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...Fred K. Schaefer The basis of Soviet strength . By George B. Cressey . New York : Whittlesey House , 1945 . xi, 287 p. $3.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1946 1946 92 THE FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY not engulfed by the invading tide of the Tatars in Russia's...

...Christina Firpo On Our Own Strength: The Self-Reliant Literary Group and Cosmopolitan Nationalism in Late Colonial Vietnam . By Martina Thucnhi Nguyen . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2021 . xiii, 262 pp. ISBN: 9780824883331 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Gregor Benton A Springboard to Victory: Shandong Province and Chinese Communist Military and Financial Strength, 1937–1945 . By Sherman Xiaogang Lai . Leiden: Brill , 2011 . xxxiii, 341 pp. $179.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2012 2012 Sherman...

...Reginald Horsman Bitter Strength: A History of the Chinese in the United States, 1850–1870 . By Gunther Barth . Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press , 1964 . xi, 305 , Index, Notes. $5.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1966 1966 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Harumi Befu For Harmony and Strength: Japanese White-Collar Organization in Anthropological Perspective . By Thomas P. Rohlen . Berkeley, Los Angeles, London : University of California Press , 1974 . 285 pp. References Cited, Index. $12.50 Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...Marie Anchordoguy The Japanese Firm, Sources of Competitive Strength . Edited by Masahiko Aoki and Ronald Dore . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 1994 . xi, 410 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 214 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES ningenkankei...

...Herman Tull Strong Arms and Drinking Strength: Masculinity, Violence, and the Body in Ancient India . By Jarrod L. Whitaker . New York : Oxford University Press , 2011 . x, 229 pp. $74.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2012 2012 Jarrod Whitaker's...

...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...

...Alvin Y. So Towards a New Millennium: Building on Hong Kong's Strengths . Edited by Wang Gungwu and Wong Siu-Lun . Hong Kong : Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong , 1999 . 212 pp. HK $140.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 BOOK...

... in and out of office, did not appear on at least one corner of the canvas. Occasionally displaying promise of strength but generally exhibiting its actual impotence, the Kenseikai nevertheless played a role of some significance to developments in Japan. It is the purpose of this essay to examine briefly some...

... to seek out and learn the secrets of the strength of the Western nations. Both of these great Chinese officials, however, conceived of this strength in the narrow sense of military and naval prowess. Their primary concern, therefore, was to learn from the West the technical knowledge upon which western...

... as Korea; security of the frontier in East Asia as significant as equal treaties with China and the West. And for historians with the advantage of a century of hindsight, the debate is important evidence in assessing the strength and sophistication of expansionist sentiment in early Meiji Japan. Does...

...William J. Duiker Abstract One of the most striking facts about the history of modern Vietnam has been the persistent strength of the communist movement. In part, of course, this strength must be attributed to the organizational abilities of the communists themselves. But it might also be said...

..., in consequence, in political circles in Japan, myth and conjecture have obscured the real significance of the episode. An examination of the record makes it possible to show that it was not another manifestation of the positive policy of the Tanaka cabinet but that it was the first successful test of strength...

...Alfred D. Morgan Abstract The United States government in the closing days of the European war initiated what seems a unique venture in war history: to dissect the war anatomies of major enemy countries and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses on the basis of enemy data and interviews...

... toward the furthering of biopolitical power. It compares five strategic industries in India—atomic energy, space, electronics, biotechnology and telecommunications—and shows that no single factor is responsible for technological success or failure. Outcomes depend on the strength of political networks...

...J. H. Broomfield Abstract Representative Government was an institution dear to the hearts of nineteenth-century Englishmen. It was their pride and, they affirmed, the source of their national strength that they lived under this form of constitution. They were eager that others, especially...

... himself lost interest in the cause long before his death in 1891. Unlike the political reformers, the social reformers gave no evidence, so far as the present writer knows, of concern about the absence of a national organization to direct and stimulate their activities. If it had any strength...