... University BARUCH BOXER Japan and Korea. An Annotated Bibliography of Doctoral Disseratations in Western Languages, 1877-1969. COMPILED AND EDITED BY FRANK J. SHULMAN. Chicago: American Library Association, 1970. 340 pp., S6.95. (paperback) Doctoral Dissertations on China. A Bibliography of Studies...

...Donald N. Clark Sŏyangini pon Chosŏn—Chosŏn Kwang'gye Sŏyang Sŏji, 1655–1949 . (Korea Through Western Eyes—The Written Record of Western Contact with Korea, 1655–1949) . By Pak Taehŏn . 2 vols. Seoul : Hosanbang Rare Books , 1996 . 1000 pp., illustrated. $2,000 (cloth). Alternate title...

...Ka-wai Fan Barefoot Doctors and Western Medicine in China . By Xiaoping Fang . Rochester, N.Y. : University of Rochester Press , 2012 . xii, 294 pp. $90.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013  2013 The “barefoot doctor” ( chijiao yisheng ), which...

...Catherine E. Clark Foreigners under Mao: Western Lives in China, 1949–1976 . By Beverley Hooper . Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press , 2016 . xi, 292 pp. ISBN: 9789888208746 (cloth, also available as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2018  2018...

...Rupert Emerson The Interplay of East and West . By Barbara Ward . New York : W. W. Norton , 1957 . 152 . Index. $3.50. The Nature of the Non-Western World . By Vera Micheles Dean . New York : New American Library (Mentor Books), 1957 . 284 . Maps, Index. $.50 (paper...

...J. Norman Parmer Western Enterprise in Indonesia and Malaya: A Study in Economic Development . By G. C. Allen and Audrey G. Donnithorne . New York : Macmillan , 1957 . 321 . Map, Appendices, Bibliography, Index. $5.75. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1958 1958...

...Chan Wing-tsit China moulded by Confucius: the Chinese way in Western light . By Cheng Tien-Hsi . London : Stevens and Sons , 1946 . 264 p. 18/0. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1947 1947 BOOK REVIEWS 305 China moulded by Confucius: the Chinese way in Western...

... also has used writings in English, French, and Japanese when necessary for comparison and evaluation; description is clear and critical; chapters are well divided and in good proportion. The Western Regions are described as covering the areas from Yumen and Yangkuan to the highland of Iran. Relations...

... and in organization. As the title indicates, it is limited to the countries usually included in the regional term “the Far East,” Southeast Asia, India and Ceylon, and the islands of the Western Pacific. Studies of subjects relating to other areas are included only if they concern relations with any part...

... to seek out and learn the secrets of the strength of the Western nations. Both of these great Chinese officials, however, conceived of this strength in the narrow sense of military and naval prowess. Their primary concern, therefore, was to learn from the West the technical knowledge upon which western...

...Nobutaka Ike The Western world and Japan: a study in the interaction of European and Asiatic cultures . By G. B. Sansom . New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1950 . xvi, 504 , xi p. $6.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1951 1951 328 THE FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY The Western...

...Elizabeth Bacon Polynesians: Explorers of the Pacific . By J. E. Weckler, Jr , (Smithsonian Institution War Background Studies, No. 6) Washington : Smithsonian Institution , 1943 . iv, 77 p. Island peoples of the Western Pacific. Micronesia and Melanesia . By Herbert W. Krieger...

...Donald Keene Indiana University Conference on Oriental-Western Literary Relations . Ed. Horst Frenz and G. L. Anderson . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 1955 . xii, 241 . $4.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1956 1956 1 See...

...Nan Z. Da Genuine excitement over foreign literature—and what people thought it might promise—has a prominent place in the book, appearing usually without commentary about Western hegemony or China's ideological self-reprogramming. For instance, Qi attributes the embracing of Western books after...

...Richard Taupier The Spread of Buddhism among Western Mongolian Tribes between the Thirteenth and Eighteenth Centuries . By Baatr U. Kitinov . Lewiston, N.Y. : The Edwin Mellon Press , 2010 . 324 pp. $139.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013  2013...

...Ward Morehouse Non-Western Studies in the Liberal Arts College: A Report of the Commission on International Understanding ., Washington : Association of American Colleges , 1964 , 362 . $3.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1965 1965 126 JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...). The Dynamics of the Western New Guinea (Irian Barat) Problem . By Robert C. Bone, Jr . Ithaca, New York : Cornell University, Interim Reports Series , 1958 . x, 170 . $1.50 (paper). BOOK REVIEWS and 61-62). And one commentary appears to have only the remotest connection to the article to which...

...Lien-Sheng Yang Accounts of Western Nations in the History of die Northern Chou Dynasty . Translated and annotated by Roy Andrew Miller . Chinese Dynastic Histories Translations, No. 6. Berkeley : University of California Press , 1959 . 83 . Map. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

..., pursues the relatively understudied heterodox Western medical tradition of homeopathy as it emerged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in India by asking how a German medical tradition deemed unscientific came to be vernacularized to suit Indian sensibilities and made legitimate in India...

... of philosophical interpretations in both Indian and Western traditions, leading to modern renditions and contemporary adaptations of the Mahābhārata . For instance, the core message of the Gītā (one of the fundamental teachings of the Mahābhārata ) is viewed to be broadly revolving around two strands...