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Volume 16, Issue 2
February 1, 1957
Journal of Asian Studies Cover Image for Volume 16, Issue 2
ISSN 0021-9118
EISSN 1752-0401
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The Ruin of Ancient Ceylon
Rhoads Murphey
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The Heroes and Heroines of Modern Chinese Fiction: From Ah Q to Wu Tzu-hsü
Chun-Jo Liu
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The Kuomintang and Economic Stagnation, 1928–37
Douglas S. Paauw
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The Tax System of Outer Mongolia, 1911–55: A Brief History
Franklyn D. Holzman
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Chinese Assimilation and Thai Politics
G. William Skinner
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Language Problems in the Rural Development of North India
John J. Gumperz
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Review Articles

Needham on Chinese Philosophy and Science
Derk Bodde
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Japanese Influences on Western Architecture
Philip Thiel
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Some Additions to Gandhi Literature
Joan V. Bondurant
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Book Reviews

The Far East in the Modern World
James E. Sheridan
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The United States and Asia
John Albert White
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World Population and Resources: A Report by PEP
N. V. Sovani
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Rome Beyond the Imperial Frontiers
Victor Purcell
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Indian Views of Sino-Indian Relations
C. Martin Wilbur
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A Military History of Modern China 1924–1949
J. K. Fairbank
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The Boxer Catastrophe
Ping-chia Kuo
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Agrarian Reform in Communist China to 1952
Chinese Farm Economy after Agrarian Reform
O. Edmund Clubb
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Chinese Social History: Translations of Selected Studies
A. Feuerwerker
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Etudes sur la société et l'économie de la Chine médiévale. I: Le traité économique du “Souei-chou.” II: Le traité juridique du “Soueichou.”
Arthur F. Wright
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Confucius et son temps
Confucius: His Life and Time
Arthur Waley
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The Nestorian Documents and Relics in China
H. F. Schurmann
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The Lungtu Dialect: A Descriptive and Historical Study of a South Chinese Idiom
Kun Chang
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Spoken Amoy Hokkien
Søren Egerod
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Ch'êng-tzŭ-yai: The Black Pottery Culture Site at Lung-shan-chên in Li-ch'êng-hsien, Shantung Province
Millard Rogers
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Dai Kanwa jiten [The Great Chinese-Japanese Dictionary]
George A. Kennedy
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Modern Japanese Fiction
Robert H. Brower
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Japanese Screen Painting
Harold P. Stern
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The Setting Sun
Charles E. Hamilton
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Korea's Heritage: A Regional and Social Geography
Herold J. Wiens
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Siberia and the Reforms of 1822
John Albert White
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Grammatik der Bahasa Indonésia: Mit Chrestomathie und Wörterverzeichnis
Denzel Carr
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Thai Reader
Thai Vocabulary
The Thai System of Writing
Henry Henne
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The Burmese Writing System
A Grammar of Pashto
The Tibetan System of Writing
M. B. Emeneau
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The Pakistani Way of Life
William S. Metz
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Shorter Notices

Manjiro: The Man Who Discovered America
George Alexander Lensen
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This Scorching Earth
John Ashmead, Jr.
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The Dwarf Pine
John Ashmead, Jr.
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Nifor Guide to Indian Periodicals 1955–1956
Horace I. Poleman
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Government and Politics of India and Pakistan 1885–1955: A Bibliography of Works in Western Languages
Bimla Prasad
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Communications

Communications
E. Balazs
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News of the Profession

News of the Profession
George M. Beckmann
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Corrigenda

Corrigenda
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