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...Paul A. Cohen Abstract The mythologized past is the past that predominates in the minds of most people. Therefore, even as historians strive to counter it, it behooves us to study it with care. Although any aspect of the past has the potential to live on as myth in the present, certain events...

...Sally A. Hastings Japanese Women: New Feminist Perspectives on the Past, Present, and Future . Edited by Kumiko Fujimura-Fanselow and Atsuko Kameda . New York : The Feminist Press at the City University of New York , 1995 . xxxviii, 422 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $16.95 (paper...

... of a very minor river in the northern part of what is now called Thailand have much to tell us of the rich and complex past of Southeast Asia. We are concerned here with a small and, most would argue, inconsequential river; but any river at its spate is capable of raising and pushing along the largest...

...Michael Auslin Japan's Past, Japan's Future: One Historian's Odyssey . By Ienaga Saburō . Translated and introduced by Richard H. Minear . Lanham, Md. : Rowman and Littlefield , 2001 . x , 203 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

... history” (1981, 45). Quotations from the past were equally the mark of architectural styles that were forged in colonial and postcolonial societies, as history became a resource for defining new ideals of beauty. If the retreat into (classical European) history was a striking feature of public...

...Sumitra Thinagara Sundram Social Seience Research and Conservation Management in the Interior of Borneo: Uncravellin Past and Present Interactions of People and Forests . Edited by Cristina Eghenter , Bernard Sellato , and G. Simon Devung . Bogor, Indonesia : Center for International...

...Stephen Durrant A Patterned Past: Form and Thought in Early Chinese Historiography . By David Schaberg . Harvard East Asian Monographs, no. 205. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2001 . xvi , 503 pp. $50.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004...

...Victoria Weston Challenging Past and Present: The Metamorphosis of Nineteenth-Century Japanese Art . Edited by Ellen P. Conant . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2006 . xiii , 292 pp. $49.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006 2006 B O O K R E V I E W...

... Geopolitics: The Past, Present . Menon, a former diplomat and national security advisor, narrates India's foreign policy journey and that of the wider Asian region. The book “examines Indian foreign policy, not as an autonomous activity driven by personality and domestic politics and reacting to external...

...Fabio Lanza Modern Erasures: Revolution, the Civilizing Mission, and the Shaping of China's Past . By Pierre Fuller . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2022 . xii, 348 pp. ISBN: 9781009026512 . © 2023 Association for Asian Studies 2023 Pierre Fuller's Modern Erasures...

... : Harvard University Press . Wang , Ban . 2005 . Illuminations from the Past: Trauma, Memory, and History in Modern China . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press . Wang , David Der-wei . 1992 . Fictional Realism in Twentieth-Century China: Mao Dun, Lao She, Shen Congwen . New...

...Joshua Dao Wei Sim In all, Negotiating the Christian Past in China is a highly insightful and well-researched study that draws on a wide-range of empirical data and astute analytical perspectives to make a case for Christianity to be recognized as part of China's cultural heritage...

...Robert Hefner In the Shadow of Agriculture: Non-farm Activities in the Javanese Economy, Past and Present . Edited by Paul Alexander , Peter Boomgaard , and Ben White . Amsterdam : Royal Tropical Institute , 1991 . 154 pp. Dfl. 39.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...Anne de Coursey Clapp Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1978 1978 Artists and Traditions: Uses of the Past in Chinese Culture . Edited by Christian F. Murck . The Art Museum, Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1976 . xxi, 230 pp. Illustrations, List of Chinese...

... the shape of the past and criteria of reality which are implicit in a historical consciousness. The form in which thought is couched, after all, is the thought, not a representation of something behind or outside it. This paper therefore attempts a rhetorical analysis of a Classical Malay text of the type...

...Akira Iriye Dragon and Eagle: United States-China Relations, Past and Future . Edited by Michael Oksenberg and Robert B. Oxnam . New York : Basic Books, Inc. , 1978 . xvi, 384 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Index. $13.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1979 1979...

...Thomas Perry Thornton Demokraticheskaya Respublika Afganistan–Spravochnik . [The Democratic Republic of Afghanistan–A Handbook]. Edited by M. R. Arunova Moscow : Nauka , 1981 . 175 pp. Maps, Tables. 0.40 ruble. Afghanistan: Past and Present . Edited by E. Shchepilova Moscow...

...A. C. Scott Wayang Purwa: Shadows of the Past . By H. Ulbricht . Kuala Lumpur : Oxford University Press , 1970 . xvi, 120 pp. Illustrations, Sources, Bibliography, Glossary. $7.75. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1971 1971 BOOK REVIEWS 919 Commander...

... bringing out the contrasts between the past and the present, between age and youth—one of the memorable features of this anthology. Inasmuch as “Black Coat Lane” can be read as a tiao-ku (mourning the past) poem, so can Taipei jen be read as an elegy on the final dissolution of an ancient culture. That Pai...

...David Ludden Agriculture and Social Structure in Tamil Nadu: Past Origins, Present Transformations and Future Prospects . By Joan P. Mencher . Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press , 1978 . xxi, 314 pp. Appendixes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $14.95. Copyright © The Association...