..., and enjoys pithy statements that shake up conventional wisdom. Bruce Cumings has drunk the Kool-Aid of the American frontier myth and spat it out. Or has he? Much of what he says in Dominion from Sea to Sea would gladden the heart of Frederick Jackson Turner or Henry Luce, except that Cumings clearly...

...Albert Parry Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1943 1943 The urge to the sea: the course of Russian history . By Robert J. Kerner . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1942 . xviii, 212 p. $2.50. BOOK REVIEWS 319 against each other...

... activity on the population of Zhejiang. In a Sea of Bitterness captures wonderfully the impact of the Japanese invasion and occupation on one province in China. It vividly describes the emotional trauma of the refugee experience, and in doing so touches on many aspects of the history of the war in China...

...Anne F. Broadbridge The Steppe and the Sea: Pearls in the Mongol Empire . By Thomas T. Allsen . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2019 . 240 pp. ISBN: 9780812251173 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2020 2020 The American historian...

...Hendrik Maier Sovereignty and the Sea: How Indonesia Became an Archipelagic State . By John G. Butcher and R. E. Elson . Singapore : National University of Singapore Press , 2017 ). 527 pp. ISBN: 9789814722216 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2020...

... , no. 1/2 ( 1948 ): 130 –52 . 8 Yamauchi Yuzuru , Zōho kaiteiban Setouchi no kaizoku: Murakami Takayoshi no tatakai [The battles of Murakami Takayoshi: A new and revised edition of the pirates of the Inland sea...

...C. I. Eugene Kim Ch‘oe Pu's Diary: A Record of Drifting Across the Sea . By John Meskill . Tucson, Arizona : University of Arizona Press , 1965 . Published for the Association for Asian Studies. 177 . Bibliography, Index. $4.50 Korean Literature: Topics and Themes . By Peter H...

... as to present the misleading impression that the Chinese have always been a landbound people oriented towards the land frontier of the north and northwest. A Western scholar, for example, has written: “China has never been a sea-power because nothing has ever induced her people to be otherwise than landmen...

...Donald Grove Barnes India and the Indian ocean. An essay on the influence of sea power on Indian history . By K. M. Panikkar . New York : The Macmillan Company , 1945 . 109 p. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1946 1946 BOOK REVIEWS 95 of Gombroon" (p. 204). Sir...

...Robert G. Flershem Abstract It is reasonable to assume that Kaga han, in view of its size, large rice and other exports, and central coastal location, provided the lion's share of ships and shipowners operating in the Japan Sea during the two centuries before Perry. Villagers were going from Noto...

...Robert L. Worden In the Sea of Sterile Mountains: The Chinese in British Columbia . By James Morton . Vancouver : J.J. Douglas , 1974 . xiii, 280 Chronology, Index. $12.50 Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1977 1977 BOOK REVIEWS 347 cruel demands. The rebellion...

...Eugene I. Knez Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972 1972 A Korean Village: Between Farm and Sea . By Vincent S. R. Brandt . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1972 . 240 pp. Bibliography, Index. $8.95. BOOK REVIEWS 163 words. Accordingly, the translation...

...Michael K. Orbach Protein from the Sea: Technological Change in Philippine Capture Fisheries . By Alexander Spoehr . Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh , Department of Anthropology (Ethnology Monographs, 3), 1980 . xi, 224 pp. Bibliography, Illustrations, Tables. $9.50 (paper...

...Jiu-Hwa Lo Upshur China Alive in the Bitter Sea . By Fox Butterfield . New York : Times Books , 1982 . xxi, 468 pp. Illustrations, Index. $22.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1984 1984 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER ASIA 305 money for entertainment anyway...

...Franklin W. Houn Contest for the South China Sea . By Marwyn S. Samuels . New York : Methuen , 1982 . viii, 203 pp. Figures, Notes, Appendixes. $24.95. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1983 1983 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER ASIA 147 classroom use, alongside more...

...John E. Wills, Jr. Maritime Sector, Institutions, and Sea Power of Premodern China . By Gang Deng . Westport, Conn, and London : Greenwood Publishing Group , 1999 . xix, 289 pp. $69.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 705 Sima Qian...

...Nathan Sivin Essential Subtleties on the Silver Sea . The Yin-hai jing-wei: A Chinese Classic on Ophthalmology . Translated and annotated by Jürgen Kovacs and Paul U. Unschuld . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1998 . xii, 503 pp. $65.00. Copyright © The Association...

...Carl A. Trocki Fields from the Sea: Chinese Junk Trade with Siam during the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries . By Jennifer Wayne Cushman . Ithaca : Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University , 1993 . ix, 206 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994...

...Kathleen M. Adams Beyond the Java Sea: Art of Indonesia's Outer Island . By Paul Michael and Lorraine V. Aragon . Washington, D.C. : The Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution . 1991 . 320 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $22.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Himanshu Prabha Ray Asian Merchants and Businessmen in the Indian Ocean and the China Sea . Edited By Denys Lombard and Jean Aubin . New Delhi and New York : Oxford University Press , 2000 . 375 pp. $35.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002...