... and practice of the civil code of Japan ( London : Butterworth & Co. , 1921 ), vi. 5 Similarly, Professor Kawashima Takeyoshi in discussing the present revision called the family system of the civil code “the family system of the Samurai Caste” and speaks of the “Confucianistic family morality...

...Lane Earns Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 Japan Comes of Age: Mutsu Munemitsu and the Revision of the Unequal Treaties . By Louis G. Perez . Cranbury, N.J. : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press , 1999 . 248 pp. $41.50 (cloth). 258 THE JOURNAL...

...Barbara Watson Andaya Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 Structuralism's Transformations: Order and Revision in Indonesian and Malaysian Societies . Edited by Lorraine V. Arragon and Susan D. Russell . Tempe : Arizona State University Program for Southeast...

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...: A History of Xinjiang , Revised and Updated Edition . By James A. Millward . New York : Columbia University Press , 2021 . ISBN: 9780231204545 (cloth). ...

... Intervention on Population Growth in Imperial China.” Journal of Family History 18 ( 3 ): 213 –30. Revising the Malthusian Narrative: The Comparative Study of Population Dynamics in Late Imperial China WILLIAM LAVELY and R. BIN WONG lli VER SINCE MALTHUS, IT HAS BEEN CONVENTIONAL to cast the Chinese...

...Joseph McDermott Chinese History, A Manual, Revised and Enlarged . By Endymion Wilkinson . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center for the Harvard-Yenching Institute , 2000 . xxiv, 1181 pp. $70.00 (cloth), $25.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

... and their first revision in 1910, ideological patterns were established which were influential down to the last revision of the series in 1941. The 1910 revision fused old and new socio-ideological patterns and values under the designation of “national morals,” retrospectively known as the “family state” ( kazoku...

..., such as constitutional revision, have not. In general, the period since the 1950s has seen a pattern of conservative social change backed by the Liberal Democratic Party. An area that illustrates this trend is that of language policy, specifically the policy toward script. The partial revision of the immediate postwar...

...Hungdah Chiu Abstract In 1951, the Chinese delegate to the United Nations proposed to the General Assembly that the Chinese text of the Genocide Convention be revised. The reason for revision, as stated in the Chinese proposal, was that there existed a number of discrepancies between the Chinese...

... to the surprise of both, met in a long, drawn-out series of trying and painful interviews, stretching from mid-March to the end of July, to argue and then attempt to revise the terms of Japan's 1858 treaty of friendship and commerce with the United States. This confrontation marks the proper, though halting...

...Edward L. Dreyer Abstract In a 1926 article Wada Sei criticized the chronology of early Ming history given in the Ming T'ai-tsu shih-lu and other official sources. His conclusions have won general acceptance. Wada based his revisions on the Chi-shih-lu of Yu Pen, a lost work surviving only...

... the thirties. It was the Chhayavadins who first fulfilled the promise of the Bharatendu and Dwivedi periods (ca. 1870–1920) with the publication of such volumes as Nirala's Anāmikā (first version, 1922) and Parimal (1930), Prasad's revised Jharnā (1927), Pant's Pallav (1928), and Mahadevi Verma's Nihār (1930...

... not only shows how the Chinese state revises its administrative and legal terms of international marriage, but also highlights the historical, racialized, and gendered forces that shape the process. The regulatory framework of marriage migration is informed by the shifting structures of feeling shaping...

...—especially the major 863 Program to develop advanced technologies—and had great importance in China's economic transformation. In explicating Zhao's role, this account revises the often-repeated Deng Xiaoping–centered story of the 863 Program's origins and reassesses this major initiative, which exemplifies...

...Knight Biggerstaff Abstract During the winter of 1867–1868 the Chinese Foreign Office dispatched its first diplomatic mission to the United States and Europe. The stipulated time for treaty revision was drawing near and the Chinese government had reason to expect that the Treaty Powers, under...

...Daniel L. Overmyer Abstract The study of chinese religions is a lively and growing field. Its major bibliographer in the West, Laurence G. Thompson, comments that in revising his bibliography of Western-language publications through 1980 to include those published in the following ten years...

...William K. Cummings Abstract In recent years, several empirically based studies of blue collar and white collar Japanese workers—notably by Taira, Hazama, Marsh and Mannari, Cole, and Evans—have resulted in a substantial “revision” of our understanding of Japanese labor markets. 2 These studies...

...A. Thomas Kirsch Abstract The four articles on Thai religion and society published here are revisions of papers originally prepared for panels at the 1972 and 1973 annual meetings of the Association for Asian Studies, held in New York and Chicago, respectively. Contributions were solicited from...

... of the subject, not all pertinent studies are esoteric or dull. There have been new and unexpected discoveries along with solid and original contributions that have wide-ranging implications. Many views that are commonly held are now seen to derive from misconceptions and to stand in need of revision. Topics...