...Eiji Sekine Voluntary Death in Japan . By Maurice Pinguet . Cambridge : Basil Blackwell , 1993 . 365 pp. $27.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 569 Voluntary Death in Japan. By M A U R I C E P I N G U E T . Cambridge: Basil...

...Rodney W. Jones Socialist Society and Free Enterprise Politics: A Study of Voluntary Associations in Urban India . By Robert G. Wirsing . Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press , 1977 . xv, 214 pp. Bibliography, Index. $11.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1979...

... as introduced through Japan. In general, the rewards for voluntary surrender and confession were reduced to mere reduction of punishment, but the scope was broadened to include crimes such as homicide, for which restitution was impossible. When the Chinese Communists first began developing a legal system...

...Steven Heine Abstract A distinctive feature of japanese society is its apparent eagerness to embrace various forms of voluntary death or suicide as legitimate, even positive, behavior with a potentially redemptive value. These forms include the samurai's ritualistic disembowelment ( seppuku...

..., security and welfare.” And the compulsory nature of that recruitment is disguised by a pretense of voluntary enrollment which deceives few, least of all the victims. Actually, under a recent order in Manila all citizens between the ages of eighteen and fifty were eligible for labor conscription...

...Robert W. Hefner Abstract Large portions of East and Southeast Asia are in the throes of a historically unprecedented upsurge in religious observance and association. Many of the new varieties of religiosity are more popular, voluntary, and laity based than the religions of yesteryear. Many...

...Seungsook Moon Abstract After the formal end of military rule in the late 1980s, a new type of voluntary association commonly called “citizens' organizations” emerged in Korean civil society. Pursuing progressive social change through legal and policy reforms, citizens' organizations became...

...Hsu Pi-Ching Abstract From past to present all is but talk, and all talk is but laughs. The birth of yin and yang from the original chaos, the voluntary abdication and forceful overthrow of the sage kings-who's ever witnessed this sort of thing? It's nothing more than talk. Future generations...

...Jyotirmoyee Sarma Abstract In the Indian Hindu society of today voluntary associations form for the purpose of sponsoring annual religious ceremonies or pūjās. These associations are organized by young men who collect funds from their neighbors and friends, install images for worship in temporary...

.... He maintained in his War Memoirs , supposedly written while interned in 1945 by the Americans in Japan, that his collaboration was ex necessitate re and that “forced collaboration is not collaboration. Voluntary collaboration as a means of national survival and to tide over our people to better times...

... touching upon the China of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: Ho's works on commercial capitalism, population, social mobility, and voluntary associations; books on the shen-shih , the bureaucracy, and local government by Chang, Hsiao, Marsh, and Ch'ü; an analysis of rural social structure...

... of the individual who uses the blood replaces it in the system), and voluntary donation. As Copeman reports, in recent years, the World Health Organization has promoted voluntary donation as the safest and most stable route. Paid donors, often from society's lowest socioeconomic rungs, tend to be disproportionately...

... economic development, a reinterpretation of the concept of civil society in the context of China, and a sophisticated theoretical analysis of the nature of culture. Intermediate social ties are most visible in voluntary associations, so the book uses case studies of three types of voluntary associations...

... are based on, The Japan Medical Association, 1971, pp. 8, 22, and 48. 32 Interview with Dr. Takemi Tarō, December 27, 1962. 33 While emphasizing the voluntary basis of JMA membership, Dr. Takemi also expressed his aversion to Japanese Communists during an interview of December 27, 1962...

... The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War is a meticulously researched and nuanced account of a seminal turn in the way modern nation-states have justified warfare and the knowledge claims they make on people. The departure point for her discussion is the issue of voluntary repatriation of prisoners of war (POWs...

... ), filmgoing remained a voluntary activity. Accordingly, Fujiki argues, efforts to attract audiences stayed grounded in capitalist principles. Intellectuals tended to ignore this contradiction and struggled to reconcile the importance of “entertainment” and “mass appeal” with wartime objectives of art...

... visible in voluntary associations, so the book uses case studies of three types of voluntary associations: business organizations, religious groups, and environmental movements. Threading through the book is the issue of gender; women are shown to play leading roles in all three cases and in the informal...

...- cussions are invariably focused on the parlia- ample), but also to cities as the locale of "urban" mentary elections and seldom, if ever, scrutinize institutions such as voluntary associations. the state parties between elections. This, in turn, orients his attention primarily to the PSP and only...

..., and is an important contribution to the continuing attempts to understand the personal dimension of social and political change. PAUL WALLACE University ofMissouri, Columbia Socialist Society and Free Enterprise Politics: A Study of Voluntary Associations in Urban India. By ROBERT G. WIRSING. Durham, N.C.: Carolina...

... largely, but not exclusively, on the spread of world religions beyond their homelands. Accordingly, Jerry Bentley has much to say about the process of conversion. Early on and throughout the book, he distinguishes between "conversion through voluntary association," that "induced by political, social...