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...Rupert Emerson BOOK REVIEWS Yonder One World: A Study of Asia and the West By FRANK MORAES. New York: Macmillan, 1958. xiii, 209. $3.75. Two key themes dominate this book in which Frank Moraes, a leading Indian newspaper editor, reflects upon his travels in many countries and his conversations...

...John Philip Emerson 104 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES First, an advanced and matured linguistic theory is the basis for the work and a definite scientific procedure of analysis is followed, thus providing a clear and comprehensive system of arrangement. Second, the phonology which affects the structure...

...Rupert Emerson Abstract Nationalism is an explosive topic at any time, but it is peculiarly explosive at this moment when the restraints of war have been lifted, when peace settlements are in prospect, and when national movements everywhere are again in full flower. The purpose of this paper...

...Rupert Emerson Pioneer settlement in the Asiatic tropics . By Karl J. Pelzer . American Geographical Society special publication No. 29. New York : Institute of Pacific Relations , 1945 . xviii, 290 p. $5.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1946 1946 BOOK...

...Rupert Emerson 74 THE FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY 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. One significant measure of the extent to which Hitler and his hesitant Axis partner...

...Rupert Emerson Siam—land of free men . By H. G. Deignan . (Smithsonian Institution, War Background Studies, Number Eight) Washington : Smithsonian Institution , 1943 . iii, 18 p. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1944 1944 BOOK REVIEWS 183 reforms on indigenous...

...Rupert Emerson Southeastern Asia and the Philippines . (The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 226, March 1943.) Philadelphia : The American Academy of Political and Social Science , 1943 . ix, 100 p. $2.00 paper, $2.50 cloth to nonmembers. Copyright...

...Rupert Emerson Abstract 1958 was the year of collapse for democratic constitutionalism in the new countries. Although some, following the example of Latin America, had already abandoned their brave new experiments, hopes were still high for the rest. The major defectors from the democratic ranks...

...Rupert Emerson The Interplay of East and West . By Barbara Ward . New York : W. W. Norton , 1957 . 152 . Index. $3.50. The Nature of the Non-Western World . By Vera Micheles Dean . New York : New American Library (Mentor Books), 1957 . 284 . Maps, Index. $.50 (paper...

...Rupert Emerson Abstract Sweeping and remoulding Europe in the 19th Century, nationalism has swept on in equally revolutionary guise to remould Asia in the 20th, and is now penetrating Africa. In the study of its impact and development almost every aspect of human society is involved, positively...

...Rupert Emerson Siam Under Rama III . By Walter F. Vella . Locust Valley, N. Y. : J. J. Augustin Incorporated , 1957 . ix, 180 . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1960 1960 468 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES ing from India. After settling north of the Yangtze in what...

...Rupert Emerson BOOK REVIEWS 99 effort to explain past attitudes and actions in the light of current opinions or to prune and reshape her recollections to fit the prejudices of her audience. One has the feeling that, on the contrary, she has made every effort to record things just as they seemed...

...Rupert Emerson BOOK REVIEWS 603 this one certainly did not. Yet the book provides a good insight into some of the thoughts of the peoples of South and Southeast Asia, their difficulties, and their ideals. It is interesting, in the words of the invitation on the dust cover, to "hear Asians speak...

...Chang Chi-yun Abstract Just a century ago, in 1843, Ralph Waldo Emerson read for the first time a complete translation of “The Four Books” of the Chinese classics, copying many sentences from them in his “Journals.” Many of these quota-tions reappear in his later “Works”—and almost every volume...

... Abstract As author of “The Erosion of Democracy” in the November issue, Professor Rupert Emerson of Harvard University was mistakenly identified as Professor of Government at Howard University. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1961 1961 BOOK REVIEWS 253 Other Books Received...

...Ellen van Zyll de Jong The Netherlands Indies and the United States . By Rupert Emerson . Boston : World Peace Foundation , 1942 . 92 p. Cloth 50 ¢. Paper 25 ¢. Asia's captive colonies . By Philip E. Lilienthal and John H. Oakie . New York : Institute of Pacific Relations...