...Alexander DeConde United States Army in World War II. The Army Service Forces, The Organization and Role of the Army Service Forces . By John D. Millet . Washington : Department of the Army , Office of the Chief of Military History, 1954 . xx , 494 . Appendices, glossary, index. $4.25...

...Paul Wallace Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968 1968 Public Service Commissions of India: A Study . By C. N. Bhalerao . Delhi : Sterling Publishers Ltd. , 1966 . Distributed in the United States by Lawrence Verry Inc., Mystic, Connecticut, xxvi , 272 pp...

...David J. Lu The Chinese Civil Service; Career Open to Talent? . Edited by Johanna M. Menzel . Boston : D. C. Heath and Company , 1963 . xviii, no. Glossary, Bibliography. $1.65. Wang An-shih; Practical Reformer? . Edited by John Meskill . Boston : D. C. Heath and Company , 1963...

...Ralph Braibanti The Civil Service of India . By Naresh Chandra Roy . Calcutta : Firma K. L. Mukhopadhyay , 1958 . xx, 328 . $6.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1959 1959 BOOK REVIEWS 101 of the more important events in Indian economic history and policy...

...David A. Graff The Diary of a Manchu Soldier in Seventeenth-Century China: “My Service in the Army,” by Dzengšeo . Translated and edited by Nicola Di Cosmo . London : Routledge , 2006 . x , 140 pp. $140.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2007 2007...

...Satadru Sen Colonial Educators: The British Indian and Colonial Educational Service, 1858–1983 . By Clive Whitehead . London and New York : I. B. Tauris , 2003 . xv, 286 pp. $59.50 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 B O O K R E V I E W S O U T H A S I...

...Tiantian Zheng Service Encounters: Class, Gender, and the Market for Social Distinction in Urban China . By Amy Hanser . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 2008 . viii , 235 pp. $55 (cloth); $21.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2008...

...Jesook Song Service Economies: Militarism, Sex Work, and Migrant Labor in South Korea . By Jin-kyung Lee . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2010 . viii, 305 pp. $82.50 (cloth); $27.50 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2012 2012...

... service, thus recalling upper caste/class notions of self-sacrifice and philanthropy of colonial memory. Seva , however, finds no place within the history of Dalit politics articulated through a language of rights. This article argues there exists an interlocking relation between the resurgence of seva...

... servants enjoy the right to form trade unions with some restrictions and, except in Pakistan, trade unionism in the public service has expanded considerably. In India, government employees other than industrial workers are allowed to organize subject to restrictions limiting membership or leadership...

...Benjamin A. Elman Abstract Most previous scholarship about the civil service examination system in imperial China has emphasized the degree of social mobility such examinations permitted in a premodern society. In the same vein, historians have evaluated the examination process in late imperial...

...Leo Ou-Fan Lee Inside a Service Trade: Studies in Contemporary Chinese Prose . By Rudolph Wagner . Cambridge : Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University Press , 1992 . x, 558 pp. $35.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA...

... and connections which link the specific case of the Hyderabad Contingent to wider questions surrounding the religious world of the Indian soldiery in Colonial India. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 Islam and the Army in Colonial India: Sepoy Religion in the Service...

...Reinier H. Hesselink Tour of Duty: Samurai, Military Service in Edo, and the Culture of Early Modern Japan . By Constantine N. Vaporis . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2008 . xii, 318 pp. $23.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011...

...Maochun Yu Honorable Survivor: Mao's China, McCarthy's America, and the Persecution of John S. Service . By Lynne Joiner . Annapolis, MD : Naval Institute Press , 2009 . xvii , 402 pp. $37.95 (cloth). This book is the latest offering about the controversy and personal saga...

...Hoyt Cleveland Tillman Competition over Content: Negotiating Standards for the Civil Service Examinations in Imperial China (1127–1279) . By Hilde De Weerdt . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2007 . xvi , 495 pp. $49.50 (cloth). Copyright © The Association...

... members, of the public services. In the Federation of Malaya, as in most Commonwealth countries, institutional machinery intended to satisfy this requirement of merit bureaucracy takes the form of public service commissions. It is the purpose of this study to trace the development of these institutions...

... Press , 2008 ), 56 . Samurai to Soldier: Remaking Military Service in Nineteenth-Century Japan . By D. Colin Jaundrill . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press , 2016 . xii, 229 pp. ISBN: 9781501703096 (cloth, also available as e-book). Curse on This Country: The Rebellious Army...