... Economy: The Role of Ideology and Interest in Its Development: By BALDEV RAJ N A Y A R . Bombay: Popular Prakashan, 1989. ix, 421 pp. Rs. 350. The Political Economy of India's Public Sector: Policy and Performance. By BALDEV RAJ NAYAR. Bombay: Popular Prakashan, 1990. xi, 323 pp. Rs. 325. j These two...

...Robert Van Niel The Indonesian Economy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: A History of Missed Opportunities . By Anne Booth . London : Palgrave Macmillan Press , 1998 . xvi , 377 pp. £24.95 (paper). The Emergence of a National Economy: An Economic History of Indonesia...

... fields (South or Central Vietnam) or on the same periods (colonial or postcolonial eras), both, Scott and Popkin have generalized their own experiences. In fact, the Vietnamese peasants cling to “moral economy” or engage themselves in “political economy” according to the general situation and to what...

...Robert C. Rice The Indonesian Economy Since 1965: A Case Study of Political Economy . By Ingrid Palmer . London : Frank Cass , 1978 . ix, 196 pp. Tables, Bibliography. $24.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1979 1979 844 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES The Indonesian...

...Alice W. Clark The State and Village Society: The Political Economy of Agricultural Development in Bangladesh . By Shakeeb Adnan Khan . Columbia, Mo. : South Asia Publications , 1989 . xi , 189 pp. $22.00. India in Transition: Issues of Political Economy in a Plural Society...

...Wen-Jen Hsieh Transforming China's Economy in the Eighties . Vol. 1: The Rural Sector, Welfare, and Employment . Vol. 2: Management, Industry, and the Urban Economy . Edited by S. Feuchtwang , A. Hussain , and T. Pairault . Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press , 1988 . Vol. 1 : xii...

...Shanti S. Tangri Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1986 1986 The Economy of India . By V. N. Balasubramanyam . Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press , 1985 . xiv, 241 pp. Notes and References, Selected Bibliography, Index. $25. BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 1089 as Nagara...

...Hugh O. Nourse The Spatial Economy of Communist China: A Study on Industrial Location and Transportation . By Yuan-Li Wu . New York : Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers , 1967 . For The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, xix, 367 pp. Tables, Figures, Maps, Appendices, Notes...

...Hyman Kublin Kokutai no Hongi: cardinal principles of the national entity of Japan . Translated by John Owen Gauntlett and edited with an introduction by Robert King Hall . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1949 . viii , 200 pp. $4.00. Japan's economy in war...

...Laura E. Hein The Era of High-Speed Growth: Notes on the Postwar Japanese Economy . By Yutaka Kosai . Translated by Jacqueline Kaminski . Tokyo : University of Tokyo Press , 1986 . xiv , 223 pp. $24.50. (Distributed by Columbia University Press) Copyright © The Association...

...John H. Esterline Vietnam: Peasant Land, Peasant Revolution: Patriarchy and Collectivity in the Rural Economy . By Nancy Wiegersma . New York : St. Martin's Press , 1988 . xx , 281 pp. $39.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST...

...Sarah M. Bekker Zo History: With an Introduction to Zo Culture, Economy, Religion, and Their Status as an Ethnic Minority in India, Burma, and Bangladesh . By Vumson . Published by the author, 1987 . 334 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Ronald Provencher Cities and Towns in Indonesia: Their Development, Current Positions, and Functions with Regard to Administration and Regional Economy . By Werner Rutz . Translated by Jane Clark and W A. Kirby . Urbanization of the Earth 4. Berlin and Stuttgart : Gebrüder Borntraeger...

...Holden Furber Commerce and Crafts in Gujarat, 16th and 17th Centuries: A Study in the Impact of European Expansion on Precapitalist Economy . By Surendra Gopal . New Delhi : Peoples Publishing House , 1975 . xii, 289 pp. Bibliography, Index. Rs. 25.00 Copyright © The Association...

...Thomas R. Kershner Japan, China, and the Modern World Economy: Toward a Reinterpretation of East Asian Development ca. 1600 to ca. 1918 . By Frances V. Moulder . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1977 . x, 225 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Index. $16.95 Copyright © The Association...

...Nicholas R. Lardy China's Economy and the Maoist Strategy . By John G. Gurley . New York : Monthly Review Press , 1976 . v, 325 pp. $15.00 Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1978 1978 532 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES wasteful form of social organization, Chu's posi...

...Rudiger Frank The North Korean Economy: Between Crisis and Catastrophe . By Eberstadt Nicholas . New Brunswick and London : Transaction Publishers , 2009 . 329 pp. $29.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 Few topics seem to provoke emotions...

...Jane Kate Leonard Conflicting Counsels to Confuse the Age. A Documentary Study of Political Economy in Qing China, 1644–1840 . By Helen Dunstan . Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies, No. 73. Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan, Center for Chinese Studies , 1996 . 363 pp. $50.00...

...Andrew Wedeman Inflation and Investment Controls in China: The Political Economy of Central-Local Relations during the Reform Era . By Yasheng Huang . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1996 . $59.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 766...

... of the money economy in ancient China. Emura Haruki's study provides us with the most comprehensive and authoritative survey and analysis of pre-Qin bronze coinage. As is well known, four distinct regions of monetary circulation emerged in the Warring States period: spade-shaped currencies in the Central...