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... of eccentricity with moral virtue and extraordinary human potential. He discusses a number of terms used in Tokugawa discourse to indicate idiosyncratic behavior, such as kyō (madness), muyō (uselessness), and, most importantly, ki , which he glosses as “extraordinary, marvelous, original, eccentric” (p. 4...

...: Notes on Coercion and Control in France and the United States ,” Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 38 ( 2014 ): 618 . The Invention of Madness is a must-read for anyone who seeks to understand what madness and modernity mean for the state and society in China and beyond. I highly recommend...

...Hazel Smith Kim Jong-un's Strategy for Survival: A Method to Madness . By David W. Shin . Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books , 2021 . xviii, 463 pp. ISBN: 9781793608208 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 The stated aim of this book is “to gain...

...Nayoung Aimee Kwon It's Madness: The Politics of Mental Health in Colonial Korea . By Theodore Jun Yoo . Oakland : University of California Press , 2016 . 248 pp. ISBN: 9780520289307 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2017  2017...

...Joan Kleinman; Arthur Kleinman Madness in Late Imperial China: From Illness to Deviance . By Vivien Ng . Norman, London : University of Oklahoma Press , 1990 . $25.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 668 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES the discernment...

...Joseph Parker Figures of Desire: Wordplay, Spirit Possession, Fantasy, Madness, and Mourning in Japanese Noh Plays . By Etsuko Terasaki . Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, no. 38. Ann Arbor : Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan , 2002 . xvii , 329 pp...

...Dane Kennedy Mad Tales from the Raj: The European Insane in British India, 1800–1858 . By Waltraud Ernst . London and New York : Routledge , 1991 . xi, 195 pp. $74.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 184 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Similarly...

...Daniel J. Meckel Mad and Divine: Spirit and Psyche in the Modern World . By Sudhir Kakar . Chicago and London : The University of Chicago Press , 2009 . 192 pp. $24.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 In this volume, Sudhir Kakar once...

...Ronald Provencher Mad Dogs, Englishmen, and the Errant Anthropologist: Fieldwork in Malaysia . By Douglas Raybeck . Prospect Heights, II. : Waveland Press , 1996 . xi, 248 pp. $10.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 866 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Glen Alexander Hayes Fabulous Females and Peerless Pīrs: Tales of Mad Adventure in Old Bengal . Translated by Tony K. Stewart . New York : Oxford University Press , 2004 . xiv , 267 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006 2006 216 T H E...

...H. Leedom Lefferts, Jr. The Teachers of Mad Dog Swamp . By Khammaan Khonkhai . Translated by Gehan Wijeyewardene . St. Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1982 . xliv, 263 pp. Introduction by the General Editors, Note on the Orthography of Thai Words, Translator's Introduction...

...Marvin Marcus Mad Wives and Island Dreams: Shimao Tosbio and the Margins of Japanese Literature . By Philip Gabriel . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 1999 . x, 287 pp. $49.00 (cloth), $28.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 BOOK...

...Matt Thorn Themes and Issues in Asian Cartooning: Cute, Cheap, Mad, and Sexy . Edited by John A. Lent . Bowling Green, Oh. : Popular Press , 1999 . 212 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 BOOK REVIEWS GENERAL ASIA 1087 Themes and Issues in Asian...

... is mad about newness.” Nārata-Rāmāyaṇam(?) presents colonialism as a continuation of the Ramayana narrative, showing how an ancient South Asian narrative can serve as an imaginative framework for modern Indian writers. The text mounts an astute critique of the notion of perfect rule, Ram Raj...

... , and Gladys Yang . 2008 . “ A Madman's Diary .” In The Longman Anthology of World Literature , edited by David Damrosch and David L. Pike , 131 – 38 . New York : Pearson Longman . Ma , Xiaolu . 2015 . “ Transculturation of Madness: The Double Origin of Lu Xun's ‘Diary...

... generation," he is a writer of psychological fiction of great depth and subtlety; his subject is often the human mind in extremis, wavering dangerously on the borderline between sanity and madness not a comfortable subject, but a fascinating one in Furui's capable hands. Whatever the reason for our long...

... ). Figure 1. Example 9, Photograph 6 in Kure and Kashida ( 1918b ). Although domestic confinement of those considered mad was not unique to Japan, the extent of the legal obligations of care placed on families into the twentieth century was unusual. In many parts of the world, families had long...

... (paper). Pagalami is the Bengali word corresponding to "madness." In Pagalami: Ethnopsychiatric Knowledge in Bengal, Deborah Bhattacharyya explores the domain of madness BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 195 and its treatment, providing a sociological framework for understanding Bengali ethnopsychiatry. The book...

... the Buddhist order on the fall of the dynasty, to emerge later into secular life with the attendant perils of being suspected with or without foundation of anti-Manchu loyalism. Zhu Da's emergence in 1679-80 was accompanied by an outbreak of mad behavior; whether he was truly deranged, as contemporary accounts...

... of the Ming imperial family, entered the Buddhist order on the fall of the dynasty, to emerge later into secular life with the attendant perils of being suspected with or without foundation of anti-Manchu loyalism. Zhu Da's emergence in 1679-80 was accompanied by an outbreak of mad behavior; whether he...