.... Unfortunately, however, it appears to have been rushed into print before it was ready. KIRK ENDICOTT Dartmouth College Signs of Recognition: Powers and Hazards of Representation in an Indonesian Society. By W E B B K E A N E . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xxix, 297 pp. $50.00 (cloth); $20.00...

...Sheldon Appleton Recognition of Communist China? A Study in Argument . By Robert P. Newman . New York : Macmillan , 1961 . xii, 318 . Consolidated References, Index. $1.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1962 1962 384 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES of units...

...Dainel B. Ramsdell Japanese Recognition of the U.S.S.R. Soviet-Japanese Relations 1921–1930 . By George Alexander Lensen . Tallahassee : The Diplomatic Press , 1970 . 362 pp. Epilogue, Appendix, Source Notes, Bibliography, Index. $15.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...Pauline C. Reich Japanese Labor Law . By Kazuo Sugeno . Translated by Leo Kanowitz . Seattle and London : University of Washington Press , 1992 . xix, 714 pp. $60.00. Law, Labour and Society in Japan: From Repression to Reluctant Recognition . By Anthony Woodiwiss . New York...

... Relations and the Recognition Controversy, 1949–1950 . By Nancy Bernkopf Tucker . New York : Columbia University Press , 1983 . x, 397 pp. Bibliography, Index. $35 (cloth); $15 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1985 1985 590 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES America's China...

... in the political constitution of the once great colonial powers. The solution of the Indonesian problem has in no small measure been based on a recognition of the mutual economic and cultural interdependence of the two disputants. With this recognition the political factors of the problem have lost much...

...”—made a claim to the city's governor that they had the right to appear in public space. This article illustrates the paradoxical achievement of obtaining recognition on terms constituted through public nuisance regulations governing access to and movement through space. The origins and diffuse effects...

..., has received little recognition outside his own country. After Taiwan was ceded to Japan in 1895, even Chinese scholars paid scant attention to Liu's work there, but with the removal of the Nationalist government to the island in 1949, there has understandably been a renewed interest in him. Chinese...

... legal “environments” at the present moment: in an environment of general laws governing religion, in an environment of special laws and administrative bodies for Muslims, and in a broader constitutional environment that grants special recognition to Buddhism. These environments offer differing...

..., the muttettu , which were cultivated gratis by the villagers who possessed other fields either in return for this service or in recognition of the king's suzreignty. This meant that there were no intermediaries farming (renting) the right to collect the tithe. It also meant that the villager held his paddy...

... up his prestige and recognition in the Asian art world. This research enriches scholars’ understanding of an obscure period in Gao's artistic career and provides a new perspective on his ultimate success. ADVANCE PUBLICATION PRYNNE YAN LIU and JULES ZHAO LIU Building Symbolic Capital through...

... recognition and a new vision of “world religions” was coming into being. It considers the writings on the religions and ethnographic scholarship of the Bombay Scottish missionaries, as well as their extensive and multifaceted interactions with Bombay's Hindu, Muslim, Jain, Parsi, Jewish, Roman Catholic...

... control keyed to economic conditions, and favorable living standards are contrasted with China's rapid growth, periodic mortality crises, and precarious balance of population and resources. Although there is some variation in approaches and vocabularies reflecting disciplinary divisions, and recognition...

... in his keynote address that the most important current trend in historical studies was the recognition of “culture as a relatively autonomous force in history” (Yu 1991, 21). For too long, he suggested, historians have looked at the past through a narrow window shaped by the values of the west...

... despite this contemporary recognition of the significance of empire, English-language studies of Japan have been slow to interweave the colonial experience into the history of modern Japan. Today, for modern historians, the question of how, or even whether, to incorporate these events into the history...

... efforts to win recognition came up against nationalist and communist anti-traditionalism but were eventually integrated into the intellectual revival of the 1980s. This study relies on historical sources and anthropological fieldwork to show that Liu is an emblematic figure of the cultural upheaval caused...

... of British control in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. However, beyond recognition of the significant economic functions of medieval South Indian temples, little attention has been given to the matter. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1960 1960 1 Tirumalai-Tirupati...

... lead the devotee to a recognition of the relativity of dharma and to an acceptance of a basic dimension of evil within the deity. This conclusion is seen to be consistent with the positive attitude of the South Indian theistic traditions toward mundane reality—an attitude that contrasts markedly...

... yet significant changes (e.g., Egypt, India, Indonesia). Indian policy makers retained personal laws specific to religious groups, and did not change the minority laws, although minority recognition did not rule out culturally grounded reform. They changed Hindu law alone based on their values...

... of their growth and development goes back to the second half of the sixteenth century. On the other hand, the Tili movement took an extensive form in the second half of the nineteenth century. The Tilis receives wider social recognition as a caste during the third and fourth decades of the twentieth century...