...Charles F. Keyes Agricultural Change and Peasant Choice in a Thai Village . By Michael Moerman . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1968 . xii , 227 pp. Maps, Illustrations, Graphs, Tables, Bibliography, Index. $6.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies...

...Gregory C. Kozlowski Marriage Among Muslims: Preference and Choice in Northern Pakistan . By Hastings Donnan . Delhi : Hindustan Publishing , 1988 . xiv, 231 pp. $52.50. (Distributed by E. J. Brill) Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990 182 THE JOURNAL...

...Allison Alexy Involuntary Consent: The Illusion of Choice in Japan's Adult Video Industry . By Akiko Takeyama . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2023 . 241 pp. ISBN: 9781503633780 . © 2024 Association for Asian Studies 2024 I can't remember a time when I have more...

...Roger Dingman The Fateful Choice: Japan's Advance Into Southeast Asia, 1939–1941 . Edited by James William Morley . New York : Columbia University Press , 1980 . 366 pp. Appendixes, Notes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index, Maps. $25. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1981...

...Nathaniel B. Thayer The Politics of Oligarchy: Institutional Choice in Imperial Japan . By J. Mark Ramseyer and Frances M. Rosenbluth . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1995 . xviii, 223 pp. $54.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 738...

... of this book. Nonetheless, it can be said that it will be significant. RONALD PROVENCHER Northern Illinois University Comparative Technology Choice in Development: The Indian and Japanese Cotton Textile Industries. By KEIJIRO O T S U K A , GUSTAV R A N I S , and G A R Y S A X O N HOUSE. New York: St. Martin's...

...Solomon B. Levine Educational Choice and Labor Markets in Japan . By Mary Jean Bowman with the collaboration of Hideo Ikeda and Yasumasa Tomoda . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1981 . xvii , 367 pp. Appendixes, Notes, Reference, Index. $20. Copyright © Association...

...Paul G. Pickowicz Hu Shih and Intellectual Choice in Modern China . By Min-Chih Chou . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , 1984 . xii, 304 pp. Abbreviations, Notes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. N.p. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1985 1985 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Satsuki Kawano Final Days: Japanese Culture and Choice at the End of Life . By Susan Orpett Long . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2005 . xi , 287 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2007 2007 How does culture shape the ways...

...Lonny E. Carlile Building Policy Legitimacy in Japan: Political Behaviour beyond Rational Choice . By Takayuki Sakamoto . New York : St. Martin's Press , 1999 . 213 pp. $65.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 263 fantasy...

...Daniel Little Abstract The rational-choice paradigm has been attractive to many area specialists in their efforts to arrive at explanations of social and political behavior in various parts of the world. This model of explanation is simple yet powerful; we attempt to explain a pattern of social...

... to do primarily with lineation. The Tamil poems have been rendered in English in very short, choppy lines which sometimes contain a single word. I found this extremely distracting. We lose the sense of the texture of the original poems, and this choice to translate them in such short, punchy lines tends...

...Paul G. Pickowicz Passivity, Resistance, and Collaboration: Intellectual Choices in Occupied Shanghai, 1937–1945 . By Poshek Fu . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1993 . 261 pp. $35.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA...

...Nicolaas Luykx The Poverty Curtain: Choices for the Third World . By Mahbub ul Haq . New York : Columbia University Press , 1976 . xvii, 247 pp. Statistical Appendix, Selected Readings, Index. $12.50 (cloth); $5.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1978...

...Lisa A. Keister How to Enter China: Choices and Lessons . By Yadong Luo . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , 2000 . xii, 323 pp. $59.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 1165 How to Enter China: Choices and Lessons...

...Fred Arnold Rural Development and Migration: A Study of Family Choices in the Philippines . By Sally E. Findley . Brown University Studies in Population and Development. Boulder : Westview Press , 1987 . xxiii, 308 pp. $28.50 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...Peter C. Evans China's Energy Strategy: Economic Structure, Technological Choices, and Energy Consumption . By Xiannuan Lin . Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers , 1996 . xv, 203 pp. $65.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 176 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Joseph A. Rodriguez Making Ethnic Choices: California's Punjabi Mexican Americans . By Karen Isaksen Leonard . Philadelphia : Temple University Press , 1992 . xii, 333 pp. $44.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 118 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Margaret K. Lewis Difficult Choices: Taiwan's Quest for Security and the Good Life . By Richard C. Bush . Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press , 2021 . 429 pp. ISBN: 9780815738336 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 Richard C. Bush...

... choices are of special importance in present-day Japan. Also, because there have been tendencies toward stability in some sectors of the Japanese electorate and great fluidity elsewhere, the nature and sources of consistent and fluid voting behavior are of special interest. In the ensuing discussion, two...