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Journal of Asian Studies (1986) 45 (5): 995–1025.
Published: 01 November 1986
...Ian Brown Abstract This article is a preliminary exploration of the impact of the world depression of the early 1930s on the rural populations of Southeast Asia. The first section of the essay considers some of the statistical evidence relating to living standards and economic welfare in rural...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (4): 854–855.
Published: 01 November 1988
.... The point is loosely and anecdotally argued. GORDON BENNETT University of Texas, Austin Social Origins of Distress and Disease: Depression, Neurasthenia, and Pain in Modern China. By ARTHUR KLEINMAN. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986. x, 264 pp. $22.00 (cloth); $12.00 (paper). As a psychiatrist...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (4): 885–886.
Published: 01 November 1988
...Eleanor M. Hadley Japan and World Depression: Then and Now . Edited by Ronald P. Dore and Radha Sinha . New York : St. Martin's Press , 1987 . xxiv, 201 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988 1988 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 885 colonial administrator might have...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (3): 511–535.
Published: 01 August 1991
...Daniel F. Doeppers Abstract Despite its Importance, “the exact course and depth of the recession in the [Philippine] Islands have never been seriously studied” (Richardson 1984:208). Indeed, studies that attempt to calculate the impact of global trade cycles, including that of the Great Depression...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (2): 628–629.
Published: 01 May 2003
...Richard J. Smethurst A Time of Crisis: Japan, the Great Depression, and Rural Revitalization . By Kerry Smith . Harvard East Asian Monographs, no. 191. Cambridge : Harvard University Asia Center , 2001 . xvi , 481 pp. $42.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (4): 1433–1435.
Published: 01 November 2008
...Brett Sheehan China during the Great Depression: Market, State, and the World Economy, 1929–1937 . By Tomoko Shiroyama . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2008 . xvii , 325 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2008 2008...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (1): 83–113.
Published: 01 February 2002
... level than it had reached in the early fourteenth century. During the depression of the fifteenth century, the absolute level of inter-societal trade dropped, currencies were universally debased (a sure sign of decreased wealth and overall productivity), and the arts and crafts were degraded” (Abu...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1942) 2 (1): 80–86.
Published: 01 November 1942
...Amry Vandenbosch Abstract In the decade between the beginning of the world depression and the Japanese occupation of the islands there appeared a steadily mounting volume of literature on the Netherlands East Indies. This was a reflection of the increasing interest taken by the world...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (2): 389–431.
Published: 01 May 1999
...Edward X. Gu Abstract In China, the period from 1979 to 1989 was one of thawing and awakening. Moving away from the rigors of the “political winters” in Mao's time, Chinese society revived its diversity and vigor that had been harshly depressed for a long time by a revolutionary-totalitarian regime...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1985) 44 (2): 271–292.
Published: 01 February 1985
... developmental cycles and the Chinese dynastic cycle concludes that the latter was mediated by the former. It is suggested that regional developmental cycles are cycles not only of economic prosperity and depression but also of population growth and decline, of social development and devolution, and of peace...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1972) 31 (3): 515–537.
Published: 01 May 1972
...Susan B. Hanley Abstract While Japanese historians have characterized the period from the 1720's to the mid-nineteenth century one of a “stagnant” population due to depressed economic conditions, recent economic evidence suggests that peasants were enjoying a higher standard of living. By making...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (3): 604–628.
Published: 01 August 1991
.... Studies prior to 1937 usually claimed that the rural economy's output per capita declined, with only modest expansion of a small, modern sector restricted to railroads and manufacturing firms, and that this modern sector declined during the great world depression of the 1930s (Myers 1970:13–18; Ozaki 1939...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (1): 29–49.
Published: 01 February 1989
...John Whittier Treat Abstract In ōta yōko's (1903?–63) novel Han-ningen (Half-Human, 1954) the heroine, named Oda Atsuko, is like author Ōta herself a famous A-bomb writer suffering from severe depression. She enters the hospital in an attempt to cure an addiction to tranquilizers whose intemperate...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (1): 85–105.
Published: 01 February 2015
... . Bombay : Thacker & Co . Ambedkar Bhimrao Ramji , and Rao Bahadur R. Srinivasan . 1982 . “A Scheme of Political Safeguards for the Protection of the Depressed Classes in the Future Constitution of Self-Governing India, Appendix I to the Report of Sub Committee No. Ill (Minorities).” http...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1984) 43 (3): 499–501.
Published: 01 May 1984
... peasants are constrained to act within the same type of political economy" (p. 865). He suggests that "Scott tended to take as general features of peasantry those that actually stemmed from the particular conditions of the Great Depression, especially as manifest in Burma and southern Vietnam where tenancy...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (4): 853–854.
Published: 01 November 1988
..., Austin Social Origins of Distress and Disease: Depression, Neurasthenia, and Pain in Modern China. By ARTHUR KLEINMAN. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986. x, 264 pp. $22.00 (cloth); $12.00 (paper). As a psychiatrist and an anthropologist, Arthur Kleinman has substantiated the biopsychosocial model...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (2): 411–412.
Published: 01 May 1991
... Marx's Capital as a standard frame of reference, Itoh provides in the first half of the book an account of the process of capital overaccumulation in the first world, and relates how this surplus led to the "great depression" in which the second and third worlds have also been languishing. As capital...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1984) 43 (3): 501–502.
Published: 01 May 1984
..., The Rational Peasant, was of equal relevance to the symposium). Moise takes me to task for ignoring the fact that Scott discusses the reactions of peasants to many different politico-economic conditions besides those of the Great Depression. Because of this fact, Moise finds it difficult to accept...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (2): 657–659.
Published: 01 May 2003
... by an Englishman. Harper expertly delves into the labyrinthine communal loyalties and power relations that led many depressed-class Christians to the counterintuitive conclusion that English leaders were better able than Indians to advocate objectively for their religious, political, and social aspirations...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1986) 45 (5): 929–931.
Published: 01 November 1986
... with the Roman Empire. Rural Distress in Southeast Asia During the World Depression of the Early 1930s: A Preliminary Reexamination IAN BROWN Pages 995-1025 This article is a preliminary exploration of the impact of the world depression of the early 1930s on the rural populations of Southeast Asia. The first...