.... Togoro's method of interpretation is significant as he tries to demonstrate that some of the central Kamakura Buddhist leaders are able to rise entirely above their times and, whether conscious or not, tended to support the status quo and ruling forces. Nichiren he sees as being most at odds...

...Leigh K. Jenco Abstract “Rule by man” and “rule by law” are frequently invoked categories in Chinese political discourse past and present, but their theoretical scope and possible interpretation remain highly controversial. Seeking to gain analytical traction on these categories, the author...

...John L. Christian British rule in Eastern Asia . By Lennox A. Mills . London : Oxford University Press ; Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 1942 . An IPR book, ix, 581 p. $5.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1942 1942 108 T H E FAR EASTERN...

...Phuc To Forests Are Gold: Trees, People, and Environmental Rule in Vietnam . By Pamela D. McElwee . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2016 . xxvi, 283 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019  2019 Pamela McElwee's Forests Are Gold argues...

... to speak Chinese! (Cf. Yule I, p. 29 n.) Columbia University FENG CHIA-SHENG The origin of Manchu rule in China. BY FRANZ MICHAEL. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1942. x, 127 p. $2.00. Among the most perplexing episodes in Chinese history have been the recurring conquests of the empire by neighboring...

...Jun Uchida Assimilating Seoul: Japanese Rule and the Politics of Public Space in Colonial Korea, 1910-1945 . By Todd A. Henry . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2014 . vii, 299 pp. $49.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015  2015...

...Brandon Marsh Call of Empire: From the Highlands to Hindostan . By Alexander Charles Baillie . Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press , 2017 . xii, 468 pp. ISBN: 9780773551244 (cloth). The Ruler's Gaze: A Study of British Rule over India from a Saidian Perspective...

...Amanda Lucia Spiritual Despots is also useful in that it reveals the intellectual foundations of the two dominant forces of subject formation in India today: the ideal of self-rule/self-governance as expressed in nationalism and the presumption of an autonomous self as expressed...

...James Heitzman Vom Herrscher zum Untertan: Spannungsverhältnis zwischen lokaler Herrschaftsstruktur und der Kolonialverwaltung in Malabar zu Beginn der britischen Herrschaft (1790–1805) . (From ruler to subordinate: Relationship of tension between local ruling structure and colonial power...

... The Limits of the Rule ofLaw in China. Edited by K A R E N G. T U R N E R , JAMES V. FEINERMAN, and R. K E N T G U Y . Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000. xiv, 348 pp. $65.00 (cloth). For two decades since 1979, "rule of law" has become one of the most popular goals in China's modernization...

.... These intercultural marriages, a relic from Qing era practices, were a bottom-up solution, and often a “cheap way” for the Japanese to rule the aborigines, especially at the beginning when the Japanese bureaucrats sent to Taiwan were poorly trained and knew little about the country in which they were living...

...Brandon Dotson The Dunhuang Region During Tibetan Rule (787–848): A Study of the Secular Manuscripts Discovered at Dunhuang . By Gertraud Taenzer . Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag , 2012 . xiii, 450 pp., 4 maps, 3 plates. €98.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

... together better than others, Colonial Rule and Social Change in Korea 's focus on the complexity of Koreans' lived experience of Japanese colonization in and of itself is a contribution to the English-language studies of the colonial period, one that invites further scholarly exploration of, for example...

... of the population. Part three of her book, “Marketisation and Military Rule,” is rich with descriptions about the reconfiguration of North Korean society since the 1990s. Several important trends include the growing importance of the family as the state withdrew as a provider for society's basic needs...

...Alan R. Beals Kin, Clan, Raja and Rule: State-Hinterland Relations in Preindustrial India . By Richard G. Fox . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1971 . 187 pp. Bibliography, Index, Illustrations. $8.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972 1972 BOOK...

...Ching-Chih Chen Formosa: Licensed Revolution and the Home Rule Movement, 1895–1945 . By George H. Kerr . Honolulu : University Press of Hawaii , 1974 . xviii, 265 pp. Bibliography, Index. $12.50 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1976 1976 BOOK REVIEWS 491 yet even...

...Frank H. H. King Under Chartered Company Rule: North Borneo, 1881–1946 . By K. G. Tregonning . Singapore : University of Malaya Press , 1958 . (Distributed by Oxford University Press, New York.) ix, 250 . 30 s ;. (in United Kingdom only). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

... political stability, even though this undermines the “rule of law.” In doing so, the legal system serves to preserve the regime. In contrast, Kellogg finds that groups and individuals are increasingly referring to constitutional principles as the basis of resolving disputes. This may in the long run empower...

...Richard Madsen Religion in China: Survival and Revival under Communist Rule . By Fenggang Yang . New York : Oxford University Press , 2011 . xv, 245 pp. $99.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2012 2012 Yang Fenggang has done more than...

... for the broader public and policymakers. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2018  2018 A World Trimmed with Fur: Wild Things, Pristine Places, and the Natural Fringes of Qing Rule . By Jonathan Schlesinger . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 2017 . xii, 271 pp. ISBN...