...Homer H. Dubs Records of the Grand Historian of China, translated from the Shih Chi of Ssu-ma Ch'ien . By Burton Watson . 2 vols. New York : Columbia University Press , 1961 . 563 + 543. Index. $20.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1963 1963 BOOK REVIEWS 205...

...E. Daniel Potts Abstract The archives of various British missionary societies, whose representatives were scattered throughout large parts of Asia in the nineteenth century and earlier, contain many manuscripts of interest and are potentially useful to the historian and social scientist. With few...

...Stephen R. MacKinnon H. B. Morse: Customs Commisioner and Historian of China . By John King Fairbank , Martha Henderson Coolidge , and Richard J. Smith . Lexington : University of Kentucky Press , 1995 xiii, 314 pp. $39.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997...

...M. N. Pearson Portuguese India in the Mid-Seventeenth Century . By C. R. Boxer . Delhi : Oxford University Press (The 1978 Heras Memorial Lectures), 1980 . x, 57 pp. Index. N.p. Joāo de Barros: Portuguese Humanist and Historian of Asia . By C. R. Boxer . New Delhi : Concept...

...Frank F. Conlon The British Discovery of Hinduism in the Eighteenth Century . Edited by P. J. Marshall . Cambridge , University Press , 1970 . ix. 310 pp. Illustrations, Glossary, Index. $17.50. Muslim Rule in India: The Assessments of British Historians . By J. S. Grewal...

... to translations or secondary sources in languages other than English or Japanese. Capital and Countryside in Japan, 300–1180: Japanese Historians Interpreted in English , no. 129 in the Cornell East Asia Series, is a collection of essays that discuss center–periphery relations in premodern Japan. Arranged...

...Eugene F. Irschick An Anthropologist Among Historians and Other Essays . By Bernard S. Cohn . Delhi and New York : Oxford University Press , 1990 . xxvi, 682 pp. Rs. 150.00. The Indian Nationalist Movement, c. 1912–1922: Leadership, Organisation and Philosophy . The Writings...

...H. H. Dubs Ssu-ma Ch'ien: Grand Historian of China . By Burton Watson . New York : Columbia University Press , 1958 . xi, 288 . Appendices, Notes, Glossary, Index. $5.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1961 1961 REVIEW ARTICLES History and Historians Under...

...Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi Japanese Historians and the National Myths, 1600–1945 . By John S. Brownlee . Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press , 1997 . 256 pp. $75.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 512 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Frank F. Conlon BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 647 An Anthropologist Among the Historians and Other Essays. By BERNARD S. C O H N . Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1987. xxvi, 682 pp. $48.00. Our contemporary understanding of South Asian history has been shaped by many scholars, but few may have had so...

...Michael Auslin Japan's Past, Japan's Future: One Historian's Odyssey . By Ienaga Saburō . Translated and introduced by Richard H. Minear . Lanham, Md. : Rowman and Littlefield , 2001 . x , 203 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Ainslie T. Embree Historians and Historiography in Modern India . Edited By S. P. Sen . Calcutta : Institute of Historical Studies , 1973 . xxix, 464 pp. Rs. 80.00; $24.00 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1977 1977 BOOK REVIEWS 765 rectly the papers of 1946-47...

...Barbara Teters Historians and Meiji Statesmen . By Richard T. Chang . Gainesville : University of Florida Press , 1970 . Monograph No. 41. x, 83 pp. Appendices, Index. Paper, $3.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1971 1971 894 Tokugawa history. Thomas Smith's...

.... 324. 52 Quoted in Mikio Sumiya , “ Meiji nashonarizumu no konseki ,” in Sumiya (ed.), op. cit. , p. 13. 53 Ibid, p. 179. 54 This is the way in which most Japanese historians approach Tokutomi's thought. Kenneth Pyle's treatment of the Min‘yūsha group ( The New...

...Albert Feuerwerker; Roger F. Hackett Historians of China and Japan . Edited by W. G. Beasley and E. G. Pulleyblank . London : Oxford University Press , 1961 . Historical Writings on the Peoples of Asia, viii, 351 . Index. $8.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...John R. W. Smail Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1962 1962 Historians of South-East Asia . Edited by D. G. E. Hall . Historical Writings on the Peoples of Asia. London : Oxford University Press , 1961 . viii, 342 . Index. 50s. 402 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

..., and British historians has produced a useful collection of interpretive essays. BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 705 All but one are published here for the first time the exception is George C. Herring and Richard Immerman's "Eisenhower, Dulles, and Dien Bien Phu: 'The Day We Didn't Go to War,' Revisited...

... beginning of Nurturing Indonesia , Hans Pols asks a deceptively simple question: why did Indies physicians occupy such a dominant role in the nationalist movement? Unlike several historians who have portrayed colonial medicine as a tool of empire, Pols critically examines the prosopographies of individual...

...Milton E. Osborne Abstract Vietnamese historians in North and South Vietnam have, in writings since 1954, given considerable attention to the problem of reassessing and interpreting developments during the nineteenth century. For historians in Hanoi the test of Vietnamese nationalism has been...

...John Whitney Hall Abstract The institutional foundations of the Tokugawa daimyo have been obscured by the lack of insight which historians have traditionally shown into the history of the Ashikaga period and, in particular, into the late Ashikaga, or Sengoku, age. Like the Dark Ages in Europe...