...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...

... resulted in a fatality. Conditions were much worse in the Transfer Center. There, guards were abusive and prisoners were required to do long hours of uncompensated labor, were denied adequate water, and were even not allowed sufficient time to defecate. Jiang also succeeds in finding humanity in his...

.... This book won the 1995 Western States Book Award in Creative Nonfiction. JAMES CHIN Middlesex University Eight Prison Camps: A Dutch Family in Japanese Java. By D I E U W K E W E N D E L A A R B O N G A . Monograph No. 98, Southeast Asia Series. Athens: Center for International Studies, Ohio University...

.... MARY LAGO University ofMissouri, Columbia Prison Diary. By JAYAPRAKASH NARAYAN. Edited with an introduction by A. B. SHAH. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1978. xx, 134 pp. Appendixes, Index. $8.95. Jayaprakash Narayan is an extraordinary human being, and he has written a remarkable...

...José S. Buenconsejo The Gamelan Digul and the Prison Camp Musician Who Built It: An Australian Link with the Indonesian Revolution . By Margaret J. Kartomi . Eastman Studies in Music. Rochester : University of Rochester Press , 2002 . xxii, 123 pp. CD. $75.00 (cloth). Copyright ©...

...Nancy J. Smith-Hefner Voices from S-21: Terror and History in Pol Pot's Secret Prison . By David Chandler . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1999 . xiii, 238 pp. $19.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Angeliki Andrea Kanavou; Kosal Path Abstract During the Cambodian Genocide (1975–79), about 12,272 to 20,000 people were jailed in the infamous Tuol Sleng (S-21) prison. Only a handful survived. This study focuses on how former S21 perpetrators relate today to their role in the genocide. Through...

...Hong Yung Lee Syngman Rhee: The Prison Years of a Young Radical . By Chong-Sik Lee . Seoul : Yonsei University Press , 2001 . xix , 207 pp. ₩10,000 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 1074 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES emotionally connected, way...

...Bradly W. Reed Crime, Punishment, and the Prison in Modern China . By Frank Dikötter . New York : Columbia University Press , 2002 . xvi , 441 pp. $38.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 583 with the opportunity...

...David Brown Dare to Change: An Alternative Vision for Singapore . By Chee Soon Juan . Singapore : Singapore Democratic Party , 1994 . 157 pp. To Catch a Tartar: A Dissident in Lee Kuan Yew's Prison . By Francis T. Seow . New Haven, Conn. Monograph 42: Yale Center...

...Zvi Ben-Dor Crime, Punishment, and the Prison in Modern China . By Frank Dikötter . New York : Columbia University Press , 2001 . xvi, 441 pp. $38.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 927 Crime, Punishment, and the Prison...

...Nicholas Evan Sarantakes With Only the Will to Live: Accounts of Americans in Japanese Prison Camps, 1941–1945 . Edited by Robert S. La Forte , Ronald E. Marcello , and Richard L. Himmel . Wilmington : SR Books , 1994 . xxxviii, 286 pp. $24.95. Copyright © The Association...

...Gregory Henderson Prison Writings . By Kim Dae Jung . Translated by Sung-il Choi and David McCann . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1987 . xiv , 333 pp. $25.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988 1988 BOOK REVIEWS KOREA 161...

...Emily Baum The Compelling Ideal: Thought Reform and the Prison in China, 1901-1956 . By Jan Kiely . New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press , 2014 . ix, 403 pp. $65.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015  2015 The Compelling Ideal is a thoughtful...

...Craig Loomis Prisoner of the Word: A Memoir of the Vietnamese Reeducation Camps . By Le Hu'u Tri . Seattle : Black Heron Press , 2001 . 275 pp. $25.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 780 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Prisoner ofthe Word...

... ) recorded in the collection of cases known as the Hsing-an hui-lan form an important body of law. Of these, the cases pertaining to the illegal punishment of prisoners by government officials are particularly interesting. An analysis of thirty of these cases suggests answers to the following questions: 1...

...Patricia G. Steinhoff Japan's Prisoners of Conscience: Protest and Law during the Iraq War . By Lawrence Repeta . New York : Routledge , 2023 . xvi, 222 pp. ISBN: 9781132046297 . © 2024 Association for Asian Studies 2024 In sixteen short chapters, Lawrence Repeta tells...

...David L. Howell Prisoners from Nambu: Reality and Make-Believe in Seventeenth-Century Japanese Diplomacy . By Reinier H. Hesselink . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2002 . x , 213 pp. $47.00 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002...

...Matthew T. Kapstein Prisoners of Shangri-la: Tibetan Buddhism and the West . By Donald S. Lopez Jr . Chicago and London : The University of Chicago Press , 1998 . 283 pp. $25.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 BOOK REVIEWS INNER ASIA 1151 volume, many...

...Eugene F. Irschick Gandhi: Prisoner of Hope . By Judith Brown . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1990 . xii, 440 pp. $29.95. Gandhian Utopia: Experiments with Culture . By Richard G. Fox . Boston : Beacon Press , 1989 . x, 330 pp. $27.50. Copyright © The Association...