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...Alan W. Heston The Economic Development of India under the East India Company, 1814–1858: A Selection of Contemporary Writings . Edited by K. N. Chaudhuri . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , The European Understanding of India Series, 1971 . vi, 319 pp. Tables, Index. $19.50...

...Richard Rice Gaijin Kaisha: Running a Foreign Business in Japan . By Jackson N. Huddleston Jr. Armonk, N.Y. : M. E. Sharpe , 1990 . ix, 254 pp. $27.50. Gaishi: The Foreign Company in Japan . By T. W. Kang . New York : Basic Books , 1990 . xxiv, 251 pp. $19.95...

... with this responsibility noted that “of the many government functions, the most important is to facilitate commerce and help industries” (Li 1974a:210). On January 21, 1904, the newly created Ministry of Commerce ( Shangbu ) issued China's first Company Law ( Gongsilü ) The Company Law was the first modern law drafted...

...Brian Caton From the East India Company to the Suez Canal . Vol. 1 of Archives of Empire. Edited by Barbara Harllow and Mia Carter . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2003 . xxiii , 802 pp. $99.95 (cloth); $34.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004...

...Gordon P. Means An Anecdotal History of Old Times in Singapore. From the Foundation of the Settlement under the Honourable The East India Company on February 6th, 1819 to the Transfer to the Colonial Office of the Colonial Possessions of the Crown on April 1st, 1867 . By Charles Burton...

...Stephen P. Cohen The East India Company and Army Reform, 1783-1798 . By Raymond Callahan . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1972 . xiv, 242 pp. Appendices, Glossary, Bibliography, Index, n.p.l. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1973 1973 BOOK REVIEWS 713...

...Fred W. Drake Augustine Heard and Company, 1858–1862: American Merchants in China on the Eve of the Opening of the Yangtze . (H.E.A. Monographs, 37.) By Stephen C. Lockwood . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1971 . 114 pp. Conclusion, Notes, Bibliography. Paperback, $4.50...

...Robert P. Gardella Pepper, Guns and Parleys. The Dutch East India Company and China 1662–1681 . By John E. Wills Jr . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 1974 . xviii, 232 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Index, Maps, $12.00. William Melrose in China, 1845–1855: The Letters...

...Morris David Morris The Trading World of Asia and the English East India Company, 1660–1760 . By K. N. Chaudhuri , New York : Cambridge University Press , 1978 . xviii, 629 pp. Appendixes, Glossary, Bibliography. Notes, Index. $84.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Tim Wright Abstract The weakening of Japan's position in China following the Washington Conference led to the establishment of the Sino-Japanese Luda Company to run the Zichuan coal mines, operated by the Japanese army since 1915. The inability of the Chinese promoters to raise sufficient funds...

...James D. Clarkson Home Port Singapore: A History of Straits Steamship Company Limited, 1890–1965 . By K. G. Tregonning . Singapore : Oxford University Press , 1967 . xii, 321 pp. Illustrations, Appendix, Index, n.p. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1970 1970 990...

...Douglas M. Peers The Sepoys and the Company: Tradition and Transition in Northern India, 1770–1830 . By Seema Alavi . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1995 . xvi, 315 pp. Rs. 390; $38.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH...

...R. E. Elson Riding the Dutch Tiger: The Dutch East Indies Company and the Northeast Coast of Java, 1680–1743 . By Luc Nagtegaal . Translated by Beverley Jackson . Leiden : KITLV Press , 1996 . vii, 250 pp. $37.00 (paper). Distributed by Cellar Bookshop. Shallow Waters, Rising...

...William J. Tyler In the Company of Men: Representations of Male-Male Sexuality in Meiji Literature . By Jim Reichert . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 2006 . viii , 282 pp. $60.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2007 2007 A story...

... India Company (VOC) in the Moluccas, Sri Lanka, and Java. The article first addresses how to understand corvée and tributary relations as labor, production, and (political-)social regimes. Second, it explores and compares the organization and development of corvée labor relations in the context...

...Abhishek Kaicker Outsourcing Empire: How Company-States Made the Modern World . By Andrew Phillips and J. C. Sharman . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 2020 . 256 pp. ISBN: 9780691203515 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2021 2021...

...Faridah Zaman Abstract This article rethinks the complicated encounter between the East India Company and the built heritage of India in the early nineteenth century. Through an extended case study of the imperial mosque in Allahabad, which was periodically subject to British intervention over some...

...Thomas B. Lifson Kikkoman: Company, Clan, and Community . By W. Mark Fruin . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1983 . x, 358 pp. Appendixes, Notes, Glossary, Index. $30. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1985 1985 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 395 composing his magnum...

... once given an account of the tragic Gujarat famine of the early 1630s, he had referred back to it when the 1630s were again Trade and Commercial Organization in Bengal, 1650-1720: With Special Reference to the English East India Company. BY SUSIL CHAUDHURI. Calcutta: Firma K. L. Mukhopadhyay, 1975. xiv...

...Peter D. Shapinsky The Company and the Shogun: The Dutch Encounter with Tokugawa Japan . By AdamClulow . New York : Columbia University Press , 2014 . xiii, 330 pp. $55.00 (cloth, ISBN 9780231164283 ); $54.99 (e-book, ISBN 9780231535731 ). Copyright © The Association for Asian...