...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...

... and Biological Technology. Part III. Agro-Industries and Forestry. Agro-Industries: Sugarcane Technology. By C H R I S T I A N DANIELS. Forestry. By N I C H O L A S K. M E N Z I E S . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xxvii, 740 pp. $150.00. This volume pairs a largish book on sugar cane with a long...

...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...

.... This is a brave book, and one that has truly moved our understanding forward. All students of contemporary China, and of Chinese military politics in particular, will remain in his debt. JONATHAN D. POLLACK Harvard University Technology and Communist Culture: The Socio-Cultural Impact of Technology Under...

...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 ©...

...Rustin B. Gates 4 Daqing Yang , Technology of Empire: Telecommunications and Japanese Expansion in Asia, 1883–1945 ( Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 2011 ) ; Hiromi Mizuno , Science for Empire: Scientific Nationalism in Modern Japan ( Stanford, Calif...

... ) . By shifting our attention from overly and overtly aestheticized subsets to the entire array of writing writ large, Writing Technology in Meiji Japan brackets problems and issues that have hitherto been seen as being confined to literature or art history and shows how they are related directly to major...

...Marta Hanson The Crafting of the 10,000 Things: Knowledge and Technology in Seventeenth-Century China . By Dagmar Schäfer . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2011 . vii, 344 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013  2013 Being able...

...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...

... integrated the concepts of diverse disciplines into his analyses of China. This volume, together with Skinner's introduction, represents a major contribution to the continuing study of Chinese society. BERNARD GALLIN Michigan State University Technology, Defense, and External Relations in China, 1975-1978...

...Won-Young Lee Technology and Productivity: The Korean Way of Learning and Catching Up . By Youngil Lim . Cambridge, Mass. : The MIT Press , 1999 . 238 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 888 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES group...

... of scholarship has grown up to document the effects and affordances of these technologies in different places. Across India, in urban and rural areas alike, mobile smartphones have become ubiquitous, spawning their own industries, challenging and sometimes completely changing social and political relations...

...Charlotte Kuo-Benitez 524 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T U D I E S 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). The central argument in Drew McDaniel s...

...Hiroshi Nara Word-processing Technology in Japan: Kanji and the Keyboard . By Nanette Gottlieb . Richmond, Surrey : Curzon , 2000 . xvi, 219 pp. £40 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 1375 for plagiarizing a novel...

...) is full of “shallow infotainment,” “pernicious misinformation,” and “cyber-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...

... Change, and Ecological Security,” Environmental Politics 32, no. 4 (2023): 580, https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2022.2113606 . China's Next Act: How Sustainability and Technology Are Reshaping China's Rise and the World's Future . By Scott M. Moore . New York : Oxford University Press...

...Daniel Knorr The Global in the Local: A Century of War, Commerce, and Technology in China . By Zhang Xin . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2023 . xi, 265 pp. ISBN: 9780674278387 . © 2024 Association for Asian Studies 2024 Xin Zhang's The Global in the Local...

... 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...

... 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...