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...Thomas G. Nimick The Treatises on Military Affairs of the Ming Dynastic History (1368–1644): An Annotated Translation of the Treatises on Military Affairs Chapter 89 and Chapter 90, Supplemented by the Treatises on Military Affairs of the Draft of the Ming Dynastic History, A Documentation...

... military decisions under the emperor and outside of civilian control. Both authors take a page from the Japanese military historian Tobe Ryōichi and caution that while this change certainly helped facilitate the military's rogue behavior in the 1930s, that was not the intent in 1878. Nevertheless, Orbach...

.... Pakistani civilians contributed negatively to the civil-military imbalance. Early choices to disenfranchise the Bengalis in East Pakistan and steadfast refusal to address the various ethnic disgruntlements created opportunities for Pakistan's enemies (India and Afghanistan) to exploit these internal...

... to surmise that the Indian trade union movement will remain a largely political movement with very little positive influence on future economic progress. PRADEEP KOTAMRAJU University of Minnesota, Duluth The Military and Politics in Pakistan, 1947-86. By HASAN-ASKARI RIZVI. Lahore: Progressive Publishers...

...David A. Wilson Military Roles in Modernization: Civil-Military Relations in Thailand and Burma . By Moshe Lissak . Beverly Hills : Sage Publications , 1976 . 255 pp. Index. $15.00 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1977 1977 BOOK REVIEWS 589 take a moment to reflect...

...James Mulvenon Quelling the People: The Military Suppression of the Beijing Democracy Movement . By Timothy Brook . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 1998 . xiv, 269 pp. $30.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA...

...Edwin E. Moise Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 Masters of War: Military Dissent and Politics in the Vietnam Era . By Robert Buzzanco . Cambridge and New York : Cambridge University Press , 1996 . xiv, 386 pp. $34.95 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). BOOK...

...Peter W. Colm Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 The Soldier and the Citizen, The Role of the Military in Taiwan's Development . By Monte R. Bullard . Armonk, N.Y. and London : M. E. Sharpe , 1997 . xix, 223 pp. $62.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). BOOK...

...Douglas M. Peers Societies and Military Power. India and Its Armies . By Stephen Peter Rosen . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press , 1996 . xiv, 280 pp. $39.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 588 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES had she...

...David Fedman But perhaps the signal contribution of the book lies in its creative fusion of military and world history. At a time when military history is contracting as a discipline, The Gunpowder Age suggests a number of new paths forward. Not only does Andrade significantly expand...

...Christopher T. Nelson With Protests Against U.S. Military Base Policy in Asia , Yuko Kawato has crafted a complex and compelling study of the modes of persuasion that characterize postwar anti-base protests. It can be read provocatively against the work of scholars such as David Vine...

...Alfred W. McCoy Abstract After four years of rising tensions over China's construction of military bases in the South China Sea, in July 2016 the Permanent Court of Arbitration issued a landmark decision layered with meaning, academic as well as diplomatic. “China's claims to historic rights...

...Akira Iriye Conspiracy at Mukden; The Rise of the Japanese Military . By Takehiko Yoshihashi . New Haven and London : Yale University Press , 1963 . xvi, 274 . Maps. $6.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 BOOK REVIEWS 617 scholarship. New to this volume...

...George K. Osborn, III Internal War. Problems and Approaches . Edited by Harry Eckstein . New York : The Free Press of Glencoe , 1964 . 339 . Index. $6.50. French Revolutionary Warfare from Indochina to Algeria; The Analysis of a Political and Military Doctrine . By Peter Paret...

... of the population. Part three of her book, “Marketisation and Military Rule,” is rich with descriptions about the reconfiguration of North Korean society since the 1990s. Several important trends include the growing importance of the family as the state withdrew as a provider for society's basic needs...

...Harvey Nelsen The Chinese High Command: A History of Communist Military Politics 1927–1971. . By William W. Whitson with Hiang Chen-hsia . New York : Praeger Publishers , 1973 . XXV, 557 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Name Index, Subject Index. $25.00 (clothbound). “The Case Against...

...Seungsook Moon Abstract This introduction discusses how to think about the U.S. military presence as an understudied force of globalization both theoretically and historically. In an effort to bring together three articles written by a sociologist, an anthropologist, and a historian, it engages...