...David G. Marr Cauldron of Resistance: Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and 1950s Southern Vietnam . By Jessica M. Chapman . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press , 2013 . xi, 276 pp. $39.95 (cloth). Misalliance: Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and the Fate of South Vietnam...

...Vivian Shaw Becoming One: Religion, Development, and Environmentalism in a Japanese NGO in Myanmar . By Chika Watanabe . Honolulu : University Hawai‘i Press , 2019 . xiv, 239 pp. ISBN: 9780824875268 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2020 2020...

...Edward P. Reed Paved with Good Intentions: The NGO Experience in North Korea . Edited by L. Gordon Flake and Scott Snyder . Westport, Conn. : Praeger , 2004 . viii , 168 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 B O O K R E V I E W S K O R E...

...Julie Fisher Government-NGO Relations in Asia: Prospects and Challenges for People-Centered Development . Edited by Noeleen Heyzer , James V. Riker and Antonio B. Quizon . New York : St. Martin's Press , 1995 . xiii, 247 pp. $65.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Annette Clear The Politics of NGOs in Indonesia: Developing Democracy and Managing a Movement . By Bob S. Hadiwinata . London and New York : Routledge Curzon , 2003 . xvi , 304 pp. $114.95 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 B O O K R E V I E W S S O U...

... Fall of Marcos Takes Place.” 1997. BBC Summary of World Broadcasts . Reading: BBC Monitering. 22 September. Brillantes Alex . 1994 . “ Redemocratization and Decentralization in the Philippines: The Increasing Leadership Role of NGOs .” International Review of Administrative Sciences 60 : 575...

...Salim Rashid Civil Society by Design: Donors, NGOs, and the Intermestic Development Circle in Bangladesh . By Kendall W. Stiles . Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers , 2002 . xii, 178 pp. $62.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Jeffrey C. H. Ngo [email protected] The Penguin Book of Modern Tibetan Essays . Edited by Tenzin Dickie . Gurugram, India : Vintage , 2023 . xix, 300 pp. ISBN: 9780670095124 . Under the Mulberry Tree: A Contemporary Uyghur Anthology , vol. 1. Edited by Munawwar...

...Ngo Vinh Long The Rise of Nationalism in Vietnam, 1900–1941 . By William J. Duiker . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 1976 . 313 pp. Bibliography, Index. $15.00 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1977 1977 592 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES others, Geddes's own data can...

...Ngo Vinh Long Reflections from Captivity: Phan Boi Chau's Prison Notes and Ho Chi Minh's Prison Diary . Edited by David G. Marr . Translated by Christopher Jenkins , Tran Khanh Tuyet , and Huynh Sanh Thong . Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press (Southeast Asian Translation Series...

...Ngo Vinh Long Abstract The book under review has been hailed by its supporters as one of the finest examples of “the new Vietnam scholarship.” Like other writings of this genre, this book claims that the United States caused the loss of South Vietnam by going to the Paris peace talks in 1968...

...Phi-Vân Nguyen Abstract Most studies of the Republic of Vietnam's nation-building programs have focused on its security and land reforms. Yet spirituality was a fundamental element of Ngô Đình Diệm's Personalist Revolution. This article analyzes how the Republic of Vietnam attempted to channel...

...Amy Gurowitz Abstract We are currently witnessing two trends in Southeast Asia: first, an increase in what is often referred to as “civil society” activity including action by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs); and second, an increase in various forms of migration, one of the key human rights...

... by Jing Wang makes a very important contribution to the study of China's cyberspace as pluralistic, fluid, and fraught with gray zones, with change makers—including grassroots NGOs, corporate sectors, IT companies, millennials, and tech communities—constantly pushing boundaries and building coalitions...

... The timely edited volume Civil Life, Globalization and Political Change in Asia addresses the remarkable flourishing of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in many East and Southeast Asian nations since the early 1990s and their relationship to the development of civil society. As the editor, Robert P...

... Non-Government Organizations and Democratic Participation in Indonesia. By PHILIP J. ELDRIDGE. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1995. xxiii, 246 pp. $55.00. While a debate goes on about whether Indonesia has or needs a "civil society," one has already shaped itself around too many influential NGOs for New...

... N A L O F A S I A N S T U D I E S chapter an important empirical contribution to the literature on NGOs. The fth case is on the Yogyakarta NGO Forum as a network NGO (not in Hadiwinata s typology of NGOs) that was initially founded as a venue for an ongoing dialogue between the government and NGOs...

... Maxfield, eds., The Politics of Finance in Developing 704 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Countries [Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1993 the opportunities to learn are substantial. DONALD CRONE Scripps College Government-NGO Relations in Asia: Prospects and Challenges for People-Centered...

...). Kenneth DeWoskin's publication on fang-shih is a remarkably courageous undertaking, given the availability of a superb monograph on the subject, namely Ngo Van Xuyet's Divination, magie etpolitique dans la Chine ancienne (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1976). DeWoskin, regrettably, all...

... GENERAL 705 instead of linking this term to bomb throwers, he ties it to the gentle anarchism of Gandhi and his promotion of Lok Sevak Sangh or people's service organizations. Large donors, he argues, are motivated to support NGOs, not only because poverty is bad for world business, but because...