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...Janet Welsh Michael Symes: Journal of his Second Embassy to the Court of Ava in 1803 . Ed. with Introduction and Notes by D. G. E. Hall . Issued with the co-operation of the Union Cultural Council, Government of the Union of Burma. Fair Lawn, N. J. : Essential Books , 1955 . lxxxix, 93...

...Gananath Obeyesekere Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1978 1978 VOL. XXXVII, No. 4 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES AUGUST 1978 Michael J. Egan 1940-1977 Michael J. Egan's death at the young age of thirty-six has deprived South Asian scholarship of one of its most promising young...

... be left whistling in a wee corner of his department. The diversity in the institutionalized channels of academic expression will probably negate the latter prospect. The problem is to devise ways of talking meaningfully with each other. MICHAEL ROBERTS University of Adelaide Response to Michael Roberts...

...Kenneth R. Hall 382 COMMUNICATIONS TO THE EDITOR Response to Michael AungThwin I remain committed to the four sentences I wrote about AungThwin's article in my review. AungThwin's stress on the continuity of Burmese kingship largely relies on the records of the Burmese monarchy; inevitably he...

...Clinton Seely Lured by Hope: A Biography of Michael Madhusudan Dutt . By Ghulam Murshid. Translated by Gopa Majumdar . New Delhi and New York : Oxford University Press , 2003 . xvi, 238 pp. $29.95 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 830 T H E J O U R N...

...John Whittier Treat Abstract I begin my rejoinder to Timothy Brook and Michael Shin by reiterating the important question with which Brook ends his piece. “[W]hen Hamid Karzai's government falls in Afghanistan, or Nouri al-Maliki's does in Iraq, who then will be the nation's heroes and who...

...Franz Michael Chinese Mandarin Squares . By Schuyler Van R. Cammann . Bulletin of the University Museum. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania , June, 1953 . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1955 1955 BOOK REVIEWS 411 Matsumoto's monumental work on the Tun...

...Franz Michael Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing period (1644–1912) . Edited by Arthur W. Hummel , Washington, D. C : U. S. Government Printing Office (Library of Congress), 1943 . Vol. 1 . xi, 604 p. Cloth $2.25. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1944 1944 386...

...Franz Michael T'ai-p'ing T'ien-kuo [The Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace] . Edited by Hsiang Ta and nineteen others. 6 vols., 1952 . 3,405 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1957 1957 1 T'ai-p'ing T'ien-kuo ko-ming yün-tung (Hong Kong, 1948 ), pp...

...Franz Michael 320 THE FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY modern routes follow chiefly the old rivers and portages. The very reason for existence of an empire becomes clear. "To break up the Russian empire," the author writes, "as has been considered and attempted in the past, would be to work in opposition...

...Franz Michael A Documentary History of Chinese Communism . By Conrad Brandt , Benjamin Schwartz , and John K. Fairbank . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1952 . 552 . Reference notes, bibliography, glossary, and index. $7.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...R. Blake Michael Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 Ritual in an Oscillating Universe: Worshiping Śiva in Medieval India . By Richard H. Davis . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1992 . xvi, 200 pp. $35.00. BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 951 Eliya...

...Thomas Michael Korean Shamanism: The Cultural Paradox . By Chongho Kim . Aldershot, Hants, and Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate , 2003 . xxi , 248 pp. $34.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 764 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T U D I E S the (formerly...

...R. Blake Michael Abstract Vīraśaivism is usually presented as a unified, sectarian, reformation movement founded in the twelfth century by Basava. But within Virasaivism there are actually two, separate denominations— viraktas and gurusthalins . For the former, the beliefs and practices reflected...

...Franz Michael * Dawson Raymond , The Chinese Chameleon: An Analysis of European Conceptions of Chinese Civilization ( London, New York, Toronto : Oxford University Press , 1967 ) Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1969 1969 The Spirit of Chinese...

...Thomas Michael Korea—A Religious History . By James Huntley Grayson . London and New York : RoutledgeCurzon , 2002 . xvi, 288 pp. $28.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 1252 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES with ethnic nationalism (race...