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...Harold S. Powers Understanding Indian Music . By Baburao Joshi . New York : Asia Publishing House , 1964 . x, 102. Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $5.75. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 184 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES chester and Leeds), and those living...

...Peter Zarrow Re-understanding Japan: Chinese Perspective, 1895–1945 . By Lu Yan . Honolulu : Association for Asian Studies and University of Hawai'i Press , 2004 . xiii, 339 pp. $50.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 B O O K R E V I E W S A S I...

... of the judiciary.” Reference Sweetman Will . ( 2011 ). “ Review: Y oung , ed. India and the Indianness of Christianity: Essays on Understanding—Historical, Theological, and Bibliographical—in Honor of Robert Eric Frykenberg ” Journal of Asian Studies 70 ( 4 ) 1213 –15. JAS appreciates...

...Will Sweetman India and the Indianness of Christianity: Essays on Understanding—Historical, Theological, and Bibliographical—in Honor of Robert Eric Frykenberg . Edited by Richard Fox Young . Grand Rapids, MI : Wm. B. Eerdmans , 2009 . xii, 284 pp. $45.00 (paper). Copyright ©...

... of the Yellow Springs: Understanding Chinese Tombs . By Wu Hung . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2010 . 272 pp., 230 illus. $50.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 Since the first millennium BCE, the Yellow Springs has been a Chinese literary...

...Yasmin Saikia Durable Disorder: Understanding the Politics of Northeast India . By Sanjib Baruah . New Delhi : Oxford University Press , 2005 . xi , 265 pp. Rs 495 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006 2006 636 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T U D I E S...

...Jonathan Wolff Constructs for Understanding Japan . Edited by Yoshio Sugimoto and Ross E. Mouer . London : Kegan Paul International , 1989 . xiv, 396 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 423 of Buddha-nature, qua impermanence...

...Shigenori Nagatomo Impermanence is Buddha-nature: Dōgen's Understanding of Temporality . By Joan Stambaugh . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1990 . x, 146 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 422 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES traditions...

...Mitch Numark Abstract A consideration of colonial Bombay enriches the understanding of the activities and ideas of Christian missionaries and Orientalists in India and elucidates British conceptions of “the religions of India” and the production of colonialist knowledge. This article focuses...

...Virginia Harper Ho Understanding Labor and Employment Law in China . By Ronald Brown . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2009 . xvi , 332 pp. $90.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 Since the mid-1990s, when China enacted its...

...David R. McCann The Trap of History: Understanding Korean Short Stories . By Jeong-Hyun Shin . Korea Research Monograph Series. Berkeley : Institute of East Asian Studies , 1998 . xv, 115 pp. $15.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 1186 THE JOURNAL...

...Rudolf G. Wagner The Transport of Reading: Text and Understanding in the World of Tao Qian (365–427) . By Robert Ashmore . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2010 . ix, 345 pp. $39.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014  2014...

.... : MIT Press , 1968 ) . REVIEW ARTICLE UNDERSTANDING REVOLUTION IN VIETNAM Village in Vietnam. BY GERALD CANNON HICKEY. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964. Fourth printing, xxviii, 325 pp. Maps, Appendices, Charts, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $10.00, Paper $2.95. The United States in Vietnam...

...L. S. Cousins An Understanding of the Buddha . By Oscar Shaftel . New York : Schocken , 1974 . viii, 247 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Index. $8.50 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1976 1976 120 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Christian writings, avoiding the kind of uncritical...

... is influenced by politicians’ desire to keep their jobs. Under Japan's new electoral system, keeping your job has meant paying attention to national security. This study uses public opinion surveys and elite interviews and commentary to understand foreign policy. The theoretical framework used is one...

...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...

...William K. Cummings Abstract In recent years, several empirically based studies of blue collar and white collar Japanese workers—notably by Taira, Hazama, Marsh and Mannari, Cole, and Evans—have resulted in a substantial “revision” of our understanding of Japanese labor markets. 2 These studies...

...J. A. B. van Buitenen The Theology of Rāmānuja: An Essay in Interreligious Understanding . By John Braisted Carman . New Haven and London : Yale University Press , 1974 . xii, 333 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Index. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1975 1975 BOOK...

...George P. Conger The meeting of East and West: an inquiry concerning world understanding . By F. S. C. Northrop . New York : Macmillan , 1946 . xiii, 531 p. $6.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1947 1947 BOOK REVIEWS The meeting of East and West: an inquiry...