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...Edwin E. Moise Lost Victory: A Firsthand Account of America's Sixteen-Year Involvement in Vietnam . By William Colby with James McCargar . Chicago : Contemporary Books , 1989 . 438 pp. $22.95. Vietnam at War: The History, 1946–1975 . Phillip B. Davidson . Novato, CA...

...Robin Rinehart The Socially Involved Renunciate: Guru Nānak's Discourse to the Nāth Yogis . By Kamala Elizabeth Nayar and Jaswinder Singh Sandhu . Albany : State University of New York Press , 2007 . xvi , 181 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association...

...Peter Dale Scott The International Critic: The Impact of Swedish Criticism of the U.S. Involvement in Vietnam . By Lars-Goran Stenelo . Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press , 1986 . 194 pp. Abbreviations, References, Sources, Interviews, Index. $29.50 (cloth). Copyright © The Association...

...William S. Turley Intervention: How America Became Involved in Vietnam . By George McT. Kahin . New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1986 . xii, 550 pp. Map, Notes, Index. $24.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1987 1987 944 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES equivalents...

...Allen D. Grimshaw The Anglo Indians: A Study in the Problems and Processes Involved in Emotional and Cultural Integration . By V. R. Gaikwad . New York : Asia Publishing House , 1968 . xvii , 300 pp. Tables, Appendices, Index. $6.50. Marriage among the Anglo-Indians . By Shiva...

...Ian G. Baird Abstract There is a long history of Theravada Buddhist monk involvement in militarism in mainland Southeast Asia. Here, I examine recent Lao monk support for political and military activities directed against the communist Lao People's Democratic Republic government and its Vietnamese...

...Robert L. Kidder Abstract In its most general sense, social change involves change in the normative order of a society. Some would say that this necessarily involves a change in the patterns by which wealth is distributed. Others look for basic ideological shifts. Still others seek basic changes...

... president to be removed this way. New elections were called. Park was then made the subject of a criminal investigation and jailed for the trial. The allegations center on Park's relationship with an old family friend, Ch'oe Sun-sil, who became involved in official decision-making and used her influence...

...Robert S. Schwantes Abstract The opening of Japanese ports to Western trade and thought at the end of the Tokugawa period necessarily involved a readjustment of the official policy toward Christianity. Since the early seventeenth century Christian beliefs and observances had been rigidly proscribed...

..., Curacao and Surinam, of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. As such its nationals are Dutch subjects and stand on an equal footing, legally, with the citizens of other sovereign nations. In the event of legal controversy involving a resident of the Netherlands Indies and a citizen of another nation...

...Donald G. Gillin; Charles Etter Abstract The authors examine the actions and motivations of the Japanese who remained in China following Japan's surrender in August 1945. A large part of the Japanese Army in China became involved in the civil war there, and it appears that both sides...

... provided to prevent death by starvation on an immense scale. Nevertheless, the seriousness of the situation was only gradually and reluctantly accepted by the agencies, institutions, and governments that were ultimately involved in the relief effort. In order to convey the seriousness of the situation...

... is well known and while studies have been done on his scholarship and philosophy, his early political ideas have so far not been analyzed in detail. Yet surely Tseng's views on government before he became involved in the campaigns against the Taiping Rebellion would have a bearing on his remarkable...

... involving Wang Ching-wei. This is, of course, a delicate subject.” Because of the highly controversial nature of the event, as it involved Chiang Kai-shek and the Communists, no serious and scholarly study on the subject has ever been undertaken in either Mainland China or Taiwan. Historians in the West...

...Rupert Emerson Abstract Sweeping and remoulding Europe in the 19th Century, nationalism has swept on in equally revolutionary guise to remould Asia in the 20th, and is now penetrating Africa. In the study of its impact and development almost every aspect of human society is involved, positively...

... to explain is presumably intimately bound up with the drive to change and yet one cannot help but feel that as Marx becomes involved in some of the more complex problems of social history the desire to explain often becomes for a time at least the overriding end. A MARXIST CONTROVERSY ON CHINA BENJAMIN...

... is to examine the nature of nationalism in as uncontroversial and non-political a manner as the subject itself allows, and to compare its development in Southeast Asia with similar movements in other parts of the world. What is involved is an objective sociological investigation, and not an effort to arrive...

... of their respective populations reside in villages.2 When one speaks of village government or politics in eastern or southern Asia then, a vast preponderance of the area's total population is involved. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1956 1956 1 Computed from figures given...

... was synthesized in a systematic plan. That diverse sources contributed to its making is obvious, but to identify each of them, to survey all the material accepted, and to be reasonably precise in the innumerable details that such a study involves, seems a stupendous and baffling task. It is possible, however...

... of India Act of 1919, which was intended to expand Indian involvement in governing the British dominions on the Indian subcontinent. Because Britain presented itself as a liberal form of empire on the international stage, its willingness to suspend rule of law over its subjects appeared contradictory...