...Mitsuhiko Kimura Donzoko no Kyōwakoku: Kita Chōsen Husaku no Kōzō . [Misery of the Republic: The Structure of Crop Failure in North Korea]. By U-hong Yi . Tokyo : Aki Shobo . 1989 . 301 pp. ¥1,700. Angu no Kyōwakoku: Kita Chōsen Kōgyō no Kikai . [Absurdity of the Republic...

...Ramon H. Myers Taiwan, Chôsen no keizai seichô—bukka tôkei o chûshin to shite . (Economic Growth of Taiwan and Korea: With Special Emphasis on Price Statistics). By Mizoguchi Toshiyuki . Tokyo : Iwanami Shoten , 1975 . 180 pp. Appendix, Bibliography, Index. 1200 Yen Copyright ©...

...H. C. Kim Kinsei-Chosēn Kyoyuku-shi Kenkyu. (A Study of Educational History of Modern Korea.) . By Manabu Watanabe . Tokyo : Yuzankaku , 1969 . 665 pp. ¥5,800. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1970 1970 BOOK REVIEWS 455 As the title of the book suggests...

...Warren W. Smith, Jr.; Benjamin H. Hazard, Jr. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1954 1954 Chōsen-shi . . (History of Korea). Hatada Takashi . Tokyo : Iwanami Shoten , 1951 . 11+299+11. 260 yen. BOOK REVIEWS 219 preferred to see "Kozyrevskii" instead...

..., and literature. Taipei, Taiwan JAMES HOYT Chosen ko-bimka sokan §8£¥l&3£'fLF£iiia (A Survey of ancient Korean culture). By FUJITA RYOSAKU ilfflSBfi and UMEHARA SUEJI fiMttti. Tamba and Kyoto: Yotoku-sha. Vol. 1, 1947, 2, 2, 3, 90, 10 ill., 50 pis.; Vol. 2, 1948, 2, 4, 68, 10 ill., 50 pis. These two handsome...

...Albert A. Altman Abstract In 1881, the Japanese introduced the newspaper as a means of public communication into Korea. Publication of the Chōsen shinpō in the open port of Pusan is related to the political and economic circumstances in which the Japanese found themselves there. Elsewhere in East...

...Edward L. Farmer The Chosen One: Succession and Adoption in the Court of Ming Shizong . By Carney T. Fisher . Sydney : Allen and Unwin , 1990 . x , 230 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 642 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES household registration...

...John Lie The Chosen Women in Korean Politics: An Anthropological Study . By Chung-Hee Soh . Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers , 1991 . 184 pp. $39.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 BOOK REVIEWS KOREA 941 North Korean Army "is capable...

...Joseph S. M. Lau Abstract As an epigraph to Taipei jen (Taipei residents), Pai Hsien-yung could not have chosen a better poem for effectively evoking the mood of sadness and that gripping sense of loss emanating from the “wild grasses” and the “slanting sun” of his stories, for dramatically...

... that was now 15 million people more populous and almost a third larger than it had been prior to annexation. For journalists and politicians at the time, the phrase “Chōsen mondai” (the Chōsen question) served as a euphemism for the panoply of issues relating to Japanese interests in the Korean peninsula. Yet...

...Benjamin H. Hazard Abstract Since the appearance of Hulbert's The History of Korea in 1905 there has been no really new history of Korea in English based on twentieth century research until the publication of a translation from the Japanese of Chōsen no shirube (1963) based on research done...

... in the northwestern province of Shansi, where, beginning in 1932, the warlord Yen Hsi-shan undertook to modernize the underdeveloped economy of his domain by carrying out a “provincial Ten-Year Plan of Economic Reconstruction,” or Shan-hsi sheng-cheng shih-nien chien-she chi-hua . I have chosen to call Yen's scheme...

... governments led by magistrates who were chosen in a deliberative yet corruptible process. The construction and uses of the empire's mental map demonstrates the merits and vicissitudes accompanying the still ongoing Chinese practice of differentiated local government. List of References Archives...

...Ellen E. McDonald Abstract One of the functions of higher educational systems everywhere has been the recruitment of an elite; for until the mass-education experiments of the twentieth century, highly educated members of major historical societies have been the chosen few. Similarly, the content...

.... On the morning of the chosen day, villagers flock to the main village temple, where wooden statues of the divine occupants are congregated with those from other local temples. Each family sets up a table in the courtyard, lights incense and candles, and presents its offerings (of chicken, duck, goose, fish, rice...

... of Chinese and Korean literature and for their administrative work if they were chosen for government posts prepared small hand atlases. Some of these atlases have been collected by Western scholars and copies are found in the Library of Congress, American Geographical Society Library, New York Public...

... impressed by the sense that we have special relationships through sharing in a common cause. For that reason I have chosen an elliptical and somewhat odd title for this address, which is one of the otherwise not very onerous duties required of the president. The title is “The Tradition of Mission—Asian...

... a sophisticated bureaucracy staffed by officials chosen for their ability; a proliferation of cities and towns, as well as the markets to support them; the largest standing army seen anywhere in the world to that time; a brilliant reformulation of the Confucian tradition with profound effects not only...

... to control the object of their scholarship; or, finally, is saying nothing of relevance to practitioners of other disciplines or students of other areas—anyone who harbors such suspicions may wish to consider the manner and substance of the following two passages, chosen from among documents that I happen...

... that students of seventeenth-century Spain, France, or England now are rarely satisfied to study their chosen countries in total isolation. Indeed, it is generally agreed that many aspects of European history during the early-modern period need to be studied from an international perspective in order...