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... a doctoral degree. The professionalized and standardized graduate training that aims to produce an expert on an area- or nation-specific history/theme constitutes only a part of the larger institutional machine that serves to compartmentalize the Pacific(s) and other Global Asias. Most university faculty...

... center for graduate training and research. This reflected Sharp's vision of anthropology, stressing an applied orientation and an area studies focus, including research centers in South and Southeast Asia and North and South America. In 1947, Professor Sharp began the Cornell-Thailand Project...

... to stress the same in graduate training? Attention to these matters will help. Princeton University JAMES T. C. LIU Addenda and Corrigenda Addenda to the obituary and bibliography of Dr. Arthur W. Hummel, JAS, XXXV, 2, Feb 1976, pp. 265-76 1933 "China's Literary Heritage." D. C. Libraries, v. 4, no. 2, Jan...

.... The questions that need to be raised are these: Can we try to encourage more authors who publish considerable amounts of translation to add some brief explanation of their thinking process behind it, either as a whole or on particular passages? Would it be desirable to stress the same in graduate training...

... to Western scholars, applied the methodologies of the academic disciplines and made handsome contributions to the study of Chinese civilization. Later on, a number of graduate students trained in the disciplines in Western institutions of higher learning followed suit, bringing the methods and concepts...

... University of Chicago Studies on Asia and Africa from Latin America. Edited by D A V I D N . L O R E N Z E N . Mexico: El Colegio de Mexico, 1990. 240 pp. This is a collection of essays by scholars at the Center of Asian and African Studies of El Colegio de Mexico, founded in 1940 to provide graduate...

... authors who publish considerable amounts of translation to add some brief explanation of their thinking process behind it, either as a whole or on particular passages? Would it be desirable to stress the same in graduate training? Attention to these matters will help. Princeton University JAMES T. C. LIU...

.... Yet as one door to the study of the socialist era closes, another opens. Chinese universities themselves have begun to embrace the formal and systematic study of the socialist era as history. Leading universities now employ scholars writing books and articles, training graduate students, and even...

... years, majoring in English, before coming to the United States in 1954 and completing his undergraduate degree in social sciences at LaGrange College in Georgia in 1958. He went on to the University of Georgia for graduate training, receiving an M.A. in political science in I960 and a Ph.D. in history...

... studied at Yonsei University for two years, majoring in English, before coming to the United States in 1954 and completing his undergraduate degree in social sciences at LaGrange College in Georgia in 1958. He went on to the University of Georgia for graduate training, receiving an M.A. in political...

... Mexico, founded in 1940 to provide graduate training for specialists in the humanities and social sciences. An Oriental Studies section was created in 1964 with UNESCO support and became an autonomous center in 1968. In 1968, when El Colegio de Mexico hosted the 30th International Congress on Human...

... are bound together by the accident of participation in a 1982 workshop on Japanese history or by personal ties from graduate training at Harvard. The volume is divided into two parts with titles "Thematic Overview" and "Case Studies" whose vagueness encompasses a range of narrowly detailed papers. While...

... and with a common Germanic view of academic work; furthermore these former imperial universities where most scholars spent their formative years had all of the desired attributes—the best research conditions, prestige, and location. Private institutions train only a small proportion of graduate students, but we do...

... looking for a general cultural history of the Edo period should look elsewhere. On the other hand, the book's grounding in Western critical theory places it squarely within the comfort zone of anyone with graduate training in cultural studies, and in this sense it may appeal to academically inclined...

... government, travels throughout the United States, seeks to improve his skills as a journalist through graduate training as well as to expand his knowledge of the country. This volume is roughly chronological. It takes the author from his departure aboard CAAC through many predictable, and some surprising...

... to area studies; within a few years, he had achieved complete transformation of the graduate training program. In 1961 he negotiated a major Ford Foundation grant (renewed and increased in 1966) that enabled Yale to implement his idea for a "Concilium in International and Area Studies," a body that would...

... the most of that difference. Their students, of whom the two authors of the works reviewed here are excellent representatives, are now appearing in print and making their influence felt. Both Susan Abeyesekere and John Ingleson received their graduate training at Melbourne's Monash University and its...

... as they anticipate teaching about nations and regions for which their graduate training perhaps did not thoroughly prepare them. Indeed, this is as useful as a teaching guide for East and South Asian history as it is as a curriculum guide for reimagining world history. Section 4, "Themes in Asian History," continues...

... and Publication, Inc. xi, 200. $2.15 (paper, mimeo) A group of Korean social scientists has recently grown up whose impact on the Korean scene is already important and will become increasingly so. Most of these men are young and have received graduate training in the West. They seek to be scientific and to apply...

... off more than he can chew. The contributors are bound together by the accident of participation in a 1982 workshop on Japanese history or by personal ties from graduate training at Harvard. The volume is divided into two parts with titles "Thematic Overview" and "Case Studies" whose vagueness...