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...Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988 1988 Iban Shamanism: An Analysis of the Ethnographic Literature . By Penelope Graham . Canberra, Australia : Research School of Pacific Studies, Department of Anthropology , 1987 . x, 174 pp. $12.00...

... of the Inner Canon. Yet this difference perhaps has less to do with ways of learning than with the different self-positioning towards biomedicine. SEAN HSIANG-LIN LEI National Tsing-hua University, Taiwan The Politics of Depoliticization in Republican China: Guomindang Policy Toward Student Political Activism...

..., which has no doubt helped give shape to the dramatic welfare developments Ku attempts to explain in the book. CHYUAN-YUAN W U National Tsing Hua University Painting and Calligraphy in the Wu-tsa-tsu: Conservative Aesthetics in SeventeenthCentury China. By SEWALL J. O E R T L I N G . Ann Arbor: Center...

...Homer H. Dubs Abstract The world's greatest repository of historical information is to be found in the twenty-five officially approved Chinese standard histories. This collection begins with legendary ages and continues to the beginning of the Tsing or Manchu period. Because only parts of a very...

...Jason Cons The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins . By Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 2015 . xii, 311 pp. ISBN: 9780691162751 (cloth; also available as e-book). Copyright ©...

...Anne Schiller In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out-of-the-Way Place . By Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1993 . xvi, 350 pp. $49.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA...

...Chih-Tsing Hsia The Communist Program for Literature and Art in China . By Chao Chung . Hong Kong : The Union Research Institute , 1955 . 157 . Fiction in Communist China 1949–1953 . By Albert Borowitz . Cambridge, Mass. : Center for International Studies, Massachusetts...

...Chu-tsing Li An Index of Early Chinese Painters and Paintings: T'ang, Sung, and Yüan . Compiled by James Cahill , incorporating the work of Osvald Sirén and Ellen Johnston Laing. Berkeley : University of California Press , 1980 . x, 391 pp. Preface, Bibliography. $25. Copyright ©...

...Danilyn Rutherford In the Shadow of the Palms: More-than-Human Becomings in West Papua . By Sophie Chao . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2022 . iii, 321 pp. ISBN: 9781478015611 . © 2024 Association for Asian Studies 2024 In 1994, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing published a much...

... presented a reliable Sanskrit text and an English translation of the Satapancasatka or Hymn of 150 Verses, one of the most famous poems of early Mahayana Buddhism. Of Matrceta, I-tsing wrote that his compositions were "equal in beauty to the heavenly flowers, and the high principles which they contain rival...

... O W E N H A U P T TSING. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. xvi, 350 pp. $49.50. In Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing's account of her research among the Meratus Dayaks of South Kalimantan, the Meratus do not emerge as "noble savages." In fact, it is clearly part of Tsing's purpose to dislodge a range...

..., which is drawn from the work of M. M. Bakhtin and marks how experiences of time and space conjoin; Michel Foucault's notion of heterotopias, or other-spaces; varying formulations of Anna Tsing's concepts of scale and scale-making, used to show how local groups contend with the ideologies and politics...

... focus on a "marginal" character, especially one who might be considered insurrectionalist; however, Tsing assures us that the woman should not be judged as "a deviant among the normal nor a lone innovator among traditionalists" (p. 36). Instead, she notes, it was her experiences with this woman that led...

... when alleged penyamun {headhunters or kidnappers} from Brunei were shot in one instance and slashed in another by alarmed Dayak villagers) have been reported frequently in the literature and are here treated by both Peter Metcalf and Anna Tsing. Especially when interpreted in their most ironic form...

... publications, in Chinese, were not available or, if available, the relevant detail necessary to qualitative evaluation of the data was lacking. Ta Chen, Director of the Institute of Census Research of Tsing Hua University, has made available a factual re'sumd of this statistical development, together...

..., with die publication of the first issue of Shih-ti Hsueh-pao by the Nanking Higher Normal College, later part of the National Central University. The first issue of Kuo-hsiieh Lun-ts'ung, published by the Research Institute of Tsing-hua in June 1927, marks the end. Compared to the first stage when...

... University, has presented a reliable Sanskrit text and an English translation of the Satapancasatka or Hymn of 150 Verses, one of the most famous poems of early Mahayana Buddhism. Of Matrceta, I-tsing wrote that his compositions were "equal in beauty to the heavenly flowers, and the high principles which...

...Albert M. Wu China and the True Jesus: Charisma and Organization in a Chinese Christian Church . By Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2018 . xv, 385 pp. ISBN: 9780190923464 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2020 2020...