...Xiaobing Li A Violent Peace: Race, U.S. Militarism, and Cultures of Democratization in Cold War Asia and the Pacific . By Christine Hong . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 2020 . xi, 302 pp. ISBN: 9781503612914 (paper). Arc of Containment: Britain, the United States...

...James E. Nickum Science, Politics, and the Agricultural Revolution in Asia . Edited by Robert S. Anderson , Paul R. Brass , Edwin Levy , and Barrie M. Morrison . Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press , 1982 . xix, 512 pp. $35. Food Security: Theory, Policy, and Perspectives from Asia...

...Akbar S. Ahmed BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER ASIA 1249 the conclusions that emerge from his careful comparative analysis are well presented and supportive of his overall argument. Although his book echoes other scholarship (his debt to Ernest Young is particularly evident), McCord builds...

...Jack Meng-Tat Chia Theravada Traditions: Buddhist Ritual Cultures in Contemporary Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka . By John Clifford Holt . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2017 . xi, 391 pp. ISBN: 9780824867805 (cloth). Seeking Śākyamuni: South Asia in the Formation...

...Clarence Hendershot Social forces in Southeast Asia . By Cora DuBois . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 1949 . 78 p. $2.00. Southeast Asia. Crossroad of religions . By Kenneth Perry Landon . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1949 . ix, 215 p. $4.00...

...Allan B. Cole American empire in Asia? . By Albert Viton . New York : The John Day Company , 1943 . x., 308 p. $3.00. Americas role in Asia . By Harry Paxton Howard . New York : Howell, Soskin, Publishers, Inc. , 1943 . 463 p. $3.00. Copyright © The Association...

... in other areas of Southeast Asia confronted by similar problems, and he suggests the need, to be met perhaps through a broadly representative regional council, for a pooling of both experience and scientific manpower. The value of the book is enhanced by a number of photographs, by maps, and by a series...

... to undergraduate students in survey courses on East Asian history. Urbansky's book could satisfy the curiosity of readers interested in accounts on the Sino-Russian border. Making Borders in Modern East Asia: The Tumen River Demarcation . By Nianshen Song . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2019...

...Rebecca S. Hall Contemporary Funeral Rituals of Sa'dan Toraja: From Aluk Todolo to “New” Religions . By Michaela Budiman . Prague : Karolinum Press , 2013 . 170 pp. ISBN: 9788024622286 (paper). Buddhist Funeral Cultures of Southeast Asia and China . Edited by Paul...

... Britain had in Burma and Malaya, the rise of the Chakri Dynasty in Thailand, and the way in which the new treaty system initiated by King Mongkut saved Thailand from being Western-dominated. The student concerned with modern Southeast Asia will find the record in those closing chapters which deal...

...John F. Cady Collective Defense in South East Asia: The Manila Treaty and Its Implications . Report by a Chatham House Study Group. London and New York : The Royal Institute of International Affairs , 1956 . xiv, 197 . Appendices, Maps. $2.25 (paper). Southeast Asia in Perspective...

...Alvin Z. Rubinstein Toward Economic Cooperation in Asia: The United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East . By David Wightman . New Haven and London : Yale University Press , 1963 . xii , 400 . Appendices, Bibliography, Index. $7.50 Copyright © Association for Asian...

...John M. Maki Modern Political Systems: Asia . Edited by Robert E. Ward and Roy C. Macridis . Englewood Cliffs : Prentice-Hall Inc. , 1963 . 482 . Bibliography; Maps, Tables. $8.95. Major Governments of Asia . Edited by George McT. Kahin . Ithaca : Cornell University Press...

...David H. Kornhauser Japan: Industrial Power of Asia . By Robert B. Hall Jr. , 1963 . 127 . The Himalayan Kingdoms: Bhutan, Sikkim and Nepal . By Pradyumna P. Karan and William M. Jenkins Jr. , 1963 . 144 . Russo-Chinese Borderlands . By W. A. Douglas Jackson . 1962...

...Robert I. Crane South Asia: A Bibliography for Undergraduate Libraries . Compiled by Louis A. Jacob , Stephen N. Hay , Edith Ehrman , Kathleen Hale , and Ward Morehouse . Williamsport : Bro-Dart Publishing Company , 1970 . xvi, 103 pp. Index. $8.95. Southeast Asia: A Bibliography...

...Charles Morrison Peoples of South Asia . By Clarence Maloney . New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc. , 1974 . v, 584 pp. Index. $11.50 South Asia: Seven Community Profiles . Edited by Clarence Maloney . New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc. , 1974 . xiv, 304 pp...

...Chae-Jin Lee Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1977 1977 Asia and the Road Ahead: Issues for the Major Powers . By Robert A. Scalapino . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1975 . x, 337 pp. Bibliographic Essay, Index. $10.95 Three and a Half Powers...

... lowlands” of Southeast Asia “by 1825 … [each] supported one incontestably dominant complex,” yet that “in the Chaophraya basin … as late as 1800 … perhaps [only] half the population … would identify themselves as Siamese” (pp. 29–30). Of course the Siamese were the most dominant there, but if something...

...Jung Sun Park Korean Diaspora: Central Asia, Northeast Asia, and North America . Edited by Hesung Chun Koh . New Haven, Conn. : East Rock Institute , 2008 . 491 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 This book is a large-scale, ambitious study...

...Laurence Stifel Economic Development in Southeast Asia: The Chinese Dimension . By Yuan-li Wu and Chun-hsi Wu . Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press , 1980 . Publication Series no. 209. xiii, 219 pp. Notes, Index, Appendixes, Tables, Figures. $8.95 (paper). The Supply...