... and beginning some public discussion (albeit difficult and tortured). EUGENE K. LAWSON Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for East Asia and the Pacific DAVID DENNY Senior China Desk Officer, Department of Commerce Protest and Crime in China: A Bibliography of Secret Associations, Popular Uprisings, Peasant...

... were frustrated by SCAP's decision to “democratize” the police by dissolving the Special Higher Police, purging its senior officials, and abolishing the Peace Preservation Law (Obinata 2000 , 340–44). With its organization and reach diminished, the police found it crucial to rely on the service...

... rise to. LORRAINE GESICK Fulbright Senior Scholar, Bangkok Singapore: Twenty-five Years of Development. Edited by You POH SENG and LiM CHONG YAH. Singapore: Nan Yan Xing Zhou Lianhe Zaobao, 1984. xii, 392 pp. Tables, Index. N.p. The editor's preface describes this book as "a collection of essays...

... positions than ever before, and a strong contingent of graduate students is set to follow them. Whatever the future of Xinjiang studies may be, we have for the first time a large enough body of work to talk about trends in what is beginning to look like a true academic field. Indeed, senior scholars...

... the senior authors of international repute, the academicians V. V. Struve and V. M. Alexeev must be mentioned, who have carried on the tradition of Russian scholarship. WORKS ON THE FAR EAST AND CENTRAL ASIA PUBLISHED IN THE U.S.S.R., 1937-47 RUDOLF LOEWENTHAL* Cornell University THIS LIST OF PUBLICATIONS...

...George Dutton Abstract I think it is fair to say that Keith Taylor's new history of the Vietnamese peoples, A History of the Vietnamese , is long awaited in at least two senses. Those who were aware that Professor Taylor was working on this project were eager to see how a senior scholar would...

... “almost immediately gave up every other study” and prepared for the British service in China. Hardly more than a year later, at the beginning of 1843, Meadows arrived at the new crown colony of Hongkong. When George Tradescant Lay opened the first British consulate at Canton on July 23, Meadows was Senior...