... State University Shomonki: The Story of Masakado's Rebellion. Translated and edited by JUDITH N . RABINOVITCH. Tokyo: Sophia University, Monumenta Nipponica, 1986. (Monumenta Nipponica Monograph 58) iv, 168 pp. Illustrations, Maps, Genealogical Tables, Chronology, Bibliography, Index. $ 16 (cloth); $ 10...

..., that celebration will often be informed by wisdom. RICHARD L. BRUBAKER Vanderbilt University The Rajput Rebellion against Aurangzeb: A Study of the Mughal Empire in Seventeenth Century India. By ROBERT C. HALLISSEY. Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 1977. xi, 119 pp. Maps, Notes, Glossary...

...E. A. Kracke, Jr. The Background of the Rebellion of An Lu-shan . By E. G. Pulleyblank . London Oriental Series, Vol. 4 . London : Oxford University Press , 1955 . x, 264 . Maps. $8.40. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1955 1955 116 FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY tend...

... to the wartime period. Almost fifty years after the rebellion, and in spite of a collective memory that privileges victimhood over heroism, it is striking to see how prevalent martial vocabulary was in the testimonies: rebels were “waging war” ( zuozhan 作戰) (Chang 1995 , 266 [1993]; Ts'ai 2008 , 91 [1995...

...K. S. Latourette Christian Influence upon the Ideology of the Taiping Rebellion 1851–1864 . By Eugene Powers Boardman . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 1952 . xi , 188 p. Bibliographical Appendix and Index. $2.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1953...

...Elizabeth Tripler Nock Abstract One of the most noteworthy incidents in the history of Japan's transition from a feudal regime to a modern state was the Satsuma Rebellion in 1877. The province of Satsuma is situated in the southernmost portion of the island of Kyushu, and Kagoshima is the capital...

...Yuji Muramatsu The Taiping Rebellion: History and Documents (Volume I: History) . By Franz Michael , in Collaboration with Chungli Chang. Seattle, Washington : University of Washington Press , 1966 . xii, 244 pp. Maps, Appendices, Index. $7.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

... to British and Ceylonese alike. This is the best introductory history to Modern Ceylon, whether for student use, general reference, or personal pleasure. Yale University ROBIN W. WINKS Letters on Ceylon 1846-50; The Administration of Viscount Torrington and The "Rebellion" of 1848; The Private Correspondence...

...Wi Jo Kang Reform, Rebellion, and the Heavenly Way . By Benjamin B. Weems . Monographs and Papers of the Association for Asian Studies XV. Tucson : The University of Arizona Press , 1964 . 121. Illustrations; Glossary; Bibliography; Index. $3.75. Copyright © Association for Asian...

...Hellmut Wilhelm Chinese Sources for the Taiping Rebellion 1850–1864 . By J. C. Cheng . New York : Oxford University Press , 1963 . xii, 182 . $6.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1965 1965 BOOK REVIEWS 505 due to the intensity of his aesthetic responses...

...George E. Taylor Tsêng Kuo-fan and the Taiping Rebellion with a Short Sketch of His Later Career . By William James Hail . New York : Paragon Book Reprint Corp. , 1964 ( 2 d ed.). $12.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1965 1965 688 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Eugene Boardman The Taiping Rebellion and the Western Powers . By S. Y. Teng . New York : Oxford University press , 1971 . 413 pp. Bibliography, Index. $17.75. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972 1972 BOOK REVIEWS 395 The Taiping Rebellion and the Western any...

...James B. Parsons Abstract Studies of peasant rebellions in China are significant because of the key role such disturbances have played in Chinese history. Merely from the point of view of numbers one is impressed by the many references to agrarian violence in the historical records of the various...

...John S. Gregory Abstract Practically all accounts of British intervention in support of the Manchu rulers of China against the Taiping rebellion present it as a calculated and deliberate change of policy by the British government which followed more or less immediately upon the ratification...

...Blaine C. Gaustad The White Lotus War: Rebellion & Suppression in Late Imperial China . By Dai Yingcong . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2019 . ISBN: 9780295745459 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2020 2020 In her impressive new book...

...P. M. Yap Abstract The evolution of China into a modern nation-state has seen few episodes more meaningful than the Taiping Rebellion occurring in the latter half of the last century. In the leader of this rebellion, Hung Hsiu-ch'üan, there is much that is of special interest to the sociologist...

...S. Y. Teng Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1955 1955 The Nien Rebellion . By Siang-Tseh Chiang . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 1954 . xvi, 159 , including Bibliography and Index. $3.50. 412 FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY The Mandarin squares of the Ming...

...David Pong Abstract The Taiping Rebellion (1850–1864), the biggest rebellion Imperial China had ever experienced, had undoubtedly exposed the many inadequacies of the dynastic government. The decrepit state of the army was at once revealed. The Manchu banner troops had long decayed while...

... and the carefully calculated ROBERT B. EKVALL erosion of Tibetan power by the Chinese oc- University of Washington Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1961 1961 Tibet Disappears: A Documentary History of Tibet's International Status: The Great Rebellion and Its Aftermath . By Chanakya...

...Eugene P. Boardman Abstract During the years 1851 to 1864 a central feature of the Chinese political scene was the Taiping rebellion. This was a peasant movement led by disappointed candidates in the official examinations and unlettered men of native military and organizational genius who...