...Douglas E. Haynes Artisans and Industrialization: Indian Weaving in the Twentieth Century . By Tirthankar Roy . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1993 . xi, 243 pp. $23.00 (cloth). The Bombay Textile Strike, 1982–83 . By Hubert W. M. van Wersch . Bombay : Oxford University...

...Ming K. Chan Shanghai on Strike: The Politics of Chinese Labor . By Elizabeth J. Perry . Standford : Standford University Press , 1993 . ix, 327 pp. $42.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 534 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES on the supremacy of a true...

...Teemu Ruskola Strike Hard! Anti-Crime Campaigns and Chinese Criminal Justice, 1979–1985 . By Harold M. Tanner . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University East Asia Program , 1999 . x, 253 pp. $28.00 (cloth), $17.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001...

...Thomas E. Ennis Japan strikes south . By Andrew Roth . New York : Institute of Pacific Relations , 1941 . 108 p. $.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1942 1942 BOOK REVIEWS 203 ences and may well be a factor in influencing the outcome of a Japanese thrust...

...Mitu Sengupta Abstract In August 2011, India was in the headlines due to an anti-corruption hunger strike that played upon Gandhi's legacy of civil disobedience and mass protest. The strike was initiated by a short, bespectacled, 74-year-old man called Anna Hazare to protest the government's new...

... the labor market. Amidst worldwide employment informalization and decimation of workers’ collective capacity, media reports and academic writings on Chinese workers in the past several years have singularly sustained a curious discourse of worker empowerment. Strikes in some foreign-invested factories have...

...Laura Dudley Jenkins Abstract In a bookstore in delhi, a salesman, apprised of my interest in lower-caste politics, handed me a tome about the officially listed Dalit, or untouchable, groups, The Scheduled Castes (Singh 1995). The first thing to strike me was the cover, a glossy photograph...

...John A. Garraty Abstract These papers throw a great deal of light upon the history of biography. There are a number of striking similarities between Chinese biography and that which developed in the Western world. These similarities, at least until recent times, do not seem to have resulted from...

... use, a fact which has been recognized by its incorporation, in a modified form, into the Chinese Civil Code. Then again it affords a striking example of an attempt by the Chinese government in Imperial times to develop by legislation the scope and purpose of an institution of private customary law...

... in Communism to strike local roots and to fit Communist “theory” to national situations. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1956 1956 1 This situation has been well discussed in Compton Boyd , Mao's China: Party Reform Documents, 1942–44 ( Seattle , 1952 ), pp. xv...

...Beatrice D. Miller Abstract The study of the Tibetan religious institution, usually regarded as the province of Orientalists, Sanskritists, and students of comparative religion, has much of value to offer the social scientist. The institution represents a striking demonstration of a cultural force...

... years is a striking example of the latter case, and its degree of success will undoubtedly have far-reaching influences on other economically backward countries desiring rapid economic development. Since rapid economic development is unattainable without substantial investment, the sources of investment...

...Karl J. Pelzer Abstract One of the most striking features of the human geography of Indonesia is the lack of demographic balance. The overcrowded islands of Java and Madura are surrounded by the sparsely inhabited Tanah Sabrang. According to the census of 1930, Java comprised 68.7 per cent...

...Harold C. Hinton Abstract Until the middle of the nineteenth century, when internal disorder and the impact of Western influences began to work striking changes in the structure of Chinese governmental finance, the revenue of the Ch'ing dynasty may be divided into five main categories. The first...

... literary scene, which was to earn him a great deal of sudden fame, and the Nobel Prize for Literature in November, 1913. The Western appreciation of Tagore had a sensational quality which was striking when it came but looked even more unusual when viewed later after the abrupt craze was over and Tagore...

..., government employees frequently constitute one of the principal groups of organized workers. Public servants' right of association and right to strike or demonstrate have been among the insistent questions confronting the governments of the new states. In the areas of Asia formerly under British rule, public...

... parallel ridges and river valleys, which lie directly across the desired line of advance. In fact, except for the ridges, the area bears a striking resemblance to the Pearl River estuary between Canton and the sea. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1944 1944 1 The background...

... of the Chinese revolution without sacrificing native traditions. Nevertheless, the stress on the revival of native morality was the most striking aspect of the movement with its historical context, and endowed it with an aura of conservatism that overshadowed its revolutionary claims and has dominated its image...

...George D. Bearce Abstract The period 1740–1800 is full of striking political and military events. Beginning with Nadir Shah's conquest, India experienced internal wars and Asian and European assaults, which overwhelmed the Mughal Empire and led to British supremacy. This essay endeavors to show...

... or striking surfaces of the late Western Chou and early Ch'un-ch'iu-period ritual bronze vessels and bells. These speeches or “spoken” liturgies of legitimation initially focused on the spiritually sanctioned right of the ruler to “charge” a gift recipient, but later simply focused on the right of the vessel...