The Journal of Asian Studies: Volume 39 - Issue 4

The Journal of Asian Studies

Only show content I have access to (4)

Over 3 years (80)

View selected items
Save to my bookmarks
Export citations
Download PDF (zip)
Save to Kindle
Save to Dropbox
Save to Google Drive
Save content to
To save this undefined to your undefined account, please select one or more formats and confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you used this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your undefined account. Find out more about saving content to .

To save this article to your Kindle, first ensure [email protected] is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Please be advised that item(s) you selected are not available.
You are about to save
The Journal of Asian Studies
ISSN: 0021-9118

EISSN: 1752-0401

URL: /core/journals/journal-of-asian-studies
Your Kindle email address

Please provide your Kindle email.

@free.kindle.com @kindle.com (service fees apply)

By using this service, you agree that you will only keep content for personal use, and will not openly distribute them via Dropbox, Google Drive or other file sharing services

The Journal of Asian Studies

Refine listing

Actions for selected content:

Volume 39 - Issue 4 - August 1980

Book Reviews—China

Chinese Family and Kinship. By Hugh D. R. Baker. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979. xii, 243 pp. Maps, Figures, Appendixes, Notes, List of Works Cited, Glossary, Index. $17.50.

Book Reviews—Japan

Hōjō Shigetoki (1198–1261) and His Role in the History of Political and Ethical Ideas in Japan. By Carl Steenstrup. London and Malmö: Curzon Press, Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series No. 41, 1979. xiii, 374 pp. Notes, Indexes, Summary in Danish. £6.00 (paper).

Modern Japanese Poetry. Translated by James Kirkup. Edited and introduced by A. R. Davis. St. Lucia, Queensland: University of Queensland Press, 1978. lxii, 323 pp. Biographical Notes, Bibliography, Index of Poets. $12.00.

The Japanese Novel of the Meiji Period and the Ideal of Individualism. By Janet A. Walker. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979. xiii, 315 pp. Works Consulted, Index. $18.50.

Modern Japanese Drama: An Anthology. Edited and translated by Ted T. Takaya. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979. xxxvii, 277 pp. Biographical Notes, Illustrations, Selected Bibliography. $17.50.

Suburban Tokyo: A Comparative Study in Politics and Social Change. By Gary D. Allinson. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1979. xvi, 258 pp. Maps, Bibliography, Index. $18.75.

Work, Mobility, and Participation: A Comparative Study of American and Japanese Industry. By Robert E. Cole. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979. ix, 302 pp. Bibliography, Index. $17.75.

Multinationalism, Japanese Style: The Political Economy of Outward Dependency. By Terutomo Ozawa. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979. xvii, 289 pp. Figures, Tables, Appendix, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $16.50.

Book Reviews—South Asia

The Jaina Path of Purification. By Padmanabh S. Jaini. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979. xv, 374 pp. Bibliography, Glossary of Sanskrit and Prakrit Words, General Index. $17.50.

Hindu Tantrism. By Sanjukta Gupta, Jan Hoens Dirk, and Teun Goudriaan Leiden: E. J. Brill (Handbuch der Orientalistik, 2nd Abteiliing, 4th Band, 2nd Abschnitt), 1979. xi, 209 pp. Bibliography, Index. D. Glds. 128.

Studies in Punjabi Poetry. By Darshan Singh Maini. New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House, 1979. xi, 158 pp. Index. $6.00. (Distributed in the U.S. by Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, N.J.)

Calligraphy in the Arts of the Muslim World. By Anthony Welch. Austin: University of Texas Press (in cooperation with The Asia Society), 1979. 216 pp. Plates, Bibliography. $25.00.

Twilight of the Pepper Empire: Portuguese Trade in Southwest India in the Early Seventeenth Century. By A. R. Disney. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press (Harvard Historical Series No. 95), 1978. x, 220 pp. Map, Appendixes, Notes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $15.00.

Dayananda Sarasvati: His Life and Ideas. By J. T. F. Jordens. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979. xvii, 368 pp. Appendixes, Bibliography, Index. $15.50.

E. M. Forster's Passages to India. By Robin Jared Lewis. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979. xii, 157 pp. Appendix, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $16.50.

American Studies in the Anthropology of India. Edited by Sylvia Vatuk. New Delhi: Manohar Publications for the American Institute of Indian Studies, 1978. xix, 517 pp. $11.50. (Distributed in the U.S. by South Asia Books, Columbia, Mo.)

Untouchable: An Indian Life History. By James M. Freeman. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1979. ix, 421 pp. Appendixes, Bibliography, Glossary-Index. $18.95.

Shanti Nagar: The Effects of Urbanization in a Village in North India. Volume 1: Social Organization. By Stanley A. Freed and Ruth S. Freed. New York: American Museum of Natural History (Anthropological Papers Vol. 53, pt. 1), 1976. 254 pp. Tables, Figures, Appendix, Literature Cited, Index. $13.85.

The Journal of Asian Studies

Refine listing

Actions for selected content:

Save Search

Volume 39 - Issue 4 - August 1980

Book Reviews—China

Book Reviews—Japan

Book Reviews—South Asia