...Lucien W. Pye Thought Reform of the Chinese Intellectuals . By Theodore H. E. Chen . Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press ; New York: Oxford University Press, 1960 , xiii, 247 . Appendices, Notes, Index. $5.00. Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism . By Robert Jay...

...O. Edmund Clubb Agrarian Reform in Communist China to 1952 . By Shao-er Ong , Chief Contributor. Research Memorandum No. 41. xviii, 61 . Tables, Figure. Chinese Farm Economy after Agrarian Reform . By Shao-er Ong , Chief Contributor. Technical Research Report No. 34. xiii, 32...

...Nina P. Halpern Modernizing China: Post-Mao Reform and Development . Edited by A. Doak Barnett and Ralph N. Clough . Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press , 1986 . 136 pp. Index. $23.85 (cloth); $12.85 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1986 1986 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Stanley Rosen China's Education Reform in the 1980s: Policies, Issues, and Historical Perspectives . By Suzanne Pepper . Berkeley, Calif. : Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies , China Research Monograph no. 36, 1990 . ix, 196 pp. $12.00 (paper). Secondary...

...Jane Hutchison Agrarian Reform in the Philippines: Democratic Transitions and Redistributive Reform . By Jeffrey M. Riedinger . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 1995 . xvi, 366 pp. $45.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Lynn T. White, III Liu Xiaobo, Charter 08 and the Challenges of Political Reform in China . Edited by Jean-Philippe Béja , Fu Hualing , and Eva Pils . Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press , 2012 . xi, 381 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Aminda M. Smith Abstract This essay explores records from Beijing's efforts to intern and reform the city's “lumpenproletariat” after 1949. Connecting these reports to central government directives about national thought reform policy, I show that reeducators and their superiors discoursed...

...Marie Söderberg Electoral Reform and National Security in Japan: From Pork to Foreign Policy . By Amy Catalinac . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2016 . xvii, 248 pp. ISBN: 9781107120495 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). The Japan-South Korea Identity Clash...

...Harriet C. Mills Abstract The current Chinese language reform movement is of the most profound cultural and political importance in China itself as well as to foreign students of the area. Its goal is within a relatively short period to standardize the basic northern dialect as the common national...

...Kurt Steiner Japan—Land and Men. An Account of the Japanese Land Reform Program—1945–51 . By Laurence I. Hewes Jr. , Ames : Iowa State College Press , 1955 . ix, 154 . Bibliography, Maps, Illustrations. $4.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1956 1956 1...

...Chaoying Fang Wu-hsü pien-fa [The Reform Movement of 1898] . Edited by Chien Po-tsan , Liu Ch'i-ko ei , Tuan Ch'ang-t'ung ej , Lin Shu-hui , Wang Ch'i-chü , Chin Chia-jui ek . 4 vols., 1953 . 2,442 + 49 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1957 1957...

...Ping-Ti Ho Abstract It has been a common belief of students of Chinese history that the “One Hundred Days of Reform” of 1898 got under way only after Weng T'ungho, the imperial tutor and associate grand secretary, popularly known to foreigners as China's prime minister, strongly recommended...

...Stephen Legg Planning the City: Urbanization and Reform in Calcutta c.1800–c.1940 . By Partho Datta . New Delhi : Tulika Books , 2012 . xv, 332 pp. Rs 650 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013  2013 In this remarkable book Partho Datta achieves many...

... minorities (Parsi and Christian) exerted greatest influence in making sati illegal (December 4, 1829: Lord William Bentinck, Rajah Ram Mohun Roy, and the Privy Council); in stating the first marriage reform legislation; and a century later beginning the removal of purdah (July 8, 1928: Gandhi, the Patna...

... and power as well. These important properties of higher educational systems suggest that the content of higher education may have a social utility for the educated elite quite apart from its informational value. In this paper we examine the relationship between the college curriculum and the social reform...

...Nobutaka Ike Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1960 1960 Land Reform in Japan . By R. P. Dore . London : Oxford University Press , 1959 . xvii, 472 . Appendices, Index. $8.80. BOOK REVIEWS 211 This, at least, holds good for the period before Perry's opening...

...B. G. Gokhale A Century of Social Reform in India . By S. Natarajan . Bombay : Asia Publishing House , 1959 . xx, 208 . Bibliography, Index. $3.25. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1960 1960 BOOK REVIEWS 483 In the opinion of this reviewer the failure...

...J. Duncan M. Derrett Tilak and Gokhale: Revolution and Reform in the Making of Modern India . By Stanley A. Wolpert . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1962 . xviii , 370 . Notes, Bibliography, Index. $7.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1963 1963 BOOK...

...Edwin Eames Economic Changes in Rural India. Land Tenure and Reform in Uttar Pradesh 1800–1955 . By Walter Neale . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1962 . xii , 333 . Appendices, Bibliography, Index. $7.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1963 1963 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Tuan Hoang Television in Post-Reform Vietnam: Nation, Media, Market . By Giang Nguyen-Thu . New York : Routledge , 2019 . xii, 152 pp. ISBN: 9781138069022 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2021 2021 Giang Nguyen-Thu has written the deepest study about...