...Herbert M. Kagi Managerial Training in Karachi Metropolitan Area . Edited by Faqir Muhammad . Karachi : The National Institute of Public Administration , 1963 . vi , 166 . Rs. 5.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 BOOK REVIEWS 335 expressly...

... 1958 , p. 262 ) and a response by the Times of India , 10 19, 1960 : “It is only by making a success of Panchayati Raj that the Government can hope to put the Community Development work in the rural areas on a stable basis.” 2 See the resolutions drafted and accepted at the annual...

...Morton H. Fried Upper Nankin Street Singapore. A Sociological Study of Chinese Households Living in a Densely Populated Area . By Barrington Kaye . Singapore : University of Malaya Press , 1960 , xvi, 439 . Appendices, References, Index, Illustrated. 50 s . Copyright ©...

...B. G. Gokhale Defence and Security in the Indian Ocean Area . Issued under the auspices of the Indian Council of World Affairs. New York : Asia Publishing House , 1958 , x, 208 . Appendices, Index. $3.25. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1960 1960 374 JOURNAL...

...Bianca Horlemann Trading Caterpillar Fungus in Tibet: When Economic Boom Hits Rural Area . By Emilia Roza Sulek . Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press , 2019 . 326 pp. ISBN: 9789462985261 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2021 2021 This well...

... for the country as a whole, and in those places in which records were kept they were doubling in months or weeks. Some attempt might have been made at corrections for these price changes. Published figures are still so incomplete and so unreliable for much of the area covered that it is impossible to secure...

... a comparative pic- ture of the Pacific area surveyed. But a few conclusions can be readily ob- served after even a casual study of the statistical tables. The distribution of population in the Pacific area, ranging from 2.3 persons per square mile for Australia to 474.3 for Japan proper, is most uneven...

...H. D. Fong An economic survey of the Pacific area. Part I: Population and land utilization . By Karl J. Pelzer . New York : Institute of Pacific Relations , 1941 [1942]. xv , 215 p. $2.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1943 1943 BOOK REVIEWS 215 magazine...

... palatable looking. This list attempts to point out some of the most useful series of pamphlets and individual items. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1945 1945 RECENT PAMPHLET MATERIALS ON EASTERN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC AREA MERIBETH E. CAMERON Milwaukee-Dovmer College AMERICAN...

...Richard D. Lambert Abstract Many of you will have heard of the Social Science Research Council's Language and Area Studies Review . In fact many of you filled in one or more of its tedious questionnaires. Unfortunately, it has been caught up in the debate about the relative merits of various size...

...Edward Putzar Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1975 1975 VOL. XXXV, No. i JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES NOVEMBER 1975 Review Articles Language and Area Studies in the U.S.* Professor Richard Lambert's Review of language and area studies in the United States is the fifth...

...John T. Roberts Hindi Stories: A Dual Language Reader for Area and Advanced Language Students . Translated by Usha Saksena Nilsson . Madison : South Asian Language and Area Center, University of Wisconsin–Madison (Publication Series, No. 1), 1975 . xix, 324 pp. Glossary, Abbreviations...

... produces a second volume. HEIDI ROSS Colgate University Japan and the Pacific Free Trade Area. By PEKKA K O R H O N E N . London & New York: Routledge, 1994. 208 pp. $65.00. This book covers a timely topic, the post-World War II history of Japan's efforts to create an appropriate institutional framework...

...Yeh-Chien Wang Chinese Rural Society in Transition: A Case Study of the Lake Tai Area, 1368–1800 . By James C. Shih . Berkeley : Center for Chinese Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California , 1992 . vii, 217 pp. $15.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

... Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968 1968 "NON-AREA" PERIODICALS The following periodicals, in which occasional articles on Asia have been published, are scanned regularly for the Bibliography of Asian Studies. Abr-nahrain. Leiden, E. J. Brill. American documentation...

...: A Survey of Local Communities in a Hydropower Area . By Jan Ovesen . Uppsala : Uppsala Reports in Cultural Anthropology, No. 13. Uppsala University , 1993 . viii, 80 pp. Road 13: A Socio-Economic Study of Villages, Transport and Use of Road 13 S, Lao P.D.R . By Agneta Håkangård . Stockholm...

...Joseph W. Esherick Social and Political Change in Revolutionary China: The Taihang Base Area in the War of Resistance to Japan, 1937–1945 . By David S. G. Goodman . Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield , 2000 . xvii , 345 pp. $69.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Copyright ©...

... Vocabulary (an Overview).” In Austronesian Terminologies, Continuity and Change , ed. Pawley A. K. and Ross. M. D . Canberra : Department of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University . Oceans Unbounded: Transversing Asia across Area Studies...

..., networks, routes and travels. Closely related to the poststructural theoretical shift, these themes have guided new area studies and are likely to prevail in international scholarship for some time to come. References Brenner Neil , Peck Jaime , and Theodore Nick . 2010 . “ Variegated...

... after the arrival of outsiders, namely Mao and his forces, that local Communist youth began to systematically engage in base area construction, which required a deep grasp of local conditions as well as new tactics. This study emphasizes how Mao Zedong transformed himself from an urban-based radical...