...Lewis Hodous A short history of Chinese philosophy . By Fung Yu-Lan . Edited with an introduction by Derk Bodde . New York : Macmillan , 1948 . xx, 368 p. $5.00. The spirit of Chinese philosophy . By Fung Yu-Lan . Translated and edited with an introduction by E. R. Hughes...

...Norman Girardot The Modern Spirit of Asia: The Spiritual and the Secular in China and India . By Peter van der Veer . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 2014 . 282 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015  2015 Peter...

...Cecilia Van Hollen Fertile Disorder: Spirit Possession and Its Provocation of the Modern . By Kalpana Ram . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2013 . xiii, 317 pp. $57.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014  2014 Kalpana Ram's book Fertile...

...Franz Michael The Spirit of Chinese Politics: A Psychocultural Study of the Authority Crisis in Political Development . By Lucian W. Pye . Cambridge, Massachusetts : The M.I.T. Press , 1968 . 255 pages. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1969 1969...

... of the general decline suffered by that art of the possible, diplomacy. FRANK W. IKL£ Miami University, Ohio Showa no seishinshi [A History of the Spirit of Showa]. By TAKEYAMA MICHIHIO. Tokyo, 1956. 159. This book, written by a philosopher trying to understand his own times, is important not only for what...

...Jianmei Liu From Ah Q to Lei Feng: Freud and Revolutionary Spirit in 20th Century China . By Wendy Larson . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 2009 . xx , 336 pp. $55.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009 Wendy Larson's new...

..., in the post-Aum novels, Murakami reveals an other world, both accessible and from which one can chose to return, an other world inhabited by ghosts, spirits, and even living spirits in which evil is constantly battled. Gabriel also discusses the Catholic author Sono Ayako's exploration of Christian...

...Frances Garrett Body and Spirit: Tibetan Medical Paintings . Edited by Laila Williamson and Serenity Young . New York : American Museum of Natural History in association with the University of Washington Press , 2009 . 264 pp. $45.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Philip Clart The Haunting Fetus: Abortion, Sexuality, and the Spirit World in Taiwan . By Marc L. Moskowitz . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2001 . viii, 206 pp. $17.95 (paper); $49.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Eric Reinders The Spirit and the Flesh in Shandong, 1650–1785 . By D. E. Mungello . Lanham, Md. : Rowman and Littlefield , 2001 . xiii , 209 pp. $70.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 596 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Elinor W. Gadon Gendering the Spirit: Women, Religion, and the Post-Colonial Response . Edited by Durre S. Ahmed . London and New York : Zed Books , 2002 . x, 244 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 Book Reviews ASIA...

...Joseph Parker Figures of Desire: Wordplay, Spirit Possession, Fantasy, Madness, and Mourning in Japanese Noh Plays . By Etsuko Terasaki . Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, no. 38. Ann Arbor : Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan , 2002 . xvii , 329 pp...

...Earl Kinmonth Yukichi Fukuzawa, 1835–1901: The Spirit of Enterprise in Modern Japan . By Norio Tamaki . New York : Palgrave , 2001 . xxvi , 252 pp. $68.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 632 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES because Japan lacked...

... the relationship between the Japanese and nature. KENDALL H. BROWN University of Southern California A Woman's Weapon: Spirit Possession in the The Tale of Genji. By D O R I S G. B A R G E N . Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997. xx, 379 pp. $24.95 (paper). Spirit possession episodes make up some...

...Daniel J. Meckel Mad and Divine: Spirit and Psyche in the Modern World . By Sudhir Kakar . Chicago and London : The University of Chicago Press , 2009 . 192 pp. $24.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 In this volume, Sudhir Kakar once...

...Sherry B. Ortner Spirit Possession in the Nepal Himalayas . Edited by John T. Hitchcock and Rex L. Jones . Warminster, England : Aris and Phillips , 1976 . xxviii, 401 pp. Map, Bibliography, Illustrations, Notes on Contributors. £10.00; $27.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...William Yoo The Spirit Moves West: Korean Missionaries in America . By Rebecca Y. Kim . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2015 . 256 pp. ISBN: 978019994212 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2016  2016 In 1961, a Korean Protestant man and an American...

... for International Development Soul, Spirit, and Mountain: Preoccupations of Contemporary Indonesian Painters. By ASTRI W R I G H T . Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1994. xxiv, 270 pp. $105.00. I was on my way to Indonesia when Astri Wright's important and beautifully produced new work, Soul, Spirit...

...Monica Bethe Nōmai Dance Drama: A Surviving Spirit of Medieval Japan . By Susan M. Asai . Westport, Conn. and London : Greenwood Press , 1999 . viii, 248 pp. $65.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 1014 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES job had they been...

...Brian E. Mcknight The Spirit of Traditional Chinese Law . By Geoffrey MacCormack . Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press , 1996 . xvi, 262 pp. $45.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 482 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Liu's third participant...