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...Ralph J. D. Braibanti Abstract In a political tradition conditioned to stress personal aspects of government administration rather than rule of law, the scope and the nature of executive power assume great significance. Government under men rather than government under law presumes intentional...

...Norman G. Owen Social Engineering in the Philippines: The Aims, Execution, and Impact of American Colonial Policy, 1900–1913 . By Glenn Anthony May . Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press , 1980 . xxvii, 268 pp. Illustrations, Tables, Bibliography, Index. $27.50. Copyright © Association...

...Merle Goldman Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1979 1979 The Execution of Mayor Yin and Other Stories from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution . By Chen Jo-hsi . Translated from the Chinese by Nancy Ing and Howard Goldblatt. Introduction by Simon Leys...

.... The Planning and Execution of Economic Development. A Nontechnical Guide for Policy Makers and Administrators . By Louis J. Walinsky . New York : McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. , 1963 . xii, 247 . $7.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 BOOK REVIEWS Art of China, Korea...

...Alexander Laban Hinton Abstract Why did you kill? From the first day I arrived in Cambodia to conduct ethnographic research, I had wanted to pose this question to a Khmer Rouge who had executed people during the genocidal Democratic Kampuchea regime (April 1975 to January 1979)- When the Khmer...

... not community studies. We shall then turn successively to the pioneer scientific work on Chinese communities, the social surveys, and to the several published community studies which are largely anthropological in their organization and execution. The second section of this paper deals with the methodology...

... government. A clue to the importance which the Chinese attach to this body is found in the fact that although the new constitution has abandoned the complete separation and independence of the five powers (legislative, executive, judicial, examination, and control) as visualized by Sun Yat-sen, the Control...

... Chinese were, or, if not the people themselves, certainly the work of their fingers, and how valued it was, giving tongue to the comment of Abū Zayd Ḥasan (ca. 916): “Amongst all the creatures of Allah, the Chinese have the cleverest hands at designing and creating things: for the execution of all manner...

... thereafter held the key posts in the council, the executive and the Armed Forces. While deeply conscious of their primary loyalty to the Emperor and anxious to prevent his domination by powerful factions, Sanjo and Iwakura in the last analysis, and with some regret, regarded Satsuma and Chōshū...

...Kama Maclean Abstract Bhagat Singh, the revolutionary nationalist executed by the British in 1931, continues to be an enormously popular figure in contemporary India, immediately recognizable in ubiquitous posters, stickers and placards by his distinctive hat. This article uncovers the story behind...

... when the Empress Dowager Cixi and her conservative supporters recaptured political power, executed or imprisoned many of the reformers, and placed the emperor under permanent house arrest. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 List of References Yongnian Bi . 1986...

... higher levels of the administrative hierarchy. The policy thus circulated was said to become official when the document reached the minister or senior executive official and he affixed the final seal to the document. It is this pattern that is usually viewed as being synonymous with decision-making from...

... by the Congress. After his encounter with Lenin, Roy rose rapidly in the Comintern hierarchy. In 1922 he was elected a candidate member of the Executive Committee of the Communist International (ECCI), and a full voting member in 1924. He became a member of the Presidium in 1924. It was in the year 1926, however...

... most often from Thai colleagues? His answer was: 1) Was the execution of the king in 1782 by the founder of the current dynasty legitimate? If not, why did he do it? 2) Was the death of another king in 1946 an accident, a suicide, or an assassination, and if it was the last one, who did it? Thank...

...John P. Haithcox Abstract The Seventh Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Communist International (ECCI), which was held between November 22 and December 16, 1926, principally to consider the Chinese question, met at a crucial period in the history of the Chinese Communist movement. During...

... Abstract The Journal of Asian Studies wishes to correct the error appearing on pages 467 and 468 which gives an incorrect listing of the Executive Membership of the Chinese Language Teachers Association. The list should read: Kun Chang, University of California; Theodore Chen, University...

...Fred G. Notehelfer Abstract Kōtoku Shūsui is generally known as a socialist and anarchist who participated in the plot against the life of the Meiji emperor in 1910 and was executed for the crime of “high treason” the following year. Such an individual hardly strikes one as a nationalist. Why deal...

... period of the Ming, for example, Yü Chien (1398–1457) suffered the same fate. Having defended Peking and thus saved the realm during the emperor's brief captivity, he was later executed by the same emperor who returned and eventually retook the throne. Of all these ironical tragedies—loyal men condemned...

.... I refer to the great disparity in access to information pertinent to the formulation of foreign policy as between the executive branch of our government on the one hand and Congress along with the news media and the general public on the other. I am not here, of course, to speak in behalf of the AAS...

... with unjustifiably harsh repression and executed or imprisoned persons who had no responsibility for the outbreak. To many ceylonese, the government's actions illustrated a basic failing of colonial rule and starkly demonstrated the need for self-government. The handling of the riots galvanized nationalist sentiment...