...Whalen Lai The Religious Philosophy of Nishitani Keiji . Edited by Taitetsu Unno . Berkeley : Asian Humanities Press , 1989 . xiv, 350 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper). The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism . By Nishitani Keiji . Translated by Graham Parkes with Setsuko Aihara...

... and agreements, suggesting that the history problem can be overcome, at least momentarily. A more pressing question raised by identity-based arguments is whether reconciliation is possible at all. Seventy-five years of identity politics may yield little room for negotiation. Nevertheless, scholars believe...

... to April Xiaoyi Xu and Don Chen for their research assistance during the early stages of this article. Reference Le Tom Phuong . 2019 . “ Negotiating in Good Faith: Overcoming Legitimacy Problems in the Japan-South Korea Reconciliation Process .” The Journal of Asian Studies 78 ( 3 ): 621...

...Kodai Abe Abstract This article shows how Murakami Haruki's novel The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994–95) constructs a historical narrative to overcome the victim/perpetrator dichotomy and demands ethical response from readers. Drawing on Marianne Hirsch's term postmemory , the author analyzes...

... at the wartime “Overcoming the Modern” conference …” The sentence should read “… which reiterates the position of Yasuda Yojuro, propounded by Kamei Katsuichiro at the wartime “Overcoming the Modern” conference …” Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 Erratum The Journal's November...

... average number of the larger and wealthier farms. We have attempted to overcome this difference by dividing the 400 families into several groups according to the size of their farms, thus giving several pictures of farm activity on different economic levels rather than just the averages for our particular...

..., the commutation of taxes, the great inflation (1877–1881), and general changes in demand. Autonomous and competitive han, driven by the necessity of meeting their increasing expenditures, expanded interregional trade and diffused, rather than obstructed, technology thus overcoming artificial and natural barriers...

... to overcome the policies of elite coalition building that had been necessary for the movement to obtain its initial foothold in the Jiangxi hill country. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1987 1987 List of References Hiroshi Abe . 1965 . “ Shinmatsu no kindai gakkō: Kōsei sho...

...” and the ideas of interwar philosopher Watsuji Tetsurō and Watsuji's own critique of liberalism and popular democracy as lacking cultural foundations. Bellah's engagement with Watsuji reveals the tensions within Bellah's thought and in his subsequent call for community in America as a means of overcoming...

..., anti-Western, and anti-Christian notions were at work in these broadly pan-Asianist Japanese appropriations of Islam, an analysis of the terminology used in the translations shows that, ironically, Christian precedents were not easily overcome. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014...

...Sonia Ryang Abstract Based on the articles in this “Global Asias” forum, this essay proposes that in order to build a meaningful bridge between Asian studies and Asian American studies, we must first face what needs to be critically overcome in Asian studies itself: persistent white male domination...

... (or a group) does or chooses to do in response to problems he has perceived discloses what he was or has been; in his effort to transcend the given present social reality he shows what had to be overcome and the personal (or collective) impulse informing this act. He also demonstrates, in this act, what can...

... events have left deep scars that people are desperately trying to come to terms with or are struggling to overcome. This is indeed the world of the Semai, which this terrific book narrates, interrogates, and makes sense of. Author Robert Dentan (who is well known in anthropological circles for his...

... is this: in an era in which the nation-state has become the dominant political structure, will the traditional Asian experiences of various types of communication, coexistence, and institutions provide possibilities for overcoming the internal and external dilemmas brought about by the nation-state system? Third...

... actually or historically, to represent the initial consonant of a cluster, e.g.: f SI po-lan, *b'uat-.lam, for Khmer *brarri. Particularly ingenious is the hypothesis which explains Chen-la iSffiS (*l£i(!n-l&p), the old Chinese name of Cambodia, as *Cin-rap "The Chinese overcome," and the later form Chan...

...). The relationship between zoku members (LDP politicians who acquire expertise in specific areas) and silkworm farmers together with their behind-the-scenes activities, provides an illustration of social networks as an element of the decision-making process. These ties were sufficient to overcome opposition by small...

... and rural Gujarati women's political and economic participatory opportunities since the late 1960s. Geeta Somjee looks at efforts to help women overcome the "gender gap" through organized social movements, leadership efforts by elite, urban women, and, most interesting of all, rural women's actual...

... several beats before he returned to their story. He champions the need for the inclusion of women in the telling of history. But he seems often to lose that focus, to allow it to be overcome by his discussion of the bourgeois failings of male political formations, from the communists to the Congress...

... and overcome narrowly defined ethnocentrism and even the conventional academic concept of what philosophy is. As such, it reflects a certain paradigm shift that is taking place within the discipline of philosophy, announcing that the time is upon us to widen our intellectual horizons yet again. Marking...

... to overcome the suffering intrinsic to mundane existence. David Gordon White examines the ritual enactment of death and cremation B O O K R E V I E W S S O U T H A S I A 839 performed by yogins in a Saiva sect. Ascetics transform their bodies and minds in processes modeled on the death and regeneration...