...Zaheer Baber Science and the Raj, 1857–1905 . By Deepak Kumar . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1995 . xv, 273 pp. $26.00 (cloth). Technology and the Raj: Western Technology and Technical Transfers to India, 1700–1947 . Edited by Roy MacLeod and Deepak Kumar . New Delhi...

...Nathan Sivin Science and Civilisation in China . Vol. 6. Biology and Biological Technology . Part III. Agro-Industries and Forestry. Agro-Industries: Sugarcane Technology . By Christian Daniels . Forestry . By Nicholas K. Menzies . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1996 . xxvii...

...Thomas Fingar Technology and Communist Culture: The Socio-Cultural Impact of Technology Under Socialism . Edited by Frederic A. Fleron Jr New York : Praeger (Praeger Special Studies in International Politics and Government), 1977 . xii, 518 pp. Notes, Tables, Figures, Index. $27.50...

...Michael A. Cusumano Japan's High Technology Industries: Lessons and Limitations of Industrial Policy . Edited by Hugh Patrick . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 1987 . xxii, 271 pp. $40.00. Japanese Electronics Technology: Enterprise and Innovation . By Gene Gregory...

...Charlotte Kuo-Benitez Electronic Tigers of Southeast Asia: The Politics of Media, Technology, and National Development . By Drew McDaniel . Ames : Iowa State University Press , 2002 . x , 218 pp. $54.99 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 524 T H E J O U...

... manufacturing shows that the importation of Western tools of manufacturing technology was not always economically or technically rational. The demands of the new Western-style architecture made sheet glass manufacturing an urgent priority, but establishing a viable industry was far from easy, as entrepreneurs...

... and technological change in cellular telephony. The Prime Minister's Office and the Ministry of Finance pushed for the change, whereas the Department of Telecommunications resisted it. As private participation succeeded, the relationship between the private sector and government financial organizations made...

...Martha Chaiklin Technology and the Culture of Progress in Meiji Japan . By David G. Wittner . New York : Routledge , 2008 . xix , 199 pp. $150.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009 The relationship between modernization, Westernization...

...-sectarianism” raises some legitimate concerns about aspects of Chinese internet culture and politics, but is unconvincing due to flawed assumptions about technology, politics, and internet culture and the uncritical use of evidence. A persistent problem in the study of media and technology...

...Peter Lorge Cultures of Knowledge: Technology in Chinese History . Edited by Dagmar Schäfer . Leiden : Brill , 2012 . vii, 394 pp. $182.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013 2013 The field of technological history has expanded dramatically...

...Itty Abraham Abstract This article identifies a major transformation in India's approach to strategic technology development from an earlier Commission model, epitomized by atomic energy, that seeks the enhancement of sovereign power, to a Mission model, epitomized by telecommunications, directed...

...Kelly D. Alley BITS of Belonging: Information Technology, Water, and Neoliberal Governance in India . By Simanti Dasgupta . Philadelphia : Temple University Press , 2015 . 232 pp. ISBN: 9781439912584 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). Copyright ©...

... and its treatment so outstanding, that both the expert and the lay- T'ien-kung k'ai-wu: Chinese Technology in the Seventeenth Century. BY SUNG YING-HSING. Translated and annotated by E-tu Zen Sun and Shiou-chuan Sun. University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1966. xix, 372 pp...

...Sumit Ganguly India and the Soviet Union: Trade and Technology Transfer . By Santosh K. Mehrotra . Cambridge University Press , 1990 . 242 pages, $49.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 434 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Perhaps any conference...

...Masahiro Shimotani Technology and Investment: The Prewar Japanese Chemical Industry . By Barbara Molony . Council on East Asian Studies: Harvard University Press , 1990 . xv, 396 pp. $28.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 167 those...

...Lynn Thomas Semelai Culture and Resin Technology . By Rosemary Gianno . New Haven, Conn. : Academy of Arts and Sciences , 1990 . xxxiv, 238 pp. $40.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 455 situation in Laos but points...

...Josephine Lee Technicolor: Race, Technology, and Everyday Life . Edited by Alondra Nelson and Thuy Linh N. Tu with Alicia Headlam Hines . New York : New York University Press , 2001 . viii, 205 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $18.50 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

... the impression of permanence. I cannot read Minangkabau and therefore cannot comment on the accuracy of Phillips' translations. Aside from the perhaps untranslatable pantun, however, they read with fluency, making this valuable account a pleasure to read. JAMES SIEGEL Cornell University Technology Transfer...

...Leonard Lynn 966 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Why Has Japan "Succeeded"? Western Technology and the Japanese Ethos. By MICHIO MORISHIMA. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982. xii, 207 pp. Index. $19.95. Why has Japan "succeeded?" There seems to be no shortage of explanations these days, but we...

...Jonathan Abel Writing Technology in Meiji Japan: A Media History of Modern Japanese Literature and Visual Culture . By Seth Jacobowitz . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2015 . xii, 299 pp. ISBN: 9780674088412 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...