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...P.H.C. Account of a Trip to the Countries of Southeast Asia for the Library of Congress, 1952–1953 . By Cecil Hobbs . Data Paper: Number 11 Southeast Asia Program, Department of Far Eastern Studies, Cornell University , 1953 . 89 . Mimeographed. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...William Samolin Account of the T'ù-hü-hún in the History of the Chin Dynasty . Translated and Annotated by Thomas D. Carroll . Institute of East Asiatic Studies, University of California. Chinese Dynastic Histories Translations, No. 4. Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California...

...Ssu-yü Têng BOOK REVIEWS Foreign mud; being an account of the opium, imbroglio at Canton in the 1830's and the Anglo-Chinese war that followed. BY MAURICE COLLIS. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. x, 300 p. $5.00. Old China hands and the Foreign Office. BY NATHAN A. PELCOVITS. New York: Published...

... of the steps taken since the early colonial years to remove the shackles of despotic social systems from the peoples of Southeast Asia. THOMAS E. ENNIS West Virginia University Fijian village: an anthropologist's account of Fijian institutions, ethics, and personalities. BY BUELL QUAIN. Chicago: University...

.... Given the dearth of currently available popular accounts, Robinson's slim volume The Indus takes on potentially outsized significance. Robinson is a prolific author of nonfiction books with thematic foci on biography, ancient writing systems, and South Asian history, and The Indus is pitched...

...Freeland K. Abbott Horned Moon: An Account of a Journey through Pakistan, Kashmir and Afghanistan . By Ian Stephens . Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 1955 . ix, 288 . Plates, Appendices, Index. $5.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1956 1956 638 FAR...

...Kurt Steiner Japan—Land and Men. An Account of the Japanese Land Reform Program—1945–51 . By Laurence I. Hewes Jr. , Ames : Iowa State College Press , 1955 . ix, 154 . Bibliography, Maps, Illustrations. $4.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1956 1956 1...

...Feng Chia-sheng 324 THE FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY brings them into focus and suggests the general direction in which a solution is likely to be found. University of Connecticut E. G. BURROWS Venetian adventurer: being an account of the life and times and of the book of Messer Marco Polo. BY HENRY H...

...Arthur F. Wright China: the land and the people ., By Gerald F. Winfield . New York : William Sloane Associates, Inc. , 1948 . 437 p. $5.00. Changing China: a factual account of China as it is and as it was . By Harrison Forman . New York : Crown Publishers , 1948 . 337 p...

...Brijen K. Gupta How the British Occupied Bengal: A Corrected Account of the 1755–1765 Events . By Ram Gopal . New York : Asia Publishing House , 1964 . vi, 373. Appendix, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $9.00. British Rule in India; An Assessment . By Ram Gopal . New York : Asia...

...Holden Furber; Kristof Glamann Abstract We present below, accompanied by a translation into English, the Danish text of an eye-witness account of Robert Clive's victory at Plassey which, to the best of our knowledge, has not previously been noticed. Although this account does not significantly...

... of southern China, Ishwardas's text runs close to 400 pages and was patronized by a prominent stratum of Bombay's Gujarati-speaking commercial and bureaucratic elite. The primary intervention in this article is to analyze Ishwardas's account as a neglected relic of vernacular capitalism and vernacular...

...Robert I. Crane Britain in India. An Account of British Rule in the Indian Subcontinent . By R. P. Masani . London : Oxford University Press , 1960 , xv, 278 . Illustrated, Index. $4.00 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1962 1962 252 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Arlene B. Neher “The Tragedy of Wanit”: A Japanese Account of Wartime Thai Politics . Edited by Benjamin A. Batson and Shimizu Hajime . Singapore : The National University of Singapore, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Special Publications Series No. 1 . 1990 . xi, 148 pp...

...David R. Knechtges Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1978 1978 Shih-shuo Hsin-yü: A New Account of Tales of the World . By Liu I-Ch'ing , with commentary by Llu Chün; translated and annotated by Richard B. Mather . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 1976...

... at which it was theoretically directed, the most serious weaknesses of this course are its dour and unremitting seriousness, its lack of innovative concepts, its excessively traditional historical emphases, and its utter impersonality. GRANT K. GOODMAN University ofKansas Japanese Linked Poetry: An Account...

... Man: A Biographical Account of a Lao Villager . By Fred Branfman . Edited with an Introduction by Joel M. Halpern and James A. Hafner . Amherst : University of Massachusetts at Amherst, International Area Studies Program (Asia Studies Committee Occasional Papers Series No. 4), 1979 . iv , 49...

...William S. Turley Village at War: An Account of Revolution in Vietnam . By James Walker Trullinger Jr . Foreword by Eugene J. McCarthy. New York : Longman , 1980 . xx , 235 pp. Bibliography, Index. $17.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1981 1981 654 JOURNAL...

... geography of Shanghai (which serves as the principal setting for her account) and other cities. In the second half of the book, Bergere focuses on the Chinese bourgeoisie's political ventures. Here she follows the conventional political chronology surveying the revolution of 1911, the restoration of Yuan...

...Edwin E. Moise Lost Victory: A Firsthand Account of America's Sixteen-Year Involvement in Vietnam . By William Colby with James McCargar . Chicago : Contemporary Books , 1989 . 438 pp. $22.95. Vietnam at War: The History, 1946–1975 . Phillip B. Davidson . Novato, CA...