...Francesca Bray Kim can be said to follow the mainstream in focusing primarily on astronomy and calendrical science as his principle cases of East Asian science in context. They undoubtedly loomed large for Confucian intellectuals, not least because the Jesuits confronted them with alternative...

...Itty Abraham A Carnival for Science: Essays on Science, Technology and Development . By Shiv Visvanathan . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1997 , 249 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 253 threatening their health; he...

...John B. Henderson Chinese Thought, Society, and Science: The Intellectual and Social Background of Science and Technology in Pre-modern China . By Derk Bodde . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1991 . xiv , 441 pp. $38.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...David Gilmartin Science and Social Science Research in British India, 1780–1880: The Role of Anglo-Indian Associations and Government . By Edward W. Ellsworth . Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies, No. 28. New York : Greenwood Press , 1991 . xvi, 220 pp. $47.95. Copyright...

... Chang Sen-dou , “ The Historical Trend of Chinese Urbanization ,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers , LIII ( 06 1963 ), 109 . What the Study of China Can Do for Social Science G. WILLIAM SKINNER I N recent years the cry has gone up: Sinology is dead; long live Chinese...

... Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 What Social Science Can Do for Chinese Studies MAURICE FREEDMAN I AM the joker in the pack not simply for the obvious reason that I am not an American, but also, and much more significantly, because I have no right to sit on a platform with people learned...

...W. Eberhard Science and Civilization in China. Volume III: Mathematics and the Sciences of the Heavens and the Earth . By Joseph Needham , with the collaboration of Wang Ling. Cambridge, Eng. : Cambridge University Press , 1958 . xlvii, 876 . Illustrations, Bibliographies, Index, Table...

...D. C. S. Sissons International Social Science Journal (UNESCO) . Vol. XIII , No. 1 ( 1961 ), pp. 7 – 91 . (Part I, six articles on various aspects of post-war democratization in Japan by leading Japanese scholars.) Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1962 1962 BOOK...

... Studies, Inc. 1961 1961 REVIEW ARTICLE Japanese Society via American Social Science Contemporary Japan: The Individual and the Group. By YOSHIHARU SCOTT MATSUMOTO. Philadelphia: Transactions of the American Philsophical Society, New Series, Vol. 50, Part 1, i960. 75. Bibliography, Glossary, Index...

...Thomas R. McHale An Annotated Bibliography of Philippine Social Science. Vol. I, Economics . Comp. by Alejandrino Hufana and Rony Diaz . Quezon City : Social Science Research Center, University of the Philippines , 1956 . x, 525 . $12.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Richard K. Beardsley Proceedings of the Fourth Far-Eastern Prehistory and the Anthropology Division of the Eighth Pacific Science Congresses Combined . Part I: Prehistory, Archaeology and Physical Anthropology (First Fascicle and Second Fascicle: Section I). Ed. H. Otley Beyer . Diliman...

...Walter F. Vella The Social Sciences and Thailand: A Compilation of Articles on Various Social-Science Fields and their Application to Thailand . Ed. G. William Skinner , et al. Published under the auspices of the Education Society of Thailand. Bangkok : Cornell Research Center , 1956...

...Derk Bodde Science and Civilisation in China. Volume II: History of Scientific Thought . By Joseph Needham , F.R.S., with the research assistance of Wang Ling, Ph.D. New York : Cambridge University Press , 1956 . xxiv, 696 . Illustrations, Tables, Bibliography, Index. $14.50...

...Kung-chuan Hsiao The Complete Works of Han Fei Tzu, A Classic of Chinese Political Science ., Vol. II . Translated from the Chinese with Introduction, Notes, and Index by W. K. Liao . London : Arthur Probsthain , 1959 . ix , 333 . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

... , 1858 ) , Bawden C. R. , The Mongol Chronicle Altan Tobči ( Wiesbaden : Otto Harrassowitz , 1955 ). 12 The Altan Tobči by Lubsan-Danzan was published in 1937 by the Committee of Sciences of the MPR, and reproduced as Altan Tobči. A Brief History of the Mongols by bsTanjin...

...Thomas S. Kuhn The Tao of Science: An Essay on Western Knowledge and Eastern Wisdom . By R. G. H. Siu . Boston and New York : The Technology Press and John Wiley , 1957 . xvi, 180. Bibliography, Index. $4.25. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1959 1959 284 JOURNAL...

... social scientists have had the courage to investigate it—even though its implications would be of inestimable theoretical importance to contemporary programs of international assistance. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1951 1951 THE USE OF SOCIAL SCIENCE CONCEPTS TO INTERPRET...

...Wolfgang Franke Japanese Studies of Modern China: A Bibliographical Guide to Historical and Social-Science Research on the 19th and 20th Centuries . By John King Fairbank and Masataka Banno . Published for the Harvard-Yenching Institute. Rutland, Vermont : Tuttle , 1955 . xviii, 331...

...R. P. Dore Abstract In the intellectual ferment which defeat and occupation brought to Japan the social sciences underwent a particular upheaval. The decade before the war had seen their development stultified by the officially enforced atmosphere of dogmatic moralism and irrational metaphysics...

...Felix M. Keesing Abstract One of the most encouraging trends in contemporary scholarship is the considerable raprochment between fields of study conventionally classed as the “humanities” and those called the “social sciences,” or now fashionably, “behavioral sciences.” A strong contributing factor...