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...James M. Edmonds Rebranding Islam: Piety, Prosperity, and a Self-Help Guru . By James Bourk Hoesterey . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 2015 . 296 pp. ISBN: 9780804795111 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...Douglas H. Mendel, Jr. U. S. Aid to Taiwan. A Study of Foreign Aid, Self-help and Development . By Neil H. Jacoby . New York : Frederick A. Praeger , 1966 . 357 pp. Illustrated. $8.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1967 1967 698 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

... Western cultural imperialism” (p. 26) insofar as it produced a secure sense of the national self that helped China adapt to a new international environment (p. 29). All of these studies place the body-in-cultivation in a specific historical context; they maintain that the individual, physical body both...

... forms that are usually studied separately, highlighting the ways in which they interacted with (and resisted) each other. It suggests that such experimentations with the writing of place were central to the ways in which individuals engaged in processes of self-fashioning. Further, it argues...

..., and who, in the extended process of self-organization, articulated—however inchoately and sometimes even incoherently—an intellectual and activist program of resistance and opposition to the corrupt domestic governmental systems, global institutions, local organizations, and specific individuals who were...

...Jeremy E. Taylor Abstract Drawing on archival sources in Britain, Singapore, Malaysia, and the United States, this article explores late-colonial anxieties about the influence of Chinese nationalism in Malaya (and especially among students in Chinese-medium schools) in the lead up to self...

...Leonard T. Wolcott Abstract Hanumān, the ancient monkey-divinity of India: for many, he represents the force of life in man's struggle to exist. He is most famous for his devotion to the god-king Rāma, and for his exploits as leader of the monkey army that helped save Rāma's princess from the demon...

.... Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2020 2020 agrarian history Allahabad Agricultural Institute American land grants colonial science India missionaries modernization Rockefeller Foundation self-help This paper explores the agrarian ideals of American Presbyterian...

... Samurai to Salary Man. By EARL H. KINMONTH. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981. xi, 385 pp. Illustrations, Appendix, Bibliography, Index. $28.50. Two of the best selling books of the Meiji period were translations of Samuel Smiles's Self-Help and Orison Swett Marden's Pushing to the Front...

... planning and promotion, expos, and more, she argues that notions of risk containment, crisis management, disaster recovery, and national resilience are being configured and mobilized through particular emotive terms—for example, jijo (self-help), jimae (self-reliance), sokojikara (power of resilience...

... seventh chapter, “A Confusion of Confuciuses,” the authors take us through the dizzying array of Kongzis in the postimperial period, from the fusty old man who impeded scientific and democratic progress to the eclectic personality promoted by China's “home-grown Oprah” and “self-help queen” Yu Dan, who...

... writings he called for the moral and ethical reformation of the Japanese people according to the values and virtues in Self-Help and Character. Tokutomi's use of better known Western authors receives more careful but not entirely satisfying attention. Somehow, for all his alleged derivation from Spencer...

... and opportunities of spontaneous settlement. Certain types of planning may reduce economic, social, and political costs of spontaneous development. Such planning should focus on self-help approaches. Under special circumstances, the recent high-rise resettlement and new town experience of Hong Kong may...

... up and fragmentation of time in neoliberalism” (p. 18). Kapur argues that the emphasis on individual actions devoid of any attachment to the past or detachment from outcomes has reinforced an upper-caste Hindu ethic of karma. Management gurus and self-help manuals routinely evoke the Hindu epic...

... American youth correction. In explaining these contrasts, the authors select the lack of a separate youth culture, the self-help orientation of a highly integrated society, and the concentration of social control at the least aggregated levels of the society. I believe that the book, in addition...

... be as many as a couple of thousand such organizations large and small, mainly specialized in problems of the environment, rural development, legal aid, women, labor, medical aid, urban and rural self-help, and more. Most are self-consciously independent, but some have been sponsored competitively...

... state; and the erasure of religion and myth. Instead, Gandhi embraced dominant postmodernist characteristics: understanding truth as relative, experimental, contextual, and situational; an emphasis on the particular and subjective, the village and localism, self-help and self-rule, decentralized...

... Borneo as his cases, he argues that migrants did not so much attenuate their Chineseness in adjusting to an alien environment as they accentuated it for self-help purposes. Those in Batavia developed the kongkoan mechanism to regulate weddings and funerals in an alien Dutch-ruled city, while the Hakka...

...: Religion as Resource in Professor of Religious Studies, University of Cali- the Sarvodaya Self-Help Movement. By Joanna Macy. fornia, Berkeley. West Hartford, Conn.: Kumarian Press, 1983. 102 Gandhi. Produced and directed by Sir Richard pp. $13.75 (cloth); $6.75 (paper). Attenborough. Distributed...

... important statutes are appended. for independence incorporated extensive pro- There is a selected list of further readings at grams of self-help, training and welfare. Dr. the end of each chapter. The sections are lib- Muzumdar's study of Gandhi's contributions erally sprinkled with helpful cross-references...