...A. Hamish Ion A World of Crisis and Progress: The American YMCA in Japan 1890–1930 . By Jon Thares Davidann . Bethlehem, Penn. : Lehigh University Press , 1998 . 207 pp. $37.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 428 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Hamish Ion Soldier of God: MacArthur's Attempt to Christianize Japan . By Ray A. Moore . Portland, Maine : Merwin Asia , 2011 , ix, 167 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $35.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013  2013 Ray Moore, one of America's preeminent...

... finds in the recent introductory and panoramic works on Hinduism: either no recognition of Dumézil's contribution at all (Thomas J. Hopkins, The Hindu Religious Tradition [Encino, Cal., 1971], Veronica Ions, Indian Mythology [London, 1967]), or facile dismissals (Robert C. Zaehner, Hinduism [London...

... int­ro­duced Is­lam in sim­ple lang­ uage, depicting it as a rel­i­gion that ex­hib­its the el­e­gant and no­ble in­stincts of hum­ ans and main­tains peace among them. Lingding s disc­ ov­ery of this peacef­ul and se­rene pic­ture of Isl­am in a book, which talks about Turkey s mode­ rn­i­zat­ ion...

... of pract­ice in­volve the essentialization of mem­o­ry, the emb­ odi­ment of his­ tor­ y, and the trans­for­ma­tion of ma­te­ria­ l­ized forms of mean­ing and rep­re­sent­ at­ ion books, works of art, comm­ od­it­ies, food, mon­u­ments to ex­press the com­plex­ity of int­er-Asian as well as global Asian conn­...

... ique of Jap­an­ ese Naturalist fict­ ion, Marxi­st int­ell­ect­ual Hirabayashi Hatsunosuke ar­gued that the twen­ti­eth cen­tury needed arts that achieved a greater col­lec­ tive subj­ec­tiv­ity than the in­div­ idu­ a­ l. He hast­ened to add that this was not meant to be the ex­per­ i­ence...

..., dig­i­tal platf­ orm, emot­ ion, fem­ in­ ism, The platformization of webcomics (or webtoons) in 2000s Korea came to be rec­ og­nized as a prominent way of pro­duc­ing, dist­ribu­ t­ing, and cons­um­ing cul­tural produ­ cts be­cause of the po­tent­ial com­mod­ity value of the remediated digi­t­al form...

... Book Reviews Transnational and Comparative 307 ­de­bil­it­ at­ ion, and ra­cial disp­ os­abil­ity is starkly evi­ ­dent in asym­metr­ i­cal modes of maiming and killi­ng deployed by Isr­ael and deva­ s­tati­ng ap­at­hy of Amer­ic­ ans. One clear ex­amp­ le is Senator Lindsey Graham s comm­ ents...

... i­tive to nu­anced dif­fer­en­tia­ t­ion and con­ text. This may be why he seems crit­i­cal of François Jullien s in­ter­pre­tat­ion of Chi­nese thought, es­pe­cially reg­ ard­ing his funct­ ional in­ter­pre­tat­ ion of Laozi s thought in terms of strate­g­ y and the exc­lu­sion of Bud­dhism (10 11...

...John Lee The Cross and the Rising Sun: Vol. 2: The British Protestant Missionary Movement in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, 1865–1945 . By A. Hamish Ion . Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press , 1993 . xii, 324 pp. $49.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

... James Bond film re­makes set in for­mer Brit­ish col­on­ ies. It dem­ons­ trates that, in the case of Singapore and Malaysia, re­mak­ing James Bond films was both a cons­e­quence, and an as­ser­tion, of postc­ o­ lon­ ial in­de­pen­dence. The films on-screen mani­ f­ est­ at­ ions and off-screen...

... to some large stand­ ing images of the Pandava hero Bhima set beside the road. My first instinct was to ask, What are they doing there? The assumpt­ ion being, of course, that they had been put there to ident­ify, symb­ ol­ize, cele­ b­ rate, or resist some­thing. It didn t imme­dia­ tely occur to me...

... in short­hand as 3.11 ) and the ens­ u­ing nu­clear plant and rad­ ia­ t­ ion cris­ es dealt inc­ al­cul­ a­ble dama­ ge to Japan s Tohoku reg­ ion: its nat­u­ral land­scape, so­cie­ ­tal in­fras­truc­ture, and the lives and life­ ways of its peo­ple were deci­m­ ate­ d. The mas­sive loss of life (over 15,900...

... of Shandong prov­ince (see fig. 1). Among about thirty ex­tant Quanzhen ge­ne­al­ogi­c­ al stel­ae or stela ins­ cript­ ions, the dual stel­ae com­ mis­sioned by Liu are the only case of a Quanzhen line­ ­age s gen­ ea­ l­og­ic­ al rec­ ord be­ing del­ib­era­ tely inscribed on doub­ le ste­lae, one for monks...

... af­t er­math of the Ferdi­ nand Marcos dic­tat­ ors­ hip and in the mid­dle of the Corazon Aquino ad­mini­st­ rat­ ion s war on comm­ un­ ist in­sur­genc­ y. In the throes of the up­heava­ l, Ohashi be­came part of a trans­na­tional sol­id­ ar­ity netw­ ork that sought alt­er­nat­ ives to a life dep­...

... ave­ ­nues of ex­plo­ra­tion into many re­lated but in­dep­ end­ ently sign­ if­ic­ ant el­e­ments. Porter s book re­vives and reconceptualizes a long-stand­ing Qing cate­ g­ o­ri­zat­ ion: bann­ er peop­ le (Ch. qiren), memb­ ers of the Eight Banners (ba qi) who performed both mili­t­ary...

... will be of spec­ ial in­tere­ st to schol­ars in the mult­ip­ le fields of Budd­ hist stud­ ies, Tib­ etan studi­ es, eth­no­mus­ i­colo­ g­ y, mus­ ic theo­ ­ry, and an­throp­ ol­og­ y, as well as to Budd­ hist medi­ t­ at­ ion prac­ti­tione­ rs. After a gen­eral int­ro­duct­ion to the his­tory of the Chöd ritu­...

... Bud­dhism as a threat, and sec­ul­ar crit­ics, who were criti­ c­ al of all­ things rel­ i­gious. Wu re­veals the sens­ it­ ivi­ ty to these criti­ c­ isms ex­erc­ ised by pro­pon­ ents of eso­ t­ eric Bud­dhism and the skill ( stra­teg­ ic re­in­ter­pret­ at­ ion ) (13) with which they paved the way...

... ref­orm­ers in China were pri­mar­ily concerned with op­tim­ iz­ing an inf­ ra­struc­ture for inf­ orm­ at­ ion exc­ hange is conv­ inc­ ing, but it turns out that their conc­ erns were un­subs­tant­i­at­ed. The phoneticization or sim­plif­ ic­ a­tion of Chi­nese char­act­ ers was not ess­ ent­ ial to maki­...

...-cata­loged art­ists. A not­ ab­ le culm­ i­ nat­ ion of such an ef­fort was the mass­ ive two-vol­ume cat­a­log Masters of Ind­ ian Painting (2011), which gave am­ple space to the maj­or art­ists work­ing in the Mug­ hal court.3 Survey acc­ ounts of Mu­ghal paint­ing also abounded.4 All of these im­por­tant...