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...Nathan Sivin Divination and Prediction in Early China and Ancient Greece . By Lisa Raphals . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2013 . xxvii, 470 pp. ISBN 9781107287624 (cloth; also available as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2016  2016...

... for the latest (and epic) failure of the Japanese nuclear power industry to operate safely, a related crisis has been less discussed outside expert circles—the failure of the science of seismology to predict or even model the largest earthquake in Japanese history. Were it not for the meltdown of the power plant...

... the Chunqiu period in late Western Han (ca. 48 BCE–9 CE). An eschatological prediction in the first century BCE was instrumental in generating this temporal sensibility. Many used the time frame of 242 years with 12 reigns from the Chunqiu , a canonical text purportedly composed by Confucius, to predict...

... imperial Sichuan conform to the hexagonal arrays predicted by central-place theory? Because participants—consumers, merchants, and officials—made rational decisions based on considerations of transport cost (Skinner 1964–65). Why was late imperial Chinese agriculture stagnant? Because none of the actors...

...Irwin Scheiner Abstract Peasants have confused us. We have in our discussions of them, imposed a structure on their lives, defined their behavior and denied their consciousness. We believe their actions to be predictable, but their irruptions and the extent of their violence inexplicable. Bound...

... in bolstering the usurper's claims to the throne, as well as in encouraging imperial support of Chinese cultural symbols and values, was to make Mongol rule more predictable and stable and thus to benefit the Mongols' Chinese subjects. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1978 1978 1...

... systematic and conscious obfuscation of scriptural categories as well as complex but predictable patterns of dissimulation extending over virtually all types of cultural and social discourse—the caste-system, “superstitions,” the “scientific” base of Hinduism, political talk, etc., are adduced...

...John W. Spellman Abstract There is a story that the Jain saint Bhadrabāhu predicted a famine which would last for twelve years and, as a result of this famine, he led twelve thousand Jains in search of better lands. King Candragupta Maurya is said to have accompanied them and lived for twelve years...

... are correct: members of particular castes … can be found voting for every party. … It is less and less true that knowing the caste of a voter lets you reliably predict the party he or she will vote for. (Oldenburg 1999, 13–15, emphasis in original) Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003...

...? And, relatedly, what measures might alleviate the widespread destruction of life and property and create the sense of predictability on which all social order rests? The following essays analyze both the growing incidence of violent ethnic conflict in India and some of the conditions for their resolution...

... to for a comprehensive history of the occupation, it has truly inspired “the next generation of occupation scholarship,” which Mark Selden predicted would focus on social and cultural issues. The three books under review here are the latest addition to this literature. Celebrity Gods: New Religions, Media...

... and other financial actors, and to predict the crisis, to widespread derision and hostility from bankers and treasury officials, two years before it happened. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014  2014 It is remarkable how few commentators or analysts raised the alarm before...

... to the growing competition for education and careers, high unemployment, internal migration, and the increasing age at marriage, all of which contribute to the fundamental dislocation of a once more stable and predictable society. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1985 1985 List...

...Judith Strauch Abstract The role of patrilineal ideology in Chinese village social organization varies more widely than the orthodox paradigm would predict. In minor multilineage communities closely interspersed among dominant elite lineages, interlineage rivalry and competition may indeed prevail...

... would predict. Close attention to the cases also reveals the absence of any compelling reason to treat the “Chinese lineage” as analytically or culturally distinct from the entire range of Chinese formal associations ( hui ). To understand what is uniquely Chinese in Chinese corporations, past emphasis...

... to the center in a predictable and orderly manner. But these goals required the central government to permit a measure of autonomy—to rely on pre-Meiji inter- and intravillage organizations originally devised to guard and insulate the village from the demands of higher authority. Their efforts to resolve...

... of economic policy. These attributes were tested in the civil service recruitment examinations and used as criteria for the recommendation and assignment of men to fiscal posts. The resulting consistency and predictability in legislation was a significant aspect of material progress in eleventh century China...

... and political sciences to be of greater use in China's further ventures and experiments in the direction of political democracy?—These questions, both practical and theoretical, both retrospective and predictive, call for consideration together. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1942 1942...

... a hallowed directive. Practice had to do with what rules and expectations could not control or predict, including how a man justified his role as polygamist, his polygamous transgressions, and how he dealt with the main challenge to polygamous harmony, women's jealousy and rivalry. Copyright ©...