...Wonjung Min Reading North Korea: An Ethnological Inquiry . By Sonia Ryang . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2012 . xiii, 244 pp. $39.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013  2013 Defining herself as an “ethnologist of North Korea...

... that now, three or four decades later, has become such a burr to their minds—the petitioners and their allies simply deny their legitimacy, and smear the questioners as “Hinduphobes.” For this effort to be successful, however, that true inquiry, serious academic engagement—where reading and research...

...George P. Conger The meeting of East and West: an inquiry concerning world understanding . By F. S. C. Northrop . New York : Macmillan , 1946 . xiii, 531 p. $6.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1947 1947 BOOK REVIEWS The meeting of East and West: an inquiry...

...John Berthrong Human Rights and Chinese Thought: A Cross-Cultural Inquiry . By Stephen C. Angle . Cambridge Modern China Series. Cambridge and New Yrok : Cambridge University Press , 2002 . xviii, 285 pp. $70.00 (cloth); $24.99(paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005...

...Maurizio Marinelli Voicing Concern: Contemporary Chinese Critical Inquiry . By Gloria Davies . Lanham, Md. : Rowman and Littlefield , 2001 . xii, 270 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $26.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 234 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

... inquiry”; although one may find in this inquiry “a superficial resemblance to Euro-American critical discourse,” this similarity “masks the goal of national and cultural perfection” for which foreign ideas are purely serviceable (p. 31). Thus, for example, a critic may decry essentialism and cultural...

...Francisco B. Benitez Modern Dreams: An Inquiry into Power, Cultural Production, and the Cityscape in Contemporary Urban Penang, Malaysia . By Beng-Lan Goh . Studies on Southeast Asia, no. 31. Ithaca, N.Y. : Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University , 2002 . xi, 214 pp. $24.00 (paper...

...E. G. Pulleyblank Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1977 1977 The Cradle of the East: An Inquiry into the Indigenous Origins of Techniques and Ideas of Neolithic and Early Historic China, 5000–1000 B.C . By Ho Ping-Ti . Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong Press...

...David E. Mungello Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972 1972 Tai Chen's Inquiry into Goodness . By Chung-ying Cheng . Honolulu : East-West Center Press , 1971 . xi , 176 pp. Romanization and Character Appendix, Bibliography, Index. $6.50. 142 JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Paula Richman Karma: An Anthropological Inquiry . Edited by Charles F. Keyes and E. Valentine Daniel . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1983 . x, 314 pp. Tables, Index, Glossary. $27.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1984 1984 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA...

...Peter Claus Shamans, Mystics, and Doctors: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry into India and Its Healing Traditions . By Sudhir Kakar . New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1982 . x, 306 pp. Note, Index. $15. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1984 1984 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 573...

...Robert M. Hayden The Ideology of Popular Justice in Sri Lanka: A Sociolegal Inquiry . By Neelan Tiruchelvam . New Delhi : Vikas , 1984 . vi, 215 pp. Tables, Appendixes, List of Cases, Bibliography, Index. $27.95. (Distributed in the U.S. by Advent Books, 141 E. 44th St., New York, N.Y...

... critical inquiry, ranging from official party theory to the New Left to even neo-Confucianists and making it a main barrier to the kind of self-reflexivity valued in Western poststructuralism. One limitation comes from the way in which “critical inquiry” is framed. While ranging over a broad array...

...Karl G. Heider Running Amok: An Historical Inquiry . By John C. Spires . Monographs in International Studies, Southeast Asia Series, 82. Athens : Ohio University / Swallow Press , 1988 . x, 179 pp. $13.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 BOOK REVIEWS...

...: A Historical Inquiry . By Sushil Srivastava . New Delhi : Vistaar Publications , 1991 . 142 pp. Rs. 58.00. BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 445 and rituals, and discussions with srautins regarding their performances in rapidly changing situations, have in certain instances given insight and depth to his...

...Vera Schwarcz Book Reviews ASIA GENERAL Self and Deception: a Cross-Cultural Philosophical Inquiry. Edited by ROGER T. AMES and W I M A L DISSANAYAKE. Albany: State University of New York, 1996. 373 pp. $24.95. Philosophers like to probe depths and imagine themselves as fishing for truth. The book...

... church leaders, this is a well-researched and very readable account of an important topic. ALAN RICHARD SWEETEN Turlock, California The Imperial Style of Inquiry in Twentieth-Century China: The Emergence of New Approaches. D O N A L D J. M U N R O . Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University...

...: An Inquiry into Peasant Production for Capitalist Enterprise in Colonial India. By SHAHID AMIN. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1984. (Published in the U.S. by Oxford University Press, New York) xix, 336 pp. Tables, Maps, Illustrations, Diagrams, Graphs, Statistical Appendixes, Bibliography, Glossary...

...Paula Richman Karma: An Anthropological Inquiry . Edited by Charles F. Keyes and E. Valentine Daniel . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1983 . x, 314 pp. Tables, Index, Glossary. $27.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1985 1985 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH...

...James Reardon-Anderson China's Environmental Crisis: An Inquiry into the Limits of National Development . By Vaclav Smil . An East Gate Book. Armonk, N.Y., and London : M. E. Sharpe , 1993 . xix, 257 pp. $42.50 (cloth); $16.95 (paper). Megaproject: A Case Study of China's Three...