...Ingrid Wessel Politischer Heldenkult in Indonesien: Tradition und Moderne Praxis {The Cult of Political Heroes in Indonesia: Tradition and Modern Praxis} . By Klaus H. Schreiner . Berlin and Hamburg : Dietrich Reimer Verlag , 1995 . 333 pp. DM 84. 230 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES him...

...Nancy Auer Falk Tradition and Liberation: The Hindu Tradition in the Indian Women's Movement . By Catherine A. Robinson . New York : St. Martin's Press , 1999 . 230 pp. $55.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 314 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Robert H. Brower; Earl Roy Miner Abstract The poetry of every nation and age is a complex expression of the history, spirit, and individual genius of a people; and, as each successive generation evaluates a native or an alien poetic tradition from its own historical and cultural vantage-point...

...Joan V. Bondurant Sources of Indian Tradition . Compiled by Wm. Theodore de Bary , Stephen Hay , Royal Weiler and Andrew Yarrow . New York : Columbia University Press , 1958 . xv, 961 . Map, Chronologies, Indie Word List, Bibliography, Index. $7.50. Copyright © The Association...

...Gananath Obeyesekere Abstract Our central assumption in the foregoing analysis is that cultures are integrated; therefore, the view that peasant cultures are compounded of empirically and conceptually separable great and little traditions is unfounded. We recognize the utility of the terms “great...

...Toshihiko Sato Japanese Costume and the Makers of Its Elegant Tradition . By Helen Benton Minnich , in collaboration with Shojiro Nomura . Rutland, Vt. and Tokyo, Japan : Charles E. Tuttle Co. , 1963 . 374 . Appendices, Glossary, Bibliography, Illustrations. $19.50. Copyright ©...

...Wallace S. Baldinger Katsura. Tradition and Creation in Japanese Architecture . By Walter Gropius and Kenzo Tange . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1960 , vi, 250 . Illustrated. $15.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1962 1962 BOOK REVIEWS 233 Katsura...

...Charles O. Hucker Understanding China: A Handbook of Background Information on Changing China . By Earl Herbert Cressy . New York : Thomas Nelson , 1957 . x, 278 . Bibliography, Index. $5.00. China's Cultural Tradition: What and Whither? . By Derk Bodde . New York : Rinehart...

... of the whole body of Chinese Communist writing in this period, nor even on a representative selection of it, but it does bring together for analysis some very interesting examples of Chinese Communist treatment of problems germane to the Confucian ethical tradition. The analysis thus, perhaps, indicates ways...

... the religion or have dealings with its foreign transmitters; and by the direct instigation of, and participation in, anti-Christian riots. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1961 1961 The Anti-Christian Tradition in China PAUL A. COHEN IT is a fact of singular note that in nineteenth...

... there is a detailed and clearly organized account of the segmentary structure of caste, the hierarchical structure appears only incompletely in scattered references. RALPH W. NICHOLAS Michigan State University The Tantric Tradition. By AGEHANANDA BHARATI. London: Rider and Company, 1965. 350 pp. Bibliography, Index...

...George M. Beckmann East Asia: The Great Tradition . By Edwin O. Reischauer and John K. Fairbank . A History of East Asian Civilization. Volume I . Boston : Houghton Mifflin , 1960 . 739 . $8.75. 516 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES detail. For the most part, the source material comes from...

...E. G. Seidensticker The Japanese Tradition in British and American Literature . By Earl Miner . Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press , 1958 . 312 , xxi. $3.75. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1958 1958 BOOK REVIEWS 141 Kyoto University...

...Robert K. Sakai Sources of the Japanese Tradition . Compiled by Ryusaku Tsunoda , William Theodore de Bary , and Donald Keene . New York : Columbia University Press , 1958 . 906. Bibliography. $7.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1959 1959 290 JOURNAL...

... of the world. RICHAKD H. ROBINSON University of Wisconsin The Naturalistic Tradition in Indian Thought. By DALE RIEPE. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1961. xi, 308. Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $5.00. A naturalist lived in a town where five boxes of five kinds, each of a particular shape and size...

...C. H. Wang The Type Index of Chinese Folktales in the Oral Tradition and Major Works of Non-Religious Chinese Literature . By Nai-tung Ting . Helsinki : Academia Scientiarum Fennica FF Communications XCIV3 No. 223, 1978 . xxiii , 247 pp. Appendixes, Bibliography, Addenda, Subject Index...

...William T. Rowe Revolution and Tradition in Tientsin, 1949–52 . By Kenneth G. Lieberthal . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1980 . viii , 231 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Index. $18.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1981 1981 358 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

... McKim , “Little Communities in an Indigenous Civilization,” in Village India . 20 Mr. Marriott kindly tells me something of the strong evidence for the conclusion that Laksmi has entered the great tradition relatively late and from the folk cultures of India. He quotes Rhys Davids and Renou...

...E. A. Kracke, Jr. Abstract When we speak of social change in China we most often have in mind one or the other of two pictures. The first is the change that we see today, when radically new ideas, techniques and forces from foreign countries have shaken the traditional social order, altering...

...Karen Brazell Miraculous Stories from the Japanese Buddhist Tradition: The Nihon Ryōiki of the Monk Kyōkai . Translated and edited by Kyoko Motomochi Nakamura . Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press , 1973 . xii, 322 pages. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...