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On March 12 this year I gave an informal talk to the 'overseas history group' in which I tried to sketch in the development and atmosphere of major Southeast Asia programs in the USA and Australia, with particular reference to the influence of the social sciences on approaches to Indonesian history. My opinions were based on personal impressions and were utterly non-expert; it was therefore with some reluctance that I agreed to try and summarize my talk for Itinerario. No historian should publish without doing some research, but since I was assured that the very informality and casualness of my approach was a recommendation, I will do my best.

Geoffrey Claussen provides an in-depth discussion of his Jewish Traditions course, taught at Elon University. The course begins with an experiential learning exercise in which students eat honey cake while they read a fourteenth-century account of Jewish boys consuming honey (and other sweet delicacies) while studying Torah for the first time. Claussen outlines the course's learning outcomes, which include students developing awareness of the complexity and diversity of Jewish cultures, learning diverse ways in which Jews have related to non-Jewish communities, and (as the course is a part of Elon's Women's/Gender Studies program) recognizing the importance of gender for understanding the Jewish tradition and people. The course focuses on major aspects of Jewish thought and practice, giving particular attention to influential classical Jewish texts and modern responses to those texts. An abridged syllabus is provided.

The cycle of relations between the Dept of Defense (DoD) & the university is described with particular reference to the social sciences & international studies. This cycle is characterized by: a general decline in amity since WWII, decreased support for DoD objectives, a concern for the effect of DoD priorities on the general research profile, the growth of inhouse & nonacademic vendors in research & training, & the enclaving of the military-connected research community within the university. The pattern of DoD support for strategic studies, linguistics, & language & area studies is also examined. HA

Intro -- Contents -- About the Editors -- List of Contributors -- Chapter 1 An Exploration of the Spiritual "Original Homeland" of Chinese Ethics: A Review of the Conceptual History of "Emotion" -- Part I Doing Chinese Ethics A New Possibility? -- Part II Why the Thick Concept Is So Important? -- Part III Emotion A Thick Ethical Concept -- 1. The Intensional Evolution of the Concept of "Emotion -- 2. The Idea Cluster Behind the Concept of "Emotion": Sense, Sight, and Feeling -- Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 2 Contemporary Full-Length Novels: A Literary Symbol -- I. -- II. -- III. -- IV. -- Chapter 3 The Novel Monthly and Chinese Literature in the 1920s -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- Chapter 4 Cultural Warfare: The Context and Situation of Chinese Literary Criticism in the 20th Century -- I. How Did "Cultural Warfare" Originate -- II. "A Finish Fight": The Context for Chinese Literary Criticism in the 20th Century -- III. "Dagger" and "Javelin": Critical Weapons in the Years of "Turmoil -- Chapter 5 To Transform Knowledge into Wisdom: On the Logical Starting Point for Literary and Art Theories -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- Chapter 6 On the Momentariness of Image Creation -- I -- II -- III -- Chapter 7 Lu Xun's Theories on New Fine Art -- Part I Lu Xun and the Art Revolution -- Part II Three Traditions of the Woodcut Campaign -- Part III Significance of the Notes in Peking -- Chapter 8 Hu Huanyong's Contributions to Chinese Population Geography: In Commemoration of the 80th Anniversary of Discovery of the "Hu Huanyong Line" -- I. Who Is Hu? -- II. Hu's Major Research Achievements, Academic Concepts and Influence -- III. Hu's Major Academic Papers and Monographs -- Bibliography -- Chapter 9 Money in the Social Sciences: The Individual, Society, the State and Beyond -- Functionalism: Money, the Individual and Society.