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...Gary D. Allinson Culture, Control, and Commitment: A Study of Work Organization and Work Attitudes in the United States and Japan . By James R. Lincoln and Arne L. Kalleberg . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1990 . xii, 291 pp. $44.50. Copyright © The Association...

... by ROY A N - Masters of the Japanese Print: Their World DREW MILLER. Rutland, Vermont: Charles and Their Work. By RICHARD LANE. Gar- E. Tuttle Company, 1962. 158. $7.50. den City, New York: Doubleday & Com- Roy Miller's book presents reading materials, pany, Inc., 1962. 319. Plates. $7.50. selected...

...Felix M. Keesing Work and Life on Raroia: An Acculturation Study from the Tuamotu Group in French Oceania . By Bengt Danielsson . New York : Macmillan , 1957 . 244 . Photographs, Maps, Tables, Bibliography. $5.75. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1958 1958 324...

... with the genetic makeup of fruit flies unlocked the molecular logics of circadian clocks. But how do we explain the tangled economic, cultural, and political logics that seek to keep these very rhythms out of balance and reproduce the misalignments that these scientists deem risky for human well-being? Working...

...Howard Wriggins 652 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES and political problems of unification (22-25), and concludes with his own "Retrospect and Prospect" (26). Students of Indian affairs will consider this book a standard work of reference for all times. No one can hope to cover the subject...

... within disciplines. Few social scientists have been so productive in building bridges between these competing frames as James C. Scott, as evidenced by his celebrated body of work, his election to the presidency of the Association for Asian Studies, and his receipt of meritorious citations...

...Catherine Becker The Unfinished: Stone Carvers at Work in the Indian Subcontinent . By Vidya Dehejia and Peter Rockwell . New Delhi : Roli Books , 2016 . 274 pp. ISBN: 9789351941149 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2018  2018 In an advantageous...

...Amita Baviskar Street Corner Secrets: Sex, Work, and Migration in the City of Mumbai . By Svati P. Shah . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2014. 280 pp. $89.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015  2015 The topic of sexual...

...Jaehwan Hyun Blood Work: Life and Laboratories in Penang . By Janet Carsten . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2019 . x, 237 pp. ISBN: 9781478004813 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2020 2020 Through a rich ethnographic portrait of medical...

...Elli S. Kim Heroes and Toilers: Work as Life in Postwar North Korea, 1953–1961 . By Cheehyung Harrison Kim . New York : Columbia University Press , 2018 . 280 pp. ISBN: 9780231185301 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2020 2020 One of the most...

...Fang Tang Transpacific Attachments: Sex Work, Media Networks, and Affective Histories of Chineseness . By Lily Wong . New York : Columbia University Press , 2018 . xiv, 229 pp. ISBN: 9780231183383 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2020 2020...

... work in shaping popular Chinese historical consciousness is evident most recently in the connection that some young netizens have made on the microblogging site Weibo between Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine and the ethnic cleansing of the Sixty-Four Villages East of the River, exposing a deepening...

...Lucinda Ramberg Unruly Figures: Queerness, Sex Work, and the Politics of Sexuality in Kerala . By Navaneetha Mokkil . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2019 . 288 pp. ISBN: 9780295745572 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2022 2022 How does...

...Andrew Way Leong Abstract Proposals for Global Asias as an emerging field that “bridges” Asian studies and Asian American studies should attend to the residual debris of older understandings of global bridging work. This response explores two motifs for speculating about what bridging work...

... unionization efforts by school social workers and attempts to explain why these workers do not recognize care work as a source of exploitation. Finally, the author presents analytical tools to better understand the intersection of state employment, exploitation, and gendered care labor as an emerging...

... of high empire in India, to world history through both case studies and broader context for grasping the implications of a changing world, provides valuable analyses for all of us, if not a pattern many could replicate. Perhaps what ought to be noted here is the experience, common to many of us working...

...Theodore Jun Yoo To Live to Work: Factory Women in Colonial Korea, 1910–1945 . By Janice C. H. Kim . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 2009 . xvi , 252 pp. $55.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009 In her fascinating book...

...David Lelyveld The Life and Work of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan . By G. F. I. Graham . Karachi : Oxford University Press Oxford in Asia Historical Reprints, 1974 . xvii, 298 pp. Appendix, Index. $8.50 Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1978 1978 BOOK REVIEWS 551 Academy...

...Daniel Chirot Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988 1988 Communist Neo-Traditionalism: Work and Authority in Chinese Industry . By Andrew G. Walder . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1986 . xxii , 302 pp. $30.00. 134 T H E J O U R N...

... that should unify the work. Hardy is not unaware of this. He senses a need to add a postscript to his survey because "textual study, historical discussion, and poetic analysis have not given us respite to pause and contemplate the picture as a whole" (p. 555). The reader is never quite sure if this is a book...