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... Out in CBI ( Washington, D. C. , 1959 ), p. 71 . 12 Ibid. NOTES WHO FOUGHT THE JAPANESE IN HUNAN? SOME VIEWS OF CHINA'S WAR EFFORT Warren I. Cohen AMONG the many areas of disagreement that separate American and Chinese Nationalist interpretations of the Second World War, perhaps none...

...John K. Chang Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972 1972 China's Nation-Building Effort. 1927–1937: The Financial and Economic Record . By Arthur N. Young . Financial Adviser to China, 1929–1947. Stanford : Hoover Institution Press , 1971 . xix, 553 pp. Notes...

...Paul H. Clyde The China Tangle: The American Effort in China from Pearl Harbor to the Marshall Mission . By Herbert Feis . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1953 . x, 445 . $6.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1954 1954 332 FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY be reached...

...James E. Sheridan The Strenuous Decade: China's Nation-Building Efforts, 1927–1937 . Edited by Paul K. T. Sih . New York : St. John's University Press , 1970 . xxi, 385 pp. Comments, Notes, Contributors, Index. $10.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1971 1971...

...Marcia J. Frost Contraceptive Use and Fertility in India: A Case Study of Gujarat . By Pravin Visaria , Leela Visaria , and Anrudh Jain . New Delhi : Sage , 1995 . 264 pp. $35.00 (cloth). Regulating Reproduction in India's Population: Efforts, Results, and Recommendations...

...Shinji Takagi Banking Policy in Japan: American Efforts at Reform During the Occupation . By William M. Tsutsui . Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies Series. New York : Routledge , 1988 . xiv, 156 pp. $59.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989...

...Mary C. Wright Abstract The accession to power of the Kuomintang in 1927–1928 marked the end of the era in which revolutionary strains had been dominant in the party's program and the beginning of one of the most interesting and instructive of the many efforts in history to make a revolution...

...Elizabeth J. Perry Abstract Focusing on the Chinese Communists' mobilizational efforts at the Anyuan coal mine in the early 1920s, the author argues for reconsidering a sometimes forgotten part of Chinese revolutionary history. At Anyuan, idealistic young Communist cadres led a highly successful...

... of Pennsylvania in 1947 with substantial support from the Carnegie Corporation. This program comprised a balance of humanistic and social science studies supported by the teaching of the appropriate classical and modern languages of South Asia as tools of research. Concerted efforts were early made to acquire...

... to their classical heritage. This new syncretism, called tao-hsüeh , was immediately vulnerable as the vain, unnecessary and fundamentally unacceptable effort of a few men to monopolize the true tao , both to solidify their own philosophical position and to gain political advantages. As the attack on tao-hsüeh...

... of admittedly important subjects: authoritarian governance, organized efforts to bring about systemic change, and the fate of Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate whose latest release from house arrest put Myanmarese politics back in the headlines in November 2010. What is left out of the picture...

...Christopher R. Duncan Abstract This article looks at efforts to revitalize “tradition” (in Indonesian, adat) among the Tobelo people in the eastern Indonesian province of North Maluku in the aftermath of the ethnic and religious violence that swept the region in 1999–2001. It examines how some...

... studies of Liu, however, generally treat his seven-year administration of the island without distinguishing between his efforts along traditional lines and those which required innovations. This is, of course, a perfectly valid approach, but Liu can also be seen as a modernizer. Because this paper...

...Paul R. Brass Abstract In the summer of 1966, Bihar and eastern Uttar Pradesh provinces in India experienced one of the worst and most widespread droughts and crop failures in the history of the region during the twentieth century. Massive local, national, and international relief efforts were...

..., but it is not, of course, a new one. The leaders of Meiji (1868–1912) Japan found it to be the knottiest problem in their efforts to construct a modern state. They needed to exert sufficient central control of local government to assure that their initiatives could be enacted in Japan's villages and that taxes would flow...

... of Therevada Buddhism were united into a national religious system. In recent years, the Thai government has attempted to involve the Buddhist Sangha in efforts to promote economic development among the Thai peasantry and assimilation of tribal peoples into Thai society. While the policies designed...

...Allen S. Whiting Abstract The first major effort of Soviet Russia to win the sympathies of China and to establish direct contact with its government was a manifesto of July 25, 1919. Previously the Bolsheviks had directed their propaganda and diplomatic efforts at the Entente Powers, with only...

...Daromir Rudnyckyj Abstract Malaysia's plans to become a transnational hub for Islamic finance represent an effort to mobilize religion to create new global networks for the circulation of capital. This article first contextualizes such efforts within the broader contours of Malaysia's political...

...-of-staff to Chiang Kai-shek and, in this capacity, directed Nationalist efforts to destroy the Communists. The article concludes by suggesting that Nationalist efforts to impose a “modern,” meaning a unitary and organically centralized, state on what traditionally had been a politically fragmented society...

...Sungyun Lim Abstract This article examines legal decisions in lineage property disputes from the Korean Empire period (1897–1910) to the first two decades of the Japanese colonial rule to trace the effect of Japanese efforts to implement property rights reforms in colonial Korea. Lineage properties...