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...Susan Rodgers Language, Identity and Marginality in Indonesia: The Changing Nature of Ritual Speech on the Island of Sumba . By Joel C. Kuipers . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1998 . $59.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999...

...Jnanabrata Bhattacharyya Nature, Man and the Indian Economy . Edited by Tapas Majumdar . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1993 . xvi, 413 pp. Rs. 575. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 242 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES highlight the social-sector...

...Yuriko Saito Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature, and the Arts . By Haruo Shirane . New York : Columbia University Press , 2012 . xxi, 311 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014  2014 The “love...

...Michitake Aso I would assign all three of these books (at least selected chapters) in advanced undergraduate and graduate courses, as they offer a good basis for discussion about the benefits and costs of various representations of nature. Gunn gives us a political economy approach that casts...

...: Nature, Pollution, and Politics in Japan, 1870–1950 . By Robert Stolz . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2014 . 288 pp. ISBN: 9780822356905 (cloth, also available in paper). A Concise History of Japan . By Brett L. Walker . Cambridge : Cambridge...

...Dale Riepe The Maler: A Study in Nature-Man-Spirit Complex of a Hill Tribe . By L. P. Vidyarthi . Calcutta : Bookland Private Limited , 1963 . xiii, 261 . 24 plates. Rupees 20. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1965 1965 BOOK REVIEWS 353 the fragmentation of land...

...Raymond L. Jensen British India, 1772–1947: A Survey of the Nature and Effects of Alien Rule . By Michael Edwardes . New York : Taplinger Publishing Company , 1967 . vii, 396 pp. Illustrations, Bibliography, Index. $13.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968...

...Clayton Chow Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1969 1969 The Murmuring Stream. The Life and Works of the Chinese Nature Poet Hsieh Ling-yün (385–433), Duke of K'ang-lo . By J. D. Frodsham . Kuala Lumpur : University of Malaya Press , 1967 . Volume One , xi, 231 pp...

...Rupert Emerson The Interplay of East and West . By Barbara Ward . New York : W. W. Norton , 1957 . 152 . Index. $3.50. The Nature of the Non-Western World . By Vera Micheles Dean . New York : New American Library (Mentor Books), 1957 . 284 . Maps, Index. $.50 (paper...

...Julia K. Murray The Divine Nature of Power: Chinese Ritual Architecture at the Sacred Site of Jinci . By Tracy G. Miller . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Asia Center , 2007 . xx, 265 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011...

...Abdul Jamil Urfi The Use and Abuse of Nature: Incorporating . This Fissured Land: An Ecological History of India and Ecology and Equity . By Madhav Gadgil and Ramachandra Guha . New Delhi : Oxford University Press , 2000 . xv , 487 pp. $39.95 (cloth). Copyright © Association...

...Peter C. Perdue Mao's War against Nature: Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China . By Judith Shapiro . Cambridge and New York : Cambridge University Press , 2001 . xvii , 287 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $20.00 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 170...

...Xiaoshuo Hou Social Connections in China: Institutions, Culture, and the Changing Nature of Guanxi . Edited by Thomas Gold , Doug Guthrie , David Wank . Cambridge and New York : Cambridge University Press , 2002 . xvii , 275 pp. $39.50 (cloth); $21.99 (paper). Copyright ©...

...Glenn Yocum Discourses on Śiva: Proceedings of a Symposium on the Nature of Religious Imagery . Edited, with an introduction, by Michael W. Meister . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 1984 . xxiv, 362 pp. Index, List of Plates, Plates. $75. Copyright © The Association...

...R. D. Hill Western Impressions of Nature and Landscape in Southeast Asia . By Victor B. Savage . Singapore : Singapore University Press , 1984 . xxi, 456 pp. Maps, Plates, Note on Place Names, Appendix, Bibliography, Index. $45 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...Eugene Eoyang Abstract One critic of Chinese poetry has written, suggestively: “Western readers are sometimes struck by what they do not find …”. One of the most familiar constituents of poetry, particularly of the lyric, that will not be found in much of Chinese nature poetry is an identifiable...

...Marsha L. Wagner Chinese Literature II: Nature Poetry . By H. C. Chang . New York : Columbia University Press , 1977 . viii, 124 pp. $9.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1979 1979 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 771 experience of the T'ang Vinaya master Tao-hsiian (who...

... of caste rules, fits the particular caste in question and also fits the published descriptions of outcasting as well as or better than the standard view. By applying the alternative concept, it can be seen that panchayats are not like Western courts in the nature of the tasks they perform and that to view...

...Nandini Sundar In the Time of Trees and Sorrows: Nature, Power, and Memory in Rajasthan . By Ann Grodzins Gold and Bhoju Ram Gujar . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2002 . xxv , 403 pp. $69.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005...

...Timothy Ong Death and Life of Nature in Asian Cities . Edited by Anne Rademacher and K. Sivaramakrishnan . Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press , 2021 . 213 pp. ISBN: 9789888528684. © 2023 Association for Asian Studies 2023 In Death and Life of Nature in Asian Cities...