...Thomas W. Simons Temples of Madras State: i. Chingleput District and Madras City . By P. K. Nambiar and H. Krishnamurty . Madras : Census of India 1961 . Vol. IX , Madras, Part XI-D, XVIII, 1965. 278 pp. Glossary, Maps, Photographs, Sketches, Tables, Annexures, Indexes. Rs. 30...

...Zachary A. Scarlett Great State: China and the World . By Timothy Brook . New York : Harper-Collins , 2020 . 442 pp. ISBN: 9780062950987 (cloth). China's Revolutions in the Modern World: A Brief Interpretive History . By Rebecca E. Karl . New York : Verso , 2020 . 230 pp...

...Wilburn Hansen Part three of the book is apropos of the “and Shintō” in the title of this work, that is, it looks as if it were an afterthought. As an afterthought, it succeeds due to its introduction of a wealth of new information in English about Shintō studies and the system of State Shintō...

... support. One of the striking features of Indian democracy is that democratically elected governments and the bureaucracies that are supposed to implement their policies are remarkably unresponsive to people's needs, though there are important variations among state governments. That of Kerala usually...

...Bruce J. Dickson A second area of further research concerns the implications of the Chinese mode of state making. Thornton rightly notes that Charles Tilly's depiction of state making in Europe is fundamentally different from China's: The modern Chinese state did not emerge as a consequence...

...Anthony P. D'Costa The State and Industry in South Korea: The Limits of the Authoritarian State . By Jong-Chan Rhee . London and New York : Routledge , 1994 . xiii, 289 pp. $65.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 806 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Arun Agrawal Nationalism, Development, and Democracy: State and Politics in India . Edited by Sugata Bose and Ayesha Jalal . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1997 . 206 pp. Rs. 375. The State and Development Planning in India . Edited by Terence J. Byres . Delhi : Oxford...

...Philip Thai Paths toward the Modern Fiscal State: England, Japan, and China . By Wenkai He . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 2013 . x, 313 pp. $55.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013  2013 Wenkai He's complex and impressive study...

...John Osburg Abstract After more than thirty years of economic reforms, China appears to have settled into a form of state capitalism that is likely to endure as long as the Communist Party retains power. This essay provides a critical overview of some of the key features and contradictions...

... of why and how official documents and seals were forged adds a new dimension to future scholarship in this regard. Forgery and Impersonation in Imperial China: Popular Deceptions and the High Qing State . By Mark McNicholas . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2016 . xvi, 265 pp. ISBN...

... the religious nationalism emerging from the First Indochina War. The spiritual dimension of the Republic's Personalist Revolution did not involve state interference in all religious activities. Instead, it promoted religious freedom and diversity, provided that the spiritual values they propagated opposed...

...James D. Seymour Xinjiang and the Modern Chinese State . By Justin M. Jacobs . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2016 . xvi, 299 pp. ISBN: 9780295995656 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2018  2018 We...

...John S. Lee Abstract This article explains why the Chosŏn government and the military in particular expanded state control over forests in the seventeenth century and analyzes the implications of forest administration in a preindustrial polity. From 1592 to 1598, the Chosŏn dynasty suffered...

...Vladimir Tikhonov Rationalizing Korea: The Rise of the Modern State, 1894–1945 . By Kyung Moon Hwang . Oakland : University of California Press , 2016 . xvii, 395 pp. ISBN: 9780520288324 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2018  2018...

...Michael R. Glass Urban Land Rent: Singapore as a Property State . By Anne Haila . Malden, Mass. : Wiley-Blackwell Press , 2016 . 273 pp. ISBN: 9781118827673 (paper, also available in cloth and as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2018  2018 The city...

...Vinay Lal The Colonial State: Theory and Practice . By Sabyasachi Bhattacharya . Delhi : Primus Books , 2016 . 228 pp. ISBN: 9789384092016 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2018  2018 Sabyasachi Bhattacharya is animated by the question “what makes...

... of native government will not be out of place and, perhaps, will even be of more than purely theoretical interest. What were the religious and philosophical conceptions which underlay and shaped the states of Southeast Asia? Are they still living forces with which we have to count or are they dead and gone...

...George McT. Kahin Abstract Until June 26, 1946, the ihabitants of the State of North Borneo could claim the distinction of being the only population in the world still, subject to chartered company rule. On that date an area of nearly 30,000 square miles inhabited by over 300,000 people ceased...

...Robert I. Crane The State of Asia: A Contemporary Survey . By Lawrence K. Rosinger and Associates. New York : Alfred Knopf , 1951 . xii, 522 p. $4.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1952 1952 BOOK REVIEWS Geography of the Pacific. OTIS W. FREEMAN, Editor...

...Anthony J. Spires The Advocacy Trap: Transnational Activism and State Power in China . By Stephen Noakes . Manchester : Manchester University Press , 2017 . 208 pp. ISBN: 9781526119476 (cloth, also available as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019  2019...