...Leon Hollerman The Japanese Challenge: The Success and Failure of Economic Success . By Herman Kahn and Thomas Pepper , III. London and Sydney : Harper & Row; New York : Thomas Y. Crowell; Toronto: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1978 . 162 pp. $10.00. Copyright © The Association...

...E. A. Kracke, Jr. The Ladder of Success in Imperial China; Aspects of Social Mobility, 1368–1911 . By Ping-Ti Ho . New York and London : Columbia University Press , 1962 . xviii, 385. Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $8.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964...

...Frank S. T. Hsiao The Evolution of Policy Behind Taiwan's Development Success . By K. T. Li . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1988 . xvi, 189 pp. $25.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER ASIA 367 justifies the title...

...Richard Hooley From Economic Miracle to Privatization Success: Initial Stages of the Privatization Process in Two SOEs on Taiwan . By Agnes Syu . Lanham, Md. : University Press of America , 1995 . xiv, 272 pp. $39.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998...

...Ramdas Menon Development Success in Asia Pacific: An Exercise in Normative-Pragmatic Balance . By A. H. Somjee and Geeta Somjee . New York : St. Martin's Press , 1995 . ix, 222 pp. $59.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 792 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...William H. Frederick Indonesian Labour in Transition: An East Asian Success Story? . By Chris Manning . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1998 . xxii, 323 pp. $59.95 (cloth). Workers and the State in New Order Indonesia . By Vedi R. Hadiz . New York : Routledge , 1997...

...Bruce La Brack An Immigrant Success Story: East Indians in America . By Arthur W. Helweg and Usha M. Helweg . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 1990 xvi, 297 pp. $29.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 424 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Robert J. McMahon Trapped By Success: The Eisenhower Administration and Vietnam, 1953–1961 . By David L. Anderson . New York : Columbia University Press , 1991 . xiv, 276 pp. $39.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 447...

...Valerie Hansen Court and Family in Sung China (960–1279): Bureaucratic Success and Kinship Fortunes for the Shih of Ming-chou . By Richard L. Davis . Durham : Duke University Press , 1986 . xvi, 353 pp. Illustrations, Appendixes, Notes, Bibliography, Glossary of Chinese Terms, Index...

...Paul James Rutledge Children of the Boat People: A Study of Educational Success . By Nathan Caplan , Marcella H. Choy , and John k. Whitmore . Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press , 1991 . vii, 197 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 210...

... University The Thorn in the Chrysanthemum: Suicide and Economic Success in Modern Japan. By MAMORU IGA. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1986. xiv, 231 pp. $19-95. Americans viewing Japanese education, influenced by the competitive mood prevailing today, often correlate the high test...

...Donald E. Weatherbee Southeast Asia and the Enemy Beyond: ASEAN Perceptions of External Threats . By Robert O. Tilman . Boulder : Westview Press , 1987 . x, 194 pp. $18.50 (paper). The ASEAN Success Story: Social, Economic, and Political Dimensions . Edited by Linda G. Martin...

...Myung-koo Kang Overall, both books offer a rigorous and convincing analysis of the key factors that contributed to Korean economic success and the causes of the “return of financial activism” in post-1997 Korea. They also succeed in locating the Korean case in a broader comparative context...

... and Tze-yue G. Hu . Jackson : University Press of Mississippi , 2013 . xi, 313 pp. $55.00 (cloth). The Soul of Anime: Collaborative Creativity and Japan's Media Success Story . By Ian Condry . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2013 . x, 241 pp. $84.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper...

...Laura Dudley Jenkins The Success of India's Democracy . Edited by Atul Kohli . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2001 . 298 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $22.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 1281 of the 1930s spawned...

...Akira Suzuki Disparaged Success . By Ikuo Kume . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press . 1998 . xii, 242 pp. $16.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 748 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Americans and the Japanese reestablished the racial cartography...

...N. J. Coulson Muslim Law of Succession and Administration . By I. Mahmud . Karachi : Pakistan Law House , 1958 . 237 . Rs. 15/-. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1959 1959 BOOK REVIEWS definitely not among the arts he could possibly teach us. PAUL THIEME Yale...

... on to rule the mainland as their peoples come to dominate the second millennium. Case by case these shifts appear to be ethnic and political successions wherein the strong displace the weak, but seen together regionally the similarities suggest an agricultural change whereby an irrigated wet rice...

...J. S. Parsons The Politics of Family Planning in Thailand: A Case of Successful Implementation . By Ronald L. Krannich and Caryl Rae Krannich . Berkeley : University of California, Center for South and Southeast Asia Studies , 1980 . (Monograph Series, no. 19.) xvii, 106 pp. $9 (paper...

...Edward Friedman Leadership, Legitimacy, and Conflict in China: From a Charismatic Mao to the Politics of Succession . By Frederick C. Teiwes . Armonk, N.Y. : M. E. Sharpe , 1984 . 167 pages. $25. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1985 1985 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA...