...Edward R. Slack, Jr The Troublesome Legacy of Commissioner Lin: The Opium Trade and Opium Suppression in Fujian Province, 1820s–1920s . By Joyce A. Madancy . Harvard East Asian Monographs, no. 227. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2003 . xvi , 430 pp. $50.00 (cloth...

...Joyce A. Madancy Opium, State, and Society: China's Narco-Economy and the Guomindang, 1924–1937 . By Edward R. Slack Jr . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2000 . ix, 240 pp. $59.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 846...

... and thoughtfully illustrated. CHAS MCKHANN Whitman College Opium, State, and Society: China's Narco-Economy and the Guomindang, 1924 1937. By E D W A R D R. SLACK, J R . Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2000. ix, 240 pp. $59.00 (cloth); $29-95 (paper). Long relegated to the domain of diplomatic historians...

.... There are some fine descriptions of the meeting of a club of young farm housewives, who are busy developing together a new and contemporary style of leisure time activity; a political rally; and an onsen which caters to farmers in slack season and frowns on practisers of the "water trades." There are also...

.... For example, in estimating the extent of labor slack in rural Taiwan, the author treats all female farm helpers without sideline occupations as potential full-time workers. This fails to recognize that many of the women may already be occupied with other activities, e.g., child caring and house work. Since...

... with what material and social resources she had. The United States had far more to waste more slack. Heavy industry rested upon enormously broader foundations. It was older, but whether it was better developed in terms of its age and opportunities is an uncomfortable question. Perhaps we should ask...

... into alternating periods of slack, when workers were sent home without pay, and storm, when there was rush work around the clock. The firms succeeded, Chen argues, because of the high level of social capital—intimacy, trust, and caring—fostered by management. The owners and supervisors rolled up their sleeves...

... of the oligarchy. On this point, an analysis which some may fault for its pessimism may not have been pessimistic enough. The IMF, World Bank, Japan, and private investors have more than made up for any slack in U.S. aid. And with renewed signs of Chinese expansionism on Mischief Reef amidst the debate over...

... are key. This work puts considerable emphasis on capacity as a factor in long-run costs. For example, in a period of slack demand (such as 1981-82 in North America), 168 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES costs per unit would be higher than during a period of strong demand and higher rates of capacity...

...” (p. 126). It is particularly intriguing to read such a vivid depiction of these “acts of distance” in the workplace, such as slacking, embezzlement, laziness, and lying. Kim's detailed investigation of North Korean everyday life thus leads to his assertion that everyday life was “a confluence...

... more context might slack the scholar's thirst, the sparseness of the comment probably gives us a more accurate understanding of Kazuko's life. Her world may have been comfortable and affluent, filled with social and cultural events, but it moved along quite nicely without politics or public policy. One...

..., providing vital contextualization for this otherwise exhaustive study. EDWARD R. SLACK JR. Eastern Washington University The Class of 1761: Examinations, State, and Elites in Eighteenth-Century China. By IONA MAN-CHEONG. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004. xii, 298 pp. $55.00 (cloth...

... to particularities of rice production), which he argues reduced incentives to transform agriculture and limited both the workforce and the market for factories (pp. 26 27, 51); the greater ecological slack remaining in Britain at the time of industrialization, despite a trend toward problems similar to those...

...-Confucian morality, as well as some Taoist and Buddhist ideas. Many of his plays are adaptations of other dramatists' works. His particular strengths are his organization of material and some of his characterizations. There is occasional slack predictability of content and wording, but Chu compensates...

... carelessly, the validity of some of his major findings, e.g., that the rate of labor utilization in Taiwan's agriculture in i960 was 47 percent (p. 94), will undoubtedly be disputed. For example, in estimating the extent of labor slack in rural Taiwan, the author treats all female farm helpers without...

... is rightly suspicious of deliberate "Indianness" and feels that it would readily camouflage a slackness of form, characterization, or even communication. In "Indo-Anglian nostalgia" he notes the sadness and nostalgia to be found in prose and poetry by Indians writing in English, with special reference...

...; and an onsen which caters to farmers in slack season and frowns on practisers of the "water trades." There are also intriguing discussions of the history of schedules and times patterns in Japan the division of the day, the history of days of rest and holidays, and the rise of the use of the Western week...

... denied them by the Dutch monopoly of the Spice Islands. Company administrators could never produce enough to pay for the considerable expenditure on the establishment. Nor was Benkulen well situated to take up the slack by becoming a successful entrepot as Penang and Singapore became. The author's...

... of deliberate "Indianness" and feels that it would readily camouflage a slackness of form, characterization, or even communication. In "Indo-Anglian nostalgia" he notes the sadness and nostalgia to be found in prose and poetry by Indians writing in English, with special reference to Attia Hosain's novel...

... on the establishment. Nor was Benkulen well situated to take up the slack by becoming a successful entrepot as Penang and Singapore became. The author's selection of documents amply illustrates the mercantile morass that was Benkulen, and the wretched elements of society that were attracted or fostered by the place...