...Paul Van Dyke How Taiwan Became Chinese: Dutch, Spanish, and Han Colonization in the Seventeenth Century . By Tonio Andrade . New York : Columbia University Press , 2007 . 1407 pp. $60.00 (cloth). Also available online at http://www.gutenberg-e.org . Copyright © The Association...

...Derek Heng Merchants of Canton and Macao: Politics and Strategies in Eighteenth-Century Chinese Trade . By Paul A. Van Dyke . Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press , 2011 . xxxiii, 545 pp. $80.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013  2013 Senior...

...Robert Gardella The Canton Trade: Life and Enterprise on the China Coast, 1700–1845 . By Paul A. Van Dyke . Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press , 2005 . xviii , 280 pp. $65.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2007 2007 Some two centuries after...

... between Henry Adams and John Hay's “Open Door” policy feels out of place in the collection because it takes place strictly in Washington or in the minds of Hay and Adams rather than in the Pearl River delta. The stand-out articles by Van Dyke, Haddad, and Puga must be related to larger projects, given...

...Charles W. Hayford Americans and Macao: Trade, Smuggling, and Diplomacy on the South China Coast . Edited by Paul A. Van Dyke . Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press , 2012 ; distributed by Columbia University Press. ix, 251 pp. $50.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian...

..., and Sung, together with an extensive account of the engineering problems and techniques involved in Chinese water conservancy in general. Particularly discerning is Needham's tracing out of the enduring conflict between what he regards as the school of Taoist-minded engineers, who believed in low dykes...

... in the South China Sea]. Montreal: I'Harmattan, 1996) provides more factual and detailed geopolitical information and incisive analysis than Bob Catley and Makmur Keliat. M. Valencia, J. van Dyke and N. Ludwig (Sharing the Resources of the South China Sea, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1997) have surveyed...

... been helpful here to have had some account of the types of labor employed in the building of temples, dykes, bridges, etc., on the local level projects so abundantly documented in the local histories. These types would include peasants and tenant farmers recruited in the off-season to improve local...

... District Records (5404: 63–64); and also letter of June 2 and 19. 70 Dykes J. W. B. , Salem, and Indian Collectorate ( London : 1853 ), p. 324 . 71 Proceedings at the Public Meetings of the Hindu Community … Held on 7th October 1846 (Madras: 1846 ). 72 Dykes...

... problem. The Haihe was navigable before the tenth century, but thanks to silting and dyking, flooding steadily increased over the years. Meanwhile, annual precipitation had declined (from 712 millimeters in 1738–1850 to 653 millimeters in 1851–1911). By the Qing period, floods and droughts were common...

... is assuming extremely serious proportions, is not justified by sustained analysis. Curiously this was also a weakness of the book by M. Valencia, J. van Dyke and N. Ludwig, who also regard the status quo as dangerous. Perhaps there will be serious conflict one day in the Spratlys, but the case must be made...

... ground level with dykes, although the side toward the hill is dug into the slope so that the water flows into the pond at the top. The dykes or retaining walls, made with a core of stone slabs surfaced and topped with earth, are two and a half fathoms high and two fathoms thick. The bottom of the pond...

... by North Korea in 1999, which extends several miles south of the NLL and projects the Military Demarcation Line out to sea at a southwesterly angle that is roughly equidistant from the opposite Korean coasts (Van Dyke et al. 2003 ). After the armistice went into effect in 1953, the Northern Limit Line...

... to the arrangements worked out by Hindus and Muslims at the level of civil society, without the interference of the state, whereas state interference in 1990, instead of stemming tensions, led to violence. Finally, Virginia van Dyke probes the nature of anti-Sikh violence in Delhi in the aftermath of Mrs. Gandhi's...

... “hydro-historical” research, asserting that a “reconstruction of . . . hydrosocial disturbances will deepen our understanding of temporalities in general.” 8 These fleeting episodes of inundation were not as enduring or obvious as the Yangzi River flooding of 1931 or the busted dykes of the Yellow...

... the empire's cities and villages. They served both as spokesmen for the local residents and as advisers of the local government officials. They organized and often contributed toward projects of local benefit, such as road and dyke construction, schools, or philanthropic enterprises. In return...

..., Mark Elvin, and Mori Masao indicate the service functions of agricultural supervision, dyke administration, and rural famine relief gradually passed from state-appointed personnel into the hands of local gentry. Similarly, deterioration of state control over frontier trade and the salt monopoly reduced...

.... Finally, in 1194, the Yellow River completed the destruction when it broke its dykes and sent its silt-laden water rampaging in a new course southward into the Huai River. The Yuan government spared neither cost nor labor in its efforts to utilize the existing waterways. Since the middle sections were...

.... 34 CO 54/182, Mackenzie-Russell, No. 185, December 9, 1840; and Enclosures, G. Tumour [Acting Col. Sec.]—Chief Sec., Fort St. George [Madras], June 3, 1840 and Dyke—Col. Sec., No. 85, March 19, 1838. Also see Minute by Hugh Stark, February 15, 1841. 35 Ibid., Minute by Stephen, February 12...

... in the past had been the product of natural forces or of government negligence (usually a combination of the two), but never of a deliberate act of opening the dykes. This was an act so drastic that it was virtually unthinkable” (Lary 2001 , 196). Chinese Communists writing during the Chinese Civil War...