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Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and Jennifer W. Jay, eds. East Asian Cultural and Historical Perspectives: Histories and Society / Culture and Literatures Edmonton: Research Institute for Comparative Literature, University of Alberta, 1997. ISBN 0-921490-09-7. 384 pages.

Contents

Acknowledgements, by Jennifer W. Jay i
Preface, by Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek ii

Histories and Society

Jeffrey G. Barlow,
    Culture, Ethnic Identity, and Early Weapons Systems: The Sino-Vietnamese Frontier 1-15
Mike Danaher,
    Public Awareness of Environmental Issues in Japan 17-34
Teofilo C. Daquila,
    The Role of Japan and Other Northeast Asian Countries in ASEAN:
    The Case of Foreign Direct Investments 35-50
Brian L. Evans,
    Pon Yin versus City of Edmonton (1915): Politics and Justice on the Canadian Prairies 51-59
Jennifer W. Jay,
    Conceptualizing the Frontier in Tang and Song China: A Cultural Perspective 61-69
Graeme Lang,
    Structural Factors in the Origins of Modern Science: A Comparison of China and Europe 71-96
Alfred L. Oehlers,
    Cultural Values in Singapore: Continuity and Change since 1959 97-121
Joanne Mei-chu Poon,
    Miss Queen of Cathay and the Chinese Community of Vancouver, 1953-54 123-34
Terence C. Russell,
    Spiritualizing Feminine Virtue: Religion and Social Conservativism in the Late Qing 135-51
Margaret C. Shim and James W. Vargo,
    Culture and Mental Health: A Comparison of Asian and Caucasian Psychiatric Inpatients 153-62
Susan L. Smith,
    The "Midwife Problem" in the Far West: Japanese Immigrant Midwives in Hawaii and Washington 163-71
Marc Song,
    Towards a History of Koreans in Canada 173-82
Anny Wong,
    Japan's Approach to and Impact on Asia-Pacific Development and the Environment:
    Old Ways and New Trends 183-192
Yasukawa Etsuko,
    Ideologies of Family in the Modernization of Japan 193-98

Cultures and Literatures

Janice Brown,
    Shinsh otogisshi: Fairytales as Subversion in the Writing of ba Minako 201-09
Michèle Gunderson,
    Representing Motherhood in Denise Chong's The Concubine's
    Children and Sky Lee's Disappearing Moon Cafe 211-20
Lynn Kalinauskas,
    The Conflation of Missing Remembrances in Xiao Hong's Fiction 221-39
Li Wendan,
    The Discourse Function of Classifier Phrases in Mandarin Chinese 241-54
Lin Ting Ting,
    Sampaguita, Calamansi, and Halo-Halo: An Overview of Filipino-Chinese Writing 255-66
Liu Joyce Chi-Hui,
    Re-Staging Cultural Memories in Contemporary Theatre in Taiwan:
    Wang Qimei, Stanley Lai, and Lin Huaimin 267-78
Lu Dan Huai
    Issues of Language and the Future of Hong Kong 279-87
Alison Marshall,
    The Changes of Spirit: A Comparison of the Australian Aboriginal Dreamtime
    and the Chinese Yi Jing 289-300
Eva K. Neumaier-Dargyay,
    A Traditional Culture in Transition: Observations on the Tibetans in Sichuan and Gansu 301-12
Peng Hsiao-yen,
    Seven Decades of Taiwan Literature: An Outline 313-21
Qiu Peipei,
    Daoist Concepts in Bashô's Critical Thought 323-40
Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek,
    The Study of Literature in China and Taiwan Today: Impressions of a Visitor 341-50
Wang I-Chun,
    Identity Construction and the Boundaries of the Moral Domain: Widowhood in Chieh Fu Yin 351-56
Xu Dongfeng,
    "Other" Rhetoric: Reading Matteo Ricci's A Treatise on Friendship 357-71
Teresa Yu,
    Selfhood, Identity, and Relatedness: Conflict Dynamics and the Chinese-Canadian Experience 373-83


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