...Roy Watson Curry Woodrow Wilson's China Policy, 1913–1917 . By Tien-yi Li . New York : University of Kansas Press, Twayne Publishers , 1952 . 213 pages. Appendices, annotated bibliography, index. $4.50. Woodrow Wilson and the Far East: The Diplomacy of the Shantung Question...

...Burton F. Beers Woodrow Wilson and the Far East. The Dilomacy of the Shantung Question . By Russell H. Fifield . Hamden, Connecticut , Archon Books , 1965 . xv, 393 . Maps, Bibliography, Index. $10.00. Reprint of 1952 edition. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1965...

...Robert R. Swartout, Jr. The Empire of the Seas: A Biography of Rear Admiral Robert Wilson Shufeldt, USN . By Frederick C. Drake . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1984 . xv, 468 pp. Maps, Appendixes, Note on Sources, Abbreviations, Notes, Bibliographical Essay, Index, Illustrations...

... readers. D. R. H O W L A N D Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars The Sound of the Whistle: Railroads and the State in MeijiJapan. By STEVEN J. ERICSON. Cambridge: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University Press, 1996. xvii, 506 pp. $42.00. ...

... reader as well as the specialist a cogent, authoritative survey and analysis of the problems working women confront in Japan and of the body of litigation that has resulted so far from women's efforts to end discrimination. SUSAN J. PHARR Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Rural Society...

..., and for interdisciplinary studies which bring together, rather than chronologically divide, scientific and historical perspectives. MARY BROWN BULLOCK The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Learning to be a Sage: Selections from the Conversations of Master Chu, Arranged Topically. By C H U H S I . Translated...

... for primary research in its own right. DAVID L. SHAMBAUGH Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington ...

... understanding of that fascinating era. MARLEIGH GRAYER RYAN Wilson International Center for Scholars ModernJapan Through Its Weddings: Gender, Person, and Society in Ritual Portrayal. By WALTER EDWARDS. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1989. xii, 173 pp. $27.50. We are fortunate that Walter Edwards ignored...

... of American Economic Competitiveness . Washington, D.C. : Woodrow Wilson Center Press . Information Office of the State Council of the People's Republic of China . 2010 . The Internet in China . White paper. Beijing : Information Office of the State Council of the People's Republic of China...

...Alāna M. Wilson; Sierra Gladfelter; Mark W. Williams; Sonika Shahi; Prashant Baral; Richard Armstrong; Adina Racoviteanu Abstract Asia, a region grappling with the impacts of climate change, increasing natural disasters, and transboundary water issues, faces major challenges to water security...

... conclude the volume. Although Yonhap New Agency's North Korea Handbook is not the place to turn for dispassionate or penetrating analysis, it is an invaluable source of information for scholars, journalists, government officials, and NGOs engaged with North Korea. KATHRYN WEATHERSBY Woodrow Wilson...

...Brijen K. Gupta Abstract The number of persons who perished in the so-called Black Hole of Calcutta in 1756 has long been a matter of controversy, especially intense since the Indian viceroyalty of Lord Curzon of Kedleston. Two scholars, C. R. Wilson and S. C. Hill, and their patron, Lord Curzon...

...David A. Wilson; Frank C. Darling; A. W. Sadler Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1963 1963 Editor, Journal of Asian Studies: COMMUNICATIONS I want to thank you and Professor Frank Darling for the challenging review of my book Politics in Thailand which appeared in the May...

...David A. Wilson Storm over Laos. A Contemporary History . By Sisouk Na Champassak . New York : Praeger , 1961 . x, 202 . Illustrated, Map, Appendices. $5.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1962 1962 BOOK REVIEWS chieftains, interlinked with bitter feuds between...

...David A. Wilson Southeast Asia: Problems of United States Policy . Edited by William Henderson . Cambridge, Massachusetts : The M.I.T. Press , 1963 , xiv, 273. $6.75. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 BOOK REVIEWS 169 incomparable Mongolian-Russian...

...George M. Wilson Abstract Postwar Japanese scholarship, in its quest to explain Japan's modern history, has yet to deal adequately with the so-called right wing. Survey histories sometimes write it off as a lunatic fringe, or equate it simply with militarism and putschism. My purpose here...

...David A. Wilson The Impact of the West on Government in Thailand . By Walter F. Vella . University of California Publications in Political Science, Vol. IV, No. 3. Berkeley : The University of California Press , 1955 . vi, 317 – 410 . Bibliography, Index. $1.50. Copyright ©...

...David A. Wilson The Third China: the Chinese Communities in South-East Asia . By C. P. Fitzgerald . (Issued under the auspices of the Australian Institute of International Affairs.) Vancouver : Publications Centre, University of British Columbia , 1965 . vii, 109 . Reading list. $2.75...

...Robert A. Wilson Abstract With the formal abolition of the Tokugawa Shogunate on January 3, 1868, there was created in Japan a governmental void which was not filled finally and satisfactorily until 1889. The search of Japanese leaders for a satisfactory government structure for the new state...