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Clearing, “Wasting,” and Regreening: An Environmental History of Bare Hills in Central Vietnam
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (4): 1037–1058.
Published: 01 November 2018
... people produced this “wasteland” and why, at times, they maintained it despite state efforts at reclamation. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2018 2018 bare land environmental history deforestation hills Huế reforestation Vietnam war wasteland A recent article...
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The Long Bow Film Trilogy—A Review Article
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Journal of Asian Studies (1987) 46 (4): 843–848.
Published: 01 November 1987
...]), the films may be especially rewarding. They put faces to a few familiar names and give us images—of donkeycarts rattling over the tired earth, of bundled babies in bare adobe courtyards—that validate the village Hinton's books have already brought to life in our minds. But for viewers who have not done any...
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A Reply to Ramon Myers
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Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (3): 629–633.
Published: 01 August 1991
... saw six centuries of vigorous and protracted commercialization, but rural underdevelopment persisted, so that the great majority of the population remained tied to the land and to bare-subsistence food production (down to the 1980s). In spite of fairly vigorous expansion of urban industrial production...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (3): 783–788.
Published: 01 August 2024
... with Larissa Pitts's chapter on Arbor Day in Republican China and the study by Stevan Harrell and coauthors on Nuosu agroforestry in southwestern Sichuan. Pitts tells us about how the Republican governments, in efforts to revive forest cover over bare lands, encouraged the planting of trees during the Tomb...
View articletitled, Thinking with Plants: Interwoven Materialisms and Trans-regional Approaches - Le bambou au Vietnam: Une approche anthropologique et historique and The Cultivated Forest: People and Woodlands in Asian History and How Materials Matter: Design, Innovation, and Materiality in the Pacific
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The Politics of Order: “Anti-Non-Cooperation” in the United Provinces, 1921
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Journal of Asian Studies (1966) 25 (2): 261–274.
Published: 01 February 1966
... to the landed aristocracy, whose influence in the countryside it had depended upon in the past, to provide the basis for an anti-revolutionary front. Initially, then, the non-cooperation movement served to refurbish the province's traditional landlord-based political system. It went further, however; and at one...
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Administrative Policy and Practice in Sarawak: Continuity and Change Under the Brookes
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Journal of Asian Studies (1970) 29 (4): 851–862.
Published: 01 August 1970
..., 1910 , p. 98 . 7 See for example
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, The Handbook, of Sarawak ( Singapore : Malaya Publishing House , 1949 ) pp. 65 – 68 . 8 The state also refused to countenance the alienation of land for debts. See order No. IX, 1910,
Sarawak. Gazette , Vol...
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Age as a Category of Gender Analysis: Servant Girls, Modern Girls, and Gender in Southeast Asia
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (4): 975–990.
Published: 01 November 2012
... Sociology 21 ( 4 ): 355 –67. Egan R. Danielle , and Gail L. Hawkes . 2009 . “ The Problem With Protection: Or, Why We Need to Move Towards Recognition and the Sexual Agency of Children .” Continuum 23 ( 3 ): 389 – 400 . Elmhirst Rebecca . 2002 . “ Negotiating Land and Livelihood...
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Kyōgen no bigaku—engekigakuteki apurochi [Aesthetics of kyōgen—a theatrical approach]
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Journal of Asian Studies (1987) 46 (2): 411–412.
Published: 01 May 1987
... The study consists of six rather short chapters. Readers can avoid Chapter 1, which discusses three alleged myths about housing land; the author fails to support logically or empirically the claims he wishes to make. Chapter 2, "Historical Background and Institutional Settings," offers an unfortunately...
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Caring for Glaciers: Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (4): 960–961.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Pasang Yangjee Sherpa Caring for Glaciers: Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas . By Karine Gagné . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2018 . xxv, 232 pp. ISBN: 9780295744001 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019 2019 In Caring...
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The Confusion Era: Art and Culture in Japan During the Allied Occupation, 1945–52
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (4): 1173–1175.
Published: 01 November 1998
... Institution. 112 pp. $19-95. This slim, handsome volume belongs on the coffee table rather than hidden away on the scholar's overstuffed bookshelf. At barely one hundred pages, more than half of which contain photographs and superb color reproductions, the book's appeal lies in its visual riches. Indeed...
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The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China's Collective Past
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (2): 522–525.
Published: 01 May 2012
... detail” (p. x). I did find myself wondering, sometimes verging on astonishment, just how older women were able to recall anything that happened in the 1950s with such specificity, including a detailed conversation with a precociously verbal two-year old (p. 250); for my part, I will confess to barely...
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Land and Peasant in Japan: An Introductory Survey
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1953) 12 (3): 370–372.
Published: 01 May 1953
..., for the landlord got barely one per cent of the value of his land. It is true that this was the legal price resulting from the fact that "the government had frozen the prices of various commodities, including land, at the levels prevailing on September 18, 1939." But it does not follow that some less drastic...
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Trade, Finance and Economic Development in Pakistan
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Journal of Asian Studies (1966) 26 (1): 138–139.
Published: 01 November 1966
... to be a bit too brief and sketchy in view of the dramatic changes which have taken place in Sabah over the past two decades. The problems of integrating Sabah into Malaysia are barely touched upon. Nowhere in the account does the reader sense the increasing communal and political tensions and anxieties...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (2): 518–529.
Published: 01 May 2017
... and her statement that its “active trade network premodern era left barely a trace” distort because they overemphasize the “making” of what had long been a major port with a deep anchorage (pp. 111, 115, 175). To conclude, these studies of the sea reveal the advantages of a maritime approach...
View articletitled, Layered Sovereignties and Contested Seas: Recent Histories of Maritime Japan - Maiden Voyage: The Senzaimaru and the Creation of Modern Sino-Japanese Relations and Empires on the Waterfront: Japan's Ports and Power, 1858–1899 and Lords of the Sea: Pirates, Violence, and Commerce in Late Medieval Japan and Defensive Positions: The Politics of Maritime Security in Tokugawa Japan
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Tradition and Reform: Land Tenure and Rural Development in South-East Asia
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (3): 906–908.
Published: 01 August 1998
... their empires and enable the colonized to develop these concepts and their on-the-ground employment were mandated. (It should be noted that, while Cleary and Eaton discuss the commodification and codifying of Southeast Asian land, including systems of registration and tenuring, they barely mention the explosion...
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Miracles and Material Life: Rice, Ore, Traps and Guns in Islamic Malaya
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (4): 784–786.
Published: 01 November 2022
... believers whose presence they barely tolerated. Such entities paradoxically policed Muslim mores and yet begrudged the very mention of God and His Prophet in the domains they guarded, threatening death or disease for the slightest infraction. Rather than dive straight into the forest or open-cut mine...
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Rural Development and Population: Institutions and Policy
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Journal of Asian Studies (1992) 51 (1): 132–134.
Published: 01 February 1992
... Greenhalgh, and Jack Goody. Boserup, in "Population and Rural Development," suggests that the response of rural areas to demographic and economic changes is dependent on the type of family and gender system of the society. Boserup examines three types of family systems men and women farming common land, male...
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Korea: A Cartographic History
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (3): 736–737.
Published: 01 August 2013
... that the gradual globalization of space as he calls it was created by interactions of various different ideas of place and space. The book, however, has a number of failings. Short only barely has a grasp on some of the essential historical themes of the Korean historical narrative. He insists throughout...
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Economic Development in Palanpur over Five Decades
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (4): 1416–1417.
Published: 01 November 2002
... of social norms is remarkable. Across all strata, families still aim at the ideal mix of two sons and one daughter. The survival of one son to ensure oldage care is required, but a girl imposes a rearing and dowry burden and with village exogamy there is scant return. Kynch's chapter lays bare the cold...
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Land to the Tiller: The Political Economy of Agrarian Reform in South Asia
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Journal of Asian Studies (1984) 44 (1): 228–230.
Published: 01 November 1984
...Miriam Sharma Land to the Tiller: The Political Economy of Agrarian Reform in South Asia . By Ronald J. Herring . New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press , 1983 . xi, 314 pp. Tables, Maps, Bibliography, Index. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1984 1984 228 JOURNAL...
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