...Doug Guthrie The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights . Edited by Joanne R. Bauer and Daniel A. Bell . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1999 . 400 pp. $21.95. East Meets West: Human Rights and Democracy in East Asia . By Daniel A. Bell . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton...

...Meribeth E. Cameron Abstract In may, 1942, The Far Eastern Quarterly published an article on Outstanding books on the Far East published in 1941 . This article indicated twelve books of unusual value published during that year and gave comments on many others which for one reason or another seemed...

...Everett D. Hawkins New cycle in Asia: selected documents on major international developments in the Far East, 1943–1947 . Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Harold R. Isaacs , New York : Macmillan , 1947 . xiii, 212 p. The Stilwell papers . By General Joseph W. Stilwell...

...Eugene P. Boardman The Far East since 1500 . By Paul E. Eckel . New York : Harcourt, Brace , 1947 . xiv, 820 p. Text $5.00, trade $6.75. The Far East . By Paul Hibbert Clyde . New York : Prentice Hall , 1948 . xxi, 862 p. Text $5.75, trade $7.65. Eastern Asia...

...Carl F. Brand The East India Company and the British empire in the Far East . By Marguerite Ever Wilbur . New York : Richard R. Smith , 1945 . xiii, 477 p. $7.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1946 1946 BOOK REVIEWS 93 of the Soviet Union. Let us hope...

...Patricio N. Abinales In the Shadow of Mount Ramelau: The Impact of the Occupation of East Timor . By George J. Aditjondro . Leiden : Indonesian Documentation and Information Centre , 1995 . 96 pp. $11.00. East Timor at the Crossroads: The Forging of a Nation . Edited by Peter...

... . 1992 . “Higashi Ajia ni okeru senka no ryūūtsū (The Circulation of Coin Currency in East Asia).” In Ajia no naka no Nihonshi, san: kaijō no michi (Japanese History in the Context of Asia. Vol. 3, The Seaborne Route ), edited by Yasunori Arano , Masanori Ishii , and Shosuke Murai . Tokyo...

...James A. Matisoff Current Trends in Linguistics: Linguistics in East Asia and South East Asia . Edited by Thomas A. Sebeok . The Hague : Mouton , 1967 . Volume II , xix , 979 pp. Index. 150 Dutch Guilders. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1969 1969 BOOK REVIEWS 835...

... relatively little empirical material. SVEN W. ARNDT Claremont McKenna College Golden Arches East: McDonald's in East Asia. Edited by JAMES L. W A T S O N . Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1998. xvi, 256 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $16.95 (paper). The dubious taste and nutritional value of all fast foods...

... of Petroleum Reserves in South-East Asia: Economic Implications of Evolving Property Rights Arrangements . By Corazon Morales Siddayao . New York : Oxford University Press , 1980 . xix, 240 pp. Bibliography, Index, Appendixes, Tables, Figures. $33. Financial Deepening in ASEAN Countries . By George...

...Janet W. Salaff Ageing in East and South-East Asia . By David R. Phillips . London : Edward Arnold , 1992 . £30.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 698 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES The major thesis is straightforward: proper pricing of natural...

...Philip C. Brown Law and the State in Traditional East Asia: Six Studies on the Sources of East Asian Law . Edited by Brian E. McKnight . Asian Studies at Hawaii 33. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1987 . x, 182 pp. $20.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...: East Asian Security and the United States . By Brad Glosserman and Scott A. Snyder . New York : Columbia University Press , 2015 . xi, 218 pp. ISBN: 9780231171700 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). Japanese Society and the Politics of the North Korean Threat . By Seung...

...Gérard Siary Les écritures de la mission en Extrême-Orient. Le choc de l'arrivée, XVIII e –XX e siècles: De l'attente à la réalité. Chine, Asie du Sud-Est, Japon . Anthologie de textes missionnaires [The Writings of the Mission in the Far East: The Shock of Arrival, the Eighteenth...

...James Carter The Russian Far East and Pacific Asia: Unfulfilled Potential . By Michael J. Bradshaw . Richmond, Surrey : Curzon , 2001 . xiv, 294 pp. $110.00 (cloth). Russia's Far East: A Region at Risk . Edited by Judith Thornton and Charles E. Ziegler . Seattle : National...

...Lawrence Palmer Briggs Hindu colonies in the Far East . By R. C. Majumdar . Calcutta , 1944 . 232 p. 20 plates. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1947 1947 1 Since Buddhism is probably as old as Brahmanism in this region, this reviewer prefers the term...

... , and Masdjid dan Makam doenia Islam. Balai Poestaka Batavia, 1932. 13 G. F. Pijper, “De vrouw en de moskee” in his Fragmenta Islamica . ISLAM IN THE NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES RADEN ABDULKADIR WIDJOJOATMODJO Netherlands Information Bureau New York THE ADVENT OF ISLAM IN INDONESIA UNTIL the arrival...

...Amry Vandenbosch Abstract In the decade between the beginning of the world depression and the Japanese occupation of the islands there appeared a steadily mounting volume of literature on the Netherlands East Indies. This was a reflection of the increasing interest taken by the world...

...Engel Sluiter The Dutch in the Far East: a history of the Dutch commercial and colonial empire . By Albert Hyma . Ann Arbor, Michigan : George Wahr , 1942 . vii. 249 p. $1.75. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1942 1942 98 THE FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY nated Dutch...

...Rupert Emerson The Dutch East Indies: its government, problems, and politics . By Amry Vandenbosch . 2nd ed. revised. Berkeley : University of California Press , 1941 . xii, 446 p. $4.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1941 1941 74 THE FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY...