...W. Miles Fletcher, III Defending the Japanese State: Structures, Norms, and the Political Responses to Terrorism and Violent Social Protest in the 1970s and 1980s . By Peter J. Katzenstein and Yutaka Tsujinaka . Ithaca, N.Y. : East Asia Program, Cornell University , 1991 . xi, 217 pp...

...Roger V. Des Forges The Internal Organization of Ch'ing Bureaucracy: Legal, Normative and Communication Aspects . By Thomas A. Metzger . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 1973 . x, 469 pp. Appendices, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...John P. Burns Retirement of Revolutionaries in China: Public Policies, Social Norms, Private Interests . By Melanie Manion . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1993 . 196 pp. $35.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER...

...David C. Kang From Deterrence to Engagement: The U.S. Defense Commitment to South Korea . By Terence Roehrig . Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books , 2006 . xi , 285 pp. $80.00 (cloth); $26.95 (paper). South Korean Engagement Policies and North Korea: Identities, Norms and the Sunshine...

...Ramdas Menon Development Success in Asia Pacific: An Exercise in Normative-Pragmatic Balance . By A. H. Somjee and Geeta Somjee . New York : St. Martin's Press , 1995 . ix, 222 pp. $59.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 792 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Shaohua Hu China Orders the World: Normative Soft Power and Foreign Policy . Edited by William A. Callahan and Elena Barabantseva . Washington, DC : Woodrow Wilson Center Press , 2011 . xiv, 280 pp. $55.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013 2013...

...J. Mark Ramseyer Cultural Norms and National Security: Police and Military in Postwar Japan . By Peter J. Katzenstein . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press , 1996 . xvi, 307 pp. $35.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 883 role...

...Nakamura Mitsuo Islam in Java: Normative Piety and Mysticism in the Sultanate of Yogyakarta . By Mark R. Woodward . Association for Asian Studies Monograph XLV Tucson : The University of Arizona Press , 1989 . xii, 311 pp. $29.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Ross Mouer Gender and Human Rights Politics in Japan: Global Norms and Domestic Networks . By Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press . 2004 . x , 220 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2007 2007 This very...

...Robert L. Kidder Abstract In its most general sense, social change involves change in the normative order of a society. Some would say that this necessarily involves a change in the patterns by which wealth is distributed. Others look for basic ideological shifts. Still others seek basic changes...

... and careers of a 25% random sample of all prefectural governors between 1868–1945 clearly indicates that by 1900 the norms of the bureaucratic role had changed drastically. From a role based on extra-bureaucratic norms—participation in the Restoration, possession of some Western knowledge and membership...

... in the Basava legend serve as norms for their sectarian-type religious organization. In contrast, gurusthalins derive norms for their basically ecclesiastical organization from the timeless myths of five great gurus. Hence the two accounts of origins serve as legitimizing and normative etiologies...

... manhood norms were bifurcated along class lines. On one hand, fighting prowess was accepted as a part of the masculinity pattern in the premodern society of the commoners. On the other hand, the higher classes' visions of manhood emphasized self-control and adherence to moral and ritual norms. The paper...

... on the conventional and normative. Whatever the people on the margin share unquestioningly with the rest of the society hints at the breadth and power of social norms; whatever they question, or have trouble doing, points to the inevitable cracks in the social order. Moreover, when a society seems to emphasize...

..., relativistic, and therefore empty of any guide to moral life, it presents a solid normative ethics through various stories, and this normative ethics is a virtue ethics. The most important trait of character in this Daoist virtue ethics is respect for different ways of life—a virtue not discussed in any...