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...D. L. Keene New Life Korean-English Dictionary . (American Edition). Edited by Hyungki J. Lew . Washington : Educational Services , 1952 . 866 . New Life English-Korean Dictionary . (American Edition). Edited by Hyungki J. Lew . Washington : Educational Services , 1952 . 1301...

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.... 20.00. An Artist in Life: A Commentary on the Life and Works of Rabindranath Tagore . By Niharranjan Ray . Trivandrum : University of Kerala , 1967 . vii, 480 pp. Bibliography, Index. Rs. 30.00. 972 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES column heads are occasionally missing (p. 63) or incorrect (p. 100...

... that the rise of governmentality has led to a new endorsement of citizens’ quest for adequate lives. The goal of the volume under review is to articulate the ways in which the governance of life in China has been transformed over the last three decades. Under Mao Zedong, power was deployed toward the twin...

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... that this book may be of greater importance to the specialist on Communist China than to the student of China's past, although the latter can obtain an outstanding guide to the weaknesses and strengths of Chinese Communist materials, should he choose to use them. As data on life in communist China...

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...Susan Napier Woman in the Crested Kimono: The Life of Shibue Io and Her Family, Drawn from Mori Ōgai's “Shibue Chūsai.” . By Edwin McClellan . New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press , 1985 . xiii, 192 pp. Map, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $15.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Richard B. Mather Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968 1968 Chinese Buddhist Monasteries: Their Plan and Its Function as a Setting for Buddhist Monastic Life . By J. Prip-Moller . Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press , 1967 . 396 pp. Table of Sketches, Table...

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...Joel C. Kuipers Cosmology and Social Life: Ritual Exchange Among the Mambai of East Timor . By Elizabeth G. Traube . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1986 . xxiii , 289 pp. $32.00 (cloth); $14.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988 1988 202 T...

...Stanley Rosen Life and Death in Shanghai . By Nien Cheng . New York : Grove Press , 1986 . x, 547 pp. $19.95. Born Red: A Chronicle of the Cultural Revolution . By Gao Yuan . Foreword by William A. Joseph. Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1987 . xxxii, 380 pp. $39.50...

... the excellent quality of the view the author advances in the book. If he were willing to change the title to "A View of Life," and give up some of his claims that certain ideas are uniquely Chinese, he would deprive his critics of most of their arguments. But he will never silence his positivistic critics...

...Mikiso Hane Widows of Hiroshima: The Life Stories of Nineteen Peasant Wives . By Mikio Kanda . Translated by Taeko Midorikawa . New York : St. Martin's Press , 1989 . 183 pp. $21.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 616 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Jean-Paul Dumont Emigrants, Entrepreneurs, and Evil Spirits: Life in a Philippine Village . By Stephen Griffiths . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1988 . x, 95 pp. $20.00 (cloth); $9.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 BOOK REVIEWS...

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