...Xiaolu Ma Abstract By interrogating how the original composition and textual reincarnations of Lu Xun's “Diary of a Madman” manifest his idea of an “object in between,” this article celebrates an intertextual event in world literature. It traces how Lu Xun's “Diary of a Madman” came into being...

...Hilary K. Snow All three of these books help to pave the way for more research into Edo-period material culture. Screech's reevaluation of genre and tradition challenges further research to resist easy categorization and think about objects as fully realized parts of cultural networks. Davis...

...J. P. Park This book was a delightful discovery, and I am sure that even experienced sinologists and historians of East Asian art will appreciate its wide-ranging knowledge and the sharp-edged terminology developed in the course of its analysis. Many objects illustrated here were new to me...

...Benjamin Rowland, Jr The Art of Nepal . By Stella Kramrisch . New York : The Asia Society , 1964 . (Distributed by Harry N. Abrams, Inc.) 159. n.p. The Art of Mughal India: Painting and Precious Objects . Introduction by Stuart C. Welch . New York : The Asia Society, Inc...

...Steve Lansing Biographical Objects: How Things Tell the Stories of People's Lives . By Janet Hoskins . New York : Routledge , 1998 . $70.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 1197 and his mismanagement...

...Hugh Tinker District Administration and Rural Development: Policy Objectives and Administrative Change in Historical Perspective . By B. B. Misra . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1983 . xiii, 431 pp. Notes, Select Bibliography, Index. Rs 150; $29.95. Copyright © The Association...

... an international market developed for such objects, it might have ended up in an auction room, a cosmic dance sold to the highest bidder. Or a government expert on culture might have selected it, after its long hibernation in the basement storehouse of its temple, as an image worthy to travel abroad...

...Benjamin J. Fleming Objects of Translation: Material Culture and Medieval “Hindu-Muslim” Encounter . By Finbarr B. Flood . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 2009 . 366 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Many of Flood's insights are applicable to problems of religious identity throughout...

..., Proofs, and Illustrations . Reprint, London : Routledge/Thoemmes Press . Calkins N. A. 1861 . Primary Object Lessons for a Graduated Course of Development: A Manual for Teachers and Parents with Lessons for the Proper Training of the Faculties of Children . New York : Harper and Brothers...

...Helen Asquine Fazio Monuments, Objects, Histories: Institutions of Art in Colonial and Postcolonial India . By Tapati Guha-Thakurta . New York : Columbia University Press , 2004 . xxv , 404 pp. $75.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 B O O K R E V I E...

...Thomas H. Rohlich Love after “The Tale of Genji”: Rewriting the World of the Shining Prince . By Charo B. D'Etcheverry . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2007 . xiv , 220 pp. $39.95 (cloth). Objects of Discourse: Memoirs by Women of Heian Japan . By John R...

...Takao Hagiwara Objective Description of the Self . By Yōichi Nagashima . Aarhus : Aarhaus University Press , 1997 . 240 pp. $29.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 1028 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES 198) of possibilities and constraints is advocated...

...Sunkyung Kim Flowering Plums and Curio Cabinets: The Culture of Objects in Late Chosŏn Korean Art . By Sunglim Kim . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2018 . xi, 292 pp. ISBN: 9780295743417 (paper). A New Middle Kingdom: Painting and Cultural Politics in Late Chosŏn Korea...

...Joshua Goldstein Exotic Commodities: Modern Objects and Everyday Life in China . By Frank Dikötter . New York : Columbia University Press , 2006 . xv , 382 pp. $35.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2007 2007 Frank Dikötter's latest book is a boon...

...Horace Z. Feldman Abstract From a purely objective point of view, the study of the political novel in any period of history is useful because of the inherent value of that particular type of novel – portrayal of the political ideology of its time and presentation of its authors' political opinions...

... of man's actions as a chain of material transformation processes, conditioned by the distribution of ownership of the means of production as the determinant of social relations of production. Both hold that while human action is governed objectively by material and social nature and its laws...

... stood for.” The revisionists contend that the “objectivity” of their predecessors has been anything but objective or disinterested, and paradoxically, many have also sought to affirm the legitimacy of “subjective history.” Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1975 1975 1...

...David P. Chandler Abstract A major shortcoming in much Western writing about recent events in Indo-China is that the inhabitants of the region are seen as objects of policy rather than as subjects of history. Focusing in this, way leaves out much of the picture and demeans the inhabitants of Indo...

... with the “great,” and to empathize for heuristic purposes with nonélite social groups as well as with the literati. Sinology, a discipline unto itself, is being replaced by Chinese studies, a multidisciplinary endeavor with specific research objectives. As Professor Wright has suggested, what is text...