... to associate him with the origin and development of that movement, is less than enthusiastic; and in the Introduction to Mythe et épopée III he has explicitly denied any connection whatsoever with structuralism per se and, implicitly, with the theories and methods of the leader of the movement, Claude Lévi...

...Alf Hiltebeitel Mythologies du XXe siècle (Dumézil, Lévi-Strauss, Eliade) . By Daniel Dubuisson . Lille : Presses Universitaires de Lille . 1993 . 348 pp. 130 FF. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 494 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES in most films (one...

...Werner Levi Documents on Communism, Nationalism, and Soviet Advisers in China, 1918–1927 . (Papers Seized in the 1927 Peking Raid.) Edited, with Introductory Essays, by C. Martin Wilbur and Julie Lien-ying How . New York : Columbia University Press , 1956 . xviii , 617 . $8.75...

...Werner Levi India and the United Nations . New York : Manhattan Publishing Co. , 1957 . xi, 229 . $3.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1958 1958 BOOK REVIEWS 497 The Pacific Dependencies of the United States. By JOHN WESLEY COULTER. New York: Macmillan, 1957...

...Werner Levi China, the Far East and the future . By George W. Keeton . London : Stevens & Sons Limited , 1949 . xi, 511 p. £1.5.0. The Pacific area in modern times . By Osgood Hardy and Glenn S. Dumke . Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company , 1949 . ix, 752 p. $5.00...

...Werner Levi Nepal Bibliography . By Hugh B. Wood . Eugene, Oregon : The American-Nepal Education Foundation , 1959 . 108 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1960 1960 378 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES studied the sounds of different pitches from can serve...

...Werner Levi The United States moves across the Pacific . By Kenneth Scott Latourette . New York : Harper & Brothers , 1946 . ix, 174 p. $2.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1946 1946 84 THE FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY prosperity and social well-being in Asia...

...Werner Levi Abstract The Civil Code of the Republic of China was published during the years 1929–1931, the Criminal Code in 1935. A great number of other law codes were published before and during this period. Almost all of them have the legal systems of Continental European countries...

...Werner Levi The Monetary and Fiscal Policy of India . By K. C. Chacko . Bombay : Vora & Co. Publishers Private Ltd. , 1957 . xvi, 387 . $4.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1958 1958 BOOK REVIEWS 153 success of Western aid to Asia. Unless some...

...Werner Levi Indo Pakistan Relations (1947–1955) . By Dr. J. B. Das Gupta . Amsterdam : Djambatan , 1958 . xii, 254 . Bibliography. Dfl. 18.50 (= 35 s.) Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1959 1959 108 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES writing which otherwise provides...

...Werner Levi Southeast Asia, Today and Tomorrow: Problems of Political Development . By Richard Butwell . New York : Praeger Publishers , Second Revised Edition, 1969 . x, 245 pp. Appendix, Selected Bibliography, Index. $7.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1970...

...Werner Levi The Commonwealth in South Asia . By S. P. Aiyar . Bombay : Lalvani Publishing House , 1969 . ix, 409 pp. Index. Rs. 30.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1970 1970 BOOK NOTES 247 The Commonwealth in South Asia. BY S. P. AIYAR. Bombay: Lalvani...

...Werner Levi Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1962 1962 Modern Nepal: Rise and Growth in the Eighteenth Century . By D. R. Regmi . Calcutta : Firma K. L. Mukhopadhyay , 1961 . xv, 333 . Bibliography, Index. Rs. 18. 438 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES opinionated...

...Werner Levi Administrative Aspects of River Valley Development . By Henry C. Hart . Under the Auspices of the Indian Institute of Public Administration. New York : Asia Publishing House , 1961 . vii, 112 . Index. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1962 1962 BOOK...

...Werner Levi Lee Kuan Yew . By Alex Josey . Singapore : Donald Moore Press , 1968 . xii, 657 pp. Index. $12.50. Lee Kuan Yew and the Commonwealth . By Alex Josey . Singapore : Donald Moore Press , 1969 112 pp. Appendix. $3.75 (Distributed by the Cellar Book Shop). Copyright ©...

...Scott C. Levi The Empire and the Khanate: A Political History of Qing Relations with Khoqand c. 1760–1860 . By L. J. Newby . Leiden, Netherlands : Brill , 2005 . 304 pp. $99.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006 2006 618 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T...

... and optimism on the other. Those in a position to be harmed by the change often create “negative” myths about the potential implications of that change; those not, glorify it. To misquote Claude Levi-Strauss, myths are created to control the present, hence, by implication, also the future (Levi-Strauss 1979...

...Levi McLaughlin Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan . By Jolyon Baraka Thomas . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2019 . 336 pp. ISBN: 9780226618821 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2020 2020 I find beginning a book...

... capital; sans lui, rien ne s'explique; autour de lui, tout s'éclaire et s'ordonne.”—Sylvain Lévi. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1957 1957 1 Despite their use of modern methods, Dr. Hu Shih's studies in Chinese Buddhist history are not unmarked by this attitude. See his...

..., we know few authorities on the subject of Islam in China, e.g., d'Ollone, Thierssant, Broomhall, Bonin, Hartmann, etc. Even in such comprehensive works as the Encyclopaedia of religion and ethics , the Encyclopaedia of the social sciences , the Encyclopaedia of Islam , and R. Levy's Sociology...