...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 Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1966 1966 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. 506 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

..., but institutionally combined with a new disciplinary formation like global philology; and, on the other, a readiness to expand our notion of scholarly truth and combine it with social hope. In short, it is high time, almost past time, that solidarity no less than truth become one of our goals of inquiry. When I...

... International Congress of Orientalists (meeting at Ann Arbor, Michigan, August 13–19, 1967), is a condensed version of a longer study prepared during the 1966–67 academic year when the author was a Fellow of The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Palo Alto. Utopian Goals and Ascetic...

...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...

.... 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...

... 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...

...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...

... 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...

...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...

...Louise Edwards Abstract During the War of Resistance against Japan (1937–45), China's leading cartoon artists formed patriotic associations aimed at repelling the Japanese military. Their stated propaganda goals were to boost morale among the troops and the civilian population by circulating...

... into and surveillance of religious communities. At the same time, tensions between state initiatives and religious communities have come to the forefront of public attention. So far, scholarly attention has mostly focused on the repression of religious communities, especially Christians. The goal of this article...

... 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...

.... Ancient states, from the Qin to the Mongol empire, achieved their imperial goals through a variety of measures, one of the most important of which was the relocation of subjects and conquered peoples whenever and wherever they saw fit. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2021 2021...

... and fearlessness; his stance might best be defined as one of nonviolent “martiality” rather than nonviolence per se. His overriding goal was not to proselytize for global “ ahimsa ” (nonviolence) but to shape the Indian people into a nonviolent army that could wrest freedom from the colonizers. It explains...

... that the panel's goal was to “interrogate these borders” and to “rethink these schemes” and forge new understandings about nations, regions, and Asia by addressing questions such as: What happens when we decenter the state? What concepts of society capture external relations and engagements? What concepts apart...