...Mayfair Yang China in the World: An Anthropology of Confucius Institutes, Soft Power, and Globalization . By Jennifer Ann Hubbert . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2019 . viii, 234 pp. ISBN: 9780824878207 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2021...

...-caste, anti-minority Hindu nationalists with lower-status groups, by analyzing both with reference to the varied processes of globalization. The article begins with a short review of the history of anti-Christian rhetoric in India, and then discusses and critiques a number of inadequately unicausal...

... research addresses struggles over categorization and identification that unfold in the context of international migration, especially when such struggles have significant implications for the unequal distribution of material and symbolic goods on the local, national, and global levels. I examine the ways...

... at the individual, communal, and even national and transnational levels has taken center stage, but understanding just how these identities are formed through the performance of popular music is quite complex in the current global moment. Through comparison of recent scholarship covering diverse types of popular...

...Cynthia Ann Humes Untimely Bollywood: Globalization and India's New Assemblage . By Amit S. Rai . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2009 . xii, 303 pp. $89.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 Untimely Bollywood...

...Maki Umemura Foreign Direct Investment in Japan: Multinationals' Role in Growth and Globalization . By Ralph Paprzycki and Kyoji Fukao . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2008 . x , 274 pp. $80.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010...

... paints an incomplete picture of this topic. Stylistically, Melancholy Order is wordy and sometimes disorganized. But its overall contribution to global history and Asian history is undisputed. It will be required reading for any scholar who is interested in the history of migration control. In its...

... and Ashok Kapur . New Delhi : APH Publishing Corporation , 1998 . xli, 489 pp. Rs. 1000 (cloth). Globalization, Liberalization, and Policy Change: A Political Economy of India's Communications Sector . By Stephen D. McDowell . Basingstoke : Macmillan Press , 1997 . xix, 267 pp. $49.95...

...Arvind Rajagopal The Cultures of Globalization . Edited by Fredric Jameson and Masao Miyoshi . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 1998 . xvii, 393 pp. $54.95 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 388 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Sri-Ram Aiyer Korea's Globalization . Edited by Samuel S. Kim . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2000 . xvii, 324 pp. $54.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 234 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES who have illegally gone...

...Sukanya Banerjee Trans-Status Subjects: Gender in the Globalization of South and Southeast Asia . Edited by Sonita Sarker and Esha Niyogi De . Durham, N.C. : Duck University Press , 2002 . xii , 344 pp. $64.95 (cloth); $21.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies...

...Keiko Yamanaka New Worlds, New Lives: Globalization and People of Japanese Descent in the Americas and from Latin America in Japan . Edited by Lane Ryo Hirabayashi , Akemi Kikumura-Yano , and James A. Hirabayashi . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 2002 . xxiii , 358 pp...

...Vinh-Kim Nguyen SARS, Governance, and the Globalization of Disease . By David P. Fidler . New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2004 . xvii , 219 pp. $65.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 706 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T U D I E S among highly...

... Buddhist Missionaries in the Era of Globalization. Edited by LINDA LEARMAN. Topics in Contemporary Buddhism. Honolulu: University of Hawai i Press, 2005. 245 pp. $45.00 (cloth). The second book in George Tanabe s series, Topics in Contemporary Buddhism, is the welcome product of The Globalization...

...Caroline Rose Northeast Asia's Stunted Regionalism: Bilateral Distrust in the Shadow of Globalization . By Gilbert Rozman . Cambridge and New York : Cambridge University Press , 2004 . vii, 401 pp. $85.00 (cloth); $29.99 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005...

...Nina Cornyetz Japan and Its Others: Globalization, Difference, and the Critique of Modernity . By John Clammer . Melbourne : Trans Pacific Press , 2001 . ix, 272 pp. $26.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 278 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES even-handed...

...Geert De Neve Globalization and Nationalism: The Changing Balance in India's Economic Policy, 1950–2000 . By Baldev Raj Nayar . New Delhi and Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications , 2001 . 285 pp. $49.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003...

...Ritu Vij Globalization and Social Change in Contemporary Japan . Edited by J. S. Eades , Tom Gill , and Harumi Befu . Melbourne : Trans Pacific Press , 2000 . viii, 295 pp. $26.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 279 organization...

... which should enhance our understanding of this changing and complex region. GERALD W. FRY University of Oregon Globalization and the Postcolonial World: The New Political Economy of Development. By A N K I E M. M. HOOGVELT. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. 320 pp. $45.00 (cloth...

...Amanda Huffer Winged Faith: Rethinking Globalization and Religious Pluralism through the Sathya Sai Movement . By Tulasi Srinivas . New York : Columbia University Press , 2010 . 448 pp. $29.50 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 True to its...