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Soviet Policy Dilemmas in Asia

Research Article| June 01 1977 Soviet Policy Dilemmas in Asia Arnold L. Horelick Arnold L. Horelick Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1948) 17 (6): 499–512. https://doi.org/10.2307/2643152 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Arnold L. Horelick; Soviet Policy Dilemmas in Asia. Far Eastern Survey 24 March 1948; 17 (6): 499–512. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/2643152 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAsian Survey Search This content is only available via PDF. Copyright 1977 The Regents of the University of California Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Erratum: What We Need to Learn from the Asian Actor

Erratum: What We Need to Learn from the Asian Actor

What We Need to Learn from the Asian Actor

What We Need to Learn from the Asian Actor

History of Psychology: An Overview.

This is a competent, scholarly, and uninspired textbook, likely to interest nonstudents primarily as a reference work and bibliographic resource. It can be highly recommended for its up-to-date and encyclopedic coverage of psychology as a world wide field of activity, as well as for its broad sketching in of related philosophic antecedents and current trends. The coverage of phenomenology and existentialism, in their relationships to psychology, is unusually comprehensive and achieves noteworthy lucidity. Among other features distinguishing this volume are the survey of psychological activity in Asia, the history of clinical psychology as a profession, and a systematic, though superficial, coverage of the "schools" of psychology from a historical perspective. The authors, Henryk Misiak and Virginia Staudt Sexton, associate professors of psychology at Fordham University and at Hunter College respectively, have delivered what they promised: an overview of psychology. It acquaints one

Japanese Liberal Democratic Factional Discord on China Policy

T HE DEMANDS FOR BETTER RELATIONS between Japan and China* received a strong impetus with President Johnson's announcement on limiting the bombing of North Vietnam in March i968 and with the talks in Paris beginning in May. A reduction in Chinese-American tensions was ardently hoped for by those in Japan's conservative Liberal Democratic party who have been urging improvements in relations between Japan and China and also hoping to act as a bridge between China and the United States. The paradox of how a country collaborating so intimately with American military activities in Asia could mediate with the chief enemy of the United States can be explained partly by the probably mistaken confidence placed in the extensive informal relations between Peking and Japanese politicians, particularly those in the Liberal Democratic party. It is easy to understand the perplexity of American officials, now preparing to turn over to Japan more of the military responsibility for peacekeeping in the Far East, at the lack of interest on the part of the Japanese public and the outright hostility of Japan's foreign minister himself. It is puzzling but true that some members of the Japanese Liberal Democratic party have better relations with Peking than even members of the Japan Socialist or Communist parties. One reason is precisely that it is the conservative party which makes foreign policy in Japan and any changes in that policy toward China will probably come from its leadership, especially from leaders of factions in the center such as Foreign Minister Miki himself. Currently the pro-Peking group in the Liberal Democratic party is a combination of about 86 Diet members from both houses called the AsianAfrican Problems Study Group (Ajiya-Afurika Mondai Kenkyukai.) It favors recognition of Peking and its admission to the United Nations in order to end China's comparative isolation and encourage it to cooperate in peaceful ways with the rest of the world. The pro-Taiwan group is represented by about i6i Diet members in the Asian Problems Study Group (Ajiya Mondai Kenkyukai). This group feels

For an Asian History of Modern Asia

The history of modern Asia, at least in western countries, for a long time has been conceived only in function of European history. The question was to meditate on the “problem of the Far East,” which is to say on the conditions and objects of the intervention of great Powers in Asia. It consisted in granting privileges to European activities in Asia: missions and trading, military expeditions and diplomatic negotiations. Such a tendency is, for example, very clear in the otherwise notable works of authors such as H. B. Morse or H. Cordier; while the first had been in China for many years as officer of the Imperial Chinese Maritime Customs Service, the second was the son of an agent of the Paris National Bank in Shanghai. Nevertheless neither of them knew any Chinese and they did not consider the use of that language any more necessary for an historian of modern China than it had been for a businessman residing in Shanghai concessions during the belle époque of the unequal treaties. The works they published are dedicated to the history of relations between China and the great Powers (Open Door, concessions and extraterritoriality, functioning of treaties), and are only marginally and occasionally interested in the deep movements of Chinese society and Chinese politics: Tai-ping, reformatory movements, social struggle.

Students and Politics in Indonesia and Korea

THERE HAS BEEN A GROWING RECOGNITION both in Western capitals and in the developing countries themselves of the surging emotions and the political power of the youth, and particularly the students, in the developing countries. This has long been recognized as a factor in the Latin American scene. But in Asia, the political role of students has been less clearly defined by tradition or experience. The recent manifestations of student activity in Asia, therefore, have been less easy to categorize. Student activity has been a major factor in political situations in Vietnam, Korea, Indonesia and-to name a developed country-Japan in the past few years. Some of this unrest stems from the insecurity, uncertainty and general uneasiness that seem to have gripped students in many parts of the world today. In each of the cases in Asia cited above, however, the motivations, the organization, and the issues that have moved students into the political arena have been different. It is all too easy to generalize, but it is clear from two cases in AsiaIndonesia and Korea-that underlying the student movement in politics is a whole system of education and change in developing countries that inevitably sets apart the new generation as a distinct and restless entity. At the same time, the political direction of this new generation is shaped in each case by other factors: by the political situation around it, by the organizational forces that seek to control it, by the culture and character of the individual nation itself. Until recently, one might have described the student influence in Indonesia as one of potential rather than actual significance. Student organizations have been splintered, their traditions confused. Their political activity, moreover, has long reflected the strong outside influence of the established political forces in the country. This situation was exemplified in i960 when President Sukarno called the Youth Congress that organized the National Youth Front. The Front was ostensibly to represent the youth of Indonesia as a functionally independent and organized political group. But the Congress was in fact the scene of considerable maneuver by the chief political forces in Indonesia-particularly, in this instance the President and the Army. The competition that took place at the Congress and its

Geological activities in Asia

Reviews the organization, program of activities, and status of geologic mapping and mineral resources investigations of the various government geological surveys of east and south Asiatic countries.