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Volume XXXVI, Number i November 1976

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Officers of the Association. President: MARIUS B. JANSEN. Princeton University. Vice President: JOHN M E( HOLS. . Secretary-Treasurer: . University of Michigan. Editor, Journal of Asian Studies: RALPH W. NICHOLAS. University of Chicago. Editor, Monographs, Occasional Papers, and Reference Series: PAUL WHEATLEY. University of Chicago. And the Board of Directors.

Board of Directors. President. Vice President, and Secretary-Treasurer; Past President: PING-TI HO. University of Chicago. 1974-1977: DANIEL S. LEV, University of Washington: Tsi'LiN MEI. Cornell University: JOHN MESKILL fat large), Barnard College: ROBERT K SAKAI. University of Hauah: and W HOWARD WRIGGINS, Columbia University. 1975-1978: CAROLYN M. ELLIOTT. Welles/ey College: CHAR- LOTTE FL'RTH (at large), California Slate University, Long Beach: MARLEIGH G. RYAN. University of Iowa; LYMAN P. VAN SLYKE, Stanford University; and PALL WHEATLEY, University of Chicago. 1976-1979: PAUL A. COHEN (at large), Wellesley College; HILDRED GEERTZ, Princeton University; Sl'SAN L. Hi'NT- INGTON. Ohio Slate University; EVELYN S. RAWSKI, University of Pittsburgh; and HIROSHI WAGATSUMA, University of California, Los Angeles.

Executive Committee. President, Vice President. Past President, and Secretary-Treasurer; Chair. China and Inner Asia Regional Council: ROBERT A. KAPP, University of Washington; Chair, Northeast ASM Regional Council: MARLENE J. MAYO, University of Maryland; Chair. South Asia Regional Council: HAROLD A. GOULD. University of Illinois; and Chair, Southeast Asia Regional Council: PAIL WHEATLEY, University of Chicago.

Past Presidents. ARTHUR W. HUMMEL (1948). Library of Congress. CHARLES S. GARDNER (1949I. . HAROLD S. QriCLEV (1950). University of Minnesota. ROBERT B. HALL (1951), University of Michigan. (1952). Harvard University. FELIX M. KEESING (1953), Stanford University. KENNETH S I.ATOURETTE (1954), . EDWIN O. REISCHAUER (1955). Harvard University. L. CARRINGTON GOODRICH (1956), Columbia University. (1957). Columbia University. JOHN K. FAIRBANK (1958), Harvard University. GEORGE B. CRESSEY (1959). Syracuse Univer- sity. W. NORMAN BROWN (i960). University of Pennsylvania. (1961). Cornell Univer- sity. EARL H. PRITCHARD (1962), University of Chicago. WILLIAM W LOC.KWOOD (1963), Princeton University. ARTHUR F. WRIGHT (1964). Yale University. KNIGHT BIGGERSTAEF (1965), Cornell University. KARLJ. PELZER (1966), Yale University. JOHN W. HALL (1967), Yale University. HOI.DEN FURBER (1968). University of Pennsylvania. W. THEODORE DE BARY (1969), Columbia University. CORA DUBOIS (1970). Harvard University. C. MARTIN WILBUR (1971). Columbia University. ROBERT E. WARD (1972). University of Michigan. GEORGE McT. KAHIN (1973), Cornell University. RICHARD D. LAMBERT (1974). University of Pennsylvania. PING-TI HO (197V. University of Chicago.

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Editor: RALPH W. NICHOLAS, University of Chicago. Associate Editor: BERNARD S. SILBERMAN. Univer- sity of Chicago. Assistant Editors: China. ROXANE WITKE. State University of New York, Btnghamton; ANTHONY C. YU. I'mversity of Chicago. Japan, KAREN W BRAZEI.L. Cornell University. South Asia. JOHN F RICHARDS. University of Wisconsin, Madison. Southeast Asia. DAVID K. WYATT. Cornell University. Book Review Editors: China and Inner Asia. ROBERT A. KAPP. University of Washington. Korea, E. DAVID ROCKSTEIN. Indiana University, Bloomington. Southeast Asia, ALFRED B HUDSON. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Editorial Assistant: AMY ARNETT KNOESPEL. Manuscript Editor: MARTA R. NICHOLAS.

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CONTENTS Articles

5 A Philosophy of Hindu Rank from Rural West Bengal MARVIN DAVIS

25 Parish Guilds and Political Culture in Village Japan WINSTON DAVIS

37 NishioSuehiro and the Japanese Social Democratic STEPHENS, LARGE Movement, 1920-1940

57 Economic Concentration and Monopoly in Japan— EUGENR ROTWEIN A Second View

79 The Cultural Bases of Factional Alignment and Division J. BRUCE JACOBS in a Rural Taiwanese Township

99 Workers' Politics in Shanghai I.YNN T. WHITE HI

Book Reviews

Asia General

117 CHENERY AND SYRQUIN, Patterns of Development 7930-/970 GEORGE ROSEN ERB AND KALLAB (eds.), Beyond Dependency: The Developing World Speaks Out

119 BOY D, Satan and Mara FRANK E. REYNOLDS

120 SHAFTEL. An Understanding of the Buddha L. s. COUSINS

121 i.iu ET Ai.. (eds.), K'uei Hsing: A Repository of FRANCIS A. WESTBROOK

Asian Literature in Translation

Central Asia JOHN STREET 121 LiGETi (ed.), Researches in Altaic Languages Articles in the Journal of Asian Studies represent neither the views of the Association for Asian Studies nor those of the Editors. The Editor is responsible for the final selection of the content of the Journal and reserves the right to reject any material deemed inappropriate for publication. Responsibility for opinions expressed and for the accuracy of facts published in articles rests solely with the individual authors. COPYRIGHT © 1976 BY THE ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN STUDIES, INC. All Rights Reserved Requests for permission to reprint should be directed to the Secretariat. The Journal is indexed in the Social Sciences 6 Humanities Index and Book Review Index and abstracted in Historical Abstracts and Amlrica: History and Life. It is also available on film through Univer- sity Microfilms, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109.

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123 CREEL, Shen Pu-hai IGNATIUS J. H. TS AO

124 BODDE, Festivals in Classical China JACK L. DULL

126 1.0, The Life and Thought of Yeh Shih GEORGE HATCH

127 HAEGER (ed.), Crisis and Prosperity in Sung China CONSTANCE A. JOHNSON

129 SO, Japanese Piracy in Ming China during the 16th EDWARD L. DREYER Century

130 OXNAM, Ruling from Horseback: Manchu Politics in the H. LYMAN MILLER

Oboi Regency, 1661-1669 BRYANT AVERY 131 FAY, The Opium War 1840-1842

MARILYN B. YOUNG 132 FAIRBANK (ed.), The Missionary Enterprise in China

and America EDWARD FRIEDMAN

135 HSIEH, Chinese Historiography on the Revolution of 1911 ROBERT A. KAPP

136 1.1, The Japanese Army in North China, 1937-11)41 KUN CHANG

137 DOBSON, A Dictionary of the Chinese Particles DAVID R. KNECHTGES

138 POKORA (trans.), Hsin-lun (New Treatise) and Other

Writings by Huan T'an EDWARD H. SCHAFER 139 OWEN, The Poetry of Meng Chiao and Han Yii

140 GIBBS AND Li, A Bibliography of Studies and Translations FREDERICK P. BRANDAUF.R

of Modern Chinese Literature NANCY J. OI.SEN 141 KESSEN (ed.), Childhood in China

SHERMAN G. COCHRAN 142 PERKINS (ed.), China's Modern Economy in Historical

Perspective

Japan J. PAS

145 FUJIWARA, The Way to Nirvana: The Concept of the

MARLEIGH GRAYER RYAN Nembutsu in Shan-tao's Pure Land Buddhism

PAUL MCCARTHY 146 INOUE, The Roof Tile ofTempyo

KENNETH I.. RICHARD 148 TAKAHASHI, Poems of a Penisist

LAWRENCE OLSON 149 KIJIMA (ed.), The Poetry of Postwar Japan

LAWRENCE F. ROSENSWEIG 150 CARY (ed.), War-Wasted Asia: Letters 1945-46

HIROSH1 WAGATSUMA 152 PALMORE, The Honorable Elders

153 PLATH (ed.), Adult Episodes in Japan Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.40.219, on 25 Sep 2021 at 18:54:20, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911800078852 154 MASSEY, Youth and Politics in Japan ELLIS S. KRAUSS

155 FRANK (ed.), The Japanese Economy in International SOLOMON B. I.EVINE Perspective

157 ODAKA, Toward Industrial Democracy: Management and KOYA AZUMI

Workers in Modern Japan

South Asia ASHIN DAS GUPTA 158 PEARSON, Merchants and Rulers in Gujarat M. ATHAR AI.I 160 RICHARDS, Mughal Administration in Golconda M. N. PEARSON 161 SHERWANI ANDJOSHI (eds.), History of Medieval Deccan, 1295-1724. Volume II: Mainly Cultural Aspects 162 DAYANANDA, Manohar Malgonkar I.EEI.A WOOD

164 KOHM (ed.), Modern Indian Short Stories: An Anthology SURJIT DUI.AI NANDY (ed.), Modern Indian Poetry

165 KARNANI, Nissim Ezekiel KARINF. SCHOMER

165 SASTRI, Ananda K. Coomaraswamy RICHARD A. PERRY

166 HARI.E, Gupta Sculpture MICHAEL W. MEISTF.R

167 BAI.ASUBRAHMANYAM, Early Chola Temples MICHAEL W. MEISTER VENKATARAMAN, Laddigam (A Later Chola Temple) NATARAJAN, The City of the Cosmic Dance: Chidambaram

168 VAN BUITENEN (trans, and ed.), The Mahabharata. BARBARA STOI.ER MILLER Book 2: The Book of the Assembly Hall Book 3: The Book of the Forest

170 KINSLEY, The Sword and the Flute: Kali and Kr^na JOSEPH T. O'CONNEI.I.

172 WILSON (ed.), The Love of Krishna EDWARD C. DIMOCK.JK.

172 VAN KOOIJ (trans.), Worship of the Goddess RALPH W. NICHOLAS According to the Kalikapurana

174 MCDERMOTT (ed.), Six Pillars: Introductions to the SPENCER LAVAN

Major Works of Sri Aurobindo

RICHARD GOMBRICH 175 MARASINGHE, Gods in Early Buddhism

PAULINE KOI.RNDA 176 TYLER, India: An Anthropological Perspective

BRADFORD SPANGENBERG 177 GUPTA, Imperialism and the British Labour Movement,

179 SATY ANARAYANA, Incentives and Productivity in DORIS L. TAUB Public Enterprises

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Southeast Asia

181 PROVENCHER, Mainland Southeast Asia: An Anthropological A. THOMAS KIRSCH

Perspective JOHN A. MACDOUGALI. 182 HEIDHUES, Southeast Asia's Chinese Minorities CHARLES F. KEYRS 183 MENDEI.SON, Sangha and State in Burma JACK M. POTTER 184 SKINNER AND KIRSCH (eds.), Change and

Persistence in Thai Society WILLIAM S. TURI.EY

186 CHAU, Vietnamese Communism: A Research Bibliography FREDERICK BUNNELI.

186 MACKIE, Konfrontasi: The Indonesia-Malaysia Dispute, 189 Correspondence. Interpreting Indian Society: MCKIM MARRIOTT A Monistic Alternative to Dumont's Dualism

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