...Ralph A. Norem The Chinese constitution: a study of forty years of constitution-making in China . By Pan Wei-tung . Washington, D. C : Institute of Chinese Culture , 1946 . xi, 327 p. $4.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1946 1946 BOOK REVIEWS 87 The Chinese...

... of the Association, to meet with them at their March 28,1955 meeting in Washington, D. C , and to discuss the possibility of expanding the Association's area of interest to include South Asia. As a result of this meeting the Directors decided to propose amendments to the Constitution at the next meeting which would...

... to reevaluate certain premises on the early nature of parliamentary government under the Meiji Constitution. To facilitate the discussion, however, we should first present the traditional views on the development of parliamentary government prior to and soon after the promulgation of the Meiji Constitution...

...John M. Maki Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1965 1965 1 Robert Ward's article, “The Commission on the Constitution and Prospects for Constitutional Change in Japan,” appears on pp. 401–429. 2 The Commission's Secretariat also published more than a hundred...

... constitution. Among these were: national emergencies and emergency powers, political parties, elections, and national referenda. A proposal that it be constitutionally required that the internal organization and functioning of political parties accord with democratic principles gained wide support. Suggestions...

...Stanley A. Kochanek India's Constitution . By M. V. Pylee . New York : Asia Publishing House , 1962 . vii , 396 . Maps. $6.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1963 1963 146 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES planned programs presented intelligently by properly trained...

...Theodore McNelly Court and Constitution in Japan; Selected Supreme Court Decisions, 1948–60 . By John M. Maki . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 1964 . xlvi, 445 . Appendix, Bibliography, Index. $9.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 620 JOURNAL...

...Myron Weiner Union-State Relations In India . By K. Santhanam . New York : Asia Publishing House , 1961 . Under the auspices of the Indian Institute of Public Administration, viii, 71 . $3.25. A Comparative Study of the Indian Constitution. Vol. I: General Principles...

...Hyman Kublin The Making of the Meiji Constitution, the Oligarchs and the Constitutional Development of Japan, 1868–1891 . By George M. Beckmann . Lawrence, Kansas : University of Kansas Press , 1957 . 158 , Bibliography, Index. Cloth: $3.00; paper: $2.50. Copyright © The Association...

... to preserve general peace. This book also clearly reveals the impressive and enormous structure of law that has been erected on the foundation of the constitution. Throughout the first volume there are hundreds of references to laws involving such widely disparate but constitutionally important matters...

...Kenneth W. Jones The Government of India and Reform: Policies towards Politics and the Constitution, 1916–1921 . By P. G. Robb . London : Oxford University Press (School of Oriental and African Studies, London Oriental Series, Vol. 32), 1976 . xiv , 379 pp. Appendixes, References...

...Richard Finn The Birth of Japan's Postwar Constitution . By Koseki Shoichi edited and translated by Ray A. Moore . Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press , 1997 . $55.00(cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 229 consumer by making her...

...Mark Elliott The Taiji Government and the Rise of the Warrior State: The Formation of the Qing Imperial Constitution . By Lhamsuren Munkh-Erdene . Leiden : Brill , 2022 . xviii, 549 pp. ISBN: 9789004468870 . © 2023 Association for Asian Studies 2023 One can read Lhamsuren...

... device in the book is the notion of the “supra-constitution,” a set of more enduring principles or cultural dispositions that exist apart from any written document, and which explain the transience of Thai constitutions (some twenty to date). Here the book expands on Nidhi Eoseewong's seminal article...

...William W. Reinhardt The British Labour Party and the Indian Independence Movement, 1917–1939 . By Mesbahuddin Ahmed . New York : Envoy Press , 1986 . x, 215 pp. $30.00. Holding India to the Empire: The British Conservative Party and the 1935 Constitution . By Carl Bridge...

...A. J. Harding The Constitution of Malaysia: Its Development, 1957–1977 . Edited by Tun Mohamed Suffian , H. P. Lee , and F. A. Trindade . Kuala Lumpur : Oxford University Press , 1978 . xxiii, 425 pp. Tables, Index. $26.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1980...

...J. Mark Ramseyer Japan's Commission on the Constitution: The Final Report . Translated and edited by John M. Maki . Seattle : University of Washington Press (Asian Law Series, No. 7), 1981 . 424 pp. Introduction, Appendix, Biographical Data on Commissioners, Selected Bibliography, Index...

... that in 1947 the prerogative of determining questions of constitutionality shifted from the oligarchy to the courts. At the same time, the courts replaced professors as authoritative expounders of the Constitution. Only two pieces of legislation have been found unconstitutional by the Supreme Court...

...George H. Gadbois, Jr A Comparative Study of the Indian Constitution . By Sirdar Dhirendra Kumar Sen . New Delhi : David McKay Company , 1966 – 1967 . Two Volumes. Vol. I : xxii , 382 pp. Vol. II: xlvi , 743 pp. Appendices, Index, Tables. Vol. I $7.50, Vol. II $8.75. Copyright ©...

...Norman D. Palmer The Indian Constitution: Cornerstone of a Nation . By Granville Austin . Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1966 . xvii, 390 pp. Appendices, Bibliography, Index. $7.20. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1967 1967 BOOK REVIEWS 719 It is quite likely...