...Arthur G. Rubinoff The Need for Enemies: A Bestiary of Political Forms . By F. G. Bailey . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press , 1998 . xiv, 223 pp. $39.95 (cloth); $15.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 539 notes...

...Marilyn A. Levine “We Need Two Worlds:” Chinese Immigrant Associations in a Western Society . By Li Minghuan . Ann Arbor, Mich. : The University of Michigan Press , 2000 . 289 pp. $37.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 506 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

... and marginalizing nonstate legal spaces, furthering his thesis about the interplay between secular need and hate. Chapters 4 and 5 provide in-depth analysis of the complicated landscape of Islamic divorce and the (il)legitimacy of state and nonstate legal spaces, respectively. While the first five chapters...

...Michael H. Bodden Secrets Need Words: Indonesian Poetry, 1966–1999 . Edited and translated by Harry Aveling . Southeast Asia Series, no. 105. Athens : Ohio University Center for International Studies , 2001 . xiv, 375 pp. $26.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...Robert Laporte, Jr. Just Development: Beyond Adjustment with a Human Face . Edited by Tariq J. Banuri , Shahrukh Rafi Khan , and Moazam Mahmood . Karachi : Oxford University Press , 1997 . xv, 207 pp. $27.00 (cloth). Who Needs Credit? Poverty and Finance in Bangladesh . Edited...

...Hiroshi Wagatsuma Amaeru: The Expression of Reciprocal Dependency Needs in Japanese Politics and Law . By Douglas D. Mitchell . Boulder : Westview Press (A Westview Replica Edition), 1976 . 228 pp. Bibliography. $17.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1979 1979...

...James Brow Basic Needs, Poverty and Government Policies in Sri Lanka . By Peter Richards and Wilbert Gooneratne . Geneva : International Labour Office , 1980 . 176 pp. Sw F 17.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1981 1981 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 187 electoral...

...Irene Tinker Rural Energy to Meet Development Needs: Asian Village Approaches . Edited by M. Nurul Islam , Richard Morse , and M. Hadi Soesastro . Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press , 1984 . xxiv, 564 pp. (Westview Special Studies in Social, Political, and Economic Development.) Tables...

...Tom Cutler Energy Efficiency Strategies for Thailand: The Needs and the Benefits . Edited by Deborah Lynn Bleviss and Vanessa Lide . Lanham, Maryland : University Press of America , 1989 . xiii , 455 pp. $42.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991...

...Barrett L. McCormick China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know . By Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom . New York : Oxford University Press , 2010 . xxii, 164 pp. $74.00 (cloth); $16.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 This short book...

... say at once that it need not fear any comparison with that wonderful book. Naturally there are differences in the authors' personalities; for example Dr. Tsien does not go in for the elaborate footnotes of Carter, and he is particularly sympathetic to anyone of scientific training because of his...

... in a sober and factual work of information. The format is good, but the cover is undignified and unclear. The aims of the handbook are to arrange systematically materials on British Borneo, and to point out to area experts gaps of knowledge in the literature. No expert in any subject needs or could obtain...

... are not primordial, natural, monolithic essences; rather, they are products of elaborate historical and cultural and economic processes, and are mobilized for specific ideological ends or needs; thus, they should be understood within, or as emerging from, particular contexts. This aids in a critical (re...

... the Chinese culture-area concerning alchemy and chemistry. In the past this subject has suffered from a number of writers equipped with enthusiasm but lacking the tools they really needed. Without going so far as to say that early Chinese chemistry has been written about by those who knew neither Chinese nor...

...: We need to understand that to believe in Daoism is to conserve the body, and to propagate Daoism is to save the country… A military invasion can at best break up the land of a people and destroy their bodies. The damage is relatively superficial. But a religious and cultural invasion can deprive...