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... identifies areas of scholarly disagreement and controversial issues as such, presenting the reader with alternative perspectives while cautiously leaving debates formally open-ended in the text. While its core sources lend The Indus a solid evidentiary foundation, Robinson is clear that he will “mix hard...

...Tze-Ki Hon Language, Ontology, and Political Philosophy in China: Wang Bi's Scholarly Exploration of the Dark (Xuanxue) . By Rudolf G. Wagner . SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture. Albany : State University of New York Press , 2003 . viii , 261 pp. $81.50 (cloth); $27.95...

...Joseph Needham; Lu Gwei-Djen Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1979 1979 Asia in the Making of Europe. Volume II: A Century of Wonder. Book Two: The Literary Arts. Book Three: The Scholarly Disciplines . By Donald F. Lach . Chicago and London : The University...

... certainly questions the androcentric assumptions of many scholarly fields and seeks a greater piece of the academic pie for women scholars, but that is not the whole story. In the past decade or so, gender has joined class, race, and ethnicity as an element in theories about the major forces that shape...

...David R. Meyer Changing Cities of Pacific Asia: A Scholarly Interpretation . By Yue-Man Yeung . Hong Kong : The Chinese University Press, The Chinese University of Hong Kong , 1990 . xxii , 320 pp. $23.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 124...

... and of regulations are, by themselves, a major scholarly resource. The analysis in the book's central chapters, particularly those describing the development of PRC contract doctrine and dispute resolution, are especially rewarding. Potter's work will force many analysts to reconsider their thinking about the law...

... of China's own evaluation of the radicals' policies. This is refreshing but unlikely to cause many people to buy this book. HOWARD S. KLEIN Committee on Scholarly Communication with the PRC National Academy of Sciences ...

...Charles S. J. White Abstract Modern religious movements together with their saintly leaders in Hinduism constitute an area where-from little scholarly research appears, yet, in print. This study of the Sāi Bābā Movement attempts to show on the one hand that, regarding the saints in question (Sāi...

... thrusts upon scholarly attention many compelling issues by the collective presentation of the biographies of some six hundred Chinese leaders who were active in 1911–1949 in the fields of politics and the military as well as in business and banking, literature, the arts, the press and publishing...

...Edward H. Schafer Abstract Among the sins of scholarly translators from the Chinese, there is one which is so prevalent as to remain unchallenged generation after generation, possibly because no one is free from its taint. I refer to the practice of leaving uncooked and indigestible lumps...

...Michael D. Shin Abstract During the Cold War, when South Korea was under a military dictatorship, the term “collaborator” ( ch'inilp'a ) often functioned as a kind of prohibition, indicating that a person or certain texts were not worthy of serious scholarly attention. Collaboration was also...

...David D. Buck Abstract O ne of my goals as editor has been to develop cross-regional consideration in the pages of this journal of major issues drawing scholarly attention in both the social sciences and humanities. The most common approach for such projects is to bring groups of scholars together...

...Rebekah Clements Abstract The scholarly narrative of spoken Chinese studies in Tokugawa Japan is dominated by Ogyū Sorai, who founded a translation society in 1711 and urged Japanese intellectuals to learn contemporary spoken Chinese in order to draw closer to the language of the Chinese classics...

... as individuals and as a learned society have in the challenge which confronts contemporary American education. On April 2, 1948, about two hundred specialists on Asia gathered at Columbia University to complete the organization of a new scholarly, non-political, non-profit, professional association and to elect...

... dominant, mode of scholarly and philosophical discourse for Chinese literati. It was in commentary that these men would offer their reflections on the meaning of Confucian doctrine as it had evolved through the centuries and attempt to construct a philosophical or moral vision meaningful in a world far...

...Gananath Obeyesekere Abstract Many scholarly articles and some of a polemical nature have been written on the 1971 insurgency in Sri Lanka. Recent studies of this movement (Fernando 1972, Egan 1972, Kearney 1973, Arasaratnam 1972, Warnapala 1972) have helped us to understand some of the underlying...

...Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox Abstract Among the eclecticism and diversity of the intellectual marketplace in 1960s Saigon, frequent discussions of existentialism stand out. In popular scholarly journals and literary reviews, such as Bách khoa and Đại học , intellectuals, such as Nguyễn Văn Trung and Trần...

... a discussion of various ideas and events—visions of China's place in the world, how the story of the Opium War is thought about in different settings, the history of Sinology—shaped by personal as well as scholarly concerns. The essay's ties to the author's life and associations, which come into play more...

...Harry J. Benda Abstract The history of Indonesia in the last two or three decades of Dutch colonial rule still has to be written, and it can only be written when the abundant archival materials for this period, both in Indonesia and in the Netherlands, come to be opened up for scholarly...

...Stephen E. Koss Abstract A disproportionate amount of scholarly attention has already been lavished upon the provision for communal electorates in the 1909 Morley-Minto reform scheme, imparting to it a significance which it lacked during both John Morley's secretaryship of state for India and his...