...Max Beloff The Moscow-Peking Axis: Strengths and Strains . By Howard L. Boor-Man and Others. New York : Harper & Brothers , for the Council on Foreign Relations, 1957 . xvii, 227 . $3.50. Soviet Russia and the West, 1920–1927 . By Xenia Joukoff Eudin and Harold H. Fisher...

...John H. Boyle Nomonhan: Japan Against Russia, 1939 . By Alvin D. Coox . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1985 . Vol. I: xx, 661 pp. Illus., Tables, Maps, Notes. Vol. 2: 591 pp. Illus., Notes, Bibliography, Index of Names. $95 the set. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Harriet Moore The rise of Russia in Asia . By David J. Dallin . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1949 . xi , 293 p. $5.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1950 1950 BOOK REVIEWS 355 (1615-1624); and the military, peasant, chonin (merchant and artisan...

...Jerome B. Grieder The West in Russia and China: Religious and Secular Thought in Modern Times . By Donald W. Treadgold . Cambridge University Press , 1973 . Vol. 1 : Russia , 1472–1917. xl, 324 pp. $12.95. Vol. 2: China, 1582 – 1949 ; xxii, 251 pp. $11.95. Copyright ©...

...Eric Widmer Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1971 1971 Travels in Central Asia . By Arminius Vambery . New York : Praeger Publishers , 1970 . xvii, 443 pp. n.p. England and Russia in the East . By Sir Henry Rawlinson . New York : Praeger Publishers , 1970...

...Olga Lang Russia and the Roots of the Chinese Revolution 1896–1911 . By Don C. Price . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1974 . iii, 303 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Glossary, Index. $16.00 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1976 1976 BOOK REVIEWS 319 Russia...

...Charles H. Ashton India, Russia, China and Bangla Desh . By J. A. Naik . New Delhi : S. Chand & Co. Ltd. , 1972 . viii, 163 pp. Appendices, Index. Rs. 20.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1973 1973 720 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES India, Russia, China and Bangla...

...William B. Ballis The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution . By Harold R. Isaacs . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1951 . xv , 382 . $5.00. Russia and Asia . By A. Lobanov-Rostovsky . Ann Arbor : The George Wahr Publishing Company , 1951 . v , 342 . $4.00. Copyright...

...John Shelton Curtiss Russia and Her Colonies . By Walter Kolarz . New York : Frederick A. Praeger , 1953 . xiv, 335 pp. Index. $6.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1953 1953 416 FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY Its usefulness depends on whether the Communist virus...

..., well-integrated survey of Central Asian and Russian history—a book, that is, like Shoshana Keller's Russia and Central Asia . The pious ones have now been rewarded, and the rest of us, too. If Keller's book merely provided a readable, unfussy chronology of Central Asian history, it would already...

...Robert C. North Soviet Russia and Indian Communism, 1917–1947 ., with an epiloque covering the situation today. By David N. Druhe . New York : Bookman Associates , 1959 . 429 . Notes, Bibliography, Index. $8.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1960 1960 BOOK...

... Nation: Reform and Revolution on the Russia-China Frontier . By David Brophy . Cambridge, Mass .: Harvard University Press , 2016 . 387 pp. ISBN: 9780674660373 (cloth, also available as e-book). Oil and Water: Being Han in Xinjiang . By Tom Cliff . Chicago...

...Thomas T. Allsen A History of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia . Vol. 1, Inner Eurasia from Prehistory to the Mongol Empire . By David Christian . London : Blackwell Publishers , 1998 . 472 pp. $62.95 (cloth); $27.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Robert Sutter Rapprochement or Rivalry? Russia-China Relations in a Changing Asia . Edited by Sherman W. Garnett . Washington D.C. : Carnegie Endowment for International Peace , 2000 . x, 439 pp. $24.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 BOOK...

... century: The structure and social role of the cult system], ed. V. V. Mantatov (Novosibirsk: Nauka, 1983). 2 John Snelling, Buddhism in Russia: The Story of Agvan Dorzhiev, Lhasa's Emissary to the Tsar , foreword by Stephen Batchelor (Shaftesbury: Element, 1993); Alexandre Andreyev, Soviet...

...Victor Zatsepine Both books offer nuanced analyses of literary, social, and cultural encounters between China and Russia during different stages in their recent history, and challenging reductionist narratives of top leaders, their capitals and markets, which tend to strip both countries of long...

...David Christian Window on the East: National and Imperial Identities in Late Tsarist Russia . By Robert P. Geraci . Ithaca and London : Cornell University Press , 2001 . xviii, 389 pp. $54.50 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 272 THE JOURNAL...

...John Albert White The Expansion of Russia in East Asia 1857–1860 . By R. K. I. Quested . Kuala Lumpar : Oxford University Press , 1968 . xxx, 339 pp. Bibliography, Index, Maps. $25.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1969 1969 BOOK REVIEWS tifications, is more...

...R. Quested Abstract The article discusses recently published material on the subject of the author's book on Sino-Russian relations entitled The Expansion of Russia in East Asia 1857–60 (with an introductory chapter on 1792–1856). The two Chinese document collections Szu-kuo hsintang and Chou-pan i...

...B. Nicolaevsky Abstract There is a widely shared belief expressed in political literature that Japan is Russia's “traditional foe.” Japan's policy is very often pictured as a straight line of constant fighting against the “Russian bear” - much more so since that bear has been dyed red. Actually...