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...Justin Tse [email protected] © 2024 Association for Asian Studies 2024 The beginning of Louisa Lim's Indelible City , her book on how local Hong Kong life serves in itself as a critique of British and Chinese colonial powers, opens with a lament for the local. The interviews...

... be influencing the rhetoric of the local church. This article takes a different approach and explores how liberation movements in Ukraine and Hong Kong inform and inspire elements of the theology of social justice within local Catholic communities through bringing to life their social dreams and engaging...

... the local legend of the “Hua Mountain Lifter,” inspired by the rent resistance movement “that erupted in the lower Yangzi Delta from the final decades of the Ming dynasty to the late nineteenth century” (176). The author contextualizes the historical and social environment of Wuxi and the Delta region from...

...Daniel Knorr In sum, The Global in the Local offers a compelling, if incompletely elaborated, framework for how historians might approach the relationship between local and global dynamics. It also reminds us that there are interesting and diverse stories to be told about places in between oft...

...Chalmers Johnson Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1981 1981 Political Opposition and Local Politics in Japan . Edited by Kurt Steiner , Ellis S. Krauss , and Scott C. Flanagan . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 1980 . 486 pp. List of Contributors, Index...

...Jerry Dennerline Chinese Local Elites and Patterns of Dominance . Edited by Joseph W. Esherick and Mary Backus Rankin . Berkeley, Los Angeles, Oxford : University of California Press , (Studies on China, vol. 11 ), 1990 . xvii , 468 pp. $55.00. Copyright © The Association...

...Jean Ellickson Global Migrants, Local Lives: Travel and Transformation in Rural Bangladesh . By Katy Gardner . Oxford : The Clarendon Press , 1995 . xv, 301 pp. $55.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 748 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...William H. Frederick Regional Dynamics of the Indonesian Revolution: Unity from Diversity . Edited by Audrey R. Kahin . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1985 . xii, 306 pp. $25.00. Local Opposition and Underground Resistance to the Japanese in Java, 1942–1945 . Edited...

...: A Survey of Local Communities in a Hydropower Area . By Jan Ovesen . Uppsala : Uppsala Reports in Cultural Anthropology, No. 13. Uppsala University , 1993 . viii, 80 pp. Road 13: A Socio-Economic Study of Villages, Transport and Use of Road 13 S, Lao P.D.R . By Agneta Håkangård . Stockholm...

...Tan Chee-Beng Asian Food: The Global and the Local . Edited By Katarzyna Cwiertka with Boudewijn Walraven . Richmond, Surrey : Curzon ; Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2002 . v , 190 pp. $55.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 1320...

...Peter Manuel Global Goes Local: Popular Culture in Asia . Edited by Timothy J. Craig and Richard King . Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press , 2002 . 320 pp. $85.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 BOOK REVIEWS ASIA: COMPARATIVE...

...Parks M. Coble Radicalism and Its Demise: The Chinese Nationalist Party, Factionalism, and Local Elites in Jiangsu Province, 1924–1931 . By Bradley K. Geisert . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , Center for Chinese Studies, 2001 . v, 357 pp. $50.00 (cloth). Copyright ©...

..., local military forces, or Mao Zedong to decide how to resolve them. Furthermore, Beijing officials, regional military forces, and local civilian cadres were themselves divided against one another, exacerbating and prolonging local conflicts. In competing for approval from central authorities, local...

...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...

...Elaine Craddock At the Feet of the Goddess: The Divine Feminine in Local Hindu Religion . By Lynn Foulston . Brighton and Portland, Ore. : Sussex Academic Press , 2002 . xvi , 242 pp. $69.95 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 222 T H E J O U R N A L O F...

...René Véron Local Democracy and Development: The Kerala People's Campaign for Decentralized Planning . By T. M. Thomas Isaac and Richard W. Franke . Lanham, Md. : Rowman and Littlefield , 2002 . xvi , 241 pp. $74.00 (cloth); $26.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian...

...Thak Chaloemtiarana The Assembly of the Poor in Thailand: From Local Struggles to National Protest Movement . By Bruce D. Missingham Chiang Mai : Silkworm Books , 2003 . viii , 237 pp. $18.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 800 T H E J O U R N A L O...

...Jean DeBernardi Taoism and Local Religion in Modern China . Edited by John Lagerwey . Vol. 2 of Religion and Chinese Society . Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong ; Paris: École française d'Extrême-Orient, 2004 . 408 pp. $80.00 cloth (vols. 1 and 2). Copyright ©...

...Susan Russell Tourism, Heritage, and National Culture in Java: Dilemmas of a Local Community . By Heidi Dahles . Richmond, Surrey : Curzon , 2001 . xvii, 257 pp. £70.00/$125.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 B O O K R E V I E W S S O U T H E A S T...

...} . Tokyo : Kokusho kankokai . Zuoxin She . 1902 . Gesake dongfang qinlue shi {A History of the Cossacks' Encroachment on the East} . Shanghai : Zuoxin she . Foreign Travel through a Woman s Eyes: Shan Shili s Guimao lu¨xing ji in Local and Global Perspective ELLEN WIDMER [Guimao lu¨xing ji...