... to stimulate new research directions. ELIZABETH J. PERRY University of Washington The Science of Society: Toward an Understanding of the Life and Work of Karl August Wittfogel. By G. L. ULMEN. The Hague, Paris, and New York: Mouton Publishers, 1978. xxviii, 747 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Index. N.p.l. Over...

...John Street Researches in Altaic Languages. Papers Read at the 14th Meeting of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference Held in Szeged [Hungary], August 22–28, 1971 . Edited By Louis Ligeti . Budapest : Akademiai Kiado , Bibliotheca Orientalis Hungarica 20, 1975 . 338 pp. $20.00...

...Rhoads Murphey Urbanization in Asia and the Far East. Proceedings of the Joint UN/Unesco Seminar on Urbanization in the ECAFE Region, Bangkok, August 8–18, 1956 . Edited by Philip M. Hauser . Calcutta : UNESCO , 1957 . 286 . Annexes, (paper) Copyright © The Association for Asian...

..., Partition, and Independence, 8 July–15 August 1947 . Edited by Nicholas Mansergh . London : Her Majesty's Stationery Office , 1981 (Vol. 10), 1982 (Vol. 11), and 1983 (Vol. 12). Vol. 10: cxxvi, 1,077 pp. Illustrations, Glossary, Indexes. £ 60. Vol. 11: cxxiv, 1,023 pp. Illustrations, Glossary...

...Thomas A. Rusch Wavell the Viceroy's Journal . Edited by Penderel Moon . London : Oxford University Press , 1973 . xi, 528 pp. Appendix, Index. £8.00 The Transfer of Power 1942–7. Volume IV: The Bengal Famine and the Viceroyalty 15 June 1943–31 August 1944 . Edited by Nicholas...

... Confidential Correspondence , Consul Sinclair to Stewart R. W. , July (n.d.), 1878 , XXIII, 133 . 27 Confidential Correspondence , Stewart R. W. to Consul Sinclair, August 2, 1878 , XXIII, 136 . 28 The term was used by both Wolfe and Sinclair to describe the persons...

...Susan Mann Jones Modern Chinese Economic History: Proceedings of the Conference on Modern Chinese Economic History, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, August 26–29, 1977 . Edited by Chi-ming Hou and Tzong-shian Yu . Taipei : Institute of Economics , 1979 . xvi, 678 pp...

...David Kopf The Letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay. Volume III: January 1834–August 1841 . Edited by Thomas Pinney . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1976 . xiv, 391 pp. Frontispiece, Index. $42.50 Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1978 1978 BOOK...

...Richard Danzig Abstract On August 20th, 1917, Edwin Montagu declared in the House of Commons that: “the policy of His Majesty's Government … is that of the … gradual development of self-governing institutions with a view to the progressive realization of responsible government in India...

...Stein Tønnesson Occupation and Revolution: China and the Vietnamese August Revolution of 1945 . By Peter Worthing . Berkeley : Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley , 2001 . 202 pp. $15.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

... signs of their group identity—distinctive headgear and hairstyle—the Sikhs, as they have consolidated their own polity, have given these greater emphasis. 6 Clauses 3 (3) and 4 (2); italics added. 7 Gazette of India Extraordinary, New Delhi, Sunday 17 August 1947, The Reports...

...Leonard A. Gordon The Transfer of Power 1942–47. Volume VI: The Post-War Phase: New Moves by the Labour Government, 1 August 1945–22 March 1946. Volume VII: The Cabinet Mission, 23 March–29 June 1946 . Edited by Nicholas Mansergh . London : Her Majesty's Stationery Office , 1976 (Vol. VI...

...Huynh Kim Khanh Abstract The August Revolution of 1945 constituted the most important turning-point in recent Vietnamese history.It formally marked the end of French colonialism in Vietnam and the beginning of Vietnamese national independence. It also marked the end of the Confucianist-oriented...

...Willard Johnson Abstract A Tragic accident took the life of Richard Hugh Robinson on August 6, 1970, thereby depriving the world of one of its finest scholars of Buddhism and Indo-Asian studies. Richard's degree was in Classical Chinese, but as the years passed he became master of every canonical...

... that, in lieu of other memorials, contributions be made in his name to Education About Asia, c/o Association for Asian Studies, 1021 East Huron Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104. LUCIEN ELLINGTON University of Tennessee at Chattanooga STEVEN GRAW (August 3, 1946 September 21, 2003) The Cornell University...

... a partial revolution from above—characterized by the Vietnamization (Viet Nam hoa) of nearly all French-imposed institutions—and regained territorial unification for Viet-Nam, only to see the fruits reaped by Ho Chi Minh in August 1945. Kim's Empire of Viet-Nam was one side of the Vietnamese nationalist...