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...Holmes Welch Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1981 1981 Lao Tzu: Texts, Notes and Comments . By Ch'en Ku-Ying . Translated by Yang Yu-wei and Roger Ames . San Francisco : Chinese Materials Center , 1977 . viii , 341 pp. Appendix, Index of Proper Names. $10.50...

... Manuscripts of Ma-wang-tui, containing around 120,000 characters, include two hitherto unknown versions of the Lao Tzu and probably the lost “Four Scriptures of the Yellow Emperor.” A preliminary investigation of these texts indicates that they represent a mode of thinking referred to in the Historical...

...Ranbir Vohra Lao niu po che, Essai autocritoque sur le roman et l'humour . By Lao She . Introduction, traduction, et notes de Paul Bady. Paris : Presses Universitaires de France , 1974 . xcii, 129 pp. Index. N.p.l. Rickshaw: The Novel Lo-t'o Hsiang Tzu by Lao She . Translated...

...Ian G. Baird Abstract There is a long history of Theravada Buddhist monk involvement in militarism in mainland Southeast Asia. Here, I examine recent Lao monk support for political and military activities directed against the communist Lao People's Democratic Republic government and its Vietnamese...

...Siu-chi Huang The Parting of the Way: Lao Tzu and the Taoist Movement . By Holmes Welch . Boston : Beacon Press , 1957 . 204 . $5.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1958 1958 134 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES the records were left in China when the Westerners...

...Christina Schwenkel Lastly, I would like to have seen a deeper discussion of how Laos constitutes a “late industrial” (late industrializing?) environment—a term commonly used by scholars to identify deteriorating infrastructure in industrialized economies, rather than the construction of new...

...Allen D. Kerr Vachnanoukrom Pahsah Lao: A Laotian Dictionary . Compiled and Edited by Maha Sila Viravongs , Secretary of the Laotian Literary Committee. Vientiane : Ministère de l'Education Nationale , 1961 , ix, 281 . 150 kip (Approximately $2.00) (Paper). Copyright ©...

...Arthur J. Dommen Political Struggles in Laos (1930–1954): Vietnamese Communist Power and the Lao Struggle for National Independence . By Geoffrey C. Gunn . Bangkok : Editions Duang Kamol , 1988 . xii, 325 pp. $29.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990...

...Carol J. Compton The Village of the Deep Pond: Ban Xa Phang Meuk, Laos . By Fred Branfman . Edited with an Introduction by James A. Hafner and Joel M. Halpern . Amherst : University of Massachusetts at Amherst, International Area Studies Program , 1978 . vi , 47 pp. N.p. The Old...

...Marina Roseman Lan Na Textiles: Yuan hue Lao . By Songsak Prangwatthanakun and Patricia Cheesman . Chiang Mai, Thailand : Center for the Promotion of Arts and Culture , 1987 . 108 pp. Textiles as Texts: Arts of Hmong Women from Laos . By Amy Catlin and Dixie Swift . Los...

...Charles F. Keyes Laos: Keystone of Indochina . By Arthur J. Dommen . Boulder Colo .: Westview Press , 1985 . xviii, 182 pp. $38.00. Contemporary Laos: Studies in the Politics and Society of the Lao People's Democratic Republic . Edited by Martin Stuart-Fox . New York .: St...

...Charles F. Keyes Lao Peasants Under Socialism . By Grant Evans . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1990 . xv, 268 pp. $30.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 453 Congress, Thomas Polgar defends his reporting...

...Carol J. Ireson On the Road in Laos: An Anthropological Study of Road Construction and Rural Communities . By Ing-Britt Trankell . Uppsala : Uppsala Reports in Cultural Anthropology, No. 12. Uppsala University , 1993 . viii, 99 pp. Anthropological Reconnaissance in Central Laos...

...Oliver Tappe Spirits of the Place is an accessible and comprehensive study that comprises different disciplines such as religious studies, history, anthropology, and culture politics. With his well-informed book, John C. Holt puts Laos on the map of Buddhist studies and provides...

...Yunte Huang Lao She in London . By Anne Witchard . Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press , 2012 . xii, 172 pp. $18.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014  2014 London in the 1920s was swarmed with more things Chinese than present-day Wal-Mart or K...

...Simon Creak Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Lao Studies . By Karen L. Adams and Thomas John Hudak . Tempe, Ariz. : Southeast Asia Council, Center for Asian Research , 2010 . xxi, 429 pp. $24.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014  2014...

...John Badgley North Vietnam and the the Pathet Lao: Partners in the Struggle for Laos . By Paul F. Lancer and Joseph J. Zasloff . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1970 . vii, 262 pp. Maps, Appendices, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $5.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...George Dutton Breaking New Ground in Lao History: Essays on the Seventh to Twentieth Centuries . Edited by Mayoury Ngaosrivathana and Kennon Breazeale . Chiang Mai : Silkworm Books , 2002 . xv, 383 pp. $25.00 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 560 T H...

...Nathan Badenoch 1. Holly High, Fields of Desire: Poverty and Policy in Laos (Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2014). One inconvenient fact for the government is that the Kantu language is still spoken, and the speakers talk about their trials and tribulations...