Review

Reviewed Work(s): Japan's Role in Southeast Asian Nationalist Movements, 1940-45. by

Willard H. Elsbree
Review by: Wilhelm Schiffer
Source: Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 11, No. 2 (Jul., 1955), pp. 218-219
Published by: Sophia University
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Japanese. Their brand of independence was the one they had given
to Mknchukuo where all branches of the government had their Japa-

nese advisers and military and diploMtic affairs were under Japa-

nese control. As a Japanese spokesman of the time declared, the

countries of Southeast Asia were to be given the independence a

child has under the protection of his father. Since this Japanese

conception of independence did not agree with that visualized by

the nationalist leaders of these countries, the Japanese had to

make concessions, and with the Japanese defeat in 1945 a new

Southeast Asia emerged conscious of its national destiny.

The intricate story of the role played by Japan in Southeast

Asian nationalist movements during World War II is excellently

told in the present book. Although mainly concerned with the
situation in Indonesia, it covers the whole field of Southeast

Asia. Well documented, especially from the records of the Inter-

national Military Tribunal for the Far East and the United States

Department of State, it greatly contributes to the understanding

of modern history.

Wilhelm Schiffer, S.J.

ECCXNIC DIALOI IN ANCIETN CHINA. SLECTlICINS FROM THE KlAN-

TZU. Translated by T'an Po-fu, lWen Iung-wenandrHsiao Kung-chuan
Under the Direction of Lewis Maverick. Carbondale, Illinois,
1954. X, 470 pp., $ 7.-

This English edition of the Kuan-tzu and of the commentaries

by Huang Han and Fan Ping-t'ung is a welcome addition to the li-

brary of the student of Chinese thought and institutions. It is

the result of close cooperation between Wbstern and Eastern schol-
ars, and it certainly was no easy task to make the often obscure
text palatable to the Western reader.

The great problem with the Kuan-tzu is its authorship. Already

Forke had distinguished in the book four different parts which
could not have come from the same pen. Ihe author of the introduc-
tion to the present translation, without intending to decide the
matter, thinks, on the authority of Huang Han and several other
critics, that the book was written about 300 B. C. by the group

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