... accessible the enduring scholarship of a true pioneer in the history of Taoism and Chinese civilization. J. RUSSELL KIRKLAND Indiana University A Great Trial in Chinese History: The Trial of the Lin Biao and Jiang Qing Counter-Revolutionary Cliques, Nov. 1980-Jan. 1981. By N E W WORLD PRESS. Beijing, 1981...

...Cecil Hobbs A Trial in Burma: the Assassination of Aung San . By U Maung Maung . The Hague : Nijhoff , 1962 . 117 . fl. 12.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1965 1965 BOOK REVIEWS 701 pline, and his comparisons seem natural and logical. Readers will find his...

.... STEPHEN D. MILLER University of Colorado The Tokyo Trial and Beyond: Reflections of a Peacemonger. By B . V . A . R O L I N G . Edited with an introduction by A N T O N I O CASSESE. Cambridge, England: Polity Press, 1994. ix, 143 pp. $17.95. This book is an edited record of Antonio Cassese's interviews...

...Chonghan Kim Korea: Democracy on Trial . By John Kiechiang Oh . New York : Cornell University Press , 1968 . xiv , 240 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Index, Maps, Tables. $7.95. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1969 1969 BOOK REVIEWS 865 Korea: Democracy on Trial. BY JOHN...

...Gary C. Larsen South Vietnam Trial and Experience: A Challenge for Development . By Nguyen Anh Tuan . Monographs in International Studies, Southeast Asia Series 80. Athens : Ohio University Press , 1987 . xi, 461 pp. $15.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...David G. Egler Japan: The Years of Trial, 1919–52 . By Murakami Hyoe . Tokyo : Japan Cultural Institute , 1982 . 246 pp. Chronology, Bibliography, Index. $16.50. Eagles of Mitsubishi: The Story of the Zero Fighter . By Jiro Horikoshi . Translated by Shojiro Shindo and Harold N...

...Daniel S. Lev Breaking the Chains of Oppression of the Indonesian People: Defense Statement at His Trial on Charges of Insulting the Head of State . By Heri Akhmadi . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell Modern Indonesia Project (Translation Series, no. 59), 1981 . viii, 178 pp. Charts, Glossary...

...Richard H. Minear The Japanese on Trial: Allied War Crimes Operations in the East, 1945–1951 . By Philip R. Piccigallo . Austin and London : University of Texas Press , 1979 . xv, 292 pp. Illustrations, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $15.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...David C. Buxbaum Abstract This article concerns the Chinese law of the Ch'ing period at the trial level in one locality in China. Through use of a unique archive, namely, the Tanshui and Hsinchu archive, and through statistical studies of the materials in that archive, the article asserts...

...Kurt Steiner Victor's Justice: the Tokyo War Crimes Trial . By Richard H. Minear . Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press , 1971 . xv, 229 pp. Appendices, Bibliographic Note, Index. $7.95. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1973 1973 708 JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...William H. Frederick Indonesia Accuses! Soekarno's Defence Oration in the Political Trial of 1930 . Edited, translated, annotated, and introduced by Roger K. Paget . Kuala Lumpur : Oxford University Press , Oxford in Asia Historical Memoirs, 1975 . lxxx, 153 pp. Appendix, Index. $22.00...

...Andrew Morris Democracy on Trial: Social Movements and Cultural Politics in Postauthoritarian Taiwan . By Ya-Chung Chuang . Hong Kong : Chinese University Press , 2013 . xx, 269 pp. $39.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014  2014 Some authors seem...

.... Kolsky Elizabeth . 2009 . Colonial Justice in British India: White Violence and the Rule of Law . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Kolsky Elizabeth . 2010 . “ ‘The Body Evidencing the Crime’: Rape on Trial in Colonial India, 1860–1947. ” Gender & History 22 ( 1 ): 109 –30...

...Thierry Cruvellier Man or Monster? The Trial of a Khmer Rouge Torturer . By Alexander Laban Hinton . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2016 . 360 pp. ISBN: 9780822362739 (paper, also available in cloth and as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2018...

... to republican China—this book provides a welcome shift of focus in understanding the murky realm of the public. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2008 2008 Public Passions: The Trial of Shi Jianqiao and the Rise of Popular Sympathy in Republican China . By Eugenia Lean...

...James T. C. Liu The Tokyo Trials: A Functional Index to the Proceedings of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East . By Paul S. Dull and Michael Takaaki Umemura . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , 1957 . vi , 94 . $5.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association...

...Richard Foltz Tajikistan: The Trials of Independence . Edited by Mohammad-Reza Djalili , Frédéric Grare and Shirin Akiner . New York : St. Martin's Press , 1997 . xiii, 248 pp. $39.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 BOOK REVIEWS INNER ASIA 851...

...Michael H. Fisher Race, Religion, and Law in Colonial India: Trials of an Interracial Family . By Chandra Mallampalli . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2011 . xviii, 268 pp. $95.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013 2013 Law must work...

... of Nanking” has in the last several decades become a controversial marker of Chinese identity as well as a source of potent disagreement among Japanese over their nation's history as a colonial power in East Asia. Within this controversy, the IMTFE trial in Tokyo has been used as a touchstone to confirm...

... in the classical era, account for its trials and accomplishments during the Dutch colonial period (1906–1948), and with little sense of discontinuity justify its role in modern Balinese politics, from Indonesian independence through the national elections of 1971. We first detail legends, rituals, and stories...