...David L. Wank Business and Bureaucracy in a Chinese City: An Ethnography of Private Business Households in Contemporary China . By Ole Bruun . Berkeley : Center for Chinese Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California Press , 1993 . 273 pp. $20.00. Copyright ©...

... business interests in the United States were concerned over the possible loss of the Chinese market; were eager to have the government take just the sort of action which it did take; and were active in bringing pressure to bear on the government. It is the thesis of this article that they were partly...

...Howard S. Ellis India: Mixed Enterprise and Western Business . By Daniel L. Spencer . The Hague : Martinus Nijhoff , 1959 . xii , 252 . Appendices, Bibliography, Index. Guilders 15.75 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1960 1960 BOOK REVIEWS 127 India...

...Irving Swerdlow Government in Business . By S. S. Khera . New York : Asia Publishing House , 1963 . xix, 396. Appendices, Index. $16.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 180 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES how to evaluate such investments in rigorous...

... and with fewer typographical errors, will do this. JOHN J. HONIGMANN University of North Carolina Origins of the Modern Indian Business Class. By D. R. GADGIL. New York: Institute of Pacific Relations, 1959. iv, 44. Bibliography, f 1.50 (paper). This interim report is in effect "the penultimate draft...

...M. Bronfenbrenner Mitsui: Three Centuries of Japanese Business . By John G. Roberts . Tokyo and New York : John Weatherhill , 1973 . xiv, 564 pp. $13.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1975 1975 1 These particular charges are (in running-quotation form...

... methods of promoting private enterprise played a major role in this eminently successful case of a “late developing” (Gerschenkron 1966; Rosovsky 1961) society. It also provides an early example of what has recently been termed a “capitalist development state” (Johnson 1987). Studies of prewar business...

... Vivienne . 1993 . “ Introducing the 'Limited Company' ” China Business Review 20 .1: 50 – 54 . BergÈre M. C. 1985 . “Cycles of Modernization and State-Society Relations in Modern China (1842–1949)” In Shaw Yu-ming , ed., Chinese Modernization San Francisco : China Materials Center...

...Sabine Frühstück Packaged Japaneseness. Weddings, Business, and Brides . By Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1997 . xii, 195 pp. $38.00 (cloth); $22.95 (paper) Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 227...

...Bijit Bora ASEAN Business Trade and Development . Edited by Ron Edwards and Michael Skully . Port Melbourne, Australia : Butterworth Heinemann , 1996 . xix, 356 pp. $39–95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 BOOK REVIEWS ASIA GENERAL 135 ASEAN...

...Kwan S. Kim Business and the State in Developing Countries . Edited by Sylvia Maxfield and Ben Ross Schneider . Ithaca, N.Y. and London : Cornell University Press , 1997 . 348 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 142...

...Thomas A. Timberg Small Business Entrepreneurs in Asia and Europe: Towards a Comparative Perspective . Edited by Mario Rutten and Carol Upadhya . New Delhi: Thousand Oaks, Calif. and London : Sage Publications , 1997 . 334 pp. $38.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

... rates, and gini-coefficients for all of the case countries, it would be useful to see a cross-case analysis of changes in welfare benefits such as pensions and health care. REBECCA MATTHEWS University of Iowa China and India: Economic Performance and Business Strategies of Firms in the Mid1990s. Edited...

...Ramdas Menon Business, Government, and the End of Empire: Malaya, 1942–1957 . By Nicholas J. White . New York : Oxford University Press , 1997 . 331 pp. $60.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 908 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES This slim volume...

...Kiyoshi Kawahito World War II and the Transformation of Business Systems . Edited by Jun Sakudo and Takao Shiba . Tokyo : Tokyo University Press , 1994 ; distributed in the U.S. by Columbia University Press, xi, 284 pp. $59.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Michael Smitka World War II and the Transformation of Business Systems: Proceedings of the Fuji Conference . Edited by Jun Sakudo and Takao Shiba . The International Conference on Business History, Vol. 20 (January 1993 Fuji Conference). Tokyo : University of Tokyo Press , 1994 . xii...

...Ian J. Kerr The Origins of Industrial Capitalism in India: Business Strategies and the Working Classes in Bombay, 1900–1940 . By Rajnarayan Chandavarkar . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1994 . xviii, 468 pp. $69.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...Bruce R. Dalgaard Alliance Capitalism: The Social Organization of Japanese Business . By Michael L. Gerlach . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1992 . xxii, 351 pp. $35.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 554 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Mary Somers Heidhues The Rise and Fall of Revenue Farming: Business Elites and the Emergence of the Modern State . Edited by John Butcher and Howard Dick . New York : St. Martin's Press , 1993 . xviii, 306 pp. $69.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994...

...Arthur M. Whitehill, Jr Big Business in Japanese Politics . By Chitoshi Yanaga . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1968 . ix , 371 pp. Appendices, Bibliography, Index. $8.75. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1969 1969 862 erence to separate their personal life...