...Cecil Hobbs Scientific Facilities and Information Services of the Republic of Indonesia . By John O. Sutter . Honolulu : Published for the National Science Foundation by the Pacific Scientific Information Center, 1961 . 136 . Maps, Tables, App., Index. (Pacific Scientific Information...

...Karl J. Pelzer Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1967 1967 Scientific Problems of the Humid Tropical Zone Deltas and Their Implications: Proceedings of the Dacca Symposium . Jointly Organized by the Government of Pakistan and Unesco 24 February to 2 March 1964. New...

... Surveys in Research Corporation, Compilers. Directory of Selected Scientific Institutions in Mainland China . Hoover Institution Publication Series: 96. Published for the National Science Foundation by the Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University , Stanford, California , 1970 . XXII...

...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...

...John Philip Emerson Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1966 1966 Scientific and Engineering Manpower in Communist China, 1949–1963 . By Chu-yuan Cheng . National Science Foundation publication 65–14. Washington, D.C. 20402: Superintendent of Documents, U.S...

...T. C. Smith Jan Campagnie in Japan, 1600–1850: an essay on the cultural, artistic and scientific influence exercised by the Hollanders in Japan from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries . By C. R. Boxer . 2nd rev. ed. The Hague : Martinus Nijhoff , 1950 , xii, 196 p. Guilders...

...Mary Augusta Brazelton Red Revolution, Green Revolution: Scientific Farming in Socialist China . By Sigrid Schmalzer . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2016 . x, 304 pp. ISBN: 9780226330150 (cloth, also available as e-book). Copyright © The Association...

... in 1956. The generally unsatisfactory situation with respect to the publication of decrees, orders, regulations, and other measures reflects the relative unimportance of formal law in the Chinese Communist scheme of things. University of California at Los Angeles H. ARTHUR STEINER "Scientific Analysis...

...MA. Mercedes G. Planta Ordering the Myriad Things: From Traditional Knowledge to Scientific Botany in China . By Nicholas K. Menzies . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2021 . 288 pp. ISBN: 9780295749464. © 2023 Association for Asian Studies 2023 Our collective...

...Benjamin A. Elman Dodonœus in Japan: Translation and the Scientific Mind in the Tokugawa Period . Edited by W. F. Vande Walle . Coedited by Kazuhiko Kasaya . Leuven : Leuven University Press; Kyoto: International Research Center for Japanese Studies , 2001 . 383 pp. €81.15 (cloth...

...Peter Hamilton Abstract This article reframes the introduction of Taylorism in early Republican China as the origin point for an enduring social ideal of “scientific management” across modern Chinese society. Previous scholars have argued that Taylorism had a limited impact on Chinese industry...

...Lynn Zastoupil The Science of Empire: Scientific Knowledge, Civilization, and Colonial Rule in India . By Zaheer Baber . Albany : State University of New York , 1996 . x, 298 pp. $71.50 (cloth); $23.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 808...

...Richard P. Suttmeier The Organization and Support of Scientific Research and Development in Mainland China . By Yuan-li Wu and Robert B. Sheeks . With the assistance of Lawrence J. Lau and Grace Wu. Under the direction and editorial supervision of Ralph J. Watkins. New York : Praeger...

...Marius B. Jansen Japan. Essays on National Culture and Scientific Thought . By K. Popov . Moscow : “Nauka” Publishing House , 1969 . 493 pp. $3.75. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1971 1971 454 1890's, thus paving the way for Japan's annexation of Taiwan after...

... assumed the personae of the Confucian master and the imperial official, playing those roles for several decades of their lives, a behavior that influenced the China Jesuits' self-perception and identity and, in turn, contributed to their European scientific persona. At the outset, Hsia briefly...

.... Bolton does not extend his argument to larger issues, such as scientific fiction before and after Abe Kōbō, science fiction as a genre, or general social trends of postwar Japan that may have shaped Abe's philosophies. I was especially curious as to why Bolton uses the term “scientific fiction” for Abe...

...Ward Morehouse Building Scientific Institutions in India: Saha and Bhabha . By Roberts S. Anderson . Montreal : McGill University Centre for Developing-Area Studies (Occasional Paper Series No. 11), 1975 . x, 121 pp. Appendix, Map. N.p.l. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...Michael Adas Scientist of Empire: Sir Roderick Murchison, Scientific Exploration and Victorian Imperialism . By Robert A. Stafford . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1989 . xii, 293 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990 892 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

... for an expanding world economy (Adas 1989). The history of irrigation in India, where the British built large new irrigation works to increase colonial revenues and expand commercial production, provides a dramatic illustration of this. Scientific Empire and Imperial Science: Colonialism and Irrigation Technology...

...G. B. Calleja Scientific Development and Higher Education: The Case of Newly Industrializing Nations . Edited by Philip G. Altbach et al. New York : Praeger , 1989 . xx, 385 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990 BOOK REVIEWS ASIA GENERAL 353...