ABSTRACT
The material in this study is covered by Myron L. Cohen on religion and family organization in China; John R. Bowen on family, kinship, and Islam in Indonesia; Robert W. Hefner on hierarchy and stratification in Java; and Nancy Rosenberger on gender roles in Japan. Further material is provided by William W. Kelly on rural society in Japan; Theodore C. Bestor on urban life in Japan; Stephen R. Smith on the family in Japan; Doranne Jacobson on gender relations in India; Lawrence A. Babb on religion in India; Owen M. Lynch on stratification, inequality, and the caste system in India; Laurell Kendall on changing gender relations in Korea; Andrew G. Walder on comparative revolution in China and Vietnam, Maoism, and the sociology of work in China and Japan; Moni Nag on the comparative demography of China, Japan, and India; and Helen Hardacre on the new religions of Japan. Other contributors offering information through case studies are Hiroshi Ishida on stratification and mobility in Japan; Robert C. Liebman on work and education compared in Japan and the US; Joseph W. Elder on education, urban society, urban problems, and industrial society in India; Andrew J. Nathan on totalitarianism, authoritarianism, and democracy in China; Jean C. Oi on mobilisation and participation in China; Edwin A. Winckler on political development in Taiwan; Carl H. Lande on political parties and representation in the Philippines ; Clark N. Neher on political development and political participation in Thailand; and Benedict R. O'G. Anderson on political culture, the military, and authoritarianism in Indonesia. The final chapters of this work include studies by Stephen Philip Cohen on the military in India and Pakistan; Paul R. Brass on democracy and political participation in India; T.J. Pempel on Japanese democracy and political culture, political parties and representation, and bureaucracy in Japan; Han-kyo Kim on political development in South Korea; and Thomas G. Rawski on the economies of China and Japan.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|184 pages
Anthropology
part |29 pages
Anthropology: China
part |49 pages
Anthropology: India
part |35 pages
Anthropology: Indonesia
part |52 pages
Anthropology: Japan
part |17 pages
Anthropology: Korea
part II|48 pages
Economics
part |46 pages
Economics: China and Japan
part III|370 pages
Political Science
part |32 pages
Political Science: China
part |15 pages
Political Science: Taiwan
part |29 pages
Political Science: India
part |38 pages
Political Science: Indonesia
part |43 pages
Political Science: Japan
part |12 pages
Political Science: Korea
part |11 pages
Political Science: The Philippines
part |14 pages
Political Science: Thailand
part |30 pages
Sociology: China
part |34 pages
Sociology: Comparative/Interarea
part |33 pages
Sociology: India
part |68 pages
Sociology: Japan
part |9 pages
Sociology: Vietnam