...Peter J. Claus Status and Sacredness: A General Theory of Status Relations and an Analysis of Indian Culture . By Murray Milner Jr . New York : Oxford University Press , 1994 . xiii, 336 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995...

.... THE STATUS OF LAW AND LAWMAKING PROCEDURE UNDER THE KUOMINTANG 1925-46 MEREDITH P. GILPATRICK* Ohio State University ' I 1HE INITIAL reaction of the foreigner upon his first contact with Chinese J- law and legal system is one of frustration and noncomprehension.1 Those given to facile generalization are apt...

...Ksenia Chizhova Carving Status at Kŭmgangsan: Elite Graffiti in Premodern Korea . By Maya K. H. Stiller . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2021 . xvi, 210 pp. ISBN: 9780295749266 . © 2023 Association for Asian Studies 2023 What is a mountain? According to Maya...

...Albert Feuerwerker Social Mobility in China: Status Careers Among the Gentry in a Chinese Community . By Yang-teh Chow . New York : Atherton Press , 1966 . xvi, 300 pp. Bibliography, Index, Tables, and Illustrations. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1967 1967...

...Bryce Ryan Abstract The Ethic that produced a Ben Franklin or a John D. Rockefeller has imbued relatively few persons in Ceylon. There is no doubt that Ceylonese are as ambitious as other peoples, but their historic value systems have been quite different from that of Western society. Their status...

...Robert B. Ekvall Tibet Disappears: A Documentary History of Tibet's International Status: The Great Rebellion and Its Aftermath . By Chanakya Sen . Bombay : Asia Publishing House , 1960 , xv, 474 . Maps, Appendices. $6.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1961...

...Robert R. Jay Social Status and Power in Java . By Leslie Palmier . London School of Economics, Monographs on Social Anthropology No. 20. New York : The Humanities Press , 1960 , viii, 171 . Maps, Tables, References, Index. $5.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Schuyler V. R. Cammann 440 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES The Historical Status of Tibet. By TIEH-TSENG LI. New York: King's Crown Press, 1956. xi, 312. Introduction, Bibliography, Index. $5.00. This very well written and absorbing book discusses in great detail the status of Tibet as a nation from...

...Amy Stanley Nenzi begins in the first decades of the era, when high-status men and women wrote erudite travel diaries in order to confirm their places within their social milieus, and ends in the mid-nineteenth century, when a more heterogeneous group of wayfarers set out to famous places...

... strategies that are associated, respectively, with political capital (power), economic capital (money), and human capital (knowledge). Her overall argument is that a new conceptualization of hierarchy and status has emerged in the reform era, as people valorize, even sacralize, human capital, disparage...

...John S. Major Mingtang and Buddhist Utopias in the History of the Astronomical Clock: The Tower, Statue and Armillary Sphere Constructed by Empress Wu . By Antonino Forte . Roma : Istituto Italiana per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente ; Paris : Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient , 1988 . xiv...

...Harumi Befu Above the Cloud: Status Culture of the Modern Japanese Nobility . By Talkie Sugiyama Lebra . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1993 . xvii, 430 pp. $45.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 219 Yet even if we...

...Sukanya Banerjee Trans-Status Subjects: Gender in the Globalization of South and Southeast Asia . Edited by Sonita Sarker and Esha Niyogi De . Durham, N.C. : Duck University Press , 2002 . xii , 344 pp. $64.95 (cloth); $21.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies...

...Francis L. K. Hsu Chinese in American Life. Some Aspects of Their History, Status, Problems, and Contributions . By S. W. Kung . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 1962 . xiv , 352 . Bibliography. $7.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1963 1963 BOOK...

...Thomas McPherson The Status of the Individual in East and West . Edited by Charles A. Moore . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1968 . xxi , 606 pp. Appendix, Index. $15.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1969 1969 834 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES political...

...Tsuen-Hsuin Tsien Abstract This study of the East Asian collections in American libraries in 1975 provides new data on the current status of resources, growth rate, geographical distribution, acquisitions, cataloging, personnel, fiscal support, unit capabilities and cost, use patterns, and services...

...Guojun Wang Luxurious Networks: Salt Merchants, Status, and Statecraft in Eighteenth-Century China . By Yulian Wu . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press . 320 pp. ISBN: 9780804798112 (cloth, also available as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2018...

...Percival Spear Abstract Since the Second World War transitions from colonial to sovereign status have become so frequent as to be almost commonplace. The royal family in England has had an extra chore added to its duties in inaugurating new constitutions. Britain, which was thought by many before...

...Maureen L. P. Patterson The Status of Women in South Asia . Ed. A. Appadorai . Published under the joint auspices of UNESCO and the Asian Relations Organization. Bombay : Orient Longmans, Ltd. , 1954 . v, 171 . Appendices. Rs. 4/-. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Nicholas P. Cushner Status of the Philippines in 1800 . By Fr. Joaquín Martínez de Zúñiga , OSA . Manila : Filipiniana Book Guild , 1973 . ix, 484 pp. Appendix. $9.00 (Dist. through Cellar Book Shop, Detroit). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1975 1975 BOOK...