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Volume 47 - Issue 1 - February 1988

Contents

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Editorial

  • Editorial Page

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    23 March 2011, pp. vi-vii
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  • In This Issue

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    23 March 2011, p. 1
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  • Editor's Note

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    23 March 2011, p. 2
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Articles

  • Criticizing and Evaluating the Visual Arts in India: Preliminary Example

  • Joanna Williams
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    23 March 2011, pp. 3-28

  • By what standards should we judge works of art from another culture or era? We are generally used to the idea that understanding the meaning of an image requires consideration of its distinctive context—literary, religious, social, and so on. Evaluating the quality of a work of art is another specific case of this broad dilemma of understanding. Do we evaluate good and bad images by the “proper” criteria and in the way that is appropriate to them?

  • Science and Medicine in Imperial China—The State of the Field

  • Nathan Sivin
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    23 March 2011, pp. 41-90

  • Sinology and the history of science have changed practically beyond recognition in the past half-century. Both have become academic specialisms, with their own departments, journals, and professional societies. Both have moved off in new directions, drawing on the tools and insights of several disciplines. Although some sinologists still honor no ambition beyond explicating primary texts, on many of the field's frontiers philology is no more than a tool. Similarly, many technical historians now explore issues for which anthropology or systems analysis is as indispensable as traditional historiography.

Communications to the Editor

  • Islam and Islamic Legal History in Southeast Asia

  • M. B. Hooker
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    23 March 2011, p. 91
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  • Response to M. B. Hooker

  • Paul W. van der Veur
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    23 March 2011, pp. 91-92
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Book Reviews—Asia General

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

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