...Cecil Hobbs Scientific Facilities and Information Services of the Republic of Indonesia . By John O. Sutter . Honolulu : Published for the National Science Foundation by the Pacific Scientific Information Center, 1961 . 136 . Maps, Tables, App., Index. (Pacific Scientific Information...

...Uluğ Kuzuoğlu BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER ASIA Seeking News, Making China: Information, Technology, and the Emergence of Mass Society. By John Alekna. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024. 359 pp. ISBN: 9781503638570. Seeking News, Making China exp­ lores the sig­nif­ic­ ance of in­form­...

... to Dav­ id Morg­ an, The Em­pire of Tamerlane: An Unsuccessful Re-run of the Mong­ ol State Journal of the Royal Asia­ tic Society, 3rd ser., 26: 1/2 (2016): 281 91. Codes of Modernity: Chi­nese Scripts in the Global Information Age. By Ulu Kuzuo lu. New York: Co­lumb­ ia University Press, 2023. 328 pp...

..., and archetypes into the formulation of popular resistance has shifted political norms toward more legal, informational (social media), and mainstream (i.e., middle class, urbane, statist) mediation in Indonesia. Given that context, it is interesting to note how the “little people” continue to tell their own...

...Nanette Gottlieb Roadblocks on the Information Highway: The IT Revolution in Japanese Education . Edited By Jane M. Bachnik . Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books , 2003 . ix , 354 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $26.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 188 T H E J O U R...

...Marilyn Ivy Beyond Computopia: Information, Automation, and Democracy in Japan . By Tessa Morris-Suzuki . London : Kegan Paul International , 1988 . x , 221 pp. $59.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 620 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES viewed...

...Mark Tilton Closing the Shop: Information Cartels and Japan's Mass Media . By Laurie Anne Freeman . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2000 . xix, 256 pp. $39.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 215 Takashi Yoshida provides...

...Pauline Kolenda Information and Behavior in a Sikh Village . By Murray J. Leaf . Berkeley, Los Angeles, London : University of California Press , 1972 . xi, 296 pp. Appendix, Index. $10.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1975 1975 BOOK REVIEWS This work...

...Brian Platt Japan in Print: Information and Nation in the Early Modern Period . By Mary Elizabeth Berry . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 2006 . xvii , 325 pp. $60.00 (cloth), $24.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2008...

...Bates Gill China's Techno-Warriors: National Security and Strategic Competition from the Nuclear to the Information Age . By Evan A. Feigenbaum . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 2003 . xviii , 339 pp. $55.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004...

...Majid H. Siddiqi Empire and Information: Intelligence Gathering and Social Communication in India, 1780–1870 . By C. A. Bayly . Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1996 . xiv, 412 pp. $64.95(cloth). Copyright © The Association...

...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...

...Charles O. Hucker Understanding China: A Handbook of Background Information on Changing China . By Earl Herbert Cressy . New York : Thomas Nelson , 1957 . x, 278 . Bibliography, Index. $5.00. China's Cultural Tradition: What and Whither? . By Derk Bodde . New York : Rinehart...

...Yhi-Min Ho Farm Information for Modernizing Agriculture: The Taiwan System . By Herbert F. Lionberger , and H. C. Chang . New York : Praeger Publishers , 1970 . 454 pp. Tables, Appendices, Bibliography. $21.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1970 1970 BOOK...

...Mi Chu Wiens Zhongguo lishi xue nianjian. [Chinese Historical Studies Yearbook] . Compiled by the Chinese Historical Association . Beijing : Renmin chuban she , 1979 , 1981, 1982, 1983. RMB $4.50 (cloth); RMB $3.35 (paper). Shixue qingbao. [Information on Historical Studies] . Compiled...

...Michael Smitka Information, Incentives, and Bargaining in the Japanese Economy . By Masahiko Aoki . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1988 . xii, 320 pp. $39.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 849 ward, housing patterns...

...Nate Shockey The Values in Numbers: Reading Japanese Literature in a Global Information Age . By Hoyt Long . New York : Columbia University Press , 2021 . 376 pp. ISBN: 9780231193511 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 Computational approaches...

...Mikyoung Kim In returning to the enticing question with which Baek's book begins, the core of the puzzle going forward will be the correlation between regime sustainability and the underground information revolution that she describes. Baek's prognosis, alas, is that increasing consumption...

...Song Chen Information, Territory, and Networks: The Crisis and Maintenance of Empire in Song China . By Hilde De Weerdt . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2015 . xxii, 512 pp. ISBN: 9780674088429 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Kelly D. Alley BITS of Belonging: Information Technology, Water, and Neoliberal Governance in India . By Simanti Dasgupta . Philadelphia : Temple University Press , 2015 . 232 pp. ISBN: 9781439912584 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). Copyright ©...