..., in the United States and United Kingdom). In the process, both the authors and their subjects wrestle with the presumed coherency of “Tibetan” medicine and its pluralism in practice. Medicine Between Science and Religion , which derives in part from a 2006 panel on medicine at the Eleventh Seminar...

... and political sciences to be of greater use in China's further ventures and experiments in the direction of political democracy?—These questions, both practical and theoretical, both retrospective and predictive, call for consideration together. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1942 1942...

...—as a site for Buddhist global exchange and translingual practice, when the notion of “karma” offered Huxley and his Chinese translator and readers at once a ground of convergence and a point of departure. To Lu Xun and his brother Zhou Zuoren, from a hereditary perspective, karma has assumed the other name...

.... This essay will analyze the following: pertinent points in Yüeh Fei's career, the neo-Confucian theory and practice of loyalty in political science terms, and his evolving myths in intellectual history with regard to both the elite heritage and the mass heritage. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

..., dating, and interpretation. Moreover, they practiced, within the limitations imposed upon them by the advancement of science at that time, most of the critical methods and devices used in modern archaeological work. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1963 1963 1 Chao Ming...

... politics in Sinhalese chronicles laid a basis for state-Sangha relations. Political thinking shows a dualism of ideological concepts based on religious values and of a tradition of practical political science. The impact of historical factors in the development of Sangha structures becomes visible from...

... in China antipathetic to the production of anything like the “professional housewife” that emerged in Japan. In practice, the shifting parameters of state discourse on women in socialist society allowed a socialist variant of the housewife category. At critical junctures in the cycle of economic planning...

... . Translated by Phelps J. . London : Penguin Books . De Certeau Michel. 1984 . The Practice of Everyday Life . Translated by Rendell Steven . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press . Donne John. 1985 . “A Valediction of Weeping.” In The Complete English Poems...

... recently still assuring their readers that China never created "science as a persisting institution, a system of theory and practice socially transmitted, consciously developed and used" (Fairbank 1983:75). Joseph Needham, while working in China during World War II, learned of the Chinese technical...

...Tsuen-hsuin Tsien Abstract Translation is not only a science or an art, but also a practical tool of international communication in the world-wide exchange of ideas. The importance of translation has been heightened by the increasing contacts among nations of widely divergent cultures...

... and for the detailed analysis whereby economic, political, aesthetic, and religious developments are grounded in various historic philosophies. In the West, the one-substance theory of Aristotle, with its science practically confined to common-sense observation, was challenged by Galilei and Newton, who on the basis...

... for the dissemination of new notions of glamour, fashion, and social practice in China. Along with black-and-white advertisements in daily newspapers, they also came to symbolize the perfect degree of cultural hybridity reached by social and visual customs in Shanghai and in the treaty ports in general. From chapter 1...

... is of a separate and living medical science, one that provides a needed addition to Western medical science and the contemporary practice of medical care. Porkert states explicitly that he has written his book not for sinologists to contemplate as a useless hermetic discipline, nor for historians of science...

...Peter Flueckiger Proving the Way: Conflict and Practice in the History of Japanese Nativism . By Mark McNally . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2005 . viii , 287 pp. $49.50 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006 2006 B O O K R E V I E W S J...

... eloquently discusses the initial friction between the existing literature and her own ethnographic experiences. Chapter 4 examines how new medical technologies are incorporated into Unani practice through an emphasis on the practitioner's intellectual approach to disease causation and root causes...

... twentieth-century practice in India. In the process, we come to understand yoga as a transnational system of knowledge and practice that emerged in the interstices of colonialism, anticolonial nationalism, and postcolonial Hindu nationalism. We learn, for example, of the ways in which Orientalist...

... by science as facts is seriously to fool ourselves, because it creates the false impression that these phenomena are already facts. (CND 24 November 1995, 9) Controversy over the claims of qigong's power continues to develop, even though qigong practice in general has come under state regulation (Ots...

... East Asia, temporal extension into the twentiethcentury practice of science, and increasing methodological sophistication in the shift from internalist to contextual readings of scientific texts. All of these trends merit introduction to a wider audience. We can see, for example, that historians...

... pragmatic tradition, starts with the classic concept of theory as pure reason completely separated from practice. He thus rejects reason and puts intelligence in its place. But reason separated from practice becomes dogmatic myth making or logic chopping. No true science can be derived from such an attitude...