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...David Curtis Wright Chinese Martial Arts: From Antiquity to the Twenty-first Century . By Peter Lorge . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2012 . x, 270 pp. $36.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014  2014 Scholars might be forgiven...

...Hui Faye Xiao Sound Rising from the Paper: Nineteenth-Century Martial Arts Fiction and the Chinese Acoustic Imagination . By Paize Keulemans . Harvard East Asian Monographs 369. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2014 . xiii, 338 pp. ISBN: 9780674417120...

...Wayne Wilcox Revolution in Pakistan: A Study of the Martial Law Administration . By Herbert Feldman . London : Oxford University Press , 1967 . xii, 242 pp. Appendices, Index. $6.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1967 1967 170 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...James D. Seymour A Great Trial in Chinese History: The Trial of the Lin Biao and Jiang Qing Counter-Revolutionary Cliques, Nov. 1980–Jan. 1981 . By New World Press . Beijing , 1981 . 234 pp. + 12 pp. photographs. Preface by Fei Hsiao Tung . $7.50. The Court-Martial of the Kaohsiung...

...Thomas Moran Literary Culture in Taiwan: Martial Law to Market Law . By Sung-Sheng Yvonne Chang . New York : Columbia University Press , 2004 . x , 271 pp. $34.50 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006 2006 B O O K R E V I E W S C H I N A 155 This sense...

...Denise Gimpel Paper Swordsmen: Jin Yong and the Modern Chinese Martial Arts Novel . By John Christopher Hamm . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2005 . xi , 348 pp. $49.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006 2006 162 T H E J O U R N A L...

...Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang The Landscape of Historical Memory: The Politics of Museums and Memorial Culture in Post-Martial Law Taiwan . By Kirk A. Denton . Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press , 2021 . 272 pp. ISBN: 9789888528578 . © 2023 Association for Asian Studies 2023...

...Donald S. Sutton Gods, Ghosts, and Gangsters: Ritual Violence, Martial Arts, and Masculinity on the Margins of Chinese Society . By Avron Boretz . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2010 . viii, 273 pp. $50.00 (cloth); $29.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...David Joel Steinberg Political Change in the Philippines: Studies of Local Politics Preceding Martial Law . Edited by Benedict J. Kerkvliet . Honolulu : University Press of Hawaii, Asian Studies at Hawaii , No. 14, 1974 . ix, 261 pp. n.p.l. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies...

..., and or moment for this paper, is that this primarily martial metaphor has been appropriated by Alis, Tamil transsexuals or “eunuchs.” Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 References Assayag Jackie. 1992 . La colère de la déesse decapitée: Traditions, cultes et pouvoir...

... the characteristics attributed to the Indian martial races. Thus Major-General George MacMunn wrote of the Sikhs: As a fighting man his slow wit and dogged courage give him many of the characteristics of the British soldier at his best. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 List...

...William Wayne Farris Armed Martial Arts of Japan . By G. Cameron Hurst , III. New Haven, Conn, and London : Yale University Press , 1998 , x, 243 pp. $30.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 519 components analysis, they could have...

...David Kowalewski Spectator Society: The Philippines Under Martial Rule . By Benjamin N. Muego . Monographs in International Studies, Southeast Asia Series 77. Athens : Ohio University/Swallow Press , 1989 . x, 222 pp. $12.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990...

...Richard W. Anderson Theater and Martial Arts in West Sumatra: Randai and Silek of the Minangkabau . By Kirstin Pauka . Athens, Oh. : University Center for International Studies , Monographs in International Studies, Southeast Asia Series No. 103, 1998 . xii, 261 pp. $26.00 (paper...

...Devesh Soneji When the Body Becomes All Eyes: Paradigms, Discourses, and Practices of Power in Kalarippayattu, A South Indian Martial Art . By Phillip A. Zarrilli . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1998 . xxii, 310 pp. $32.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...Joel E. Rocamora Marcos and Martial Law in the Philippines . Edited by David A. Rosenberg . Ithaca,.N.Y. : Cornell University Press , 1979 . Appendixes, Index. 315 pp. $17.50 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1981 1981 430 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Lawrence Ziring BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 437 The State of Martial Rule: The Origins of Pakistan's Political Economy of Defence. By AYESHA JALAL. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. xiii, 362 pp. $44.50. Ayesha Jalal has produced an important book and a timely examination of the origins...

...Maria Misra Abstract This article takes issue with recent accounts of the evolution of Gandhian ideas that have stressed his importance as a global theorist of principled nonviolence. It suggests that throughout his life Gandhi's writings display a preoccupation with ideas of martial courage...

... discipline aimed at resisting docility. John Donohue's study of the Japanese martial art karate (1993) explores how, in the West, karate's symbolic and ritual functions create a psychological dynamic that counters the prevalent fragmentation of urban life. Douglas Wile's research on Chinese taiji quart (1996...

...Claudio Sopranzetti Abstract On May 20, 2014, the Royal Army imposed martial law on Thailand, with the declared purpose of restoring peace to the people. Allegedly, the military intervened to put an end to seven months of political turmoil that had begun when the PDRC—the English acronym...