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...Partha Gangopadhyay Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 Global Establishment: The Political Economy of North/Asian Networks . By David Kowalewski . New York .: St. Martin's Press , 1997 .v, 254 pp. $59.95. BOOK REVIEWS ASIA GENERAL 1107 Global Establishment...

...Richard Barron Parker The Establishment of the Japanese Constitutional System . By Junji Banno . Translated by J. A. A. Stockwin . London and New York : Routledge , 1992 . xv, 250 pp. $55.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 "> BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 721...

... with these neighbors. She was led inexorably by her will to protect her conquest to further and further territorial expansion. The first result of her policy was the establishment of a protectorate over Cambodia in 1863. The next consequence was the annexation of the three remaining provinces of Cochinchina in 1867...

... interested in Chu's interpretation of the Tabsiieh. KWONG-LOI SHUN University of California, Berkeley China's Establishment Intellectuals. Edited by CAROL LEE HAMRIN and TIMOTHY CHEEK. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1986. xix, 266 pp. Foreword, Afterword, Index, About the Contributors. $35.00 (cloth); $14.95...

...K. G. Tregonning A Gambling Style of Government: The Establishment of the Chartered Company's Rule in Sabah, 1878–1915 . By Ian Black . Kuala Lumpur : Oxford University Press , 1983 . x, 254 pp. Preface, Maps, Plates, Bibliography, Index. $26 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian...

..., an example of the construction of adulation. It became a manual, a blueprint for perceiving and portraying Hồ Chí Minh and for establishing a foundation for his cult, which was heavily based on the economy of the gift. Jeffrey Brooks, who studied Stalin's cult of personality and its promulgation...

...Vladimir Tikhonov Establishing a Pluralist Society in Medieval Korea, 918–1170: History, Ideology and Identity in the Koryŏ Dynasty . By Remco E. Breuker . Leiden : Brill , 2010 . xvi, 484 p. $224.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2012 2012 This new book...

... CHINA ESTABLISH A POLITICAL DEMOCRACY? A Critique of Current Analyses of Chinese Political Capabilities MAURICE T. PRICE University of Illinois IS THE immaturity of Western social and political sciences one of the factors responsible for China's fortunes during the past generation and a half...

...Scott Hurley Establishing a Pure Land on Earth: The Foguang Buddhist Perspective on Modernization and Globalization . By Stuart Chandler . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2004 . xvii , 371 pp. $49.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 B O O K R...

... and dissidents. Carol Hamrin and I sought to go beyond Goldman's focus on dissidents to study “establishment intellectuals” by looking at “the motives and means for collaboration, as well as the sources of tension and conflict between leading intellectuals and the top Communist Party leadership” (Hamrin...

... in an ambitious attempt to establish Japanese territory in central Africa. By exploring why and how the crew of the Ukishiro heads to Africa, this article argues that the Ukishiro crew's plans take shape in relation to their drive to eschew Japan's status as an island nation (deislandization) and establish Japan...

...David D. Buck Abstract How to establish and transmit understanding across the boundaries of language, geography, culture, and time lies at the very heart of Asian Studies. Ours is a highly refined form of cross-cultural activity, but one that places the highest value on this understanding...

... Klein and published by Oxford University Press, the library was established by a gift from Oscar L. Tang and Hsin-Mei Agnes Hsu-Tang—a descendant of Ji Yun, chief compiler of the Complete Library of the Four Treasuries ( Siku quanshu ), and of Xu Guangqi, China's “first convert.” After detailing how...

... that surprised many, passed legislation in 1965 establishing a public foundation for the arts and humanities. Accompanying this burst of new interest in the humanities and coming to fruition at the same time is the growth and development of computer-oriented humanistic study. We are witnessing the appearance...

... are demanded to meet labor needs in a complicated, highly industrialized society than would be necessary in a primarily agricultural society. In addition, as the economic levels of a society increase, both the collective societal resources to support a massive higher educational establishment...

...Cornelius J. Kiley Abstract Historicalscholarship in postwar Japan has exhibited a renewed interest in the origins of dynastic rule in Yamato, and the process leading to the establishment of the Yamato rulers as sovereigns of an imperial polity in the seventh century. New theories of dynastic...

... to increase national wealdi and power, established die organization in 1910 because the already existing unity was under attack. Labor organizations and the influx of morally degenerate and subversive Western ideas caused Tanaka to fear army-civilian alienation and national divisiveness. Thus, to achieve...

...Talukder Maniruzzaman Abstract Revolutionary mass upheaval generally weakens the people's respect for authority, law, and discipline; and it brings in its wake social, economic, and political disorders, facilitating the establishment of an authoritarian regime. The French Revolution was based...