...Norman D. Palmer Strategy, Risk and Personality in Coalition Politics: The Case of India . By Bruce Bueno de Mesquita . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1975 . x, 198 pp. Appendixes, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $17.50 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1977 1977...

... in the Angra 3 Plant and What Are Possible Scenarios for This, Based on the Weaknesses of the Planned Design and the Lessons Learnt from Fukushima?” In Corrêa's view, risk assessments sponsored by nuclear scientists and the Brazilian government have downplayed the dangers present at Angra 1 and 2 (all three...

...Amy B. Borovoy Food Safety after Fukushima: Scientific Citizenship and the Politics of Risk . By Nicolas Sternsdorff-Cisterna . University of Hawai‘i Press , 2018 . 190 pp. ISBN: 9780824872137 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2020 2020 On March 11...

...Jürgen Osterhammel Corporate Behaviour and Political Risk: Dutch Companies in China, 1903–1941 . By Frans-Paul van der Putten . Leiden : Research School of Asian, African, and Amerindian Studies , 2001 . vii , 287 pp. hfl 55 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...James Carter The Russian Far East and Pacific Asia: Unfulfilled Potential . By Michael J. Bradshaw . Richmond, Surrey : Curzon , 2001 . xiv, 294 pp. $110.00 (cloth). Russia's Far East: A Region at Risk . Edited by Judith Thornton and Charles E. Ziegler . Seattle : National...

...Yunxiang Yan Abstract Food-safety problems constitute a new, urgent, and multifaceted challenge to Chinese people, society, and the state, involving a number of social, political, and ethical issues beyond those of food safety, nutrition, and health. In light of Ulrich Beck's theory of risk society...

... ) was to run a political risk. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972 1972 1 Chinese scholar-officials had little knowledge of the operation of the Nei-wu-fu , Many private writings in the Chʻing period illustrate their ignorance. Here we take one instance for example: Wu Chen...

... in Shanghai's harbor—Shanghai offered both great risks and real opportunities. Coping with Shanghai: Means to Survival and Success in the Early Twentieth Century A Symposium Introduction TAHIRIH V. LEE IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY, SHANGHAI PROMISED OPPORTUNITIES that at- tracted people from all over China...

...Jingxue Zhang; Charlie Yi Zhang Abstract This article uses the app Health Code, a smartphone-based application for contact tracing and risk assessment that serves as a COVID-19 health passport, as an example to explore how “biometric citizenship,” a new mode of preemptive social regulation...

.... To restore equilibrium, the injustice had to be perfectly redressed, no more, no less. To ignore the injury was to risk catastrophe. As one late-Qing official wrote, “The recent natural disasters and interferences with heavenly harmony [i.e., the droughts and famines of the late 1870s and early 1880s...

... and individual rationality are highlighted. The importance and implications of risk aversion are explored. The effect of the introduction of markets on the economic security of peasant producers is considered, and evidence from Southeast Asian economic history is used to test the implications of both approaches...

...Paul R. Greenough Abstract The author questions the assumptions of an “Asian school of scarcity and risk,” of which James C. Scott is the principal exponent, using Bengali peasant history as a case in point. He argues that it is more likely that the subsistence traditions of Bengal derive from...

... risk of distortion. In the case of Truong Vinh Ky it tends to disguise the extent to which his views on Vietnam's future development were echoed in the twentieth century. For Phan Thanh Gian condemnation of his failure to fight to the death against the French diverts attention from the extent to which...

..., and insistence on society's conformity to the central value system they seek to protect. On the other hand, accommodation with the established order—however justifiable it may be as a means of working for social change from within the existing institutions of society—runs the risk of exposing reform movements...