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...Wade Chambers Civilizing Mission: Exact Sciences and French Overseas Expansion, 1830–1940 . By Lewis Pyenson . Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins Press , 1993 . xix, 377 pp. $45.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 1220 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...David G. Marr The Undetected Enemy: French and American Miscalculations at Dien Bien Phu, 1953 . By John R. Nordell Jr. College Station : Texas A & M University Press , 1995 . xxviii, 205 pp. $39.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 864...

...David Biggs Imperial Heights: Dalat and the Making and Undoing of French Indochina . By Eric Jennings . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2012 . 374 pp. ISBN: 9780520272699 (paper). Indians in Singapore, 1819–1945: Diaspora in the Colonial City . By Rashesh Rai . New...

...Helen Wallis French Explorers in the Pacific. Volume i. The Eighteenth Century . By John Dunmore . New York : Oxford University Press , 1965 . viii, 356 pp. Maps, Plates. $8.80. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1967 1967 BOOK REVIEWS French Explorers...

...Paul A. Cohen Throne and Mandarins. China's Search for a Policy During the Sino-French Controversy 1880–1885 . By Lloyd Eastman . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1967 . ix, 254 pp. Bibliography, Glossary, Index, Illustration. $6.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...John F. Cady The Mandarin Road to Old Hué: Narratives of Anglo-Vietnamese Diplomacy from the Seventeenth Century to the Eve of the French Conquest . By Alistair Lamb . Hamden : Archon Books , 1970 . 349 pp. Illustrations, Bibliography, Index. $14.50. Copyright © The Association...

...H. J. Jones French Policy in Japan During the Closing Years of the Tokugawa Regime . (Harvard East Asian Mono, 41). By Meron Medzini . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1971 . 239 pp. Index. $4.50 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972 1972 BOOK...

...J. Kim Munholland Abstract Between 1900 and 1908 the Chinese revolutionary leader, Sun Yat-sen, tried to obtain assistance from the French government for his movement to overturn the Manchu dynasty, and at one point he contacted a French army officer who gave the impression that such aid might...

... and a French View Filippiny Mezhdu Pervoy i Vtoroy Mirovymi Voynami. [The Philippines Between the First and Second World Wars] By GEORGI ILYICH LEVINSON. MOSCOW: Izdatel'stvo Vostochnoy Literatury Akademii Nauk USSR, 1958. 289. Indices, Map. 10.60 rubles. Filippiny Vchera i Segodnia. [The Philippines Yesterday...

...Chie Ikeya Colonial Cambodia's “Bad Frenchmen”: The Rise of French Rule and the Life of Thomas Caraman, 1840–87 . By Gregor Muller . New York : Routledge , 2006 . 312 pp. $135.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2007 2007 In Colonial Cambodia's...

...Kelly Pemberton On Becoming an Indian Muslim: French Essays on Aspects of Syncretism . Translated and edited by M. Waseem . New Delhi and Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2003 . xiv, 355 pp. Rs 1040/$35.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 B O O K R E...

...George Dutton The Indochinese Experience of the French and the Americans: Nationalism and Communism in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam . By Arthur J. Dommen . Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 2001 . xiii , 1172 pp. $49.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...Barbara D. Metcalf Abstract With some exaggeration, one could claim that these three biographies, despite their disparate subjects—a seventeenth-century aristocratic lady of the Mughal court, an eighteenth-century French adventurer, and a twentieth-century Muslim intellectual and political figure...

...Robert G. Varady Transport and Communications in India Prior to Steam Locomotion, Volume 1 : Land Transport . In French Studies in South Asian Culture and Society VII . By Jean Deloche , translated by James Walker . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1993 . xvii, 327 pp. $32.00 (cloth...

...Michael Mcintyre Imperial Burdens: Countercolonialism in Former French India . By William F. S. Miles . Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner , 1995 . xi, 201 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 533 (endpiece...

... is that it is probably very close to the truth. DAVID G. G O O D M A N The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign French Policy Towards the Bakufu and Meiji Japan, 1854-95. By R I C H A R D SIMS. Richmond, Surrey: Japan Library-Curzon Press, 1998. vi, 394 pp. $48.00. Richard Sims has revised and published a thesis he...

...Ihab Hassan Critical Terrains: French and British Orientalisms . By Lisa Lowe . Ithaca and London : Cornell University Press , 1991 . 217 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 868 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Critical Terrains: French and British...

...Truong Buu Lâm The Vietnamese Response to French Intervention, 1862–1874 . By Mark W. McLeod . New York : Praeger Publishers , 1991 . xvii, 171 pp. $39.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 503 behavior that are anomalous...

...Henri-Simon Blanc-Hoang The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Empire, Disease, and Modernity in French Colonial Vietnam . By Michael G. Vann and Liz Clarke . New York : Oxford University Press , 2019 . xvi, 263 pp. ISBN: 9780190602697 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...R. Stanley Thomson Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1947 1947 The French colonies, past and future . By Jacques Stern . New York : Didier Publishing Co. , 1944 . xviii, 331 p. $3.00. 110 THE FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY have translated inscriptions...