...Martin Yanuck Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1987 1987 The Indian Left: Critical Appraisals . Edited by Bipan Chandra . New Delhi : Vikas Publishing House , 1983 . 452 pp. Index. N.p. (Distributed by Advent Books, New York, N.Y.) BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 425 He...

...Yiman Wang Building a New China in Cinema: The Chinese Left-Wing Cinema Movement, 1932–1937 . By Laikwan Pang . Lanham, Md. : Rowman and Littlefield , 2002 . xvi, 279 pp. $80.00 (cloth); $31.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 1226...

...Brad Geisert The Kuomintang Left in the National Revolution, 1924–1931: The Leftist Alternative in Republican China . By So Wai-chor . Hong Kong : East Asian Historical Monographs, Oxford University Press , 1991 . xii, 290 pp. $250.00 HK. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Dane Kennedy John Stuart Mill and India . By Lynn Zastoupil . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1994 . viii, 280 pp. $39.50 (cloth). Anticolonialism in British Politics: The Left and the End of Empire, 1918–1964 . By Stephen Howe . Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1993 . xvi...

...Paul Hockings Peasant Society in Konku, A Study of Right and Left Subcastes in South India. . By Brenda E. F. Beck . Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press , 1972 . xix, 334 pp. Plates, Diagrams, Tables, Appendices, Glossary, Bibliography, Indexes. $16.50. Copyright ©...

...Barrett L. McCormick The Crisis of Leninism and the Decline of the Left: The Revolutions of 1989 . Edited By Daniel Chirot . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 1991 . xv, 245 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 BOOK REVIEWS ASIA GENERAL 367...

...Fabio Lanza East Wind: China and the British Left, 1925–1976 . By Tom Buchanan . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2012 . xxvi, 250 pp. $125.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013 2013 Tom Buchanan's East Wind retells, with precision...

...Helmut G. Callis Peking and the New Left: At Home and Abroad . By Klaus Mehnert , Berkeley : The Center for Chinese Studies, University of California , 1969 . 156 pp. $4.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1970 1970 BOOK REVIEWS 693 disavowal of the national...

...Gaye Christoffersen Moscow and the Global Left in the Gorbachev Era . Edited by Joan Barth Urban . Ithaca and London : Cornell University Press , 1992 . 204 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 BOOK REVIEWS ASIA GENERAL 875 the limits of Buddhism's...

...Joel Rocamora The Revolution Falters: The Left in Philippine Politics After 1986 . Edited by Patricio N. Abinales . Ithaca, N.Y. : Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University , 1996 . 182 pp. $15.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 1146...

...Paul G. Pickowicz Politics and Literature in Shanghai: The Chinese League of Left-Wing Writers, 1930–36 . By Wang-Chi Wong . Manchester and New York : Manchester University Press , distributed by St. Martin's Press, 1991 . 254 pp. $59.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Brenda E. F. Beck Abstract What were the reasons for the development of a right-left division of South Indian castes? Why has this division become less of a focus of rivalry in modern times? This article uses observations collected in the Coimbatore region of Madras State between 1964 and 1966...

...Pamela Price Constructing the Colonial Encounter: Right and Left Hand Castes in Early Colonial South India . By Niels Brimnes . London : Curzon Press , 1999 . viii, 280 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 191 beyond simple...

... of a holy profession; and the militant left- due in large part to Japan's slow population ist orientation of a predominantly conservative growth, nonetheless for their analysis they professional group. Journalistic reports of the simply assume that Japan's performance is Japanese educational scene have...

..., the creativity—and, often, the ease—with which Nabeyama and individuals like him reinvented themselves suggests that, in the decades after World War II, not only the progressive Left, as has often been pointed out, but also the Right seized opportunities to shape the postwar order, and anti-communism was often...

... : University of Chicago Press , 2016 . xii, 267 pp. ISBN: 9780226331614 (paper). The Rise of the Octobrists in Contemporary Thailand: Power and Conflict among Former Left-Wing Student Activists in Thai Politics . By Kanokrat Lertchoosakul . Chiang Mai : Silkworm Books , 2017 . xx, 364 pp. ISBN...

... by the administration of justice and thus not only by the private avenger himself. 67 Khasni widow – a widow belonging to the Khas, or Chetri, tribe. CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE IN NEPAL A CENTURY AGO: NOTES LEFT BY BRIAN H. HODGSON1 LEONHARD ADAM2 University of Melbourne, Australia F OR AN APPRECIATION...

...Nick Kapur Coed Revolution: The Female Student in the Japanese New Left . By Chelsea Szendi Schieder . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2021 . xi, 212 pp. ISBN: 9781478012979 (cloth, also available as paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022...

...John W. Masland The Left Wing in Japanese Politics . By Evelyn S. Colbert . New York : International Secretariat, Institute of Pacific Relations , 1952 . xii , 353 . $4.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1953 1953 232 FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY decreed for Japan...