...Peter Ward Fay Chine et Christianisme: Action et réaction [China and Christianity: Action and Reaction] . By Jacques Gernet . Paris : Gallimard , 1982 . 342 pp. Bibliography. 144 Fr. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1983 1983 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER ASIA 919...

...Ansil Ramsay Political Conflict in Thailand: Reform, Reaction, Revolution . By David Morell and Chai-Anan Samudavinija . Cambridge, Mass. : Oelgeschlager, Gunn and Hain , 1981 . xviii, 362 pp. Appendix, Bibliography, Index. $25. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1983...

...Linda Walton Women, Property, and Confucian Reaction in Sung and Yuan China (960–1368) . By Bettine Birge . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2002 . xxi, 345 pp. $40.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 224 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...George Woodcock Chronicles of the Raj: A Study of Literary Reaction to the Imperial Idea towards the End of the Raj . By Shamsul Islam . Totowa, N.J. : Rowman and Littlefield , 1979 . xii , 130 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Index. $21.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Terutomo Ozawa Japan's Trade Policy: Action or Reaction? . By Yumiko Mikanagi . London and New York : Routledge , 1996 . 163 pp. £40.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 1103 Howe also describes how the Meiji state encouraged...

...O. Edmund Clubb Reactions in Communist China: An Analysis of Letters to Newspaper Editors . By Charles K. A. Wang . Technical Research Report No. 33. xi, 115 . Some Basic Conceptions and Rules of Conduct of Chinese Communism . (Initial Collation towards the Conceptual and Operational...

...Samuel L. Popkin Peasants and Politics: Grass Roots Reactions to Change in Asia . Edited by D. B. Miller . New York : St. Martin's Press , 1979 . 219 pp. Maps, Notes, Select Bibliographies, Name Index, Subject Index. $26.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1980...

... ofMichigan Much Maligned Monsters: History of European Reactions to Indian Art. By PARTHA MITTER. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977. xix, 351 pp. Plates, Map, Appendixes, Bibliography, Index. $28.75. Mitter's work is a painstaking compilation and thoroughly interesting discussion of the history of the reaction...

...R. Stanley Thomson Abstract Siam's immediate reaction to the signature on Aug. 11, 1863 of the French treaty of protectorate over Cambodia (see article by author in the previous issue of the Quarterly) was formally to protest to Drouyn de Lhuys in Paris and to Admiral de la Grandière in Saigon...

... followed by several years of civil war, which led to the establishment of the ruthless totalitarian regime of Stalin, itself reminiscent of the Thermidorian Reaction. In Algeria, Cuba, China, and North Vietnam, successful mass armed revolutions have been consolidated only because of their one-party...

...-foreign relations was terminated by the Allied intervention. Their removal reflected the end of Chinese reaction and of the Confucian state and society. VOL. XXXV, No. 2 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES FEBRUARY 1976 The Crisis of 1900 in Yunnan: Late Ch'ing Militancy in Transition H. MICHAEL METZGAR M OST...

... political economy of grain circulation that spanned a wide variety of local situations. A brief sketch of different types of grain circulation and forms of food rioting establishes the setting for case studies that show the range of possible food riot situations and official reactions to the problems posed...

... cadres, these authors present both the achievements and the failures stemming from state policies during the collective years, and some of the peasant reactions to them. They also raise questions about the long-term implications of the new system. The fourth author is uniformly critical of the collective...

... both changing political ideologies and state-village relations have been mediated by the term gotong royong , and suggests that its multiple meanings have been central to its semantic, political, and economic roles. Local interpretations of national doctrine and reactions to state policy are examined...

...Meredith P. Gilpatrick Abstract The initial reaction of the foreigner upon his first contact with Chinese law and legal system is one of frustration and noncomprehension. Those given to facile generalization are apt to declare either that China is devoid of any serious juridical tradition...

.... Yet, however determined and daring its leaders, the historic effort was suddenly and tragically cut short by a coup. The standard view of the Reform Movement has been that, in reaction to China's repeated defeats and humiliation as well as the inadequacy of the Self-strengthening Movement, the reform...

... in Asia rooted in the region's major religious traditions. These apparently contradictory discourses have been dialectically related in the post–Cold War era: authoritarian rulers reacted to universalist claims about democracy with assertions of cultural particularism which, in turn, triggered a reaction...

..., although the fact of his assassination and public reaction to it revealed that he was anything but a popular figure in his lifetime. As Home Minister ( Naimukyō ) during most of that period, he advanced the process of political centralization substantially and channelled state energies and resources...

... Buddhist Sinhalese nationalism is viewed as a reaction to western influences rather than an autonomous development of Sinhalese society and culture. 19 “Buddha sāsana komisan vārtāva,” Sessional Paper XVIII , 1959, and Bechert, op. cit. , pp. 280, 350. 18 The Betrayal of Buddhism...

..., and Chinese reactions against foreign culture. They can be understood only in the context of the modern changes in Chinese culture and society. This study of the anti-Christian agitation of 1922–27 seeks to clarify the nature and constituent forces of this movement in the rapidly changing and complicated...