...George W. Kent Taoism and the Rite of Cosmic Renewal . By Michael R. Saso . Pullman, Washington : Washington State University Press , 1972 . 120 pp. Illustrations, Notes, Bibliography, n.p.l. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1973 1973 BOOK REVIEWS Taoism...

...Ann Kent Pacific Asia?: Prospects for Security and Cooperation in East Asia . By Mel Gurtov . Lanham, Md. : Rowman and Littlefield , 2002 . 240 pp. $70.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 BOOK REVIEWS ASIA: COMPARATIVE...

...Eliza Kent Women's Lives, Women's Rituals in the Hindu Tradition . Edited by Tracy Pintchman . New York : Oxford University Press , 2007 . xv , 208 pp. $19.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009 An increasingly popular genre of scholarly...

...Eliza F. Kent Possessed by the Virgin: Hinduism, Roman Catholicism, and Marian Possession in South India . By Kristin C. Bloomer . New York : Oxford University Press , 2017 . xv, 325 pp. The Saint in the Banyan Tree: Christianity and Caste Society in India . By David Mosse...

...Kent E. Calder The Japanese Way of Politics . By Gerald L. Curtis . New York : Columbia University Press , 1988 . xvi, 301 pp. $30.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 386 T H E J O U R N A L OF ASIAN STUDIES our understanding of the genre and provide...

...Kent Deng The Qing Opening to the Ocean: Chinese Maritime Policies, 1684–1757 . By Gang Zhao . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2013 . viii, 267 pp. $56.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014  2014 In the field of Chinese history...

...Kent C. Smith The Consolidation of the South China Frontier . By George V. H. Moseley , III. Berkeley : University of California Press , 1973 . x, 192 pp. Appendix, Bibliography, Index. $10. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1973 1973 BOOK REVIEWS 701 was terrifying...

...Kent Mulliner Singapore Changes Guard: Social, Political and Economic Directions in the 1990s . Edited by Garry Rodan . New York : St. Martin's Press , 1993 . xxii, 209 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 1019...

...R. Kent Guy List of References Barfield Thomas J. 1992. The Perilous Frontier: Nomadic Empires and China, 221 B.C. to A.D. 1757 . Oxford : Blackwell . Crossley Pamela K. 1990 a. Orphan Warriors: Three Manchu Generations and the End of the Qing World . Princeton : Princeton...

...R. Kent Guy 1016 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T U D I E S wonders whether Reinders s ndings can be more closely and richly situated within the speci c historical realities of the late nineteenth century, rather than supposing, even if implicitly and unintentionally, a unitary Victorian...

...Kent Eaton Abstract When the philippines returned to democratic rule in 1986, two images emerged of the new democracy that were vastly different and often hard to reconcile with each other. On the one hand, many observers commented on the great extent to which the new democracy appeared merely...

...R. Kent Guy The Hanlin Academy: Training Ground for the Ambitious . By Adam Yuen-chung Lui . Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books , 1981 . xviii, 286 pages. Appendixes, Notes, Glossary, Bibliography. $25. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1982 1982 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 335...

...R. Kent Guy The Culture of War: Empire and the Military under the Qing Dynasty . By Joanna Waley-Cohen . London : I. B. Taurus , 2006 . xiii , 160 pp. $74.95 (cloth) . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2008 2008 The Culture of War is a collection...

...R. Kent Guy The Social History of the Chinese Book: Books and Literati Culture in Late Imperial China . By Joseph R. McDermott . Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press , 2006 . xiv , 294 pp. $57.95 (cloth), $24.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009...

...R. Kent Guy Orphan Warriors: Three Manchu Generations and the End of the Qing World . By Pamela Kyle Crossley . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press . 1990 . xi, 305 pp. $37.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER...

...R. Kent Guy Voices from the Ming-Qing Cataclysm: China in the Tiger's Jaws . Edited and translated by Lynn A. Struve . New Haven, Conn. and London : Yale University Press , 1993 . x, 303 pp. $40.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA...

...R. Kent Guy Monarchs and Ministers: The Grand Council in Mid-Ch'ing China, 1723–1820 . By Beatrice S. Bartlett . Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press , 1991 . xxi, 409 pp. $45.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA...

... the same italic convention for a romanized Korean word and the shorthand of kinship relations (e.g., fabrso meaning "father's brother's son," p. 63) is likely to lead some readers to a vain search of the glossary. GERARD F. KENNEDY Kent State University Korea: The War Before Vietnam. By CALLUM A. MACDONALD...