...M. N. Pearson European Agency Houses in Bengal (1783–1833) . By S. B. Singh . Calcutta : Firma K. L. Mukhopadhyay , 1966 . viii, 331 pp. Abbreviations, Errata, Appendices, Bibliography, Index. Rs. 20.00 Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1967 1967 770 JOURNAL...

...Donn V. Hart Union Catalog of Philippine Materials of Sixty-Four Government Agency Libraries of the Philippines . Edited by Maxima M. Ferrer . Manila : Inter-Departmental Reference Service, Institute of Public Administration, University of the Philippines , 1962 . xvi , 718 . Subject...

..., sociology, environmental studies, and others. Throughout, several key concerns have anchored Scott's work: examining Southeast Asia as a site of research (albeit increasingly in conversation with other regions), probing how power functions in the world, and exploring the agency of individuals—including...

...Blair B. Kling Abstract The managing agency system has been the dominant form of business organization in India for over a century, yet no one has described the circumstances surrounding its first emergence. It is not difficult to understand why an aura of mystery enshrouds the early years...

..." is a polite word used when the In- donesians wish to draw investments into the Union List of Serials of Government Agency country; \apitalis is the word used by the Marx- Libraries of the Philippines: Revised and ists to describe their enemies. Many new words Enlarged Edition. Compiled by the Staff...

...Debali Mookerjea-Leonard Organizing Empire: Individualism, Collective Agency, and India . By Purnima Bose . Durham, N.J. : Duke University Press , 2003 . xi , 278 pp. $79.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 216 T H E J O U R N A L O F...

... of personal agency in early China. By seeing the relationship between the individual and the Dao as conformist, Brindley obviates the possibility of agency. Brindley makes the point that human beings are an integral part of a universal context, the Dao. But her discussion of the Dao as denying individual...

...Gang Wang The People's West Lake: Propaganda, Nature, and Agency in Mao's China, 1949–1976 . By Qiliang He . Honolulu : University of Hawai’i Press , 2023 . 216 pp. ISBN: 9780824895594 . © 2024 Association for Asian Studies 2024 After the founding of the People's Republic...

..., yet Knight notes that this feature “does not guarantee a sense of agency but may intensify a cruel contingency or even confirm one's old fatalism” (p. 219). Perhaps the creativity of Shisan bu is itself an act of agency, evading the effect that theory would determine for its techniques. The Heart...

...Jeffrey E. Hanes Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 A Japanese Advertising Agency: An Anthropology of Media and Markets . By Brian Moeran . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1996 . xi, 322 pp. $19.95. BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 541 data on the subject...

... of this work is to explore the concept of agency in selfmaking in China, India, and Japan to counter the social science literature that emphasizes collectivities without individuality. As a result, the contributions are BOOK REVIEWS ASIA GENERAL 961 generally driven by considerable theoretical tensions...

...Lara C. W. Blanchard Empresses, Art, and Agency in Song Dynasty China . By Hui-shu Lee . Seattle and London : University of Washington Press , 2010 . xi, 331 pp. $65.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 Even as studies have begun...

...Rhoads Murphey Mandarins and Merchants: Jardine Matheson and Co., a China Agency of the Early Nineteenth Century . By W. E. Cheong . Malmo and London : Curzon Press , 1979 . xii, 298 pp. Maps, Notes, Bibliography, Index. No price (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

... idiom to render the agency of his postcolonial narratives” (p. 212). These are among the most thorough and patient analyses of Rushdie that I have read, and Rushdie has, of course, generated a great deal of critical writing. Hai's readings of Rushdie are not startlingly original, but they are the most...

...Allan A. Andrews Japanese Religion: A Survey by the Agency for Cultural Affairs. . Compiled by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Ministry of Education, Japan. Edited By Hori Ichiro , et al. Tokyo and Palo Alto : Kodansha International , 1972 . 263 pp. Illustrations, Tables, Index...

...Mohit Manohar [email protected] The Brush of Insight: Artist and Agency at the Mughal Court . By Yael Rice . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2023 . xiv, 272 pp. ISBN: 9780295751092 . © 2025 Association for Asian Studies 2025 Book Reviews South Asia 293...

...Hardeep Dhillon Fleeting Agencies: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya . By Arunima Datta . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2021 . 254 pp. ISBN: 9781108837385 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 Gender historians...

...Donn V. Hart Coordination of Agencies in the Community Development Program . By Remigia Carpio-Laus . Quezon City : Community Development Research Council, University of the Philippines , Study Series No. 9, 1960 , xiii, 130 , mimeo. A Study of Health, Hygienic, and Sanitary...