...Michael W. Charney Angels and Devils: Thai Politics from February 1991 to September 1992—A Struggle for Democracy? . By David Murray . Bangkok : White Orchid Press , 1996 . xxvii, 314 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA...

...: Angelic Allusions . By Barry Bell . London : Reaktion Books , 2003 . 175 pp. $19.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 1064 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T U D I E S twentieth-century materials. Wiley includes biographical information on prominent Jain...

...Duliip A. Jayasundera Art of Tibet: A Catalogue of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Collection . By Pratapaditya Pal . Los Angeles and Berkeley : Los Angeles County Museum of Art and University of California Press , 1983 . 280 pp. Appendix, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $49.95 (cloth...

...Kyeyoung Park Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Koreans in Los Angeles, 1965–1982 . By Ivan Light and Edna Bonacich . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1988 . xii, 495 pp. $45.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990 176 THE JOURNAL...

...William Wei The New Asian Immigration in Los Angeles and Global Restructuring . Edited by Paul Ong , Edna Bonacich and Lucie Cheng . Temple University Press , 1994 . xi, 330 pp. $49.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 BOOK REVIEWS ASIA GENERAL 511...

...Ben Kobashigawa Japanese American Celebration and Conflict: A History of Ethnic Identity and Festival in Los Angeles, 1934–1990 . By Lon Kurashige . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 2002 . xxii, 274 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). Copyright ©...

.... Milly . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press , 2014 . 280 pp. ISBN: 9780801452222 (cloth). Reinventing Citizenship: Black Los Angeles, Korean Kawasaki, and Community Participation . By Kazuyo Tsuchiya . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2014 . viii, 273 pp...

...) was provided by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada Grant “Protesting Publics in South Korea,” No. 435-2015-0838. Jennifer Jihye Chun is Associate Professor in the Asian American Studies Department and the International Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles...

... helpful comments. I have benefited tremendously from questions and discussions that followed presentations of parts and earlier versions of this essay at the University of Michigan, University of Chicago, Johns Hopkins University, University of California, Los Angeles, Indiana University, Princeton...

... to civility…. They are the more forward commanding voice befitting obedience.” Evoking some deep Filipino racialist tropes, Duterte then mocked the flat, nasal American accent and rued the time he was questioned at the Los Angeles airport by a “Black” officer with a “black” uniform, “black shoes...

... got me a review copy of the large work of Jürgen Osterhammel, Die Verwandlung der Welt: Eine Geschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts . I also got hooked by listening in on a fine conference at the Clark Library in Los Angeles in 2008, which led to The Age of Revolutions in Global Context , edited by David...

...." RICHARD C. RUDOLPH University of California, Los Angeles Wen-lin: Studies in the Chinese Humanities. EDITED BY TSE-TSUNG CHOW. Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1968. viii, 325 pp. Indices, Figures, Map. $8.50. The publication of Wen-lin is a most welcome event, because there is now definitely...

... philosophy, BEN BEFU University of California, Los Angeles sees the acceptance of actuality and nonrational tendencies as fundamental characteristics of ...

... would find meaningful introductions to recent Chinese Communist history, China's development policy, Maoism, and the Great Cultural Revolution. DENNIS M. RAY California State College Los Angeles The Classic Chinese Novel: A Critical Introduction. BY C. T. HSIA. New York: Columbia University Press, 1968...

... generally interested in meditation should find much in this book for reflection. JANICE LEOSHKO Los Angeles County Museum of Art Cool Fire: Culture Specific Themes in Tamil Short Stories. By GABRIELLA EICHINGER FERRO-LUZZI. Edition Herodot Monographica 3. Gottingen: Rader Verlag, 1983. viii, 365 pp. $35.00...

... many critics have also characterized as "late." R. E. STRASSBERG University of California, Los Angeles ...

... disappointed. F. G. NOTEHELFER University of California, Los Angeles Japanese Women: Constraint and Fulfillment. By TAKIE SUGIYAMA LEBRA. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1984. xi, 345 pp. $18.95. In this ethnographic study of life histories, Lebra has succeeded in conveying the multifaceted character...

... containing extracts from the constitution of Pakistan, lists of the members of the central and provincial governments with dates of tenure, and a select bibliography, a glossary, and a short index. LEONARD BINDER University of California at Los Angeles a3 Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

... strategies of fiction writers outside of China and the place of fiction in East and Southeast Asia. PETER H. LEE University of California, Los Angeles The Future ofAsian-Pacific Security Collaboration. By SHELDON SIMON . Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books, 1988. xviii, 177 pp. $29.00. Both Asian and military...