanism of production and income distribution in a private enterprise economy. The social values that sustain...

... movement from within. Consumed with their vision of a true republic in which democratic education produced a democratic politics, the reformers had assumed this goal could be made a strategy of reform. As a strategy, it had no way to be effective in a society which was intensely undemocratic to begin...

.... Thus, the new regime set out to achieve the twin goals of regulating private schools and cultivating ties among the frontier region's population. These two goals became entangled in an unexpected manner at the private Muslim Chengda Teachers School. Although the Nationalists banned private teachers...

...Brian A. Hatcher Abstract Responding to recent critical reflection on the concept of anuvāda within the fields of translation studies and South Asian literary cultures, this article explores the complex colonial mediations shaping modern Bengali understandings of the term. The goal is to situate...

..., agriculturally oriented socio-economic structure to one more in line with the goals and institutions of a modern industrial society. The actual situation, however, is more complex, and a number of other factors not necessarily related to industrialization have been involved. These include changes...

... to be unsympathetic to Takechi’s goals, and on the national scene the excesses of the Chōshū loyalists swung the balance temporarily in the direction of moderation. Takechi was restricted in his movements, imprisoned for his complicity in political assassination and his clear guilt in a presumptuous forgery, and he...

...Harriet C. Mills Abstract The current Chinese language reform movement is of the most profound cultural and political importance in China itself as well as to foreign students of the area. Its goal is within a relatively short period to standardize the basic northern dialect as the common national...

..., both of which countries had progressed further toward autonomy and self-rule under Western colonial rule than had the Netherlands Indies. It is certainly no coincidence that Japan granted “independence” to these areas during 1943, while in Indonesia a guarded promise of the distant goal...

... these what the Japanese intended to do, regardless of what they actually accomplished. Despite certain conflicts in regard to timing, priorities and, above all, overall direction, this program seems to have represented the combined goals of Japan's military and big business elements. Although most...

..., and carried out activities which reinforced both the values and local social structure. The three million volunteer members, half of whom had no military experience, achieved their leaders' goals by performing public services and patriotic activities. They demonstrated to local residents die ethos in action...

... not be exhausted in the space of a few years?” (Xu n.d., 1:26a). Yin Huiyi (1691–1748), who served as Henan governor from 1737 to 1739, stated that avoiding corruption should be the primary goal of any provincial official. “An official who has been appointed to a post should, first and foremost, remain pure,” he...

..., religious, and moral power, thus translating personal self-control into radical social criticism and nationalist goals. Gandhi's mass appeal was partly effected on a visceral level at which many Hindu men were able to fully appreciate the logic of celibacy as a means to psychological security, self...

...David D. Buck Abstract O ne of my goals as editor has been to develop cross-regional consideration in the pages of this journal of major issues drawing scholarly attention in both the social sciences and humanities. The most common approach for such projects is to bring groups of scholars together...