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...Anne Schiller In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out-of-the-Way Place . By Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1993 . xvi, 350 pp. $49.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA...

...Stephen P. Blake Realm and Region in Traditional India . Edited by Richard G. Fox . Durham : Duke University , Program in Comparative Studies on Southern Asia (Monograph and Occasional Papers Series No. 14), 1977 . xxv, 307 pp. Tables, Maps. N.p.l. Copyright © The Association...

... colonial realm of Sinkiang, and especially the Tarim basin in central Asia. Here, such land and water resources presently provide some seven million people with food and materials for clothing. This also is a region with valuable unexploited mineral resources both varied and substantial. Cultivation...

... in an extraordinary time and that he did actually go to China. It also draws our attention to the incalculable value of Marco's account and the need for an updated, scholarly edition of Marco Polo's Description of the World. Marco Polo's China: A Venetian in the Realm of Khubilai Khan . By Stephen G. Haw...

...James J. Fox Meaning and Power in a Southeast Asian Realm . By Shelly Errington . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press . 1989 . xvi, 322 pp. $35.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 988 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES received by the population...

... shows incontrovertibly how deeply concerned were the Song to make their realm more legible (not a word she uses) for state purposes, but another issue bubbling underneath her analysis is the difference between the land itself (and the people who live there) and the administrative entities superimposed...

...Jackie Armijo-Hussein Chinese Gleams of Sufi Light: Wang Tai-yü's “Great Learning of the Pure and Real” and Liu Chih's “Displaying the Concealment of the Real Realm” . By Sachiko Murata . Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press , 2000 . xiv, 267 pp. $71.50 (cloth); $23.95...

...Carol Warren Visible and Invisible Realms: Power, Magic, and Colonial Conquest in Bali . By Margaret J. Wiener . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1995 . xiv, 445 pp. $29.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 1100 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

... life to the next, a journey that crossed many realms in both this world and beyond. The narrative imagery on the Shi Jun sarcophagus is rooted in the vibrant visual culture of the Silk Road. Most scenes feature stock motifs derived from contemporary repertories of funerary and religious art. 10...

...Alexander Vovin Realms of Literacy: Early Japan and the History of Writing . By David Barnett Lurie . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2011 . xxiii, 497 pp. $59.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013  2013 This impressive...

...Manu Bhagavan Abstract In recent analyses of nationalism in colonial South Asia, Partha Chatterjee and Tanika Sarkar, among others, have argued that as a result of colonial domination in the “public sphere”—the realm of the state and civil society—Indian male nationalists deployed the “private...

...Richard Burghart Abstract At the turn of the nineteenth century three different indigenous concepts were central to the Nepalese understanding of their polity. These were the possessions ( muluk ) of the king, the realm ( deśa ), and the countries (also deśa or des ) of a people. Each...

... the justifiable fear that the real Sinologist might speak in a way that would confuse his own green and well-worked fields with the entire province, or his own home province with the whole realm. And integrity is what we are here to talk about. For it is that integrality of the whole realm, or world, of Chinese...

..., an existential courage to confront the “realm of darkness.” [email protected] © 2024 Association for Asian Studies 2024 secularism Buddhism Darwinism Lu Xun translation This World is not Conclusion. —Emily Dickinson “It may be safely assumed that, two thousand years ago, before...

... over their artworks and letting form-making and meaning-making activities that also occur outside the human realm to transpire. By doing so, they are investigating, representing, and addressing grave social and environmental problems that the region has been experiencing since the 1970s. nachiket...

...William C. Kirby Abstract On April 22, 1903, the qing court ordered zai-zhen, a Manchu prince; Yuan Shikai, the most powerful Chinese Governor-General of the realm; and Dr. Wu Tingfang, the former Chinese minister to the United States, to compile a commercial code. The edict charging them...

...Sujay Biswas Abstract This article discusses the Habermasian public sphere as a realm constructed through communication and offers a critique of Jürgen Habermas's concept of an intersubjectively shared lifeworld among the participants as a fundamental prerequisite for communicative rationality...

... focused mainly on the livelihood and lifestyle of minority herders and farmers. This article shifts the focus to the more symbolic realm of discourse and identity and to the minority educated urban elite, for whom this environmental degradation is linked primarily to ethnic politics. Based on an analysis...

... period of the Ming, for example, Yü Chien (1398–1457) suffered the same fate. Having defended Peking and thus saved the realm during the emperor's brief captivity, he was later executed by the same emperor who returned and eventually retook the throne. Of all these ironical tragedies—loyal men condemned...

...; and the Indian mercenaries recruited by the kings of Ceylon to strengthen the royal army were such a turbulent element that they themselves frequently posed the greatest threat to the stability of the realm. India's cultural contributions to Ceylon are well known, and have been examined in detail by Indian...