...Charlotte Furth Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1974 1974 T H E LANGUAGE OF INEQUALITY: A N EDITORIAL In recent years American scholars have once again become comparatively selfconscious and critical about the social impact of the 'pure' academic research they do...

...Steve Barnett Industry and Inequality: The Social Anthropology of Indian Labour . By Mark Holmstrom . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1984 . x, 342 pp. Index. $44.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1987 1987 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 435 inclusion...

...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...

... at Austin The Politics of Inequality: Competition and Control in an Indian Village. By MIRIAM SHARMA. Hawaii: The University Press of Hawaii (Asian Studies at Hawaii, No. 22), 1978. 262 pp. Plates, Maps, Tables, Glossary, Notes and References, Bibliography, Index. $9-50. This is an account...

...Pauline Kolenda Caste and Other Inequities: Essays on Inequality . By Gerald D. Berreman . Meerut, India : Folklore Institute , 1979 . xvii, 324 pp. Bibliography. Rs 85 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1982 1982 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 863 cotta from...

...R. David Arkush Marriage and Inequality in Chinese Society . Edited by Rubie S. Watson and Patricia Buckley Ebrey . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1991 . 402 pp. 49.95 (cloth); $14.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 BOOK...

...Milton J. Esman Growth and Ethnic Inequality: Malaysia's New Economic Policy . By Just Faaland , J. R. Parkinson , and Rais Saniman . New York : St. Martin's Press , 1991 . vii, 348 pp. $59.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 734 THE JOURNAL...

...John Echeverri-Gent Poverty, Inequality, and Prices in Rural India . By Nikhilesh Bhattacharya , Dipankor Coondoo , Pradip Maiti , and Robin Mukherjee . New Delhi : Sage Publications , 1991 . 236 pp. $28.50. Against the Few: Struggles of India's Rural Poor . By Arun Sinha...

...McKim Marriott From Hierarchy to Stratification: Changing Patterns of Social Inequality in a North Indian Village . By D. B. Miller . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1975 . xviii, 229 pp. Tables, Maps, Diagrams, Plates, Notes, Bibliography, Glossary, Index. Rs. 60; $9.75 Copyright ©...

... of infrastructural pressure, where transcending pain is not always possible. Working long hours and caring for patients who have received piecemeal and provisional treatments, practitioners struggle to address the broader structural inequalities guiding the social distribution of cancer pain. By richly detailing...

...Rob Jenkins Capitalism, Inequality and Labour in India . By Jan Breman . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2019 . 286 pp. ISBN: 9781108482417 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2020 2020 Jan Breman, the author of the superb Capitalism...

...Kwang-Yeong Shin Income Inequality in Korea: An Analysis of Trends, Causes, and Answers . By Chong-Bum An and Barry Bosworth . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2013 . xi, 174 pp. $39.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014  2014...

...Mark W. Frazier One Country, Two Societies: Rural–Urban Inequality in Contemporary China . Edited by Martin King Whyte . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 2010 . xi , 445 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $27.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010...

...David A. Bello State-Sponsored Inequality: The Banner System and Social Stratification in Northeast China . By Shuang Chen . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 2017 . xvii, 342 pp. ISBN: 9780804799034 (cloth, also available as e-book). Copyright © The Association...

...Eika Tai Deviance and Inequality in Japan: Japanese Youth and Foreign Migrants . By Robert Stuart Yoder . Bristol, UK : Polity Press , 2011 . viii, 232 pp. $110.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2012 2012 In this book, the author analyzes Japanese...

...Kellee S. Tsai Paying for Progress in China: Public Finance, Human Welfare and Changing Patterns of Inequality . Edited by Vivienne Shue and Christine Wong . New York : Routledge , 2007 . xii , 195 pp. $150.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2008...

...Christian C. Lentz Inequality, Crisis and Social Change in Indonesia: The Muted Worlds of Bali . Edited by Thomas A. Reuter . New York : Routledge , 2003 . 222 $190.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2008 2008 Bali lives or dies on a myth...

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...Junmin Wang Boundaries and Categories: Rising Inequality in Post-Socialist Urban China . By Wang Feng . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 2007 . xvi , 264 pp. $55.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009 This study makes...

...Bernard Bate But issues such as “dignity” and “inequality” are subtitled concerns of the book. The primary point of the book is to outline as clearly as possible the principles by which all of this unfolds in the everyday life of gods, men, and women and the extraordinary nights when gods walk...