...Donald Abelson Negotiating Across Cultures: International Communication in an Interdependent World . By Raymond Cohen . Washington, D.C. : United States Institute of Peace Press , 1997 . Revised Edition, xvi, 268 pp. $19.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Tsuen-hsuin Tsien Abstract Translation is not only a science or an art, but also a practical tool of international communication in the world-wide exchange of ideas. The importance of translation has been heightened by the increasing contacts among nations of widely divergent cultures...

... are really “Muslim” or merely inheritors of a cultural tradition somewhat different from the Han majority. Instead, I propose to examine one important area of interest to Hui communities throughout China, namely the lore and events surrounding various tombs and shrines, which I categorize as historic, Sufi...

...Tessa Morris-Suzuki Abstract A specter is haunting europe and, indeed, the rest of the world: not, of course the specter of Communism, but of that other big C—Culture. At the 1991 Conference of the International Association of Historians of Asia, Prof. Ying-Shih Yu of Princeton University argued...

...John R. McRae Abstract In comparison with other forms of Chinese religions, the study of Chinese Buddhism benefits from several factors. First, the international range of Buddhism allows for fruitful comparison with developments in other neighboring cultures such as India and Japan...

...Magnus Marsden Abstract This article explores the importance of transnational forms of Muslim cultural identity in northern Pakistan. By documenting the dynamism of a transnational form of Muslim identity that encompasses people belonging to a wide range of ethnic communities and Islamic doctrinal...

... International Cultural Exchange A Study of Gao Jianfu s South Asian Art Tour ABSTRACT Gao Jianfu (1879 1951) is one of the most fam­ ous art­ists of twent­ie­ thcent­ury China. His art and ca­reer have both attracted much schol­arly at­ten­tion. Nevertheless, de­spite a prol­if­era­ ­tion of studi­es, existing...

.... MICHAEL HERZFELD Harvard University Tourism, Heritage, and National Culture in Java: Dilemmas of a Local Community. By HEIDI DAHLES. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon, 2001. xvii, 257 pp. £70.00/ $125.00 (cloth). Economic dependence on international tourism is, as many countries have experienced, fraught...

... In these reports, international students affirm the value by Korean culture by joining traditional clubs and celebrating Korean holidays. Their testimonies of being moved and having memorable experiences further affirmed the Koreans’ moral authority as hosts in the global community and their sensitivity to diverse...

...Paul H. Clyde The Taming of the Nations: A Study of the Cultural Bases of International Policy . By F. S. C. Northrop . New York : The Macmillan Company , 1952 . xii, 362 . $5.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1953 1953 414 FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY The Taming...

... . Wagner Rudolf . 1995 . “ The Role of the Foreign Community in the Chinese Public Sphere .” China Quarterly 142 (June): 423 –43. Wagner Rudolf . 1999 . “ The Shenbao in Crisis-The International Environment and the Conflict between Guo Songtao and the Shenbao .” Late Imperial China 20...

... and cultural diversity under UNESCO s program on Man and Biosphere (MAB). For the KMNP and its inhabitants, the MAB Program has translated into a highly successful collaboration between Indonesian and international researchers and indigenous people covering diverse topics such as resource management...

... the construction of second-order geobodies that formed the bulwarks of cultural pluralism in colonized Taiwan and that later were turned into the reimagined communities of cultural identity that make modern Taiwan (p. 248). Drawing on Foucault's theory of power formation through a disciplining society...

... to both engage and protect individuals within community. The introduction and first two parts of this book are devoted to interpreting the historical and contemporary culture of China to the West. The popular understanding of China in the West is likely to have missed the modern Chinese dynamic of coping...

... and history to date. The author strategically arranges his discussions into two sections, forming a narrative dichotomy on internal and external elements of Wa society related, respectively, to traditional culture and contemporary social changes. In the first half of the book, the author focuses on origin...

...Frank J. Korom Kaleidoscopic Ethnicity: International Migration and the Reconstruction of Community Identities in India . By Prema A. Kurien . New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press , 2002 . xi , 217 pp. $55.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004...

... in the Netherlands, the ACV). Organized in 1947, the ACV is an example of an adaptive group that began by satisfying the daily needs of the Chinese immigrant community in dealing with a host culture. The transformation of the ACV involved a changing leadership cohort and an expanded functionality of its aims. Li...

... for the hiatus during World War II when all West Coast Japanese were interned in concentration camps. Lon Kurashige makes excellent use of the festival as an ethnic cultural form through which he critically examines the changing ethnic responses of a racial minority to the larger social and historical forces...

... government of ces, and felt a duty to attend to the well-being of their community. According to Nakamura, as rural elites became more involved in the practice of Western medicine or other cultural pursuits, such as poetry circles, they helped move their communities toward greater dependence on literacy. Her...

..., and the International Education Movement in Early TwentiethCentury Japan MARK E. LINCICOME HE LITERATURE ON NATIONALISM ascribes a pivotal role to schools in creating what Benedict Anderson calls an "imagined community," through the formation and dissemination of a common national identity and a shared national...