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... the awareness of India and its civilization among this generation of Americans never diminished. His incisive mind, dry wit and commitment to India studies will be sorely missed. J O H N L. H I L L Concordia University JOHN WHITNEY HALL 1916-1997 John Whitney Hall, professor emeritus of history at Yale...

...Jeffrey P. Mass Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 306 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES JOHN WHITNEY HALL 1916-1997 John Whitney Hall, professor emeritus of history at Yale University and a former president of the Association for Asian Studies (1967 68), has died after...

...John Whitney Hall Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 Obituary EDWIN OLDFATHER REISCHAUER (1910-1990) An Appreciation The death of Edwin O. Reischauer on September 1, 1990, removed from the American academic scene its leading specialist on modern Japan. In few other...

... Abstract The February 1998 issue (57.1) of the Journal mistakenly included a picture of Robert I. Crane, which was to accompany his obituary, in the other obituary featured in this issue, that of John Whitney Hall (p. 306). The Editor regrets this terrible oversight and offers his sincere...

...John Whitney Hall Abstract Our Association has met this year in Philadelphia, a city of historic memories, an appropriate place in which to contemplate anniversaries. There are several which come to mind. First, the Association for Asian Studies is itself twenty years old this spring, a fact...

...John Whitney Hall Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1977 1977 Charismatic Bureaucrat: A Political Biography of Matsudaira Sadanobu, 1758–1829 . By Herman Ooms . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1975 . xiii, 225 pp. Tables, Appendixes, Notes, Glossary...

...Sarah Whitney Womack Postcolonial Vietnam: New Histories of the National Past . By Patricia M. Pelley . Durham : Duke University Press , 2002 . 344 pp. $59.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 1336 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...John Whitney Hall Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1951 1951 NEWS OF THE PROFESSION Prepared by JOHN WHITNEY HALL* All of the following material was received prior to July 1, 1931 SPECIAL REPORTS Japan: Postwar Oriental Studies. The following information was received from...

...John Whitney Hall Nihon shakai no shiteki kyūmei . (An historical study of Japanese society). Edited by the Rekishigaku Kenkyūkai (The Historical Science Society). Tokyo : Iwanami Shoten , 1949 . v, 340 p. 300 yen. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1951 1951...

...John Whitney Hall Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1985 1985 VOL. XLV, N O . 1 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES NOVEMBER 1985 Obituary Ronald Stone Anderson (1908-1985) Ronald Stone Anderson, who served as Secretary of the Association for Asian Studies from 1952 to I960, died...

...John Whitney Hall A Dictionary of Japanese History . By Joseph Goedertier . New York and Tokyo : Walker/Weatherhill , 1968 . 415 pp., Appendices, Indices. $12.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1970 1970 JAPANESE HISTORY 155 abound. Records by the ounce...

...John Whitney Hall Abstract The institutional foundations of the Tokugawa daimyo have been obscured by the lack of insight which historians have traditionally shown into the history of the Ashikaga period and, in particular, into the late Ashikaga, or Sengoku, age. Like the Dark Ages in Europe...

...John Whitney Hall Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1953 1953 NEWS OF THE PROFESSION Prepared by JOHN WHITNEY HALL Communication regarding Far Eastern Association business should be addressed to the new Secretary, Ronald S. Anderson, 2037 Angell Hall, University of Michigan...

...John Whitney Hall Abstract Japan's role in Far Eastern history has been unique in many respects. Traditionally an integral part of the Chinese zone of civilization, Japan has nonetheless demonstrated a marked ability to remain independent of continental influence. In recent years Japan's remarkable...

...John Whitney Hall A History of Japan, 1615–1867 . By Sir George Sansom . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 1963 . 258 . $7.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 BOOK REVIEWS 615 Communist official translations, either the New China News Agency...

...John Whitney Hall Education in Tokugawa Japan . By R. P. Dore . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press . 1965 . (Publication of the Center for Japanese and Korean Studies, University of California, Berkeley) xi, 346 . $6.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...John Whitney Hall Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1952 1952 NEWS OF THE PROFESSION PREPARED BY JOHN WHITNEY HALL POLICY STATEMENT AND CHANGE OF DEADLINES FOR NEWS OF THE PROFESSION Because of the rapid expansion of Far Eastern Studies, the volume of news has greatly...

...John Whitney Hall; Richard Beardsley Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1952 1952 NEWS OF THE PROFESSION Prepared by JOHN WHITNEY HALL and RICHARD BEARDSLEY Communications regarding Far Eastern Association business should be addressed to the new Secretary: Robert E. Ward...

...John Whitney Hall NEWS OF THE PROFESSION Prepared by JOHN WHITNEY HALL* The following material was received prior to August 20. SPECIAL REPORTS Far Eastern Studies in Australia (The following report was presented by Professor C. P . FitzGerald of the Australian National University, Canberra.) Far...

...John Whitney Hall 98 FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY civilization. An English summary in each report carries the major details which demonstrate this and other points of interest. The Tsushima volume, done with the fine quality and care which is a tradition of the Archaeologia Orientalis series, reports...