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...Chitoshi Yanaga Toward International Understanding . By Yasaka Takagi . Tokyo : Kenkyusha , 1954 . viii, 180 . Index. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1955 1955 130 FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY nevertheless some of his "facts" are little more than informed guesses...

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...Alan P. L. Liu Understanding Foreign Policy Decisions: The Chinese Case . By Davis B. Bobrow , Steve Chan , and John A. Kringen . New York : The Free Press , 1979 . 242 pp. Bibliography, Index, Figures, Tables. $16.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1980 1980...

..., will serve as spurs to rethinking the scholarship on Thailand. RICHARD BASHAM University of Sydney Understanding ASEAN. Edited by ALISON BROINOWSKI. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982. xvi, 323 pp. Map, Editor's Foreword, Notes on the Contributors, Abbreviations, Statistical Tables, Notes and References...

...Virginia Harper Ho Understanding Labor and Employment Law in China . By Ronald Brown . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2009 . xvi , 332 pp. $90.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 Since the mid-1990s, when China enacted its...

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...Patrick Guinness 1340 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Understanding Witchcraft and Sorcery in Southeast Asia. Edited by C. W . W A T S O N and R O Y ELLEN. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1993. vii, 222 pp. $32.00. Witchcraft and sorcery have not figured prominently in ethnographic accounts...

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...Peter Zarrow Re-understanding Japan: Chinese Perspective, 1895–1945 . By Lu Yan . Honolulu : Association for Asian Studies and University of Hawai'i Press , 2004 . xiii, 339 pp. $50.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 B O O K R E V I E W S A S I...