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...Mark R. Thompson Abstract In the last three decades, a number of Asian thinkers supportive of, or opposed to, authoritarian rule have developed culture-based theories of democracy that challenge, or buttress, a liberal, “Western” understanding of democratic rule. The most famous expression...

...Daniel L. Overmyer Abstract The study of chinese religions is a lively and growing field. Its major bibliographer in the West, Laurence G. Thompson, comments that in revising his bibliography of Western-language publications through 1980 to include those published in the following ten years...

...Laura Thompson Abstract In order to understand the current crisis in native affairs on Guam we need some knowledge of the changes that have taken place on the island since its discovery by Magellan in 1521. In the four centuries which have elapsed since discovery this small island of only 225...

...Virginia Thompson Abstract Our coverage of wartime broadcasts emitted by Radio Tokyo and its satellite stations, while unavoidably incomplete, nevertheless offers clear clues to the Japanese blueprint for Indonesia. The essence of propaganda is to hammer away at a few points, and we may infer from...

...Virginia Thompson The Chinese in Thailand . By Kenneth Perry Landon . London and New York : Oxford University Press , 1941 . xii, 310 p. $2.50. An IPR book. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1942 1942 BOOK REVIEWS 201 kets, sources of raw materials, and heavy...

...Laura Thompson The South Seas in the modern world . By Felix M. Keesing . New York : John Day , 1941 . xvi. 391 p. $3.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1942 1942 296 THE FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY The South Seas in the modern world. BY FELIX M. KEESING. New York...

...C. Michele Thompson 2 K. W. Taylor , A History of the Vietnamese ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2013 ) ; Christopher E. Goscha , Vietnam: A New History ( New York : Basic Books , 2016 ) . 1 George E. Dutton , Jayne S. Werner...

...Roger R. Thompson Quest for Power: European Imperialism and the Making of Chinese Statecraft . By Stephen R. Halsey . 360 pp. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 2015 . ISBN: 9780674425651 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2017...

...C. Michele Thompson The People Between the Rivers: The Rise and Fall of a Bronze Drum Culture, 200–750 CE . By Catherine Churchman . Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield , 2016 . 266 pp. ISBN: 9781442258600 (cloth, also available as e-book). Copyright ©...

...Roger R. Thompson Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 Foundations and Limits of State Power in China . Edited by Stuart R. Schram . London : University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies ; Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1987 xxx...

...Roger R. Thompson To the People: James Yen and Village China . By Charles W. Hayford . New York : Columbia University Press , 1990 . xviii, 304 pp. $42.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER ASIA 387 those of a "Primitivist...

...Virginia Thompson; Richard Adloff Abstract Culturally Indochina has suffered considerably, though less as a result of the war than of the strife which has followed it, and the damage sustained has been in the fields of both personnel and material equipment. The losses of the Ecole française...

...Sarah E. Thompson Hokusai and Hiroshige: Great Japanese Prints from the James A. Michener Collection of the Honolulu Academy of Arts . By Julia M. White . Seattle and London : The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, in association with the Honolulu Academy of Arts and University...

...Stephen I. Thompson Cane Fires: The Anti-Japanese Movement in Hawaii, 1865–1945 . By Gary Y. Okihiro . Philadelphia : Temple University Press , 1991 . xvii, 352 pp. $39.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 169 Molony concludes...

...Roger R. Thompson “Secret Societies” Reconsidered: Perspectives on the Social History of Early Modern South China and Southeast Asia . Edited by David Ownby and Mary Somers Heidhues . Armonk, N.Y., and London : M. E. Sharpe , 1993 . x, 259 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Eric C. Thompson In academia, the book would be most appropriate for use in American or British introductory university courses, either history courses focused on political and international relations history or political science courses with a historical and Asia-Pacific focus or content...

...Mikael Thompson The Phonology of Mongolian . Edited by Jan-Olof Svantesson , Anna Tsendina , Anastasia Karlsson and Vivan Franzén . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2005 . xix , 314 pp. $192.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2007 2007...

...Mark R. Thompson Regionalism and Globalism in Southeast Asia . By Eero Palmujoki . Houndsmills, Basingstoke : Palgrave , 2001 . xi, 226 pp. $68.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 341 have "countenanced...

...Eric C. Thompson Social Science and Knowledge in a Globalising World . Edited by Zawawi Ibrahim . Kajang : Persatuan Sains Sosial Malaysia (Malaysian Social Science Association) and Petaling Jaya: Strategic Information and Research Development Centre , 2012 . xxxii, 499 pp. $22.40 (paper...

...Mark R. Thompson Asia's Unknown Uprisings, Vol. 2: People Power in the Philippines, Burma, Tibet, China, Taiwan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Thailand, and Indonesia . By George Katsiaficas . Oakland, Calif. : PM Press , 2013 . 520 pp. $28.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian...