...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...

...John M. Maki A guide to Japanese reference and research materials in the field of political science . By Roberte E. Ward . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , 1950 . x, 104 p. $3.00. University of Michigan, Center for Japanese Studies, Bibliographical series no. 1. Copyright...

...Meredith L. Weiss Abstract Much of the work of political science revolves around institutions—the structures through which politics happens. Leaders enter the frame, of course, but often as institutions in human form: presidents, premiers, populists, and mobilizers who serve to channel and direct...

...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...

...Arthur W. Hummel Science and Civilization in China . By Joseph Needham , F.R.S., with the research assistance of Wang Ling. Vol. I , Introductory Orientations. Cambridge : University Press , 1954 . xxxviii, 318 . Bibliography, Index. $10.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Federico Marcon The Premise of Fidelity: Science, Visuality, and Representing the Real in Nineteenth-Century Japan . By Maki Fukuoka . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 2012 . xi, 272 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014  2014...

... the sociopolitical resonances of “manmade” damage in what we take to be regional Asia. In his book Technoscientific Imaginaries , Marcus recognizes that science is deeply political and already embedded in events. In this special section of JAS , anthropologists join with scholars in the physical and natural sciences...

...N. Gerald Barrier Union Catalogue of Social Science Periodicals: Karnataka . Social Science Documentation Centre, New Delhi. New Delhi : SSDC , 1973 . xxiv, 74 pp. Rs. 30; export $9.00 Delhi ., SSDC. New Delhi : SSDC , 1973 . xxix, 519 pp. Rs. 80; export, $24.00 Periodicals...

...Derk Bodde Science and Civilization in China . Volume V: Chemistry and Chemical Technology . Part 2. Spagyrical Discovery and Invention: Magisteries of Gold and Immortality . By Joseph Needham , with the collaboration of Lu Gwei-Djen. Cambridge, England and New York : Cambridge University...

...Eric C. Thompson Social Science and Knowledge in a Globalising World . Edited by Zawawi Ibrahim . Kajang : Persatuan Sains Sosial Malaysia (Malaysian Social Science Association) and Petaling Jaya: Strategic Information and Research Development Centre , 2012 . xxxii, 499 pp. $22.40 (paper...

...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...

... as the city itself. What that city was, and is, can be at least partly understood from this rich book. New York City GABRIEL GERSH 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 priority for the standard method of introconversion of rotary and longitudinal motion (eccentric, connecting-rod and piston-rod assembly) back three centuries to 970. See his Presidential Address to the British Association, “The Roles of Europe and China in the Evolution of Oecumenical Science...

...Luc Kwanten Chinese Mathematics in the Thirteenth Century. The Shu-shu Chiu-chang of Ch'in Chiu-shao . By Ulrich Libbrecht . Cambridge, Mass. : The MIT Press, The M.I.T . East Asian Science Series, vol. 1, 1973 . xxxi, 539 pp. Bibliography, Index. $25.00. Chinese Science...

...Ben Stavis Research and Revolution: Science Policy and Societal Change in China . By Richard P. Suttmeier . Lexington : Lexington Books , 1974 . 188 pp. $15.00 Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1975 1975 136 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES science, and a guide for those...