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...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...

...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...

...Bruce J. Dickson Disciplining the State: Virtue, Violence, and State-Making in Modern China . By Patricia M. Thornton . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 2007 . ix , 247 pp. $39.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2008 2008 What...

... . By SiuSue Mark . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2023 . 248 pp. ISBN: 9780824894290 . Outsourcing the Polity: Non-state Welfare, Inequality, and Resistance in Myanmar . By Gerard McCarthy . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press , 2023 . 282 pp. ISBN: 9781501767975...

...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...

... of this writing in the spring of 2020? Aiyar thought that the Indian state had failed the test. If she is right, what does this tell us about the character of Indian democracy? My aim in this short article is to review evidence on the way the Indian state has treated its citizens during the COVID-19 pandemic...

... and popular literature for representations of Christianity into the twentieth century. She concludes the chapter by stating that by the early twentieth century Christianity functioned as a metaphor for modernization and the changes in Japanese culture brought on by the power of Western cultural influence...

...Akhil Gupta Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed . By James C. Scott . New Haven, Conn, and London : Yale University Press , 1998 . xiv, 445 pp. $35.00 (cloth); $16.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999...

...Robert Moog Community Conflicts and the State in India . Edited by Amrita Basu and Atul Kohli . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1998 . xi, 287 pp. $29.95(cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 189 her underlying argument...

...Carl Mosk Cooperation, Technology, and Japanese Development: Indigenous Knowledge, the Power of Networks, and the State . By Donna L. Doane . Boulder, Colo .: Westview Press , 1998 . xxviii, 226 pp. $55.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 172...

...Nicola Tannenbaum Rituals of National Loyalty: An Anthropology of the State and the Village Scout Movement in Thailand . By Katherine A. Bowie . New York : Columbia University Press , 1997 . xx, 393 pp. $57.00 (cloth); $21.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...Alfred W. McCoy Crime, Society and the State in the Nineteenth Century Philippines . By Greg Bankoff . Manila : Ateneo de Manila University Press , 1995 . viii, 247 pp. $22.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 1186 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Lillian M. Li; Alison Dray-Novey Abstract A n essential feature of beijing's long history as China's imperial capital was the ability to feed its population despite a geographical location distinctly unfavorable to agricultute. For all ancient and modern states, provisioning the capital is not only...

...Chris Toffold State, Society and Human Rights in South Asia . By Stig Toft Madsen . New Delhi : Manohar , 1996 . xii, 370 pp. $34.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 580 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES us what they think of themselves. The book...

...W. Miles Fletcher, III The Sound of the Whistle: Railroads and the State in Meiji Japan . By Steven J. Ericson . Cambridge : Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University Press , 1996 . xvii, 506 pp. $42.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 BOOK...

...: State, War and Revolution (1945–1946) is a tour de force by someone who has already contributed far more than his share to scholarship on Vietnam. Following his studies of Vietnamese anti-colonialism, early twentieth-century intellectual history, and the 1945 independence struggle, this book takes us...

...Antonio Fiori The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future . By Victor Cha . New York : Ecco , 2012 . xii, 530 pp. $29.99 (cloth); $16.99 (paper). North Korea: Beyond Charismatic Politics . By Heonik Kwon and Byung-Ho Chung . Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield...

...John E. Wills, Jr. Renewal: The Chinese State and the New Global History . By Wang Gungwu . Hong Kong : Chinese University Press , 2013 . xi, 159 pp. $30.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014  2014 It is singularly appropriate that the dust jacket...

...Michael G. Chang State versus Gentry in Early Qing Dynasty China, 1644–1699 . By Harry Miller . New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2013 . ix, 174 pp. $85.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014  2014 Although this compact study may be read independently...