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...Dali L. Yang Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 In Search of Civil Society: Market Reform and Social Change in Contemporary China . By Gordon White , Jude Howell , and Shang Xiaoyuan . Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1996 . 241 pp. $69.00. BOOK REVIEWS...

..., and nongovernmental organizations deliberately used and defined the term as they took up the question of what was to be deemed wasteful. This essay examines how discourses that were ostensibly about wastefulness constituted an articulation of values, a search for meaning and identity, and a certain conception...

...Nathan Glazer Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1965 1965 The After Hours; Modern Japan and the Search for Enjoyment . By David W. Plath . Berkeley and Los Angeles ; University of California Press , 1964 . xi, 222 . Notes; Index. $4.00. BOOK REVIEWS 513 distressingly...

..., jathiya , connotes both race and nation. This semantic conflation also reflects the larger political conflation of how race and nation are often seen as one in Sinhala nationalist discourse. 6 Shaw's The Black Girl in Search of God and Lesser Tales was a controversial text when it first...

...George E. Taylor After Imperialism: The Search for a New Order in the Far East, 1921–1931. . By Akira Iriye . Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press , 1965 . viii, 375 . Notes, Bibliography, Glossary, Index. $9.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1966...

..., Bellah articulated a critique of liberal individualism, drawing on Japanese cultural nationalism in his search for a modern, capitalist system that could be contained by overarching cultural and moral values. One finds a surprising resonance between Bellah's ideal of American “civil religion...

...Brijen K. Gupta India: The Search for Unity, Democracy, and Progress . By Walter C. Neale . Princeton, New Jersey : D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc. , 1965 . 128 pp. Tables, Selected Bibliography, Index. $1.45. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1967 1967 514...

...Paul A. Cohen Throne and Mandarins. China's Search for a Policy During the Sino-French Controversy 1880–1885 . By Lloyd Eastman . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1967 . ix, 254 pp. Bibliography, Glossary, Index, Illustration. $6.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...J. D. Legge In Search of Southeast Asia: A Modern History . Edited by David J. Steinberg . David K. Wyatt , John R. W. Smail , Alexander Woodside , William R. Roff , and David P. Chandler contributors. New York : Prager , 1971 . xii, 522 pp. Illustrations, Appendix, Notes...

...Hugh Tinker Politics, Personality, and Nation Building. Burma's Search for Identity . By Lucian W. Pye . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1962 . xx, 307 . Index. $7.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1963 1963 BOOK REVIEWS 335 the many obvious benefits...

...Eileen J. Cheng Abstract Lu Xun, a lifelong translator dedicated to introducing foreign thought, “searched for new voices from alien lands” to reinvigorate indigenous culture. Yet, his attitude toward cultural exchange was an ambivalent one. Among the questions that preoccupied him: How are foreign...

...Arthur F. Wright Ennin's Diary: The Record of a Pilgrimage to China in Search of the Law . Tr. from the Chinese by Edwin O. Reischauer . New York : Ronald Press , 1955 . xvi, 454 . $7.50. Ennin's Travels in T'ang China . By Edwin O. Reischauer . New York : Ronald Press , 1955...

...Seio Nakajima In Search of Paradise: Middle-Class Living in a Chinese Metropolis . By Li Zhang . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press , 2010 . 272 pp. $79.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 Post-Mao marketization...

...Glen Peterson Radicalism and Education Reform in 20th-century China: The Search for an Ideal Development Model . By Suzanne Pepper . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1996 . ix, 610 pp. $59.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA...

...Thomas Gibson The Ismailis in the Middle Ages: A History of Survival, a Search for Salvation . By Shafique N. Virani . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2007 . xx , 301 pp. $65.00 (cloth). The Life and Times of Shaikh Nizam-u'd-Din Auliya . By Khaliq Ahmad Nizami . Delhi...

...Charles A. Peterson Han Yü and the T'ang Search for Unity . By Charles Hartman . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1986 . x, 459 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Index of Han Yü's Works, General Index and Glossary. $50.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1987 1987...

...Tuvia Blumenthal Japan's Search for Oil: A Case Study on Economic Nationalism and International Security . By Yuan-li Wu . Stanford : Hoover Institution Press (Publication 165), 1977 . xii, 116 pp. Tables, Appendix, Index. $4.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...C. S. Gray Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1973 1973 Kedah 1771–1821: The Search for Security and Independence . By R. Bonney . Kuala Lumpur : Oxford University Press , 1971 . xvi, 215 pp. Maps, Appendices, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $15.50 The Western Malay...

...Warren I. Cohen China and Japan: Search for Balance Since World War I . Edited by Alvin D Coox and Hilary Conroy . Santa Barbara : ABC-Clio, Inc. , 1978 . xxii, 468 pp. Photographs, Index. $19.75. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1979 1979 BOOK REVIEWS ASIA...