...John Ure Telecommunications in the Pacific Basin: An Evolutionary Approach . Edited by Eli Noam , Seisuke Komatsuzaki and Douglas A. Conn . New York and Oxford : Oxford University Press , 1994 . xvii, 514 pp. $55.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995...

...Yong S. Lee The Telecommunications Revolution in Korea . By James F. Larson . Hong Kong : Oxford University Press , 1995 . xix, 336 pp. $59.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 1020 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES adjustment. Speaking...

...Frederick R. Dickinson Technology of Empire: Telecommunications and Japanese Expansion in Asia, 1883–1945 . By Daqing Yang . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2010 . xvii, 446 pp. $49.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013 2013 When...

...Rahul Mukherji Abstract This paper explores the causes behind the institutional change that promoted regulated private-sector competition in India's booming telecommunications sector. This change occurred incrementally by resolving conflicts of interest driven by the twin engines of fiscal crisis...

...Yu Hong From Iron Fist to Invisible Hand: The Uneven Path of Telecommunications Reform in China . By Irene S. Wu . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 2009 . xx, 187 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009...

...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...

... percent of its stock. "The revenues generated by KT," emphasizes the author, "were the principal single source of capital to finance Korea's telecommunications development in the 1980s" (p. 128). Central to the telecommunications revolution in South Korea, reports the author, is its R&D infrastructure...

...Joseph W. Esherick; Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom Abstract For two and a half months in the spring of 1989, China's student actors dominated the world stage of modern telecommunications. Their massive demonstrations, the hunger strike during Gorbachev's visit, and the dramatic appearance of the Goddess...

... telecommunications technologies. These substantially lower the costs of entry, which on the one hand strengthens Noam's view about exit from the public network. On the other, it enables developing economies to invest in state-of-the-art networks, leap-frogging earlier stages. This creates conditions...

... government responded to gaiatsu and assesses the extent to which U.S. pressure during the MOSS talks resulted in the opening of Japan's specific markets. To this end, the author draws on the case studies of MOSS talks on four industries: pharmaceuticals, forest products, electronics, and telecommunications...

... and telecommunications industry during the 1960s and 1970s. The book is organized logically. Chapter 1 lays out the basic thesis concerning the importance of cooperative technological ties for sustained economic advance. Chapter 2 provides background information on the postwar development of the computer...

... between capital and labor. The second chapter follows the same general narrative pattern, with a focus on telephone use and, more broadly, the development of the telecommunications industry. Despite investment and policy intervention by the central government, local expansion of the telecommunications...

...-American studies. It should be useful for Korean studies courses as well, for Kang throws much light on Korean patterns of behavior and values. CHUNGHEE SARAH SOH San Francisco State University The Telecommunications Revolution in Korea. By JAMES F. LARSON. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1995. xix...

..., telecommunications, and new materials will have the same compelling pull for Chinese leaders as did the need for nuclear weapons and missiles in the past. Given these uncertainties, Feigenbaum concludes that China must make a clean break with the past. Strategic innovation models such as the 863 Program...

... Telecommunications,” we again see a scholar with ties to two disciplines (undergraduate training in economics, plus a doctorate in political science) focusing on media in India. This time, though, the author, R ahul M ukherji of National University's of Singapore, is concerned not with print but rather...

... by the intrusion of public policy. Finding the interaction of politics and policy fascinating, she went on to the University of Chicago where she took the M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science. She was an expert in telecommunications policy, on environmental policy, citizen participation in policy formulation...

... Giants and Global Competitiveness. By M A R T I N F R A N S M A N . New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. xxii, 540 pp. $49-95. This book will serve as a valuable reference for those with specialized interest in Japan's computer and telecommunications industries. It is full of technical detail...

... computer and telecommunications industries. It is full of technical detail and historical richness, having been very thoroughly researched. Unfortunately, while the book remains highly useful, it suffers from excessive length, unnecessary and incorrect forays into economics, and poor editing...

... the state gave up trying to control fax machines, and chronicles a bureaucratic struggle for control of the growing telecommunications industry. Lynch binds this rich material together to argue that loss of effective Party domination does not create a liberal regime. Lynch takes aim at optimistic civil...

... the disputes with the United States over textile transshipment, with the European Union over interpretation of a bilateral trade agreement and investment in the Chinese telecommunications industry, with South Korea over exports of garlic, and with Japan regarding agricultural products. These case studies...