...Nancy R. Rosenberger Japanese Women: Constraint and Fulfillment . By Takie Sugiyama Lebra . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1984 . xi , 345 pp. $18.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988 1988 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 149 Solf not only struggled...

... and client relationships, as the general public understood at the time. Bangkok Is Ringing: Sound, Protest, & Constraint . By Benjamin Tausig . New York : Oxford University Press , 2019 . 224 pp. ISBN: 9780190847524 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2020 2020...

... Constraints on Nepotism in the Ch'ing Period ROBERT M. MARSH IN China during the Ch'ing period, as before, many Confucian values were so family-centered as to tolerate degrees of nepotism not acceptable in some other societies. Ideally, of course, Confucian values admitted of no conflict between loyalty...

...Asoka Bandarage India's Educated Women: Options and Constraints . By Rhoda Lois Blumberg . New Delhi : Hindustan Publishing , 1980 . 143 pp. Appendix, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $16 (cloth). Indian Women and Patriarchy: Conflicts and Dilemmas of Students and Working Women...

...Sugata Bose Agrarian Impasse in Bengal: Institutional Constraints to Technological Change . By James K. Boyce . New York : Oxford University Press , 1987 . xviii , 308 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 BOOK REVIEWS...

... November, E5. Migrant Rights and Activism in Malaysia: Opportunities and Constraints AMY GUROWITZ ARE CURRENTLY WITNESSING two trends in Southeast Asia: first, an increase in what is often referred to as "civil society" activity including action by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs); and second...

...Jeff Dreyfuss Abstract This article suggests that two distinct modes of text-building constraints co-incide in the Indonesian novel “Surabaya.” The first set of constraints consists of narrative functions that shape sentence-level grammar within the story; the second level of text-building...

... is linked with a sense of being an ethnoregional minority within a polity that has been highly centralized since reforms instituted at the end of the nineteenth century. Much of the social action of Thai-Lao peasants with reference to the political-economic constraints on their world can be understood...

...Dane L. Harwood Abstract An interpretive approach to studying human activity is a potentially powerful set of procedures for the social sciences. The proponents of this methodology focus on levels of “discourse constraints” that give meaning to public behavior in their attempt to link...

..., of control by means of noninterference, and of transcendence as a result of physiological and mental regimens. The ideal of liberation from the physical, epistemological, and social constraints of the human condition in time translated into a quest for immortality which, by the Ch'in unification...

... that the constraints on the worlds of peasants generated by political-economic changes are made meaningful for social action not only in terms of instrumental rationality, but also with reference to culturally distinctive moral premises. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1983 1983 List...

... power struggles, ethnic conflicts, and class tensions that may deflect the poor's stakes in and concern for national liberation. To discover the quotidian contours of revolution, we must turn to these sorts of relationships and constraints. To understand the conditions that foster or discourage...

... of a more believable one—made believable in part because of the essential Japanese values that he ostensibly represents, even as the constraints on these representations hint at fissures and tensions in contemporary political use of biographical fiction and film. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

... information disclosure practices that revealed a culture of deception aimed at avoiding government accountability. These included a cover-up at the Defense Ministry regarding a Peace Keeping Operation (PKO) in South Sudan that violated legal constraints imposed by the Diet, and revelations about doctored data...

... “constraints” and “inducements”—stemming largely from the work of Bruce Russett—to append to their preferred “challenger-transition” model in constructing the scenarios. The conflict inducement versus conflict constraint framework is logical and clear, but the authors do not show any essential linkage...

... and testing which is different from the impressionistic evidence that Penny cites to indicate that Indonesian farmers are reluctant to adopt new farming methods, new inputs, new tools or new ways to meet group needs. Lacking such empirical confirmation of the hypothesis, the institutional constraints...

...: the broad-thrust versus extension services. This strategy recognizes on the selective approach. The former approach the one hand the cost constraint of fully trans- is represented by the case studies of Japan formed agriculture, and on the other that and Taiwan. In Japan the increase in agri- applying...

... as Japanese and fell victim of a hate crime. By tracing the history of Japanese Americans from its earliest years and assessing their current status as such, this book investigates the nature of experiences of three generations of Japanese Americans from two sociological perspectives: "structural constraints...

... in the industrial sector but warns of the impediments posed by politics, with the government heavily involved as a result of its nationalization policy. Perhaps the most stimulating chapter in the book is "The Development Outlook for Burma," which examines the constraints on economic growth in Burma. Steinberg...

... not therefore reflect uniform patterns of interaction between corporate motivations and strategies, and local opportunities and constraints." Don't corporate motivations and strategies vary from industry to industry? Was the author testing the hypothesis of "uniform patterns of interaction between corporate...