... of the structures and processes shaping the modern-day encounter between small peasant producers and capitalist enterprise. ANAND A. YANG University of Utah The Apparatus of Empire: Awards of Ranks, Offices, and Titles to the Mughal Nobility (1574-1658). By M. ATHAR ALL Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1985. (Center...

...Ronald J. Herring Abstract James C. Scott’s prodigious work has influenced numerous fields of inquiry, often profoundly, as documented in this forum. This essay suggests how an extension of Scott's theoretical apparatus might provide fresh understanding of stalemated contentious politics of great...

... and disadvantages. They are good for institutional and administrative history, and they provide raw data for political history. On the other hand, they reflect the biases of the recorders, they do not reveal the really private thoughts of kings and officials, they are confined to the formal apparatus...

... of the Indian Subcontinent, they added a new dimension to the cities they created—a municipal apparatus to monitor urban growth, to regulate the use of land, and to insure that certain areas, especially those where they resided, would receive adequate urban facilities. The cities they founded had certain...

...William H. Nienhauser, Jr. Abstract Perhaps the first question should be “Why?” Why transport a critical apparatus heavily laden with paradoxical factions and conflicting terminology back a millennium to the Chinese genre known as cbuan a ? And why a genre study, when so much groundwork is still...

... continuity of China's Marxist-Leninist tradition from the 1950s to the 1980s. To China's officialdom, Liu will represent the ultimate integrity of the Party apparatus, an avatar of the self-cultivated rectitude of the “clean official.” Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1981 1981 1...

...James M. Polachek Abstract The Kiangsi Soviet marked the first systematic attempt by the Chinese Communist party to use existing peasant models of collective action for purposes of building an independent military apparatus. The history of that attempt is here examined against the background...

..., an economy that remains in large part centrally planned, and a coercive apparatus that effectively penetrates urban society. Top leaders in Beijing have available to implement their policies several massive bureaucracies in which relations of authority are clearly delineated. Copyright © The Association...

... and within the wider context of a colonial land policy. These weaknesses are all the more glaring for the years from c. 1830 to 1855 when a common land policy was gradually but systematically imposed throughout the British Empire, and an institutional apparatus controlling land policy and emigration...

... that made the educated youth the agent of development and the villager the object of development. The running of these camps by volunteer movements such as the National Cadet Corps, the Bharat Scouts and Guides, and the Bharat Sevak Samaj brings to light how the developmental apparatus in India worked...

... provide a fascinating interpretation of the early experiences of this ruling party and how it has self-adapted over time. One of the intersecting and recurring themes is the CCP's steadfast efforts to establish and control a state apparatus. Both authors assert that despite many governance problems...

... the multiplanar image into an assemblage of images that, within the same frame, are taken apart and put back together (pp. 174–75). For Lamarre, the “machine force” of animation reopens the structures of technology and perception that seem inherent in the apparatus to produce a viewing position that he calls...

... disturbed until it was demolished in a few weeks in 1942 by Japanese invaders. If the state's horizontal expansion had come to a halt early in this century, the opposite was true of its vertical penetration. Under the "Ethical Policy" there was a huge extension of the state apparatus deep into native...

... officials’ own understanding of the imperial kokutai was changing, indicating how the imperial sovereign remained an elusive ghost even as it animated this expanding and changing justice apparatus” (p. 67). In building this narrative arc of institutional changes, Ward takes inspiration from Foucault...

... and processes shaping the modern-day encounter between small peasant producers and capitalist enterprise. ANAND A. YANG University of Utah The Apparatus of Empire: Awards of Ranks, Offices, and Titles to the Mughal Nobility (1574-1658). By M. ATHAR ALL Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1985. (Center of Advanced...

... balanced in place, the apparatus tilts, the bamboo leg on the other side lifting up. . . . Now any of the three people can ask questions. (Inoue 2000, 22) Scenes similar to this were enacted throughout Japan as the game spread rapidly across the country; Kokkuri was an explosively popular fashion, a mass...

...James Hevia In all of this, there is a suggestion that the American security apparatus was ahead of colonial regimes in other parts of Asia and Africa. This creates certain narrative and interpretative problems. One involves the fact that having put together a security apparatus during World War...

... apparatus stands out as one of the most significant features of contemporary Singapore. More importantly, one weakness in this book is the assumption that ethnic identity is somehow a set of social relations and processes outside of the state. However, the Singapore case is a good example of the manner...

... apparatus toward the arts and artists' negotiation of that apparatus in an increasingly commercialized art scene. At the same time, the book is filled with interesting and often obscure anecdotes and insights, clearly revealing the author's long engagement with this topic. As a student of political economy...