..., the fire-walkers as well as ordinary devotees, believe that this custom of the annual fire-walking ritual comes from mythic times and commemorates Skanda's victory over the asuras (titans). In fact, the present form of fire-walking in Buddhist Sri Lanka dates not from the asura war, but from World War II...

...Millidge Walker Indonesia: Social and Cultural Revolution . By S. Takdir Alisjahbana . Kuala Lumpur : Oxford University Press , 1966 . (First published in 1961 under the title Indonesia in the Modern World .) ix, 206 pp. Index. M$10.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...Richard L. Walker Behind the Bamboo Curtain: The Experiences of an American Doctor in China . By A. M. Dunlap , M.D. Washington, D. C. : Public Affairs Press , 1956 . viii, 208 . Foreword, Introduction, Illustrations. $3.75. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1956...

...Millidge P. Walker Some Aspects of Indonesian Politics under the Japanese Occupation: 1944–1945 . By Benedict R. O'G. Anderson . Ithaca : Cornell University , Modern Indonesia Project, Interim Report Series, 196. 126. $3.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1962...

...Vivian Walker A Critical Survey of Hindi Literature . By Ram Awadh Dwivedi . Delhi : Motilal Banarsi Das , 1966 . ii, 304 pp. Select Bibliography, Index. Rs. 15.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968 1968 BOOK REVIEWS 897 course, is on the nationalist...

...Stephen C. Walker A Walk in the Night with Zhuangzi: Musings on an Ancient Chinese Manuscript . By Kuan-yun Huang . Albany : State University of New York Press , 2023 . xv, 145 pp. ISBN: 9781438491776 . © 2024 Association for Asian Studies 2024 When I became aware...

...Janet A. Walker In the Shade of Spring Leaves: The Life and Writings of Higuchi Ichiyō, A Woman of Letters in Meiji Japan . By Robert Lyons Danly . New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press , 1981 . ix , 355 pp. Illustrations, Bibliography, Index. $19.95. Copyright © Association...

...Janet A. Walker Approaches to the Modern Japanese Novel . Edited by Kinya Tsuruta and Thomas E. Swann . Tokyo : Sophia University , 1976 . ii, 244 pp. Notes on Contributors. $6.00 Modern Japanese Writers and the Nature of Literature . By Makoto Ueda . Stanford : Stanford...

...Brett L. Walker Abstract The only aspect of this bizarre famine that historians really know for sure is that the Hachinohe chroniclers of the day remembered it as the “wild boar famine” ( inoshishi kegachi ) of 1749. From what can be pieced together from the few available sources, thousands...

...Richard L. Walker Abstract The new Chinese constitution which was almost unanimously adopted by the National Assembly and presented to Chiang K'ai-shek on Christmas Day 1946 gives conclusive proof that the Chinese plan to maintain their ancient Censoral system, now the Control Yüan of the Chinese...

...Matthew D. Walker The Great Civilized Conversation: Education for a World Community . By Wm. Theodorede Bary . New York : Columbia University Press , 2013 . 432 pp. $35.00 (cloth); $24.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015  2015 In this work...

...Richard L. Walker Yin-kuo shih . (A history of satellite states). By Chao Ch'ih-tzu with an introduction by Tsang Ch'i-Fang and an epilogue by Chao Chia-hsiang . Taipei , 1952 . 148 p. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1953 1953 BOOK REVIEWS 77 England...

...Walker H. Hill The Financing of Indian Education . By Atmanand Misra . New York : Asia Publishing House , 1968 . xii, 312 pp., Tables, Bibliography. Index, $6.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1969 1969 BOOK REVIEWS 193 Iigion underwent many changes...

... and the Lacuna in Marxism ,” in Revolution and Subjectivity in Postwar Japan ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1996 ), 88 – 149 . 6 From this essay, readers will get a sense that I am generally sympathetic with Walker's project. However, I am not in total agreement with his position. I...

... to the land,” by adhering to “a dispersed and diffused social ecology of overlapping, temporary alliances between all living things that rose up and dissolved again before they could harden into hierarchies of domination and control” (pp. 119–20). Unlike Walker's survey, Bad Water aims for a narrower...

...David Wittner Nicely punctuated with historic illustrations and Walker's own photographs of the industrial sites visited during the course of researching this book, Toxic Archipelago is an outstanding history of industrial disease and environmental degradation in Japan. It is a welcome...

...David M. Kalivas Aurel Stein: Pioneer of the Silk Road . By Annabel Walker . London : John Murray ; Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998 . xiv, 393 pp. $19.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 BOOK REVIEWS INNER ASIA 833 ethnographers...

...Antonia Finnane Chinese Modernity and the Peasant Path: Semicolonialism and the Northern Yangzi Delta . By Kathy Le Mons Walker . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 1999 . ix, 330 pp. $55.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 BOOK...