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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (2): 501–538.
Published: 01 May 2002
...Philip C. C. Huang Abstract Kenneth pomeranz argues that “the great divergence” between development and involution in Europe and China did not occur until after 1800. Until then, Europe and China were comparable in population history, agriculture, handicraft industry, income, and consumption...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (1): 223–224.
Published: 01 February 2002
...Nancy Park Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 Cadres and Corruption: The Organizational Involution of the Chinese Communist Party . By Xiaobo Lü . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 2000 . xviii , 368 pp. $55.00 (cloth). BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 223...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1980) 40 (1): 210–212.
Published: 01 November 1980
...Robert Van Niel Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1980 1980 The Cultivation System and “Agricultural Involution.” . By R. E. Elson . Clayton, Victoria : Monash University Centre of Southeast Asian Studies (Working Paper No. 14), 1978 . 30 pp. Maps, Tables. $A 1.25...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1971) 30 (4): 783–795.
Published: 01 August 1971
... of agricultural involution in nineteenth century Java with my own work on Pampanga Province, Philippines, provides some first steps towards a theory of rural change. Specifically, a modern cash crop economy produces more sophisticated contractual relations between tenants and landowners regardless of changes...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (1): 221–223.
Published: 01 February 2002
... in developed countries. YIZHENG SHI Hong Kong Baptist University Cadres and Corruption: The Organizational Involution of the Chinese Communist Party. By XlAOBO Lu. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. xviii, 368 pp. $55.00 (cloth). In his important new book, Xiaobo Lii addresses the nature and causes...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1986) 45 (3): 572–574.
Published: 01 May 1986
... role. As an alternative to these approaches, Huang proposes a model of agricultural involution derived partly from Geertz and partly from Chayanov. He develops this model in the following way. BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER ASIA 573 First, he argues, the overall pattern of change in North China from...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1973) 32 (4): 737–738.
Published: 01 August 1973
... and raises important questions regarding the recent supposed rice-crop failure in the Philippines, and van der Muizenberg looks at the applicability of Geertz's concept of involution to Central Luzon, ending with a useful reformulation of questions. Go Gien Tjwan contributes an intriguing and solidly based...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (3): 629–633.
Published: 01 August 1991
... farmworker, and from a near doubling of the rural population. The result was stagnant or lowered productivity and returns per workday. That is what I mean by the term involution. In the Yangzi delta during the centuries before 1950, involution principally took the forms of switching from rice cultivation...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (4): 1215–1230.
Published: 01 November 2009
.... Explanation as a mode of scholarship is best found in his Agricultural Involution ( 1963a ), but beginning in the 1960s, his writings moved in essentially humanistic directions—thus, the interest in explanation became almost mute. This, of course, should not be surprising, as Geertz's anthropology...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1986) 45 (3): 574–576.
Published: 01 May 1986
...Stevan Harrell Morality and Power in a Chinese Village . By Richard Madsen . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1984 . xvi, 283 pp. Index. $24.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1986 1986 574 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES of involution are not systematically...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1980) 40 (1): 212–216.
Published: 01 November 1980
... of Java. The third publication in this review is a mimeographed working paper by a young Australian historian, R. E. Elson. This paper tests the main propositions advanced by Clifford Geertz in his book Agricultural Involution: The Process ofEcological Change in Indonesia (1963) against developments...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1973) 32 (4): 738–740.
Published: 01 August 1973
... of "academic involution" and are that some very basic truths are obscured. becoming all too used to a kind of shared Indeed, we seem to be getting farther away intellectual poverty in the Indonesian field. from the realities of the Japanese occupation Wertheim's own famous work was a seminal of Java than ever...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (2): 531–532.
Published: 01 May 2014
... of Chang's post-1950 work, these authors introduce useful concepts, such as “self-translation” (Shuang Shen), “schizophrenia” (Xiaojue Wang), and “involution” (David Wang). For instance, David Wang provocatively describes Chang's post-1950 writing style, which incessantly invokes the past and refuses...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (2): 539–590.
Published: 01 May 2002
..., Growth Linkages, and Economic Development in Nineteenth Century Japan .” Journal of Asian Studies 61 ( 1 ): 33 – 55 . Geertz Clifford . 1963 . Agricultural Involution: The Process of Ecological Change in Indonesia . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press . Grantham...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (1): 157–187.
Published: 01 February 2003
... , edited by Brenner Robert . London and New York : Verso Books . Huang Philip C. C. 2002 b. “ Development or Involution in Eighteenth-Century Britain and China? A Review of Kenneth Pomeranz's The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy .” Journal...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1986) 45 (5): 1093–1094.
Published: 01 November 1986
... of the Cauvery delta. This configuration is distinguished from both classically "peasant" areas with poorer irrigation and the oldest zone of the delta where population pressures have produced "vertical layering" of land rights in a Geertz-like involution with cross-cutting cleavages (p. 117). Class...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (3): 587–588.
Published: 01 August 1989
... with campaigns against "superstition" and the transformation of temples into schools. At the same time, the state expanded its functions, size, and cost but not its efficiency in a process that Duara tellingly labels "state involution." The expanding state's demand for increased revenues led to a host of new...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (1): 224–226.
Published: 01 February 2002
... of organizational involution is convincing. Far less convincing is his argument that the involutionary process is linked to the rise in corruption, which is problematic on several levels. First, Lii's definition of corruption is extremely broad, including not only actions that violate the penal code and other...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (3): 604–628.
Published: 01 August 1991
... this lack of development as caused largely by a complex process of "involution." Huang's use of "involution" differs from Clifford Geertz's. Huang thinks of it as referring to "small-peasant production at subsistence levels" and the lack of "transformative change for the countryside," combined...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1992) 51 (3): 600–611.
Published: 01 August 1992
... Half-Full or Half-Empty for China’s Agriculture before 1949? ” Peasant Studies 17 .3: 207 –16. Geertz Clifford . 1963 . Agricultural Involution: The Process of Ecological Change in Indonesia . Berkeley : University of California Press . Goldstone Jack A . 1990 . Revolution...