...Daniel Burton-Rose The King's Harvest: A Political Ecology of China from the First Farmers to the First Empire . By Brian Lander . New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 2021 . xiv, 300 pp. ISBN: 9780300255089 . © 2023 Association for Asian Studies 2023 As the scale...

...Norton S. Ginsburg North Borneo, The First Ten Years, 1946–56 . By M. H. Baker . Singapore : Malaya Publishing House Limited , 1962 . xiii , 153 . M $6.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 490 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES finally, the contemporary position...

... to reevaluate certain premises on the early nature of parliamentary government under the Meiji Constitution. To facilitate the discussion, however, we should first present the traditional views on the development of parliamentary government prior to and soon after the promulgation of the Meiji Constitution...

...Leon Hurvitz A First Zen Reader . Compiled and Translated by Trevor Leggett . Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, Japan : Charles E. Tuttle Company , 1960 . 236 . Illustrated. $3.75. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1961 1961 532 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES ized Sanskrit...

...Sidney Chang Wo-te ch'ien pan-sheng (My First Half Life) . By Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi . Hong Kong : Went'ung Book Co. , 1964 . 3v., 542 . Illustrations. H. K. $6.60. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1966 1966 758 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES only intensify...

... to be done to prepare the way for a new synthesis worthy to replace Tyler Dennett's classic work. ROBERT S. SCHWANTES The Asia Foundation San Francisco The War in the Pacific; Strategy and Command: The First Two Years. By Louis MORTON. Washington, D. C : Office of the Chief of Military History, Department...

...Theodore Herman Hong Kong: Report for the Year 1962 . Hong Kong : Government Press , 1963 . xiv , 467 . Illustrations, Maps, Appendices. U.S. $4.50. University of Hong Kong; The First 50 Years, 1911–1961 . Edited by Brian Harrison . Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press...

...B. G. Gokhale Baji Rao the First, The Great Peshwa . By C. K. Srinivasan . New York : Asia Publishing House , 1961 . XV, 152 . $5.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1962 1962 576 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES of these assumptions is unreasonable; yet I, for one...

...Herbert J. Wood The First Englishman in Japan: The Story of Will Adams . By Philip G. Rogers . London : Harvill Press , 1956 . xvi, 144 . Foreword, Map, Illustration, Bibliography, Index. 12s. 6d. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1958 1958 BOOK REVIEWS 291...

...John Musgrave The Union of Burma: A Study of the First Years of Independence . By Hugh Tinker . New York : Oxford University Press , 1957 . xiv, 424 . Maps, Bibliography, Index. $6.75. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1958 1958 BOOK REVIEWS 325 maintenance...

...Richard A. Pierce The Great Siberian Migration. Government and Peasant in Resettlement from Emancipation to the First World War . By Donald W. Treadgold . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1957 , xiii, 278 , Maps, Bibliography, Illustrations, Index. $5.00. The Soviet Far...

... of these tables, membership is considered to be total membership minus associate members. News of the Profession Prepared by ROBERT I. CRANE The First Ten Years of the Association for Asian Studies, 1948-58 (Compiled by Mrs. Victoria G. Harper, Manager, and Professor Robert E. Ward, Secretary pro tern...

...Josef Silverstein Last and First in Burma, 1941–48 . By Maurice Collis . London : Faber and Faber Ltd. , 1956 . 291 . Chronology, Index, Map. 30s. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1956 1956 158 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES ter Five. Abueva was one of the first...

...Mark Mancall NEWS OF THE PROFESSION The Twenty-First Party Congress and Soviet Orientalogy Contributed by Mark Mancall In his speech "On the Control Figures for the munism is the further development of Marxist- Development of the Economy of the USSR from 1959 to 1965," delivered at the TwentyFirst...

...Robert G. Scigliano Viet-Nam: The First Five Years. An International Symposium . Edited and Introduced by Richard W. Lindholm . East Lansing : Michigan State University Press , 1959 . xi, 365 . $6.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1960 1960 220 JOURNAL...

...Robert A. Rupen Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1960 1960 First International Congress of Mongolian Philologists Contributed by Robert A. Rupen University of North Carolina The First International Congress of Mongolian Philologists met in Ulan Bator, capital...

...Robert Van Niel The First Contest for Singapore 1819–1824 . By Harry J. Marks . Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land-, en Volkenkunde, Volume XXVII. The Hague : Martinus Nijhoff , 1959 . 262 . 15 guilders (paper), 18 guilders (cloth). Copyright ©...

...Anatole G. Mazour Nikolai Mikhailovich Prjevalskii, Pervyi issledovatel prirody tsentralnoi Azii (Nicholas Mikhailovich Prjevalskii, First Explorer of the Natural History of Central Asia) . By N. M. Karataev . Moscow , The Academy of Sciences , 1948 . Pp. 281 . $2.25. Copyright ©...

...Alex Wayman The Pramānavārttikam of Dharmakīrti. The First Chapter with the Autocommentary. Text and Critical Notes . By Raniero Gnoli . Roma : Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente , 1960 . Serie Orientale Roma XXIII. xl, 212 . Indices. L. 5.000. (paper) Copyright ©...

...Mary C. Wright China Under Communism: The First Five Years . By Richard L. Walker . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1955 . xv, 403 . $4.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1956 1956 1 Compare W. W. Rostow and collaborators, The Prospects...