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...George B. Cressey Abstract More than one third of Asia is dry. From the Red Sea almost to the Pacific are a series of deserts and semideserts, the product of continentality, mountain patterns, and atmospheric circulation. Two areas of extreme aridity are present in die Rub al Khali of southern...

...Robert A. Huttenback Abstract Current chinese activity along the northern frontier of India, and Peking's claims to much of this area, have focused attention on a remote and sparsely populated region whose arid reaches, blanketed by perpetual snow, have never held a central position on the stage...

... in a desert environment. Thus, it is well realized that in a temperate or warm arid region, the flow of water from springs or from exotic rivers or the availability of fresh ground water derived from distant rainfall or snow-melt may create green oases of productive agriculture. One such region is China's...

...Won-yong Kim Abstract Korea is a small peninsula with an area of 220,839 square kilometers. It is a mountainous land, with only one-fifth of the area available for cultivation. The peninsula belongs to the temperate zone, but the north is colder and more arid while the south is humid and hot...

...Michael S. Billig Abstract Rajasthan, a large, arid state in northwestern India, is widely known to have an excess of males over females. When we consider how such a high sex ratio usually affects the relative availability of potential spouses (i.e., the marriage market), it seems logical...

... (Canton: Sun Yat-sen University), 1.1 ( 12 1935 ), 111 – 146 . Also Co-ching Chu [Chu K'o-ch'ing], “The aridity of North China,” Pacific Affairs , 8.2 ( 07 1935 ), 207 – 217 . Between the opinion of Sir Aurel Stein that Central Asia has always been dry and the hypothesis of climatic...

...Louise Wallace Hackney 1 The four volume set of Grousset's Civilizations of the East (New York: Knopf, 1941) it obtainable for $10.00. The third arid fourth volumes on China and Japan are reviewed here. Volumes one and two on Near and Middle East and India will not be reviewed...

.... and ANIS A. ABBASI. Evolution of drainage in the Indus plain. PGR 15 (June 1960), 38-49. AHMAD, KAZI S. and MUBASHIR L. KAHN. Vari- ability of rainfall and its bearing on agriculture in the arid and semi-arid zones of West Pakistan. PGR 16 (Jan. 1961), 35-50. AHMAD, NAZIR. Soil erosion by the Indus and its...

... whatsoever. 3 A feverish restlessness among the students, however, betrays the aridness of their program and has resulted, during the occupation, in the numerous “riots” reported in the American press. Nearly all of these – even those without large student participation – have been traceable...

... and vegetation. It includes semi-arid West Africa and ever-wet New Guinea, arid Egypt and Mediterranean Israel, the deserts of Somaliland and South Arabia, humid microthermal zones in Kashmir ...

... innovators during the May Fourth Movement. If China's post-1919 literature and history became an arid terrain, the blame does not rest primarily with May Fourth intellectuals. It was the pressures of nationalism and eventually communist party policies that enforced a rigid view of past and present...

.... It includes semi-arid West Africa and ever-wet New Guinea, arid Egypt and Mediterranean Israel, the deserts of Somaliland and South Arabia, humid microthermal zones in Kashmir BOOK REVIEWS 899 and Korea and humid tropical zones in Ceylon and Australia. Whyte recognizes that the monsoon is a seasonal wind...

.... and MUBASHIR L. KAHN. Vari- ability of rainfall and its bearing on agriculture in the arid and semi-arid zones of West Pakistan. PGR 16 (Jan. 1961), 35-50. AHMAD, NAZIR. Soil erosion by the Indus and its tributaries. PGR 15 (June 1960), 5-17. BADARUDDIN, MUHAMMAD. Drainage by tubewells in Rechna Doab, West...

... basin under semi-arid conditions. In this setting agricultural man created a stable economy by manipulating water Professor Wittfogel is Director of the Chinese History Project at Columbia University and Professor of Chinese History at the University of Washington. 1 The original draft of this article...

..., arid even the elaboration of certain principles of diplomacy are under-emphasized because of the topical method of treatment. But a new path up an old hill sometimes lends new vistas; this volume may bring new meaning and interest to many a reader. It is a valuable addition to the general literature...

... relations, commercial policies, debt questions, arid even the elaboration of certain principles of diplomacy are under-emphasized because of the topical method of treatment. But a new path up an old hill sometimes lends new vistas; this volume may bring new meaning and interest to many a reader...

..., idiomatic translations are usually given, and sometimes literal translations as well." Arid further (p. vii): "The beginner will probably find that his greatest single difficulty in original composition, whether oral or written, lies in the tendency to give Japanese words values that do not belong to them...

... in any section; to make for better understanding, idiomatic translations are usually given, and sometimes literal translations as well." Arid further (p. vii): "The beginner will probably find that his greatest single difficulty in original composition, whether oral or written, lies in the tendency...

... autonomy of the large daimyo arid considerable lack of clarity about political authority over many matters. "The task of writing Tokugawa political history," Ravina observes, "is thus to understand domain politics not only as a precursor to the Meiji state, but as part of a world which the new regime...

... and Mongols have culturally distinct ways of conceptualizing the environment. Whereas the central government of China considers mobile Mongol herders and their arid steppeland environment to be obstacles in the path of national progress, scientific rationalism, and economic development, local residents...