...Bruce Cruikshank Church Lands and Peasant Unrest in the Philippines: Agrarian Unrest in 20th Century Luzon . By Michael J. Connolly , S. J. Manila : Ateneo de Manila Press , 1992 . vii, 232 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST...

...David Faure Hong Kong in Chinese History, Community and Social Unrest in the British Colony, 1842–1913 . By Jung-fang Tsai . New York : Columbia University Press , 1993 . xiii, 375 pp. $45.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA...

...John R. McLane Social Conflict and Political Unrest in Bengal, 1875–1927 . By Rajat Kanta Ray . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1984 . 398 pp. Sources, Index. $32.50. (Distributed in the United States by Oxford University Press.) Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Clarence Hendershot Southeast Asia. Crossroad of religions . By Kenneth Perry Landon . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1949 . ix, 215 p. $4.00. Agrarian unrest in Southeast Asia . By Erich H. Jacoby . New York : Columbia University Press , 1949 . xvii, 287 p. $4.00...

... a wildcat strike at an IBM factory in March 2014. The Financial Times likewise intimated a qualitative change or “crossing the line” in Chinese labor activism in an article highlighting the demographic and technological reasons for the gathering strength of workers: “The potential for unrest is only...

...William H. Frederick Protest Movements in Rural Java: A Study of Agrarian Unrest in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries . By Sartono Kartodirdjo . Singapore : Oxford University Press , 1973 . xv, 229 pp. Illustrations, Appendices, Bibliography, Index. $16.75. Copyright ©...

...Anand A. Yang Agrarian Unrest in North India: The United Provinces, 1918–22 . By Majid Hayat Siddiqi . New Delhi : Vikas Publishing House Pvt. Ltd. , 1978 . xxii, 247 pp. Appendixes, Maps, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. N.p.l. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1980...

...Elizabeth J. Perry Les Cent Fleurs à I'usine: Agitation ouvrière et crise du modèle soviétique en Chine, 1956–1957 . [The Hundred Flowers in the factory: Worker unrest and the crisis of the Soviet model in China, 1956–1957] . By François Gipouloux . Paris : École des Hautes Études en...

...Timothy A. Grose Ethnic Conflict and Protest in Tibet and Xinjiang: Unrest in China's West . Edited by Ben Hillman and Gray Tuttle . New York : Columbia University Press , 2016 . vi, 268 pp. ISBN: 9780231169981 (cloth, also available as e...

...Carl L. Gilbert Student Unrest in India: A Comparative Approach . By Aileen D. Ross . Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press , 1969 . v, 281 pp. Bibliography. $12.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1970 1970 724 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES terns...

...Man-kong Wong Hong Kong in Chinese History: Community and Social Unrest in the British Colony, 1842–1913 . By Tsai Jung-Fang . New York : Columbia University Press , 1993 . xiii, 375 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 BOOK REVIEWS...

... for exploitation of the Ceylonese. A Buddhist temperence movement had become a channel for articulating nationalist sentiments and was viewed with suspicion by the colonial regime. Labor unrest and trade unionism had appeared in Colombo prior to the riots. There, the 1915 disorders were led by the most militant...

... a matter of pride and prestige but a question of survival. The failure to feed civil officials, military supporters, and the urban population that serves them is a visible sign of a government's inadequacy and easily leads to political unrest. For these reasons, all states have tended to favor the food...

...-cooperation there coincided with unrest among the peasantry and, for a time at least, it assumed the appearance of a revolutionary upsurge. The British Government of the province, therefore, had to meet this revolutionary movement as well as the Congress-led political movement. The Government turned...

...? These questions take on added significance because of the present political upheavals and unrest in nearly all of the countries of this region. 10 Article 73, United Nations Charter. 9 Supplement, August, 1942. 8 Ibid., pp. 803–804. 7 The Philippines ( New York : Macmillan...

...John D. Wong Abstract The current political crisis in Hong Kong is characterized by a level of social unrest that the city has not seen since the riots of 1966–67. After that earlier round of turmoil, the British colonial regime secured legitimacy through socioeconomic improvement in Hong Kong...

... of unrest, insurgence, and violence. The negative portrait of this region offered by both the press and scholarly studies in India and abroad must be distressing for the people of the Northeastern region. This paper suggests that an excessive preoccupation with violence and a narrow reading...

... to censor and weed out “seditious passages” from popular dramas (Guy 1987, 92), emperors throughout the Qing dynasty issued dozens of edicts regulating the construction, location, and clientele of commercial theaters. In rural areas, especially in times of unrest, local authorities often canceled scheduled...

... for the appearance of benevolent societies, this article attempts explanations in terms of worsening conditions and dynastic decline and then moves beyond such considerations for several reasons. Although China had long experienced much poverty and numerous periods of extreme social unrest, it was not until the late...

...Bryan Pfaffenberger Abstract In the same year (1968) that students blockaded the streets of Paris, the formerly somnolent Jaffna Peninsula—the center of Tamil culture in Sri Lanka—was rocked by its own version of civil unrest. Led by an activist affiliated with the “Peking wing” of the Ceylon...