... challenges to anyone who wants to understand the dynamics of conflict and harmony in Japanese society, McClain has accomplished a great deal. No student of Japanese urbanization can overlook the implications of his work. JAMES C. BAXTER Croton-on-Hudson, New York James C. Baxter, now a banker and formerly...

...-on-Hudson, N. Y. Chinese Film Theory: A Guide to the New Era. Edited by GEORGE S. SEMSEL, X I A H O N G , and H o u J I A N P I N G . New York: Praeger Publishers, 1990. xxii, 222 pp. $39.95. "The New Era" is an apt term for Chinese film theory in the 1980s. Although most of the ideas being debated were...

...Mark J. Hudson Abstract In the nineteenth century, the Mekong, Red, and Chao Phraya river deltas in Southeast Asia underwent a massive expansion in agricultural settlement and engineering (Dao and Molle 2000). Contending with crocodiles and herds of wild elephants in addition to more prosaic insect...

...A. B. Hudson 1872: Documents compiled and annotated by Leandro Tormo Sanz . Translated by Antonio Molina . Manila : R. P. Garcia Publishing Company , 1973 . (Historical Conservation Society, 23). xvi, 171 pp. $4.00 (Distributed by the Cellar Book Shop). A Catalog of Filipiniana...

...G. F. Hudson Asia in the Making of Europe . Volume I. The Century of Discovery . Books One And Two. By Donald F. Lach . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . $20.00 or 1441. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968 1968 BOOK REVIEWS 371 the only alternative...

...A. B. Hudson Austronesian Studies: Papers from the Second Eastern Conference on Austronesian Languages . Edited by Paz Buenaventura Naylor . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan (Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia, No. 15), 1979 . xi, 214 pp. Appendix. N.p. Copyright ©...

...A. B. Hudson The Verhandelingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap: an Annotated Content Analysis . By Lian The and Paul W. van der Veur . Athens : Ohio University Center for International Studies , Southeast Asia Program, 1973 . (Papers in International Studies, Southeast Asia Series...

...A. B. Hudson A Concise Cambodian-English Dictionary . By Judith M. Jacob . London : Oxford University Press , 1974 . xxxiv, 242 pp. $48.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1975 1975 1080 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES lacking in ethnographic description. To some...

...Alfred B. Hudson Kinship, Descent and Alliance among the Karo Batak . By Masri Singarimbun . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1975 . xxii, 246 pp. Appendixes, References, Index. $14.75 Cutlass and Crescent Moon: A Case Study of Social and Political Change in Outer...

...Dennis Hudson Tamil Temple Myths: Sacrifice and Divine Marriage in the South Indian Śaiva Tradition . By David Dean Shulman . Princeton, N. J. : Princeton University Press , 1980 . xvi, 471 pp. Bibliography, Index of Motifs, Index of Place Names and Local Deity Names. $30. Copyright ©...

...Jonathan Edelmann Krishna's Mandala: Bhagavata Religion and Beyond . By D. Dennis Hudson . Edited by John Stratton Hawley . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 2010 . 298 pp. $74.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 Dedicatory volumes...

...M. Thomas Thangaraj Protestant Origins in India: Tamil Evangelical Christians, 1706–1835 . By D. Dennis Hudson . Grand Rapids, Mich. : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing , 2000 . xi, 220 pp. $45.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 585...

...William Wayne Farris Ruins of Identity: Ethnogenesis in the Japanese Islands . By Mark J. Hudson . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1999 . ix, 323 pp. $31.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 742 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Ruins...

...James W. Laine Disorienting Dharma: Ethics and the Aesthetics of Suffering in the Mahābhārata . By Emily T. Hudson . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2013 . viii, 268 pp. ISBN: 9780199860760 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2016  2016 For all...

...Clark Cunningham Padju Epat: The Ma'anyan of Indonesian Borneo . By A. B. Hudson . New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston , 1972 . ix, 134 pp. Map, Illustrations, Glossary, Bibliography, n.p.l. (paperback). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1973 1973 752 that recently...

...Lucian W. Pye The Hundred Flowers Campaign and the Chinese Intellectuals . By Roderick MacFarquhar . Epilogue by G. F. Hudson. New York : Frederick A. Praeger , 1960 , xii, 324 . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1961 1961 228 decision which liquidated the last...

... FREDERICK BUNNELL Padju Epat: The Ma'anyan of Indonesian Borneo. BY A. B. HUDSON. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972. ix, 134 pp. Map, Illustrations, Glossary, Bibliography, n.p.l. (paperback). This book focuses upon social organization in a sub-district of the interior of Indonesian Borneo...

... is a construct of Western academic and Indian scholarly minds. Although the book is concerned with the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it has great relevance to what is happening to caste in the twentieth century, both within the Christian community and wider Indian society. Second, Hudson brings real...

.... In some respects, Catastrophic Asia parallels and extends a conversation begun at a 2014 JAS at AAS Roundtable: “Asian Studies and Human Engagement with the Environment.” Collected as a special section in this journal ( Journal of Asian Studies 73(4), 2014), archaeologist Mark Hudson's exploration...

... BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 743 chief responsibility for pottery-making, simply reproduced wares similar to those of their ancestors. It should be noted that Hudson's interpretation contradicts that of Gina Barnes, and he takes pains to explain the divergence. While Hudson's thesis on the volume of immigration...