...Robin Jeffrey; Assa Doron Abstract We argue that the 2007 state elections in Uttar Pradesh (UP), India's largest state, were the first “mass mobile phone” elections in India. The paper charts the spectacular growth of the cheap cell phone in India and in Uttar Pradesh, documents the organizational...

...Chalmers Johnson The New Rich in Asia: Mobile Phones, McDonalds and Middle-Class Revolution . Edited by Richard Robison and David S. G. Goodman . London and New York : Routledge , 1996 . xii, 253 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

... for International Studies, at which the articles will be presented and discussed. The authors will then complete final versions before May 1 to permit publication in the November 1993 issue. DAVID D. BUCK Editor 390 Holton Hall Department of History University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Milwaukee, WI 53201 U.S.A. Phone...

... . By Sirpa Tenhunen . New York : Oxford University Press , 2018 . 216 pp. ISBN: 9780190630270 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2021 2021 The mobile phone and the smartphone have produced two revolutions in short succession across the globe, and a robust body...

... of the labor market. Becoming a net idol, writing a blog, or publishing a cell phone novel all seem like paths to success for anyone willing to put in the necessary hours. Through rich ethnography across multiple contexts, Lukács delineates the invisible affective labor required in the digital economy...

.... As other scholars have argued, China has drastically expanded its “highly digitized fixed line and mobile phone networks” to meet the demands of transnational capital clustered in coastal regions, but millions of peasants and workers, under the regressive social program, cannot afford the digital...

... activities occurring on opposite sides of the strait. This issue does not have any “Asia Beyond the Headlines” essays, but the first research article, R obin J effrey and A ssa D oron's “Mobile-izing: Democracy, Organization and India's First ‘Mass Mobile Phone’ Elections,” is similar to one, both...

... as their own bosses, raising chickens or conducting other agricultural ventures, or in more recent years, “phone ladies” would use a microloan to purchase a cell phone and run a home-based business where customers would come to place occasional calls to far-flung relatives living in other villages, towns...

... Kalbinur, interview, July 2018. 3 Kalbinur, interview, July 2018. 4 Nuri Musabay, interview, February 2016. 5 Kutluk Almas, phone interview, March 2022; Nuri Musabay, phone interview, March 2022. 6 Mehmet Tohti, video interview, April 2016. 7 Nuri Musabay, phone...

... while being lost, not so much a threat while remaining hostile intruders. However, it was the stamp on their wings, the Urdu script, and the phone number tied to their legs, that made them doppelgangers, spies, and complicated their borderly intrusion/arrival/visit. Habib and other flyers knew...

... transmitted to my cell phone by the Korean Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC). The message, known as a CBS (Cellular Broadcasting Service), an unblockable message system, urged people who had visited five night clubs and bars in Itaewon—a popular nightlife district in Seoul, South Korea's...

... to multinational corporations) carrying goods by hand (mostly mobile phones and clothes) and migrants leaving their countries to seek opportunities as “temporary workers, asylum seekers or sex workers” (p. 13). The economic model of Chungking Mansions is based on cheap illegal labor (cheap because it is illegal...

... in Kashmir been eased during an emergency that makes people far more dependent on computers and cell phones for essential information and social support. 9 China has intensified its pressure on targets ranging from Hong Kong demonstrators to lawyers, academic dissenters, and spreaders of “rumors...

... executive Prihadi Santoso. After receiving a phone call from an individual purporting to be a police chief in the area, Santoso immediately arranged for a transfer of ten thousand dollars to the individual's bank account. When the individual later was discovered to be an imposter, the incident was reported...

... be contacted at the following address: Anand A. Yang, Editor The Journal of Asian Studies 2150 LNCO University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 U.S.A. Phone: 801-585-7269 Fax: 801-585-5190 E-mail: anand.yang@rn.cc.utah.edu DAVID D. BUCK 1075 ...

... the most efficient telecommunications service providers in the world. The number of staff required to service 1,000 direct exchange lines in India came down from more than seventy in 1990 to just five in 2003. Cell phone connections rose from 13 million subscriptions to 35 million subscriptions between...

... in close proximity to each other, borrowing a statue to take home is no longer the practice, people unknown to the medium or to the religious community might call on their cell phones to request the deity's help with a personal matter, and the medium has to devote more time to administrative and logistical...

..., consumerism is now deeply entrenched in all areas of Chinese life” (p. 4). As much as a third of the population (over 430 million people) is currently classified as middle class consumers, and Gerth argues that the rising Chinese appetite for TVs, cars, refrigerators, phones, and DVD players is transforming...

... jewelry. Emily kept in close touch with Hessler, writing letters and sometimes phoning him at night. She confided in him, and he offered his advice freely when she faced problems with men or at work. In one phone conversation, Emily told Hessler that her sister had found a job with “a lonely hearts...