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... Press Institute Web site, http://www.freemedia.at/wpfr/Asia/nepal.htm. Yogi Bhagirath , ed. 2002 . Status of Press Freedom and Freedom of Expression: Nepal Report 2002 . Kathmandu : Center for Human Rights and Democratic Studies (CEHURDES) . Things That Should Not Be Said: Censorship...

...Joseph S. Alter Abstract In 1963 Hakim Mohammed Said took a Pakistani delegation from the Society for the Promotion of Eastern Medicine on a monthlong trip to China to meet with and learn from practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine. This essay focuses on Said's interpretation of the history...

... BC” (Baillie, p. 36). Similar statements about sati and assumptions about the benefits of British, rather than indigenous, land revenue systems suggest that the volume would have profited from greater exposure to and integration of the last forty years of major scholarship, ranging from Edward Said...

...S. E. Kile [email protected] Saying All That Can Be Said: The Art of Describing Sex in Jin Ping Mei . By Keith McMahon . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Asia Center , 2023 . xiv, 287 pp. ISBN: 9780674291355 . © 2025 Association for Asian Studies 2025 Keith McMahon's...

...Robert A. Kapp Abstract Introducing these three critical essays on Edward Said's Orientalism† raises perplexing questions of scholarly and professional definition. In the case of the recent JAS symposium on Thomas A. Metzger's Escape from Predicament , the organizer of the group effort came...

...Pauline Mahar Kolenda Abstract How do ordinary people of India adapt themselves to the Hindu theory of karma and rebirth? It is said that these concepts justify and reconcile Hindus to the inequalities of the caste system and that they result in fatalism and “other-worldiness.” These, in turn...

...Peter Duus Abstract It is often said that the nationalism of the 1930's was more “narrow,” more “parochial,” more “isolationist,” and more “pathological” than the nationalism of Meiji. In the earlier period, men like Fukuzawa Yukichi and Ōi Kentarō, who had ingested the liberalism of the late...

...Ichirō Ishida; Delmer M. Brown Abstract When tea ceremony, flower arrangement, Noh drama, linked verse ( renga ), monochrome painting, and dry-landscape gardening are said to represent Japanese culture, it is usually assumed that they were produced and fostered by Zen Buddhism. If we are fully...

... of equilibrium between herself and Siam. In a letter to Grandière he said that no one would deny that Cambodia was an independent state. He expressed his regret for having charged the Admiral with intimidating Norodom. The translation of Norodom's letter, said he, had probably been faulty in giving...

.... This article is concerned mainly with an account of the dealings between the two men. Born in Tennessee in 1802, Roberts studied at the Furman Theological Institution of South Carolina, and was ordained to the ministry in 1828. He preached for some time in Mississippi, where he owned property said to be worth...

... was facing, in his “realist” analysis, an almost inevitable annexation via economic if not military force. “Time,” he wrote, “is running out for the little island coveted by its gigantic, growing neighbor.” But only days after publication, on March 18, activists and armchair analysts alike said hello...

...Alfred W. McCoy Abstract “Your honors, in this venue, I announce my separation from the United States … both in military, but economics also,” said Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte to a burst of applause from an audience of officials in Beijing's Great Hall of the People, the symbolic seat...

... published on maps at the height of the Cold War in 1953 and has pursued ever since, “were extinguished,” the court said, by the UN Convention (Gao and Jia 2013, 103–4; New York Times 2016; Permanent Court of Arbitration 2016, 68–77, 116–17). This perspective also allows us to reconsider the major...

... distinct. Santayana said that to learn another language is to acquire another soul; we might add that in the case of Chinese there is less certainty about which is the possessor and which the possessed. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 Note: Reflections on Chinese Language...

...Kozo Yamamura Abstract The Zaibatsu are said to be reviving in Japan. In his widely-read Nippon Keizai Nyumon (Introduction to the Japanese Economy) Professor Nagasu wrote in 1959: The Zaibatsu have steadily built their power and have revived. No, more than that. Before the war, the Zaibatsu had...

... Abstract After expressing his appreciation of the honour of an invitation to be the principal guest at the Annual Ceremony and his pleasure at being able to speak under the distinguished chairmanship of Lord Scarbrough, Sir George Sansom said:— My only qualification for addressing this learned...

...C. N. Tay Abstract The Great Shun once said, “Poetry bespeaks the emotion.” As Ezra Pound puts it, “Poetry is a verbal statement of emotional values; a poem is an emotional value verbally stated.” From the earliest anonymous composer to Mao Tse-tung, we observe in the outpourings of the poet's...

...Pichon P. Y. Loh Abstract “For forty years,” Sun Yat-sen said in March 1925 in the Tsungli's Will , “I have devoted myself to the cause of the people's revolution with but one end in view, the elevation of China to a position of freedom and equality among the nation.” “But,” he lamented, “the work...

...Indira Rothermund Abstract The problem of the relation of the individual to society and to the state was central to Gandhi's political thought and action. It has been said that Gandhi's “deliberate onslaught on the creed of individualism as it has been in operation during the last two or three...