... Science Division and Harper Fellow at the University of Chicago. I am very grateful to Leora Auslander, Gautam Bhadra, Antoinette Burton, Indrani Chatterjee, Boria Majumdar, Sheldon Pollock, Moishe Postone, Clinton Seely, Mrinalini Sinha, Lisa Trivedi, and the participants of the Social Theory and Theory...

...Donald Harper Abstract Fundamental changes occurred in chinese civilization between the fifth century B.C.E. and the second century C.E., roughly corresponding to the Warring States (which officially commences in 453 B.C.E.) and the Ch'in and Han empires (Han rule ends in 220 C.E.). The emergence...

...Donald Harper The Textual History of the Huai-nan Tzu . By Harold D. Roth . Ann Arbor : AAS Monograph Series No. 46, 1992 . xvi, 470 pp. $36.00 (cloth); $20.00 (paper). Mythe et Philosophie à l'Aube de la Chine Impériale: Études sur le Huainan Zi . Edited by Charles LeBlanc...

...Edward B. Harper Contributions to Indian Sociology . Edited by Louis Dumont and D. Pocock . No. V. Paris : Mouton & Co. , 1961 . 99 . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1962 1962 584 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Social Profiles of a Metropolis is useful...

...Paul Harper Ta Ta, Tan Tan (“Fight fight, talk talk …”) . By Valentin Chu . New York : W. W. Norton Company, Inc. , 1963 . vii , 320 . $4.95. In the Presence of My Enemies . By John W. Clifford , S. J. New York : W. W. Norton Company, Inc. , 1963 . 239 . $4.50. Copyright...

...Thomas Harper The Karma of Words: Buddhism and the Literary Arts in Medieval Japan . By William R. LaFleur . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1983 . xvi, 204 pp. Notes, Japanese Names and Terms, Bibliography, Index. $25 (cloth); $9.95 (paper). Copyright © Association...

...Edward B. Harper Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 Editor's Preface H T H E papers which constitute this volume originated from the Conference on -I Religion in South Asia, held on the University of California campus in Berkeley in August 1961. The idea...

...Edward B. Harper Abstract Beliefs about ritual purity and ritual impurity form some of the most all-pervasive themes in Hindu culture. They are the basis of “orthoprax” Brahmanism in that only a ritually pure individual may approach the higher gods. Brahmanic concepts concerning pollution relate...

...Eward B. Harper Totemism in India . By John V. Ferreira . Bombay : Oxford University Press , 1965 . viii , 304 pp. Bibliography, Index. $4.65. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968 1968 410 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES desh is not included). If differences up to 8...

...Virginia Harper Ho Perhaps because Brown's focus is on explaining the current state of the law, the book ends somewhat abruptly with a chapter on remedies and a supplemental chapter containing form labor contracts, without any commentary on how Chinese labor and employment law reflects its...

...Daniel L. Overmyer Abstract The first part of this project was published in the February 1995 issue of this journal, with the title “Early Religious Traditions from the Neolithic through the Han (circa. 4000 b.c.e. -220 c.e. ).” It included essays by Constance A. Cook, Donald Harper, David N...

... to the analysis of anticolonialism and the collapse of European rule in South and Southeast Asia. It was there, after all, that the ideology of a civilizational mission was revealed in all its hypocrisy. Such, at least, is the impression one gathers from reading the works of Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper...

...Rebecca E. Karl Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire . By Tim Harper . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 2020 . xxx, 826 pp. ISBN: 9780674724617 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 I believe...

... University of Texas at Austin In the Shadow of the Mahatma: Bishop V. S. Azariah and the Travails of Christianity in British India. By SUSAN BlLLlNGTON HARPER. Studies in the History of Christian Missions. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2000. xix, 462 pp. $45.00 (cloth). As the title of this volume implies...

...Loh Wei Leng The End of Empire and the Making of Malaya . By T.N. Harper . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1999 xviii, 417 pp. $69.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 610 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES from the nineteenth century...

..., of how certain motifs are used. Harper also focuses on a theme, a regnant motif of Hinduism, the idea of purity and pollution. It is so powerful and pervasive an idea that in analyzing it, Harper also deals with the structure of belief and the relation of theme to social structure. Each of these analyses...

... ). 3 Langer William L. and Gleason S. Everett , The Challenge to Isolation, 1937–1940 , ( New York : Harper , 1952 ) , passim ; and the same authors' The Undeclared War, 1940–1941 ) (New York: Harper, 1953 ), 1 – 32 . BOOK REVIEWS 281 Considering the "warning...

... of views both from the metropolitan center and from the periphery, Harper has attempted to capture the imperial mind and maneuvering, as well as local responses and agency, providing a relatively balanced discussion. At another level, by casting the net wide and investigating a whole range of issues...

... Asian linguistics owes him a great deal. ROBERT D. KING University of Texas at Austin In the Shadow of the Mahatma: Bishop V. S. Azariah and the Travails of Christianity in British India. By SUSAN BlLLlNGTON HARPER. Studies in the History of Christian Missions. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2000. xix...

...Wilfred Cantwell Smith Religion in South Asia . Edited by Edward B. Harper . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 1964 . 199 pp. n.p. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1966 1966 354 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES an impressive introduction to the period of levels...