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..., deepening divides. This article argues that the need to protect the spiritual domain from the polluting touch of the material domain led to the breakdown of communicative rationality. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 caste commensurability communicative rationality...

...Zhang Kaiyuan Abstract Before Liberation, the history of the revolution of 1911 fell within the domain of Kuomintang party history. Although numerous publications appeared, some of which possessed historical value, generally speaking an orthodox point of view occupied the dominant position. Many...

..., on the other hand, is an ‘inner’ domain bearing the ‘essential’ marks of cultural identity. The greater one's success in imitating Western skills in the material domain, therefore, the greater the need to preserve the distinctness of one's spiritual culture. (Chatterjee 1995 , 6) Starting in the second...

... reading of primary source materials. Because of the relatively small size and scale of Ōno domain, Ehlers is able to recreate these relationships in such a way that the local status order becomes tangible and dynamic. While the journals Ehlers primarily utilizes in her history limit her analysis...

... on the organizing category: there are fewer differences among the contending "interpretations" than the editors and perhaps even the contributors wish to recognize. This becomes clear if we agree that the essays seek to show a necessary relationship between Editor's note: The following material is not a review...

...Reinier H. Hesselink Indeed, Vaporis has written a study based mainly on archival material left behind by the Tosa domain. The particular strength of this book lies in its presentation of information from unpublished diaries of earnest Tosa samurai who noted down what they heard and saw during...

... hides the considerable methodological and conceptual sophistication of the work. The book forcibly illustrates the differences between expressed belief and actual behavior, particularly in the domain of food. Using the concept of ideology as script that actors interpret and manipulate, Laderman stresses...

... of activity which had few parallels in the history of Japanese institutions. The new feudal lords and the domains, or han, which they held represented the harnessing of social and material energies on a new unprecedented scale.17 Forged out of the great civil wars of the fifteenth century, the daimyo domains...

.... In other words, the material can properly be used in a discussion of domain revenues, but would be suspect as a means of determining the burden of taxation on the farmer. Rather less than half the total number of domains are represented in the figures given here,3 but in selecting those to be examined...

...Erik Mueggler Abstract In 1533, Lady Qu, native prefect of Wuding Prefecture in northern Yunnan, sponsored the inscription of two texts on a cliff face at the center of her domain. One was in Nasu, the language of the ruling lineage; the other was in Chinese. Both commemorated the long, powerful...

... this Dr. Tsukahira is concerned to argue two main points: first, that san\in\otai contributed materially to the impoverishment both of the domains and of the samurai, and hence to the processes by which Tokugawa society was destroyed; second, that it was the key to Edo control over the daimyo. The first...

... insight into the vast quantity of material available; the omissions force the serious reader to consult the original. The volume constitutes an attractive and accessible packaging of van VoUenhoven's scholarship, but for the researcher it must be seen as a prelude to, not a substitute for, delving...

... of capitalism in Hokkaido. That is, fertilizer production for distant markets gave rise to an economy only partially subordinated to the institutions of the local political authority, the Matsumae domain. Capitalism emerged through a dialectical process of change in the organization of production within...

...David Hicks Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 Mamboru: History and Structure in a Domain of Northwestern Sumba . By Rodney Needham. . Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1987 . xxvi, 202 pp. 228 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Mead's chapter on how the language...

... experience. Slingerland relies on two basic premises of this approach. The rst is that cognition depends on mapping correspondences across domains, that is, on nding correspondences between two sets that assign to each element in the rst a counterpart in the second (p. 21). Secondly, human cognition...

... the material circumstances of their lives. There have been points in history when "nearly 70 percent of the village population was female" (p. 183) and today women residents still significantly outnumber males. Playing its giant part here is Bombay. The city's industrial swelling, from colonial times...

... social life is ordered by them" (introduction). Drawing upon the classic center-periphery distinction, Wessing develops a structural analysis of Sundanese cosmology based on two pairs of oppositions. "The first opposition (in-out) is used to delimit the domain of interaction, that is, to circumscribe...

... and secular domain since the death of his father in 1950; Trinlay Rinpoche, the younger brother of Dachen Rinpoche, who from time to time acted as his elder brother's representative in religious and secular affairs; Dezhung Rinpoche, an erudite lama from Khams, who is the official man of learning and tutor...

... and thought: Elisonas on "Christianity and the Daimyo"; Bito on early Tokugawa thought and religion; "History and Nature in Eighteenth-century Tokugawa Thought" (Tetsuo Najita); and (4) popular culture: Susan Hanley on material culture and lifestyles, and Donald Shively on urban culture, education...

... the public domain. However, as Ishimoda points out, though the means employed were deplorable and clearly illegal, the actual appropriation of the public lands was permitted by the government insofar as infringement was not made upon lands "necessary to the people" (p. 9). Furthermore, the rather passive...