...Paul Wallace Opposition in a Dominant-Party System: A Study of the Jan Sangh, the Praja Socialist Party, and the Socialist Party of Uttar Pradesh, India . By Angela Sutherland Burger . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1969 . x, 306 pp. Index. $8.50. Copyright ©...

...Benjamin Nyblade Abstract In 2009, the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) of Japan, which had successfully formed governments either alone or as the largest partner in a coalition government for all but a single year since 1955, suffered a devastating electoral defeat when the opposition...

...Andrew Mertha Training the Party: Party Adaptation and Elite Training in Reform-Era China . By Charlotte P. Lee . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2015 . xii, 251 pp. ISBN: 9781107090637 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2017  2017...

...R. S. Milne Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1971 1971 The People's Action Party of Singapore: Emergence of a Dominant Party System . By Thomas J. Bellows . New Haven : Yale University Southeast Asia Studies , 1970 . Monograph Series No. 14. xi, 195 pp. Notes...

...Harry Blair Caste, Faction, and Party in Indian Politics. Vol. 1: Faction and Party. Vol. 2: Election Studies . By Paul R. Brass . Delhi : Chanakya Publications , 1984 and 1985 . ix, 339 pp.: xi, 325 pp. Maps. Rs. 150 and 180. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1986...

... Japan can learn from America. As a person who has studied and taught in both Japan and America, I strongly urge everyone to read Duke's work. Education is indeed everyone's business. AMY TAKASE MATSUMOTO University of Minnesota The Japanese Party System: From One-Party Rule to Coalition Government...

...William W. Reinhardt The British Labour Party and the Indian Independence Movement, 1917–1939 . By Mesbahuddin Ahmed . New York : Envoy Press , 1986 . x, 215 pp. $30.00. Holding India to the Empire: The British Conservative Party and the 1935 Constitution . By Carl Bridge...

...Ruth T. McVey The Communist Party of Indonesia, 1951–1962 . By Donald Hindley . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1964 . xvii, 380 pp. Glossary, Bibliography, Maps, Tables, Notes, Index. $8.50. The Communist Party of Indonesia. Its History, Program...

...Sumit Ganguly Why Regional Parties? Clientelism, Elites, and the Indian Party System . By Adam Ziegfeld . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2016 . xix, 255 pp. ISBN: 9781107118683 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2018  2018 Until...

...Robert C. North BOOK REVIEWS 79 Mao's China. Party Reform Documents, 1942-44. Introduction and Translation by BOYD COMPTON. Seattle: University of Washington Press, issued in cooperation with the Institute of Pacific Relations, 1952. lii, 278. $4.50. The translation and publication...

...Howard L. Boorman Party Politics in Republican China: the Kuomintang, 1912–1924 . By George T. Yu . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1966 . xiv, 203 pp. Bibliography, Index. $6.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1967 1967 704...

...Roy Hofheinz Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1967 1967 Provincial Party Personnel in Mainland China 1956–1966 . By Frederick C. Tiewes . Occasional Papers of the East Asian Institute. New York : Columbia University Press , 1967 . vi, 114 pp. $3.00. BOOK...

..., 1939 ), 5 – 35 . Also see the article by H. J. Timperley in this issue. TRIUMPH OF THE PEACE PARTY IN JAPAN IN 1873 NOBUTAKA IKE University of Washington THE first major schism to rend the inner core of the ruling group which had been in control in Japan since the Restoration in 1868, occurred...

...Margaret Mih Tillman Thus, Rahav argues that intimate leadership helped to bridge not only youth clubs and party politics but also the masses and leaders. After all, student demonstrations gave political parties a platform to speak for the masses (p. 144). Among the notable strengths...

...Donald A. Jordan * Note: This book has been banned for export or for sale in Taiwan. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1967 1967 Chung-kuo Kung-chʻan Tang Shih Kao (History of the Chinese Communist Party) . Volume I: Shanghai Period. Volume II: Kiangsi Period...

... of decades of one-party rule by the KMT. When democratization began the KMT believed it could manage the transition to multiparty politics and would never lose a presidential election. The totally unexpected loss in 2000 was the crisis that opened the door to understanding politics at the deeper level...

... and the Tosa Loyalist Party MARIUS B. JANSEN ' I "'AKECHI ZUIZAN1 was born in 1829, the eldest son of a goshi in Nagaoka A district in Tosa. By 1856, when he was 27, he had become known as a leading master of fencing (\enjutsu) in Tosa. He then travelled to Edo, where he met and cooperated with fellow spirits...

...Chalmers A. Johnson Chūgoku kyōsantōshi kenkyū [Studies in the History of the Chinese Communist Party] . By Ishikawa Tadao . Tokyo : Keiô University Press , 1959 . 8 , 380, 6. Appendices, Bibliography. Yen 550. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1961 1961 BOOK...

... Panikkar's theory may be correct, despite contrary views from many other close observers of Indian thought and institutions. In any event, K. M. Panikkar does not prove his case. RICHARD L. PARK University of California, Berkeley Moscow and the Communist Party of India: A Study in the Postwar Evolution...

... Tibet to demonstrate the legality and political legitimacy of the Communist Party, a necessary step toward becoming “a modern territorial entity” (p. 7). The Communist troops succeeded in occupying Lhasa in late 1951. However, political and military consolidation proved more difficult than military...