...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...

...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...

... neglected is his controversy with Humphrey Marshall over the diplomatic policy to be pursued by the United States regarding the Taiping rebellion. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1951 1951 2 MSS. China instructions, 1:76–78, letter no. 1, Daniel Webster to Humphrey Marshall...

...Laai Yi-Faai New Light on the History of the Taiping Rebellion . By Ssu-yu Teng . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1950 . ii, 131 p. $.75. Mimeographed. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1951 1951 BOOK REVIEWS 385 novel A Ying's Wan-Ch'ing hsiao-shuo shih...

...Kwang-Ching Liu Abstract This article is based on academic journals published in the People's Republic of China (PRC) from 1978 to early 1980 and analyzes the trend in post-Mao historiography regarding peasant rebellions. Previous belief in the revolutionary nature of peasant rebellions is being...

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

...Yuan Chung Teng Abstract Reverend Issachar Jacox Roberts was, as far as is known, the only Western teacher ever to instruct Hung Hsiu-ch'üan, the leader of the Taiping Rebellion. Aware of his special relationship with Hung, Roberts was for many years enthusiastic about Hung's undertakings...

...Yuji Muramatsu The Taiping Rebellion: History and Documents . By Franz Michael . In collaboration with Chung-li Chang. Volume II : Documents and Comments. Volume III: Documents and Comments. Seattle : University of Washington Press , 1971 . $30.00 each volume. Copyright ©...

...Frederick Wakeman, Jr. Abstract During the past twenty-five years, hundreds of studies of Chinese peasant rebellions have appeared in print. Most of these were published in the People's Republic of China, where they represented an effort to create a new revolutionary history of class struggle...

...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...

... rebellion (Cumings 1981 , 68–81). Spontaneous remobilization thus seems to have concerned a generation of young Asians in the wake of Japan's wartime empire. Future research on this phenomenon could enrich our understanding of the grassroots conflicts that affected the region in the aftermath of World War...

...Ghulam J. Arez Reform and Rebellion in Afghanistan, 1919–1929 . By Leon B. Poullada . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 1973 . xvii, 318 pp. Maps, Tables, Index. $14.50. Afghanistan: Political Modernization of a Mountain-Kingdom . By Balwant Bhaneja . New Delhi : Spectra...

...Marie-Claire Bergere Rebellion and Its Enemies in Late Imperial China . Militarization and Social Structure, 1796–1864. By Philip A. Kuhn . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1970 . xii, 225 pp. Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $8.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...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...

...Gardiner Bovingdon Holy War in China: The Muslim Rebellion and State in Chinese Central Asia, 1864–1877 . By Hodong Kim . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 2004 . 320 pp. $60.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2007 2007 When Hodong...

...Eugene Y. Park Marginality and Subversion in Korea: The Hong Kyŏngnae Rebellion of 1812 . By Sun Joo Kim . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2007 . xiii , 304 pp. $50.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009 The field of late Chosŏn...

...Kenneth J. Hammond Bandits, Eunuchs, and the Son of Heaven: Rebellion and the Economy of Violence in Mid-Ming China . By David Robinson . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2001 . ix , 283 . $40.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 1038...

...Zvi Ben-Dor Benite Holy War in China: The Muslim Rebellion and State in Chinese Central Asia, 1864–1877 . By Hodong Kim . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 2004 . xviii , 295 pp. $55.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 170 T H E J O U R N...