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...Patricio N. Abinales In the Shadow of Mount Ramelau: The Impact of the Occupation of East Timor . By George J. Aditjondro . Leiden : Indonesian Documentation and Information Centre , 1995 . 96 pp. $11.00. East Timor at the Crossroads: The Forging of a Nation . Edited by Peter...

...Shin-Yi Chao Identity Reflection: Pilgrimages to Mount Tai in Late Imperial China . By Brian R. Dott . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2004 . xiv, 358 pp. $50.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 B O O K R E V I E W S C H I N A 999...

...Muhammad Haji Salleh Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1983 1983 Reunion and Other Stories . Edited by Ly Singko . Kuala Lumpur : Heinemann Educational Books (Asia) , 1980 . 183 pp. $6.50 (paper). The Prince of Mount Tahan . By Ishak Haji Muhammad . Translated...

...Brian R. Dott Hargett's many translations of key sources about the mountain, particularly from the Tang, Song, and Ming, are an important contribution of the book. Based on these sources, as well as works on other Buddhist peaks (particularly Raoul Birnbaum on Mount Wutai and Chün-fang Yü...

...Stuart H. Sargent Mount Lu Revisited: Buddhism in the Life and Writings of Su Shih . By Beata Grant . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1994 . vii, 249 pp. $36.00 Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 494 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES is implicit...

...Terry Kawashima Translating Mount Fuji: Modern Japanese Fiction and the Ethics of Identity . By Dennis Washburn . New York : Columbia University Press , 2006 . 320 pp. $40.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2008 2008 This engaging book explores...

... impenetrable to men on the ground; but what would have happened to the upper storeys if a well-directed catapult attack, to breach the wood-and-plaster walls, had been followed by fire-arrows? Institute of Fine Arts ALEXANDER SOPER Mount Everest. Formation, Population and Exploration of the Everest Region...

...John Kieschnick Building a Sacred Mountain: The Buddhist Architecture of China's Mount Wutai . By Wei-Cheng Lin . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2014 . xi, 321 pp. $60.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015  2015 For historians of Chinese...

...Anne-Marie Bouchy Abstracts Mount Atago lies northwest of the ancient capital of Kyoto. Because of its long history and the cult that has been associated with it from early times, the mountain provides a typical example of Japanese religion. Like all sacred mountains in Japan, a cult of ancestors...

...Sarah Thal Mount Fuji: Icon of Japan . By H. ByronEarhart . Columbia : University of South Carolina Press , 2011 . xx, 238 pp. $39.95 (cloth, ISBN 9781611170009 ); $39.95 (e-book, ISBN 9781611171112 ). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015  2015 Mount Fuji...

...Susan Andrews The Five-Colored Clouds of Mount Wutai: Poems from Dunhuang . By Mary Anne Cartelli . Leiden : Brill , 2013 . xii, 224 pp. $122.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014  2014 As its title suggests, Mary Anne Cartelli's The Five-Colored...

... destroys the demons, does not come? Why should I live? (p- 27) The book is an important and enjoyable contribution to the growing literature on early Tamil theism. HANK HEIFETZ Mount Holyoke College ...

... university centers such as Heidelberg and Koln. INDIRA VISWANATHAN PETERSON Mount Holyoke College Religions of India in Practice. Edited by D O N A L D S. L O P E Z J R . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. xvi, 655 pp. $59.50 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). In the middle of his long career, F. Max Muller...

... with all these aspects of the literature as well as with Cuntarar's unique personality. This book is a fascinating introduction to the world of one Tamil Saiva saint, and an excellent complement to recent, more general introductions to Tamil bhakti. INDIRA VISWANATHAN PETERSON Mount Holyoke College...

... and the forces of darkness replaces systematic analysis in the political scientist's research our under- standing of the changes in Southeast Asia is likely to be muddy. JEAN GROSSHOLTZ Mount Holyo\e College Anthropological Studies in Theravada Buddhism. BY MANNING NASH, GANANATH OBEYESEKERE, MICHAEL M. AMES...

... Mount Holyo\e College Philippine Collaboration in World War II. BY DAVID JOEL STEINBERG. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1967. ix, 235 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Index. $7-50. Although American involvement in the Philippine Islands spans nearly three quarters of a century of wars, political...