...Harry Blair Caste, Faction, and Party in Indian Politics. Vol. 1: Faction and Party. Vol. 2: Election Studies . By Paul R. Brass . Delhi : Chanakya Publications , 1984 and 1985 . ix, 339 pp.: xi, 325 pp. Maps. Rs. 150 and 180. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1986...

...Steven A. Hoffmann Abstract The typical internal structure of factions in a particular culture strongly influences the ability of factions to resolve conflict among themselves. This hypothesis is verified by examination of faction structure in India as contrasted to that in Japan. The argument...

...Reinhold Löffler Faction and Conversion in a Plural Society: Religious Alignments in the Hindu Kush . By Robert Leroy Canfield . Ann Arbor : Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan (Anthropological Papers, No. 50), 1973 . x, 142 pp. Figures, Tables, Appendix, Bibliography. $3.00...

...K. G. Machado Abstract In some areas of the Philippines, three important and interrelated changes in the traditional pattern of local leadership recruitment and faction organization had been taking place for several decades. Notables from old leading families were being replaced in positions...

...Kathryn Lowry Blood and History in China: The Donglin Faction and Its Repression, 1620–1627 . By John W. Dardess . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2002 . vii , 232 pp. $50.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2007 2007...

...James B. Crowley Abstract In recent years, the influence of the military on modern Japanese history has been the subject of several excellent analyses.1 Since these studies have sought to explain the major events of the prewar period, they concentrated more on the significance of army factionalism...

...” [”Consideration of Illegitimacy in Korea”], Chōsen gakuhō , No. 5 (Oct. 1953), p. 16. This article by a famous student of Korea stresses the thesis that the philosophical study of Chu Hsi in Korea did not come of age until the middle of the 16th century. 28 Any extensive consideration of Yi factionalism...

...Jean Grossholtz Leaders, Factions and Parties: the Structure of Philippine Politics . By Carl Lande . New Haven : Yale University , Southeast Asia Studies, Monograph Series No. 6, 1965 . 148 pp. n.p. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1966 1966 548 JOURNAL...

...Harold A. Gould Factional Politics in an Indian State: the Congress Party in Uttar Pradesh . By Paul R. Brass . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1965 . xiv, 262 , Tables, Figures, Appendix, Bibliography, Index. $6.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...B. C. Koh The North Korean Communist Leadership, 1945–1965: A Study of Factionalism and Political Consolidation . By Koon Woo Nam . Alabama : The University of Alabama Press , 1974 . x, 214 pp. Bibliography, Index. $7.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1975 1975...

...Stephen Butts China's Higher Leadership in the Socialist Transition . By Paul Wong . New York : Free Press , 1976 . 310 pp. Bibliography, Indexes. $16.95 Factional and Coalition Politics in China: The Cultural Revolution and Its Aftermath . By Y. C. Chang . New York : Praeger...

...Lynn White, III Red Guard Factionalism and the Cultural Revolution in Guangzhou (Canton) . By Stanley Rosen . Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press , 1982 . xv, 320 pp. Maps, Figures, Tables, Bibliography, Index. $32.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1983 1983 936...

...J. Bruce Jacobs Abstract In administrative districts throughout Taiwan, political factions resembling political machines compete for political offices and the attendant rewards of power, profit, and prestige. The forces that unite a faction and divide it from its opponent(s), however, vary from...

...Andrew J. Nathan Rebellion and Factionalism in a Chinese Province: Zhejiang, 1966–1976 . By Keith Forster . Armonk, N.Y. : M. E. Sharpe , 1990 . Studies on Contemporary China, xiii, 338 pp. $45.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 384 THE JOURNAL...

...Kenneth Lieberthal Politics at Mao's Court: Gao Gang and Party Factionalism in the Early 1950s . By Frederick Teiwes . Armonk, N.Y., London : M. E. Sharpe, Inc. , 1991 . xvi, 326 pp. $45.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA...

...Hilde De Weerdt Divided by a Common Language: Factional Conflict in Late Northern Song China . By Ari Daniel Levine . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2008 . xvi , 273 pp. $55.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 How and why did...

...Andrew G. Walder Abstract A generation of research on red guard politics has traced the origins of its debilitating factionalism to social and political divisions that were well established among students on the eve of the Cultural Revolution. These social interpretations impute political motives...

...Parks M. Coble Radicalism and Its Demise: The Chinese Nationalist Party, Factionalism, and Local Elites in Jiangsu Province, 1924–1931 . By Bradley K. Geisert . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , Center for Chinese Studies, 2001 . v, 357 pp. $50.00 (cloth). Copyright ©...

...Key P. Yang; Gregory Henderson Abstract An outline of the history of Confucianism in the Three Kingdoms, Silla, Koryŏ, and Yi periods and a consideration of certain political and factional problems of Confucianism in Korea occupied Part I of the present “Outline History.” Part II will now attempt...

... of military control. This study of Nanjing, a key provincial capital that experienced prolonged factional conflict, yields a new explanation: the conflicts were prolonged precisely because they could not be characterized as pitting “conservatives” against “radicals”, making it difficult for central officials...