... contemporary practitioners. KARL H. POTTER University of Minnesota 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...

...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...

.... Aiyar argued in the same newspaper article, “a democracy that treats its citizens with callousness and a complete lack of compassion cannot survive.” 1 How has India been doing in this regard, at the time of this writing in the spring of 2020? Aiyar thought that the Indian state had failed the test...

...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...

... . By Atsuko Hirai . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2014 . xviii, 433 pp. ISBN: 9780674066823 (cloth). Religious Discourse in Modern Japan: Religion, State, and Shintō . By Jun'ichi Isomae . Translated by Galen Amstutz...

...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...

.... Yu . Research Memorandum No. 39. xv, 70 . State and Government in Communist China: Their Ideological Basis and Statutory Pattern to the Spring of 1953 . By Henry Wei . Research Memorandum No. 38. xvi, 56 . Mao Tse-tung's “Lean-to-One-Side” Policy . By Henry Wei . Research Memorandum...

...Alfred H. Kelly American diplomacy in the Far East, 1941. Official press releases of the U. S. Department of State on the Sino-Japanese situation during the year 1941 . Compiled with a foreword By K. C. Li . New York City , 1942 . 503 p. $3.00 Copyright © The Association for Asian...

... 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...

..., 2017), https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/foci17/foci17-paper-knockel.pdf ; Lotus, Ruan, Masashi Crete-Nishihata, Jeffrey Knockel, Ruohan Xiong, and Jakub Dalek, “The Intermingling of State and Private Companies: Analysing Censorship of the 19th National Communist Party Congress on WeChat...

... publications on China–India topics in the PRC, where nostalgic views of the past, the lack of critical analysis of Chinese historical texts, the sidestepping of Western-language scholarship, and the use of state-imposed frameworks, such as the Belt and Road Initiative, have become the dominant features...

... impossible in the 1930s, as the “open steppe” came “under lock and key” (p. 150). Calling the transformation process of the border one in which “the nation-state concept of a boundary emerged triumphant” (p. 217), Urbansky's work mixes a teleological narrative centered around “a general evolution towards...

...Sumit Ganguly Politics and State-Society Relations in India . By James Manor . London : Hurst & Company , 2017 . xviii, 366 pp. ISBN: 9781849047180 (cloth). Political Communication and Mobilisation: The Hindi Media in India . By Taberez Ahmed Neyazi . Cambridge : Cambridge...

...David A. Bello State-Sponsored Inequality: The Banner System and Social Stratification in Northeast China . By Shuang Chen . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 2017 . xvii, 342 pp. ISBN: 9780804799034 (cloth, also available as e-book). Copyright © The Association...

...Jennifer H. Munger Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2018  2018 At the AAS in Asia meetings in Seoul in the summer of 2017, a group of analysts interested in media explored the notion that the market and the state are two ends of a continuum when it comes to censorship...

.... Yet, from what McCoy is able to draw from Van Deman's archive, it seems that there was much that was good fodder for blackmail, extortion, and red baiting, but little else. The Van Deman approach may only have lingered on in Hoover's FBI. Meanwhile, a far more robust postwar American state built...

...Nicola Tannenbaum Ethnicity, Borders, and the Grassroots Interface with the State should be of interest to readers who want to understand the history of anthropology in Southeast Asia. The introduction provides a nice framing of Keyes's research interests, and the interview at the end provides...