...John R. McLane Change in Bengal Agrarian Society c. 1760–1850 . By Ratnalekha Ray . New Delhi : Manohar , 1979 . viii, 294 pp. Bibliography, Appendixes, Index. N.p. Perspectives in Social Sciences 2: Three Studies on the Agrarian Structure in Bengal, 1850–1947 . By Asok Sen...

...Key P. Yang Studies in the Agrarian History of the Late Yi Dynasty . [Agrarian Revolution and the Intellectual Change, with Emphasis on the Peasant Economy in the Changing Phase of Social Structure] by Kim Yong-sŏp . Seoul : Ilchogak , 1971 . 2 v. 2,500 won. Copyright ©...

... reader. H. ARTHUR STEINER University of California, Los Angeles Agrarian Policies of Mainland China: A Documentary Study (1949-1956). By CHAO KUO-CHUN. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1957. xiii, 276. Mimeo. This volume is divided into eight parts. Beginning with the over-all agrarian program...

...Edwin M. Loeb Frontier land systems in southernmost China: a comparative study of agrarian problems and social organization among the Pai Yi people of Yunnan and the Kamba people of Sikang . By Chen Han-seng . New York : International Secretariat, Institute of Pacific Relations , 1949...

...William H. Frederick Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1975 1975 Protest Movements in Rural Java: A Study of Agrarian Unrest in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries . By Sartono Kartodirdjo . Singapore : Oxford University Press , 1973 . xv, 229 pp...

... studied. We know very little about how local people construct and perceive gender and the moral world. AMARA PONGSAPICH Chulalongkorn University The Agrarian Question in North Vietnam 1974 1979: A Study of Cooperator Resistance to State Policy. By A D A M FFORDE. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1989. xxii...

... synthesis of what we then knew about the earliest agrarian states. I was terrified of what the archaeologists would think of the work of such an interloper, but to my surprise, it was generally well received. And, of course, it led me to political ecology, or hunting and gathering, pastoralism, sedentism...

... of wood resources for state purposes. Furthermore, the growth of pine-centric state forests and shifts in military priorities would significantly reshape Korean ecologies. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2018  2018 Chosŏn Korea early modern state environmental history...

...Takeshi Ito Abstract Undeniably, one of the rare characteristics of James C. Scott's scholarship is that his analytical insights are widely recognized in many fields beyond political science and Asian studies. Scott's contributions to the vast literatures of agrarian and environmental studies...

...Brian Caton Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 Agrarian Environments: Resources, Representations, and Rule in India . Edited by Arun Agrawal and K. Sivaramakrishnan . Durham : Duke University Press , 2000 . 316 pp. $59.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). 282...

... with the potential problems of a future capitalist order rather than concern with the aberrations of China's current agrarian structure. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1957 1957 1 Free China Weekly (Chinese News Service, New York, Feb. 7, 1956), “Taiwan Launches Urban Land Reform...

... tensions and blind spots that emerge in taking a global approach vis-à-vis a regional and national approach in studying the shared experience of transnational agrarian modernization that was Americanist in inspiration (Kumar et al. 2017 ). In one extreme case of resistance, the Maoists in China made...

... modes for integrating myriad peasant communities into the single social system which is the total society. The Chinese case would appear to be strategic for the comparative study of peasant marketing in traditional agrarian societies because the integrative task accomplished there was uniquely large...

... to add, however, that labor studies is far from being inundated by such kinds of welcome research. Much remains to be done. Reading Anjan Datta's fine-grained study of agrarian change and rural labor in two villages of Khulna district, Bangladesh, left me with the same feeling. Land and Labor Relations...

...Kang Chao Abstract Japan provides a fascinating case for studying economic development. With her real GNP rising at an annual rate of 4 percent during the period 1878–1942, Japan was the only Asian country that emerged from a backward agrarian society to become a modern industrial power. Her...

...” schemes of political conceptualization. Exploring Dazai's analytical perception of political structure and of how political structure should perform in concrete historical situations, the essay shows how Dazai takes the logic of “ancient studies” beyond agrarianism and status quo economics toward die...

... of the agrarian disturbances which have so often seriously threatened the peace and security of the nation. Any insurance of the economic stability and general well-being of the people must therefore depend largely upon its satisfactory solution. This brief study was undertaken primarily to throw more light...

...James B. Parsons Abstract Studies of peasant rebellions in China are significant because of the key role such disturbances have played in Chinese history. Merely from the point of view of numbers one is impressed by the many references to agrarian violence in the historical records of the various...

...P. Hardy Abstract At first sight, the last fifteen years has been the most creative—as certainly it has been the most productive—period in the history of the study of why the Mughal empire in India declined. The succession of magisterial publications from the Department of History at the University...

... EconomyA Review Article SUSAN M A N N JONES L ike it or not, historians who write and teach about modern China have to acquaint themselves with the current literature on the Chinese economy. There is a survival factor operating here: no one studying an agrarian society can afford naivete concerning...