...Joseph R. Allen Epilogues are usually curious and cursory things: an author's stab at the future. Dawley does include a small foray past the 1950s, but his epilogue is more substantial and integral to the arguments of the study than might be expected. If there were a tendency in earlier chapters...

... in modern Japan by Harvard historian Andrew Gordon demonstrates the effects: what could feasibly have been published under the title “Making Machinists” was instead marketed as “Fabricating Consumers.” What does it mean to talk about consumers in 1950s Japan, a time and place of hard work, thrift...

... worthy of its own research. Chen viewed the use of foreign ideas and practices, including English, Christianity, and Western educational ideas, as compatible with creating a Chinese childhood because he defined Chinese as a racial rather than cultural or national category. However, during the 1950s after...

...Arunabh Ghosh Abstract China-India history of the 1950s remains mired in concerns related to border demarcations and a teleological focus on the causes, course, and consequences of the war of 1962. The result is an overt emphasis on diplomatic and international history of a rather narrow form...

... (1914–98); and Nora Noh (1928–), Korea's first fashion designer, to advance a deeper understanding of the dynamic modernization process in a cosmopolitan Korean society during the 1950s. In a refined reading of the movie Madame Freedom , Klein charts Han's poaching experiments to make use of two...

... and the subsequent publication of its discourse were organized by the Japan Cultural Forum (Nihon bunka fōramu), which was the Japanese affiliate of the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF), a noted international anticommunist organization. Founded in 1950 and headquartered in Paris, the CCF advocated for the liberal...

...Sujata Moorti Wanted Cultured ladies Only!: Female Stardom and Cinema in India, 1930s–1950s . By Neepa Majumdar . Chicago : University of Illinois Press , 2009 . 258 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 Most readers...

...Kenneth Lieberthal Politics at Mao's Court: Gao Gang and Party Factionalism in the Early 1950s . By Frederick Teiwes . Armonk, N.Y., London : M. E. Sharpe, Inc. , 1991 . xvi, 326 pp. $45.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA...

...David G. Marr Cauldron of Resistance: Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and 1950s Southern Vietnam . By Jessica M. Chapman . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press , 2013 . xi, 276 pp. $39.95 (cloth). Misalliance: Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and the Fate of South Vietnam...

...W. Howard Wriggins Cold War in the High Himalayas: The USA, China and South Asia in the 1950s . By S. Mahmud Ali . New York : St. Martin's Press , 1999 . xl, 286 pp. $59.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 Book Reviews ASIA GENERAL Cold War...

... into conflict has more to do with North Korea's position in the world during the Cold War era. Crucially, he states, for North Korea there was not one but three Cold Wars: the global Cold War (between the United States and its allies and the Soviets), the Sino-Soviet rivalry (from the end of the 1950s...

...Thomas P. Bernstein Die Sowjetunion und das kommunistische China, 1945–1950: Der beschwerliche Weg zum Buendniss . (The Soviet Union and Communist China, 1945–1950: The Difficult Road to the Alliance.) By Dieter Heinzig . Baden-Baden : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft , 1998 . xviii, 710 pp...

...Joyce A. Madancy History of the Opium Problem: The Assault on the East, ca. 1600–1950 . By Hans Derks . Leiden : Brill , 2012 . xxvi, 824 pp. $288.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013  2013 Hans Derks has attempted a herculean task in seeking...

... Far Eastern Bibliography 1950 Compiled by GUSSIE E. GASKILL With contributions by Knight BiggerstafT, Hugh Borton, Meribeth E. Cameron, L. Carrington Goodrich, Ardelia R. Hall, Cecil Hobbs, J. C. Ingram, Rudolf Loewenthal, Earl H. Pritchard, William Leonard Schwartz, Lauriston Sharp, Hellmut...

...Peter Braden The Ecology of War in China: Henan Province, the Yellow River, and Beyond, 1938–1950 . By Micah S. Muscolino . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2015 . xiii, 294 pp. ISBN: 9781107071568 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). Copyright © The Association...

...Lisa M. Brady Abstract Between 1950 and 1953, the United Nations (UN) undertook two related tasks in Korea: the first was to assist the Republic of Korea in achieving military victory in its conflict with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea; the second was to support postcolonial economic...