... construct which appears to add, to other fairly-earned criticism, the failure to achieve the Weberian ideal. University ofToronto MILTON ISRAEL The Transfer of Power 1942-47. Volume VI: The Post-War Phase: New Moves by the Labour Government, 1 August 1945-22 March 1946. Volume VII: The Cabinet Mission, 23...

... Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1947 1947 STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, CIRCULATION, ETC., REQUIRED BY THE ACTS OF CONGRESS OF AUGUST 24, 1912, AND MARCH 3, 1933 Of The Far Eastern Quarterly, published quarterly at Ithaca, New York, for February 1, 1947, STATE...

...Lawrence Palmer Briggs Abstract To have a proper appreciation of the return of the territory of Battambang and Angkor to Cambodia as a consequence of the treaty of March 23, 1907 between France and Siam, it is necessary to know something of the history of the ancient Khmer Empire or at least...

... strategic pass” of La-tzu-k'ou in the Long March. The Chinese annals contain at least five differing versions of this encounter on September 17–18, 1935. This may be attributed, inter alia , to the desire of the authors to glorify their own part in the Long March as much as that the battle of La-tzu-k'ou...

...Theodore C. Bestor Abstract On March 11, 2011, at 2:46 p.m. local time, an earthquake with an epicenter 130 kilometers east of Sendai off the Pacific coast of northern Japan shook the Tohoku region more violently than any tremor in a thousand years. The quake was approximately 9.0 in magnitude...

...Sameetah Agha British Death March under Asiatic Impulse: Epic of Anglo-Indian Tragedy in Afghanistan . By Yash Nandan “Kaviraj.” Mumbai : Bhavan's Book University , 2003 . 245 pp. Rs 280 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 B O O K R E V I E W S I N N E...

... the Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923, despite the far greater loss of life in that event? We have a long process of analysis and contextualization ahead before the traumatic events of March 2011 have sedimented into history. Meanwhile, the nuclear disaster continues. When the Japanese government announced...

...Peter J. Seybolt From Revolution to Politics, Chinese Communists on the Long March . By Benjamin Yang . Boulder : Westview Press , 1990 . xiv, 338 pp. $34.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 406 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES From Revolution...

...Jamie Horsley China's Long March toward Rule of Law . By Randall Peerenboom . Cambrige and New York : Cambridge University Press , 2003 . xvii , 673 pp. $110.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 162 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T U D I E S...

...Wallace Johnson Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 Obituaries DERK BODDE (March 9, 1909 November 3, 2003) Derk Bodde s rst acquaintance with China began when as a young boy he lived in Shanghai, where his father taught physics for several years. He majored in English...

...Thomas Barfield The Afghanistan Wars . By William Maley . Basingstoke, Hants and New York : Palgrave , 2002 . ix , 340 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). The March of Folly in Afghanistan, 1978–2001 . By Jagat S. Mehta . New Delhi : Manohar , 2002 . 224 pp. $29.50 (cloth...

...Tien-Wei Wu Abstract In his review of Mr. Chiang Yung-ching's Bo-lot'ing yü Wu-Han cheng-ch'üan [Borodin and the Wu-Han Regime], Professor C. Martin Wilbur has said that “the Chung-shun Gunboat Incident of March 20, 1926, is treated hastily and categorically, simply as a plot of the Communists...

...Patricia Stranahan Choosing Revolution: Chinese Women Soldiers on the Long March . By Helen Praeger Young . Urbana : University of Illinois Press , 2001 . 282 pp. $35.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 261 For instance...

...James Tong Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 Obituaries ALBERT CHAN, SJ (January 25, 1915 March 10, 2005) Father Albert Chan, Jesuit scholar, eminent Ming historian, and founder and curator of the eighty-thousand-title Chinese collection of the Society of Jesus, died...

...Rhoda Weidenbaum Le Printemps de Pékin, Oppositions Democratiques en Chine, Novembre 1978–Mars 1980 [Spring in Peking: Democratic Movements in China, November 1978–March 1980] . By Victor Sidane . Paris : Gallimard/Julliard , 1980 . 261 pp. List of Translations, Photographs. N.p...

... . Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press , 1970 . ix, 197 pp. Notes, Maps, Chronology, Bibliography, Glossary, Index. HK$ 25.00. The Kuomingtang-Communist Struggle in China 1922–1949 . By Kwei Chung-gi . The Hague : Martinus Nijhoff , 1971 . 128 pp. n.p.l. The Long March to Power...

...Vu Ngu Chieu Abstract On March 9, 1945, the Japanese terminated French rule in Indochina and gave Viet-Nam its first “independent” government. As an accident of history, and although composed chiefly of technicians and professionals, the government of Tran Trong Kim unexpectedly carried out...

...Leonard A. Gordon The Transfer of Power, 1942–1947. Vol. 10: The Mountbatten Viceroyalty: Formulation of a Plan, 22 March–30 May 1947. Vol. 11: The Mountbatten Viceroyalty: Announcement and Reception of the 3 June Plan, 31 May–7 June 1947. Vol. 12: The Mountbatten Viceroyalty: Princes...

... A. KAPP Washington State China Relations Council, Seattle Re-encounters in China: Notes of a Journey in a Time Capsule. By HAROLD R. ISAACS. Armonk, N.Y.: East Gate Books, M. E. Sharpe, 1985. xii, 192 pp. Photos, A Note on Some Readings, Romanizations. $19-95. The Long March: The Untold Story. By HARRISON...

... of these and related questions. JAMES E. KETELAAR University of North Florida KOREA Man Sei! The Making ofa Korean American. By PETER H Y U N . Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1986. xiv, 186 pp. $17.50. Korea Under Colonialism: The March First Movement and Anglo-Japanese Relations. By DAE-YEOL K U . Seoul: Seoul...