...Bertrand Renaud Economic Crisis and Corporate Restructuring in Korea: Reforming the Chaebol . Edited by Stephan Haggard , Wonhyuk Lim , and Euysung Kim . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2003 . xxii, 342 pp. $60.00 (cloth). Restructuring “Korea Inc.”: Financial Crisis...

...Thomas Timburg Industrialization in India: Growth and Conflict in the Private Corporate Sector, 1914–1947 . By Rajat K. Ray . New York : Oxford University Press , 1979 . xi, 384 pp. Primary Sources, Index. $15.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1980 1980 178...

...Kathryn Ibata-Arens Information, Corporate Governance, and Institutional Diversity: Competitiveness in Japan, the USA, and the Transitional Economies . By Masahiko Aoki . translated By Stacey Jehlik . Oxford and New York : Oxford University Press , 2000 . xiii, 186 pp. $29.95...

... Toby's and Arano's arguments well, for foreign relations that did not serve the shogunate's domestic political agenda were neither worth conducting nor even remembering. D A V I D L. H O W E L L Princeton University Corporate Financing and Governance inJapan: The Road to the Future. By T A K E O H O S H...

...Jürgen Osterhammel Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 Corporate Behaviour and Political Risk: Dutch Companies in China, 1903–1941 . By Frans-Paul van der Putten . Leiden : Research School of Asian, African, and Amerindian Studies , 2001 . vii , 287 pp...

..., a community of Yunnan merchants established themselves in upper Burma, dispatched from China, where some would pass many years as agents for the home firm. In Corporate Conquests , C. Patterson Giersch seeks to forcefully insert two subfields of history into the center of our understanding of modern...

...David Desser Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club . By Anne Allison . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1994 . xiii, 213 pp. $37.00 (cloth); $14.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 BOOK...

... in PhD dissertations. Ideally, this section should have been deleted or summarized. He could also have produced a much stronger work by engaging with academic debates rather than summarizing the existing literature. Works such as Kigyō Shakai no Rikonsutorakushon [Reconstructing Corporate Society...

.... But rather than analyzing the business of these two oil palm corporations, from above or outside, Plantation Life breaks new scholarly ground by exploring them from below and within. In this way, Li and Semedi's collaborative method is to listen to, archive, and document the frictions, fragilities, hopes...

... unusual degree of policy flexibility” (p. 97). Additional useful chapters in the book include Jean Oi's introductory first chapter; Oi and Han Chaohua's overview of corporate restructuring; Jin Zeng and Kellee Tsai's study of development, privatization, and state-owned enterprise (SOE) restructuring...

... Tech Crisis under Communitarian Capitalism . By Marie Anchordoguy . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press , 2005 . xii , 257 pp. $41.95 (cloth). The Embedded Corporation: Corporate Governance and Employment Relations in Japan and the United States . By Sanford M. Jacoby . Princeton...

...Alan Heston Problems of Wage Policy for Economic Development; With Special Reference to India . By Sheekant A. Palekar . New York : Asia Publishing House , 1962 . xviii , 343 . Statistical Appendices. $14.50. The Theory and Working of State Corporations; With Special Reference...

...Inderjit Singh The Rise of Business Corporations in India: 1851–1900 . By Radhe Shyam Rungta . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1970 . xviii, 332 pp. Note on Statistics, Glossary, Appendices, Bibliography, Index. $16.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1971...

...P. Steven Sangren Abstract Emphasis on descent and kinship in analysis of traditional Chinese corporations, a legacy of structural-functional theory, mistakes the analyst's theoretical categories for native culture. In this paper, the author attempts to sort out some of the resulting conceptual...

...Friedrich W. Wu China's Modernization and Transnational Corporations . By N. T. Wang . Lexington, Mass. : Lexington Books , 1984 . xxxi, 189 pp. Tables, Notes, Index. N.p. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1985 1985 832 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES In addition...

...Linda Y. C. Lim Ownership and Control of the One Hundred Largest Corporations in Malaysia . By Lim Mah Hui . New York : Oxford University Press , 1981 . xvi, 190 pp. Tables, Charts, Diagrams. Appendixes, Bibliography, Index. $34.50. Inequality and Economic Development in Malaysia...

..., Glossaries, Indexes, n.p.l. The Dragon's Wings: The China National Aviation Corporation and the Development of Commercial Aviation in China . By William M. Leary, Jr . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 1976 . xiii, 226 pp. Illustrations, Maps, Appendixes, Notes, Bibliography, Index...

...John Lie The Culture of Korean Industry: An Ethnography of Poongsan Corporation . By Choong Soon Kim . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 1992 . xix, 248 pp. $29.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 BOOK REVIEWS KOREA 737 Japan's trade surplus...

... at providing institutional support for the emergence of modern legal corporations. Indeed, it was a widespread belief among the Qing reformers of the period that “Modern industrial capitalism … demanded Western corporate structures to do business’ (Kirby 1995, 43). Kirby argued that after numerous revisions...