...-government in 1957. It demonstrates that the colonial fear of communism in Malaya was not always synonymous with the fear of cultural influence from “new China” and that the “rise of China” in the mid-1950s was viewed as a challenge to colonially sanctioned programs for “Malayanization.” More importantly...

...René Peritz The Malayan Tin Industry to 1914 . By Wong Lin Ken . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 1965 , xii, 302 , Tables, Illustrations, Appendices, Bibliography, Index. $6.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1966 1966 BOOK REVIEWS 369 western Malaya...

...Gordon P. Means Our Tropical Possessions in Malayan India . By John Cameron . Kuala Lumpur : Oxford University Press , 1965 . xii, 408 . Appendices, n.p. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1966 1966 BOOK REVIEWS 793 as was once thought, obstinately opposed...

...Amry Vandenbosch Malayan and Indonesian Studies; Essays presented to Sir Richard Winstedt on his eighty-fifth birthday . Edited by John Bastin and R. Roolvink . Oxford : The Clarendon Press , 1964 . xii, 357 . Plates, Index. $13.45. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...Felix M. Keesing Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1952 1952 First Malayan Republic. The Story of the Philippines . By George A. Malcolm . Boston : The Christopher Publishing House , 1951 . 460 p. $5.00. 404 FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY ances of nature...

...Hildred Geertz Essays on Indonesian and Malayan History . By John Bastin . Singapore : Eastern Universities Press, Ltd. , 1961 . vi , 202 . Appendix, Bibliography. $4.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 314 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES cation of the course...

... an excellent bibliographical note which reflects his long experience with and knowledge of source material available in the files of OCMH and the World War II Records Center. JOHN W. KILLIGREW SUNY College at Broc\port Readings in Malayan Economics. Edited by T. H. SILCOCK. Singapore: Eastern Universities...

...R. S. Milne Malayan Federalism, 1945–1963: A Study of Federal Problems in a Plural Society . By B. Simandjuntak . Kuala Lumpur : Oxford University Press , 1969 . xi, 347 pp. Bibliography, Index, $11.75. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1971 1971 BOOK REVIEWS 511...

..., Maps and Sketches, Appendixes, Bibliographical Note. $38.00 Sir Frank Swettenham's Malayan Journals, 1874–1876 . Edited By P. L. Burns and C. D. Cowan . Kuala Lumpur : Oxford University Press , Oxford in Asia Historical Reprints, 1975 . xxxiv, 347 pp. Plates, Maps and Sketches, Appendixes...

...Donn V. Hart A Critical and Annotated Bibliography of Philippine, Indonesian and other Malayan Folklore . Compiled By Gabriel A. Bernardo , Edited by Francisco Demetrio y Radaza , S. J. Cagayan de Oro City [Philippines] : Xavier University , 1972 . 150 pp. Indexes, Bibliographies...

.... Nevertheless, they are useful in providing an additional perspective on the problems of Burman-Karen relations in the postindependence period of Burma. MAUNG MAUNG GYI Bates College British Policy and Malay Politics during the Malayan Union Experiment, 1942 1948. By A. J. STOCKWELL. Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian...

...Wang Gungwu Notes on the History of Malayan Chinese New Literature 1920–1942 . By Fang Xiu . Translated by Angus W. McDonald Jr . Tokyo : The Centre for East Asian Cultural Studies (East Asian Cultural Studies Series No. 18), 1977 , xv, 352 pp. Notes, Index, Glossary. $27.60...

... is a volumetric measure for padi equal to approximately 5 1/3 lbs. 33 See, for example, despatch, Colonial Office to Governor, 17 May 1922, in HCO 541/1922. VOL. XXXIX, No. 4 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES AUGUST 1980 The Impact of Railroads on The Malayan Economy, 1874 1941 AMARJIT KAUR Tiis study...

...Robert O. Tilman Completing a Stewardship: The Malayan Civil Service, 1942–1957 . By Robert Heussler . Westport, Conn. : Greenwood , 1983 . (Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies, no. 15). xvii, 240 pp. Notes, Index, Bibliography, Plates, Maps. $37.50. Copyright ©...

...J. Norman Parmer British Rule in Malaya: The Malayan Civil Service and Its Predecessors, 1867–1942 . By Robert Heussler . Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press (Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies, no. 6), 1981 . xx, 356 pp. Map, Photographs, Bibliography, Index. $37.50...

...Lennox A. Mills Three Reports on the Malayan Problem . By David R. Rees-Williams , Tan Cheng Lock , S. S. Awbery and F. W. Dalley . New York : International Secretariat Institute of Pacific Relations , mimeographed, 1949 . 46 p. 50¢. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...Craig A. Lockard The Malayan Union Controversy, 1942–1948 . By Albert Lau . Singapore : Oxford University Press , 1991 . xv, 308 pp. $42.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 500 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES from others and is typically masked...

...Craig A. Lockard Hearts and Minds in Guerrilla Warfare: The Malayan Emergency, 1948–1960 . By Richard Stubbs . Singapore : Oxford University Press , 1989 . 286 pp. $29.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 709 approach...

...Richard Stubbs The Malayan Emergency: The Commonwealth's Wars 1948–1966 . By Robert Jackson . London : Routledge , 1991 . vii, 156 pp. $64.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 994 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES investment, or tribal peoples. Finally...

...Ian Black British Relations with the Malay Rulers from Decentralization to Malayan Independence, 1930–1957 . By Simon C. Smith . Kuala Lumpur : Oxford University Press , 1995 . x, 232 pp. $59.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 BOOK REVIEWS...