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...John B. Henderson Time, Science, and Society in China and the West: The Study of Time 5 . Edited by J. T. Fraser , N. Lawrence , and F. C. Haber . Amherst, Mass. : The University of Massachusetts Press , 1986 . xv, 262 pp. Notes, Figures, Notes on Contributors. N.p. Copyright ©...

...Paul Barclay Time Matters: Global and Local Time in Asian Societies . By Willem van Schendel and Henk Schulte Nordholt . Amsterdam : VU University Press , 2001 . 140 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 1142 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...John S. Major The Trail of Time: Time Measurement with Incense Clocks in East Asia . By Silvio A. Bedini . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1994 . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 1206 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Why is the author's indicator...

...Terrence Jackson 1 Stefan Tanaka , New Times in Modern Japan ( Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 2004 ) . Nevertheless, these suggestions do not undermine Frumer's achievement. Making Time is an enjoyable read with strong insights and a compelling argument...

...Priyanka Srivastava The Politics of Time and Youth in Brand India: Bargaining with Capital . By Jyotsna Kapur . London : Anthem Press , 2013 . 158 pp. £60.00/$99.00 (cloth); £25.00/$40.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015  2015 India's turn...

...Agata Bareja-Starzyńska The authors of A Monastery in Time are to be congratulated for creating a book that is both scholarly and entertaining. It is a solid monograph that documents the development of a particular Mongolian monastery—Mergen Gegen—with sound facts and data, analyzed using...

...Wing-Tsit Chan Time and Eastern Man: The Henry Myers Lecture, 1964 . By Joseph Needham . London : Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland , 1965 . ix, 52 . 20/. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1966 1966 330 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES bronze...

...John C. H. Oh Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1969 1969 Korea: Time, Change, and Administration . By Hahn-Been Lee . Honolulu, Hawaii : East-West Center Press , 1968 . xiii, 240 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Tables, Index. $9.00. 622 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES interest...

... the movements he describes, and he discusses them knowingly and intimately. MILLIDGE WALKER American University Person, Time, and Conduct in Bali: An Essay in Cultural Analysis. BY CLIFFORD GEERTZ. (Cultural Report Series No. 14.) Yale University: Southeast Asia Studies, 1966. iii, 85 pp. Notes, List...

...P. G. O'Neill Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968 1968 Fujiwara Teika's Superior Poems of Our Time . By Robert H. Brower and Earl Miner . Stanford, California : Stanford University Press , 1967 . ix, 148 pp. Index of Poets, Index of First Lines, Bibliography...

...Meribeth E. Cameron Two Kinds of Time . By Graham Peck . Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company , 1950 . viii, 725 p. $4.00. Peking Diary: A Year of Revolution . By Derk Bodde . New York : Henry Schuman, Inc. , 1950 . 292 p. $3.75. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies...

...Jon Eugene von Kowallis Abstract That American academic publishers within a short time have put out three monographs this substantial on Lu Xun (1881–1936), often referred to as the founder of modern Chinese literature, is indicative of a new enthusiasm for Lu Xun in the United States and elsewhere...

...Philip Gant Overall, Time at a Standstill is a fresh, sustained intervention into late Chosŏn that will be of value to students of Sino-Korean studies in particular and premodern and early modern East Asian history in general—intellectual, diplomatic, and political. Kye takes aim at existing...

...Joseph R. Levenson Abstract In a paper that appeared some time ago, I suggested that Chang Ping-lin (1868-1936) spared the Classics by condemning the Throne. K'ang Yu-wei (1858-1927), the intellectual leader of the fin-de-siècle monarchist Reformers, had tied his radical prescriptions for Chinese...

...Pyong Gap Min No Fire Next Time: Black-Korean Conflicts and the Future of America's Cities . By Patrick D. Joyce . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press , 2003 . 219 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 1084 T H E J O U R N A L...

...Mary C. Brinton Women's Employment in Japan: The Experience of Part-Time Workers . By Kaye Broadbent . London and New York : RoutledgeCurzon , 2003 . 168 pp. $114.95 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 1130 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T U D I E S...

...Stephen P. Blake Gandhi in His Time and Ours: The Global Legacy of His Ideas . By David Hardiman . New York : Columbia University Press , 2003 . xiii , 338 pp. $32.50 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 B O O K R E V I E W S S O U T H A S I A 225...

...Ajay Skaria Stitches on Time: Colonial Textures and Postcolonial Tangles . By Saurabh Dube . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2004 . xv, 259 pp. $23.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 1054 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T U D I E S...

...R. Kent Guy The Qing Formation in World-Historical Time . Edited by Lynn A. Struve . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2004 . xiv, 412 pp. $49.50 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 1016 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T U D I E S...

... such as Agnicayana 1975? Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1986 1986 VOL. XLV, N O . 2 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES FEBRUARY 1986 Wrestling Against Time: The Performance Aspects of Agni RICHARD SCHECHNER I n 1975 Frits Staal, in collaboration with Robert Gardner, filmed in Panjal, Kerala, South India...