...Stanley E. Brush The North-West Frontier of West Pakistan: A Study in Regional Geography . By David Dichter , with the collaboration of Nathan S. Popkin. Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1967 . xii, 231 pp. Illustrations, Maps, Tables, Appendices, Bibliography, Index. $10.10. Copyright ©...

...Earl H. Pritchard Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1955 1955 Research Guide for China's Response to the West, a Documentary Survey, 1839–1923 . By Ssu-Yü Teng and John K. Fairbank . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1954 . 84 . Glossary. $4.00...

...Grace H. Green Asia in the Modern World . Edited by Helen G. Matthew . New York : The New American Library , 1963 . (A Mentor Book) viii, 288 . Bibliography, Index. $0.75 West and Non-West; New Perspectives. An Anthology . Edited by Vera Micheles Dean and Harry D. Harootunian...

... , “A Village in West Bengal,” India's Villages , ed. Srinivas M. N. , 2nd ed. ( Bombay : Asia Publishing House , 1960 ), p. 199 . 7 Paṇḍals are made of bamboos, tarpaulins, ropes, etc. All such temporary structures built for particular purposes and taken down directly afterwards...

...W. Parker Mauldin Report on the West Malaysian Family Survey, 1966–67 . By The National Family Planning Board . Kuala Lumpur : 1968 . xliv , 534 pp. Tables, Appendices. $4.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1969 1969 904 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES to various...

... sufficient, whereas the two large previous sections are certainly more than prefatory notes to a comprehensive study of Indian art. AGEHANANDA BHARATI Syracuse University West Bengal and the Federalizing Process in India. BY MARCUS F. FRANDA. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press. 1968. ix, 257 pp...

...Paul M. Lewis The Welfare State: East and West . Edited by Richard Rose and Rei Shiratori . New York : Oxford University Press , 1986 . 213 pp. $29.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988 1988 382 T H E J O U R N A L OF A S I A N STUDIES In sum, even though...

... contains a number of interesting working hypotheses, not yet ready for presentation as conclusions. Where it is unobjectionable, it is not original, and most of the attempts at originality have misfired. MICHAEL VICKERY University of Adelaide, Australia The Maloh of West Kalimantan. ByVicroR T. KING...

... Master's Son . By Adam Johnson . New York : Random House , 2012 . 443 pp. $26.00 (cloth); $15.00 (paper). Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West . By Blaine Harden . New York : Viking , 2012 . xvi, 205 pp. $26.95 (cloth). ...

...Joan L. Erdman Bards, Ballads and Boundaries: An Ethnographic Atlas of Music Traditions in West Rajasthan . By Daniel Neuman and Shubha Chaudhuri , with Komal Kothari . Calcutta : Seagull Books , 2006 . xx , 320 pp. $370.00/Rs 1495 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Dipesh Chakrabarty Europe Reconsidered: Perceptions of the West in Nineteenth Century Bengal . By Tapan Raychaudhuri . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1988 . xviii, 369 pp. Rs. 170.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 723...

...Michael Adas The East in the West . By Jack Goody . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1996 . 295 pp. $54.95 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 BOOK REVIEWS ASIA GENERAL 451 accept the norms of the international community...

... times, that makes the damage feel so poignant, so inexorable, so real. It's no simple matter to do research in West Papua. At the start of the book Chao describes the risks she and her interlocutors ran by virtue of the fact she was living among them. Was this fieldwork worth it? If it were only...

...Paul B. Foster Fighting without Fighting: Kung Fu Cinema's Journey to the West . By Luke White . London : Reaktion Books , 2022 . 294 pp. ISBN: 9781789145335 . © 2024 Association for Asian Studies 2024 This book clearly and compellingly describes the globalization of kung fu...

...Gang Wang The People's West Lake: Propaganda, Nature, and Agency in Mao's China, 1949–1976 . By Qiliang He . Honolulu : University of Hawai’i Press , 2023 . 216 pp. ISBN: 9780824895594 . © 2024 Association for Asian Studies 2024 After the founding of the People's Republic...

...Robert Van Niel The Trauma of Decolonization: The Dutch and West New Guinea . By Arend Lijphart . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1966 . xi, 303 pp. Tables, Index. $7.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1967 1967 BOOK REVIEWS 341 Democracy, together...

...Walter A. Fairservis, Jr. Charsada: A Metropolis of the North-West Frontier . By Mortimer Wheeler . Oxford, England : Oxford University Press , 1962 . x , 130 . Illustrations, Plates. $14.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1963 1963 146 JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Fa-Ti Fan The Paper Road: Archive and Experience in the Botanical Explorations of West China and Tibet . By Erik Mueggler . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2011 . xiv, 361 pp. $31.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014  2014 With its...

... set of evidence, not all of equal quality; for example, a comparison of the mottoes of universities in China and the West does not seem to add much to her argument. The idea that Confucian and Greek traditions persist into the present has been discussed by others, 3 but Li provides...