... of all places and no particular place. Thus universalized, Mandarin could facilitate nationwide communication that previously had been stymied by the nation's extensive multilinguality. The creation of a Chinese standard language, therefore, was a state-led nation-building project, meant to mold...

...Shih-Hsiang Chen Harvard-Yenching Institute Chinese-English Dictionary Project, Fascicle 39.0.1: Preliminary Print . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1953 . [iii], 68 , 27. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1955 1955 1 In Analects 6.4 Confucius...

... and Kyounghee Kim's research on gendered care labor, this article examines the gendered experience of school social workers who are certified at a lower level than professional social workers, and are hired, laid off, and rehired by the state-sponsored Education Welfare Priority Project. It traces recent...

...Wilfredo F. Arce Slums are for People: The Barrio Magsaysay Pilot Project in Philippine Urban Community Development . By Aprodicio A. Laquian . Honolulu : The East-West Center Press , 1971 . xvi, 245 pp. Appendixes, Notes, Glossary, Index. $9.00. Copyright © The Association...

... Gorges Project . Edited by Luk Shiu-hung and Joseph Whitney . An East Gate Book: Chinese Environment and Development Series. Armonk, N.Y., and London : M. E. Sharpe , 1993 . 236 pp. $45.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER ASIA...

... easier use in classrooms and the wider readership it deserves. Colonial Project, National Game: A History of Baseball in Taiwan . By Andrew D. Morris . Berkeley; Los Angeles : University of California Press , 2010 . xi, 271 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $49.95 (electronic). Copyright ©...

... prose fiction and theatrical plays, but with little attention being paid to mass-media genres of radio and television drama and film. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2012 2012 Truth from a Lie: Documentary, Detection, and Reflexivity in Abe Kōbō's Realist Project...

... U N O MANSER. Translated by Anthony Dixon and Johanna Veth. Kuala Lumpur: Bruno Manser Foundation and INSAN, 1996. viii, 294 pp. $20.00. Power Play: Why the Bakun Hydroelectric Project is Damned. Second edition. Kuala Lumpur: INSAN, 1996. xx, 126 pp. $5.00. The two books reviewed here refer...

...Vera Schwarcz The Appropriation of Cultural Capital: China's May Fourth Project . Edited by Milena Doleželová-Velingerová and Oldřich Král . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 2001 . xv, 348 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 236 THE JOURNAL...

..., was called the People of India, a name that had been used for several rather notorious colonial ethnographic projects. Intrigued, I began to examine this most recent avatar of the People of India. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 List of References Aijazuddin Ahmad...

...Le Hong Hiep United Front: Projecting Solidarity through Deliberation in Vietnam's Single-Party Legislature . By Paul Schuler . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 2021 . 272 pp. ISBN: 9781503614741 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022...

...Harvey M. Choldin Village Community Projects in India: Origin, Development and Problems . By V. P. Pande . New York : Asia Publishing House , 1967 . x, 258 pp. Appendixes, Index. $5.25. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1970 1970 BOOK REVIEWS 723 castes" (p. 8...

... of the Nguyễn realm. Ang patiently unlocks the hidden meanings of the poems. What, for instance, are the “fish-dragons” that frequently appear? Ang persuasively argues that they refer to Ming loyalists scattered across Southeast Asia. The Ten Songs project's goal of drawing together the Chinese diaspora...

... York: Praeger, 1984). Fertility in Asia: Assessing the Impact of Development Projects. Edited by J O H N STOECKEL and ANRUDH K. J A I N . New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986. xx, 177 pp. $37.50. In the long run, the rate of population growth slows down as a country modernizes. But in the meantime...

...David W. Plath 868 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Body Projects in Japanese Childcare: Culture, Organization and Emotions in a Preschool. By EYAL B E N - A R I . Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 1997. x, 166 pp. $48.00 (cloth). Life in preschool is an all-day scrimmage. The need to pay attention...

.... At the publisher's selling price, the book will be of interest primarily to those concerned with the lesser-known case studies, to people with interests identical to the project design, and to the wide-spread circle of admirers of the editor. Carleton University ELLIOT L. TEPPER Papers and Proceedings...

... of the character is given on p . 16 (viz., zang as "a collection, a repository" and cang as "to conceal, to store away In sum, the work is a distinguished contribution to the venerable list of publications of the EFEO. S6REN EDGREN Chinese Rare Books Project Research Library Group Copyright © The Association...

...-makers on ship yards, automobile assembly lines, and microchip foundries is quite different from the approach of the Singaporean state, which leaves project evaluation largely to the multinational corporations who produce a lion's share of the world's computer hard drives in that "island of lions...