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...Elizabeth Coville Hanging Without a Rope: Narrative Experience in Colonial and Postcolonial Karoland . By Mary Margaret Steedly . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1993 . xvi, 306 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 1332 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

..., and the definitive book on the subject remains to be written. J O H N A. LENT Temple University American Exiles in the Philippines, 1941-1996: A Collected Oral Narrative. Collected and edited by J O S E P H P. MCCALLUS. Quezon City: New Day Publishers, 1999- xxx, 254 pp. $53.00 (paper). The vagaries...

...Mary Scott Desire and Fictional Narrative in Late Imperial China . By Martin Huang . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 2001 . 347 pp. $39.50 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 1028 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES themes), but the details...

...David C. Chao Mongolian Music, Dance, and Oral Narrative: Performing Diverse Identities . By Carole Pegg . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2001 . 377 pp. $70.00 (cloth); $35.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 BOOK REVIEWS INNER...

...” (p. 16). Chapter 1 traces historical narratives from the 1800s to explain Okinawa's “tumultuous history” and “liminal status” (p. 19) vis-à-vis modern Japan. Focusing on assimilation practices that suppressed local dialects as “non-normative language” (p. 23), Bhowmik shows how modern Okinawan...

...Michael K. Bourdaghs Novel Japan: Spaces of Nationhood in Early Meiji Narrative, 1870–88 . By John Pierre Mertz . Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, no. 48. Ann Arbor : Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan , 2003 . xvii , 293 pp. $60.00 (cloth). Copyright...

...Ann Grodzins Gold Nectar Gaze and Poison Breath: An Analysis and Translation of the Rajasthani Oral Narrative of Devnarayan . By Aditya Malik . New York : Oxford University Press , 2005 . xxv , 548 pp. $74.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006 2006 444 T H E...

...Evan N. Dawley Politics and Cultural Nativism in 1970s Taiwan: Youth, Narrative, Nationalism . By A-Chin Hsiau . New York : Columbia University Press , 2021 . xiii, 293 pp. ISBN: 9780231200530 . © 2023 Association for Asian Studies 2023 The study of Taiwanese identities...

... itself. GYAN PRAKASH Princeton University Many Ramayanas: The Diversity of a Narrative Tradition in South Asia. Edited by PAULA RICHMAN. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. xiii, 273 pp. $40.00 (cloth); $14.95 (paper). By now, we all know that South Asia has produced and continues to produce...

...J. H. Broomfield Charles Freer Andrews. A Narrative . By Benarsidas Chaturvedi and Marjorie Sykes . With a Foreword by M. K. Gandhi . New Delhi : Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India , 1971 . xiv, 334 pp. Illustration, Appendices, Index...

...Y. W. Ma Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1978 1978 Chinese Narrative: Critical and Theoretical Essays . Edited by Andrew H. Plaks . Foreword by Cyril Birch. Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1977 . xii, 365 pp. List of Contributors, Index. $25.00 BOOK...

...Charles W. Hayford The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution, 1895–1980 . By Jonathan D. Spence . New York : The Viking Press , 1981 . Illustrations, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $19.95. Intellectuals and the State in Modern China: A Narrative History . By Jerome B...

... Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1969 1969 Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, Performed in the Years 1852, 1853 and 1854 Under the Command of Comm. M. C. Perry, United States Navy, by order of the government of the U.S...

... ,” Hsin-ya hsüeh pao , VI ( 1964 ), 497 – 518 ; “ The Hundred-chapter Hsi-yu chi and its Early Versions ,” Asia Major, n.s. , XIV ( 1969 ), 141 – 191 . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1975 1975 VOL. XXXIV, No. 2 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES FEBRUARY 1975 Narrative...

...Elizabeth de Sabato Swinton Painting in the Yamato Style . By Saburo Ienaga . Translated by John M. Shields . New York and Tokyo : Weatherhill/Heibonsha , 1974 . 162 pp. Plates, Appendix. $10.00. Narrative Picture Scrolls . By Hideo Okudaira . Translated and adapted...

...Alexander Bennigsen On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks: Brief Narrative of Three Expeditions in Innermost Asia and Northwestern China . By Sir Aurel Stein . (First published in 1932). Reprinted with an introduction by Jeannette Mirsky. Chicago and London : The University of Chicago Press...

...Melford E. Spiro A Narrative of the Mission to the Court of Ava in 1865 . Compiled by Henry Yule . With an introduction by Hugh Tinker. London : Oxford University Press , 1968 . xlvi, 391 pp. Illustrations, Appendix. $31.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1970...

...James Siegel Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1983 1983 Sijobang: Sung Narrative Poetry of West Sumatra . By Nigel Phillips . New York : Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture 1), 1981 . ix, 255 pp. Map, Plates, Appendixes...

... . Duara Prasenjit . 1995 . Rescuing History from the Nation: Questioning Narratives of Modern China . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Faure Bernard . 1996 . Visions of Power: Imagining Medieval Japanese Buddhism . Princeton : Princeton University Press . Forest Alain...

... of the Ramcaritmanas.” In Many Ramayanas: The Diversity of a Narrative Tradition in South Asia , edited by Richman Paula . Delhi : Oxford University Press . Macaulay Lord Thomas Babington . 1967 . “Minute of 2 February 1835 on Indian Education.” In Macaulay, Prose and Poetry , selected by Yourtg G...