...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...Robert B. Ekvall Tibet Disappears: A Documentary History of Tibet's International Status: The Great Rebellion and Its Aftermath . By Chanakya Sen . Bombay : Asia Publishing House , 1960 , xv, 474 . Maps, Appendices. $6.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1961...

... t i\ ft « * LEON HURVITZ University of Washington The Taiping Rebellion: History and Documents (Volume I: History). BY FRANZ MICHAEL, IN COLLABORATION WITH CHUNG- LI CHANG. Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press, 1966. xii, 244 pp. Maps, Appendices, Index. $7.50. For more than ten...

...Robert N. Kearney Letters on Ceylon 1846–50; The Administration of Viscount Torrington and The “Rebellion” of 1848; The Private Correspondence of the Third Earl Grey (Secretary of State for the Colonies 1846–52) and Viscount Torrington . Edited by K. M. de Silva . Kandy & Colombo : K...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

.... Cammann's study is an authoritative and excellent piece of work, important for the student of Chinese art as well as for the historian. University of Washington FRANZ MICHAEL The Nien Rebellion. By SIANG-TSEH CHIANG. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1954. xvi, 159, including Bibliography and Index...

...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...

...Carolyn M. Elliott Abstract Recent studies of peasant rebellions in colonial countries have tended to focus attention on the persons who rebelled. The egregious conditions that aroused their indignation, the social and economic transformations that gave them the capacity to act, the leaders who...

...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...

...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...

...Ella S. Laffey 330 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES power, could be taken to be a "subordinate Millenarian Rebellion in China: The Eight group." Since the Jurchen cannot have been so- Trigrams Uprising of 1813. BY SUSAN cially subordinate, perhaps what he means is cul- NAQUIN. New Haven: Yale University...