...Anne-Sophie Pratte The main contribution of the book lies in the fourth and fifth chapters, where Urbansky depicts the 1929 Sino-Soviet conflict as a watershed moment in the transformation of the frontier from a site of exchange and encounters to a strictly controlled and heavily militarized...

...Benjamin D. Hopkins Abstract From the invention of imperial authority along the North-West Frontier of British India, subjects were divided between the “civilized” inhabitants populating the cultivated plains and the “wild tribes” living in the hills. The problem of governing this latter group...

...Gordon T. Bowles Studies in Frontier History; Collected Papers 1928–1958 . By Owen Lattimore . London : Oxford University Press , 1962 . 565 . $12.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 626 building," there has been a singular lack of literature in the field...

...Walter A. Fairservis, Jr. Charsada: A Metropolis of the North-West Frontier . By Mortimer Wheeler . Oxford, England : Oxford University Press , 1962 . x , 130 . Illustrations, Plates. $14.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1963 1963 146 JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Paul V. Hyer The Monguors of the Kansu-Tibetan Frontier. Part II. Their Religious Life . By Louis M. J. Schram , C.I.C.M. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, Vol. 47, Part 1. Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society , 1957 . 164 . Index. $3.00...

...Beatrice D. Miller; Robert J. Miller The Mongours of the Kansu-Tibetan Frontier. Part III. Records of the Mongour Clans . By Louis M. J. Schram , C.I.C.M. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, Vol. 51 , Part 3. Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society...

...Chie Nakane India's North-East Frontier in the Nineteenth Century . Edited with an Introduction by Verrier Elwin . Bombay : Oxford University Press , 1959 . xxxii, 473 . Rs. 28. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1960 1960 BOOK REVIEWS 491 book is. He does...

...Wayne Wilcox Aspects of the Frontier Crimes Regulation in Pakistan . By Willard Berry . Duke University : Program in Comparative Studies on Southern Asia, 1966 . (Monograph and Occasional Papers Series, Number Three.) x, 122 pp. Table of Cases, Bibliography. $2.00. Copyright ©...

...Edwin M. Loeb Frontier land systems in southernmost China: a comparative study of agrarian problems and social organization among the Pai Yi people of Yunnan and the Kamba people of Sikang . By Chen Han-seng . New York : International Secretariat, Institute of Pacific Relations , 1949...

...Eldon Griffin The American frontier in Hawaii: The pioneers 1789–1843 . By Harold Whitman Bradley . Stanford University , Stanford University Press , 1942 . xii, 488 p. $4.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1943 1943 BOOK REVIEWS 421 paragement of his labors...

...George Alexander Lensen Japan's Northern Frontier: A Preliminary Study in Colonization and Expansion with Special Reference to the Relations of Japan and Russia . By John A. Harrison . Gainesville : University of Florida Press , 1953 . 202. Cloth bound $4.75; paper bound $3.75...

...Nicholas Poppe The Monguors of the Kansu-Tibetan Frontier. Their Origin, History, and Social Organization . By Louis M. J. Schram , C.I.C.M., with an Introduction by Owen Lattimore. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. New Series-Vol. 44 , Part I. Philadelphia...

...Herbert J. Wood Gateway to Asia: Sinkiang, frontier of the Chinese Far West . By Martin R. Norins . New York : The John Day Company , 1944 . 200 pp. $2.75. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1945 1945 290 THE FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY Gateway to Asia: Sinkiang...

...John Schrecker Frontier Defense and the Open Door: Manchuria in Chinese-American Relations, 1895–1911 . By Michael H. Hunt . New Haven and London : Yale University Press , 1973 . xiv, 281 pp. Notes, Photographs, Map, Glossary, Bibliog., Index, $12.50. Copyright © The Association...

... Office. For details, IO to FO , June 19 and FO to IO , July 5, 1928, both in ibid. A Forgotten Chapter in the History of the Northeast Frontier: 1914-36 PARSHOTAM MEHRA ON the fateful day of July 3, 1914, the second Simla Convention was signed and sealed by Sir Arthur Henry McMahon and Lonchen...

...Lorraine Gesick The Burma-Thailand Frontier over Sixteen Decades: Three Descriptive Documents . Edited and translated by Constance M. Wilson and Lucien M. Hanks . Athens, Ohio : Ohio University, Center for International Studies , 1985 . (Monographs in International Studies, Southeast Asia...

...Winston W. Lo The Country of Streams and Grottoes: Expansion, Settlement, and the Civilizing of the Sichuan Frontier in Song Times . By Richard von Glahn . Harvard East Asian Monographs 123. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 1987 . xxii, 305 pp. $24.00. Copyright ©...

...Edward J. Shultz The Korean Frontier in America: Immigration to Hawaii, 1896–1910 . By Wayne Patterson . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1988 . xi, 274 pp. $30.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990 BOOK REVIEWS KOREA 177 Finally, one can make...

...Eva-Maria Stolberg Imperial Rivals: China, Russia, and Their Disputed Frontier . By S. C. M. Paine . Armonk, New York and London : M. E. Sharpe , 1996 . 417 pp. $78.95 (cloth); $31.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 514 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...David Gilmartin; Tony K. Stewart The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204–1760 . By Richard M. Eaton . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1993 . xvii, 359 pp. $50.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 866 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...