... of India and Pakistan as separate nation-states. The first of this pair of short pieces was an introductory look at partition by Gerald James Larson, which I asked this prominent scholar of religion to write. I suggested that it take the form of an at-most lightly footnoted overview of the topic, which...

...Wendy Larson Tales of Translation: Composing the New Woman in China, 1898–1918 . By Ying Hu . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 2000 . ix , 265 pp. $49.50 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 702 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES departing from...

...Wendy Larson BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER ASIA 989 with in chapter 5, including the relatively freer social and sexual life that women enjoyed, the further development of the "arts of the bed-chamber," the widespread institutionalization of prostitution, and various customs of love-making...

...Wendy Larson Misogyny, Cultural Nihilism and Oppositional Politics: Contemporary Chinese Experimental Fiction . By Tonglin Lü . Stanford University Press , 1995 . ix, 235 pp. $39.50 (cloth); $14.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Phyllis Larson The Impact of Traditional Thought on Present-Day Japan . Edited by Josef Kreiner . Munich : Iudicium-Verl , 1996 . 236 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 796 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES schemes were significantly responsible...

...Wendy Larson The Naked Gaze: Reflections on Chinese Modernity . By Carlos Rojas . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 2008 . xii , 330 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 Carlos Rojas begins his study of visuality...

...Heidi Larson Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 The Sikh Diaspora: Migration and the Experience Beyond Punjab . Edited by N. Gerald Barrier and Verne A. Dusenbery . Columbia, Mo. : South Asia Books , 1989 . x, 352 pp. $30.00. BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA...

...Wendy Larson Writing Women in Modern China: An Anthology of Literature by Chinese Women from the Early Twentieth-Century . Edited by Amy D. Dooling and Kristina M. Torgeson . New York : Columbia University Press , 1998 . xii, 394 pp. $49.50 (cloth); $18.50 (paper). Copyright ©...

...Heidi Larson Accommodation Without Assimilation: Sikh Immigrants in an American High School . By Margaret Gibson . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 1988 . xii, 244 pp. $34.95 (cloth); $12.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Gerald James Larson Abstract By way of framing Manan Ahmed Asif's intriguing personal (and poetic) reflection entitled “Idol in the Archive” in this current issue of the Journal of Asian Studies , it must always be remembered that in August 1947, the old British Raj gave birth to not one but two...

...Wendy Larson Women in the Chinese Enlightenment: Oral and Textual Histories . By Wang Zheng . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1999 . xv, 402 pp. $50.00 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 423 Women...

...Wendy Larson 1022 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES In the end, in the immortal words of Doak Barnett, Cheng seems "cautiously optimistic" about the future of China's economic development. MARK T. FUNG Johns Hopkins University Chinese Literature in the Second Half of a Modern Century: A Critical Survey...

...Sijia Yao Zhang Yimou: Globalization and the Subject of Culture . By Wendy Larson . Amherst, N.Y. : Cambria Press , 2017 . xv, 420 pp. ISBN: 9781604979756 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2018  2018 Zhang Yimou: Globalization and the Subject...

...Jianmei Liu The significance of Larson's study lies especially in the tracing of the introduction, acceptance, and resistance of Freud in China, and in breaking a new theoretical ground—the revolutionary spirit—to discuss China's revolutionary culture. Presented as a case study of sexual desire...

...” by Professor Gerald James Larson at the front of the previous issue of the Journal of Asian Studies , where it is framed as a brief introduction to “Idols in the Archive,” an elegant, memoir-inflected essay by Manan Ahmed Asif. 1 Here Larson thrice invokes an oil-and-water relationship between Hinduism...

...Amy Dooling Writing and Women in Modern China . By Wendy Larson . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1998 . 267 pp. $51.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 1001 small" {zhua da fang xiao) that encouraged...

...Karl H. Potter Classical Samkhya: An Interpretation of its History and Meaning . By Gerald James Larson . Delhi : Motilal Banarsidass , 1969 . xii, 312 pp. Appendixes, Bibliography, Index. Rs. 30.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1970 1970 BOOK REVIEWS 949...

... earth scientist would have maintained the idèa that the Himalayan massif was created by a wayward “India” crunching into central “Asia” after a multithousand-mile journey from the loins of South Africa. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1974 1974 * Gerald J. Larson (ed...

...Michael Myers India's Agony over Religion . By Gerald James Larson . Albany : State University of New York Press , 1995 . xiv, 393 pp. $59.50 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 234 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES are a minority...

... of the subcontinent's religious dynamics. Gerald James Larson's recent reflection in this journal on partition as a religious event demonstrates many of these dynamics, most notably the reification of religions and their classification according to Christian and scientific categorical paradigms. 1 Larson's claim...