...Ronald C. Miao Shore of Pearls. Hainan Island in Early Times . By Edward H. Schafer . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1970 . ix, 114 pp. Notes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $7.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1971 1971 BOOK REVIEWS 433 inhuman...

...Akira Iriye Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1967 1967 The Anglo-Japanese Alliance: The Diplomacy of Two Island Empires, 1894–1907 . By Ian H. Nish . London : The Athlone Press , 1966 . xi, 420 pp. Appendix, Translated Documents, Bibliographical notes, Select...

...David Hicks In a multitude of images crammed with ethnographic substance, Island Encounters radiates a “lived-in” feeling of how daily life in small Timorese communities is lived. With scrupulous and close attention to nuanced detail, Palmer describes how village folk take great care to follow...

...Josef Silverstein The Rice Industry in Malaya: 1920–1940 . By Ding Eing Tan Soo Hai . No. 2. 60 . A History of Port Swettenham . By Min Bin Jamaladdin . No. 3. 1963 . 35 . Fifty Years of the Anglican Church in Singapore Island, 1909–1959 . By Loh Keng Aun . No. 4. 1963...

...Hyman Kublin Okinawa; The History of an Island People . By George H. Kerr . Rutland, Vermont and Tokyo, Japan : Charles E. Tuttle , 1958 . xviii, 542 . Maps, Bibliography, Index. $6.75. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1960 1960 356 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Jean-Paul Dumont Clash of Spirits: The History of Power and Sugar Planter Hegemony on a Visayan Island . By Filomeno V. Aguilar Jr . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1998 . xiv, 314 pp. $49.00 (cloth); $28.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000...

...David Hicks The Memory of Trade: Modernity's Entanglements on an Eastern Indonesian Island . By Patricia Spyer . Durham, NC. : Duke University Press , 2000 . xxiv, 354 pp. $59.95 (cloth), $19.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Katharine H. S. Moon Okinawa: Cold War Island . Edited by Chalmers Johnson . Cardiff, Calif. : Japan Policy Research Institute , 1999 . $20.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 556 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES that the nationalist vehemence...

...Marvin Marcus Mad Wives and Island Dreams: Shimao Tosbio and the Margins of Japanese Literature . By Philip Gabriel . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 1999 . x, 287 pp. $49.00 (cloth), $28.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 BOOK...

...Kathleen M. Adams Beyond the Java Sea: Art of Indonesia's Outer Island . By Paul Michael and Lorraine V. Aragon . Washington, D.C. : The Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution . 1991 . 320 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $22.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Lucian W. Pye Cultural Citizenship in Island Southeast Asia: Nation and Belonging in the Hinterlands . Edited by Renato Rosaldo . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 2003 . x , 228 pp. $24.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 B...

...Julia Yonetani Women of Okinawa: Nine Voices from a Garrison Island . By Ruth Ann Keyso . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 2000 . xv , 166 pp. $39.95 (cloth); $16.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 622 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Women...

...David R. Sturtevant Sketches of the Island of Negros . By Robustiano Echauz . Translated by Donn V. Hart , with a historical introduction by John A. Larkin. Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Center for International Studies Papers (Southeast Asia Series No. 50), 1978 . xxviii, 146 pp...

..., and informed by earlier writings on the region— Savu: History and Oral Tradition on an Island of Indonesia is essential reading for all scholars studying Austronesian societies. It is no less essential for those interested in methodological matters concerning how the procedures of ethnography—interviewing...

...Laurel Kendall Then came the Japanese colonial administration (1910–45) with its anti-superstition campaigns, possibly more vehement on Cheju owing to the modernist colonizers’ contemptuous perception of the islanders as even more backward than their mainland counterparts. In this same period...

...Thomas A. Sebeok Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1945 1945 The people of Alor: A social-psychological study of an East Indian island . By Cora Du Bois . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 654 pp. $7.50. BOOK REVIEWS 193 which the author himself calls...

...Johannes Huber China's Island Frontier: Studies in the Historical Geography of Taiwan . Edited by Ronald G. Knapp . Honolulu : The University Press of Hawaii and the Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii , 1980 . xv, 296 pp. Maps, Illustrations, Glossary, Indexes. $20...

...Felix M. Keesing A Solomon Island Society. Kinship and Leadership among the Siuai of Bougainville . By Douglas L. Oliver . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1955 . xxii , 533. Plates, Maps, Notes, Index. $10.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1956 1956...

... . 126 . Pacific Island Bastions of the United States . By Herold J. Wiens . 1962 . 127 . Indonesia: The Crisis of the Millstones . By Benjamin Higgins with Jean Higgins . 1963 . 144 . The Lower Mekong: Challenge to Cooperation in Southeast Asia . By C. Hart Schaaf...