Search Results for famine

...Charles K. Armstrong Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag . By Kang Cholhwan and Pierre Rigoulot . Translated by Yair Reiner . New York : Basic Books , 2001 . xvi , 238 pp. $24 (cloth). The Great North Korean Famine: Famine, Politics, and Foreign Policy...

...Soon Paik The Great North Korean Famine: Famine, Politics, and Foreign Policy . By Andrew S. Natsios . Washington, D.C. : United States Institute of Peace Press , 2001 . xxi, 295 pp. $19.95 (paper); $42.50 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002...

...Paul R. Greenough The Indian Famine, 1967: A Study of Crisis and Change . By K. Suresh Singh . New Delhi : People's Publishing House , 1975 . xiii, 312 pp. Appendix, Glossary, Bibliography, Map. Rs. 45 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1976 1976 704 JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

... this question on the history of river conservation and famine relief: Would not the huge fund flow toward Beijing generated by the taxation process have been instrumental in making the difference between the eighteenth and the twentieth century? Beijing as capital drew on the nation's resources for its welfare...

...Thomas A. Rusch Wavell the Viceroy's Journal . Edited by Penderel Moon . London : Oxford University Press , 1973 . xi, 528 pp. Appendix, Index. £8.00 The Transfer of Power 1942–7. Volume IV: The Bengal Famine and the Viceroyalty 15 June 1943–31 August 1944 . Edited by Nicholas...

...Lillian M. Li Bureaucratie et famine en Chinese au 18e siècle . By Pierre-Étienne Will . École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Centre de Recherches Historiques, Civilisations et Sociétés, Ser. no. 66. Paris and The Hague : Mouton , 1980 . 312 pp. Maps, Tables, Appendix...

...Meghnad Desai Prosperity and Misery in Modern Bengal: The Famine of 1943–1944 . By Paul R. Greenough . New York : Oxford University Press , 1982 . xvii, 275 pp. Appendixes, List of Works Consulted, Index. $37. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1983 1983 988 JOURNAL...

...He Li Calamity and Reform in China: State, Rural Society, and Institutional Change since the Great Leap Famine . By Dali L. Yang . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 1996 . 351 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 494 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Lee Feigon Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine . By Jasper Becker . New York : Free Press , 1996 . xiii, 352 pp. $25.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 181 so is "China" as its mythologized "Other." The People's Republic represents...

...Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley The editors' insightful introduction does an admirable job of drawing connections between eleven fairly disparate essays. It could do a bit more to identify key areas of change and continuity regarding Chinese responses to famine in different time periods. Given...

...Janet Y. Chen Tears from Iron: Cultural Responses to Famine in Nineteenth-Century China . By Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 2008 . xxiii , 332 pp. $39.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009...

...Brett L. Walker Abstract The only aspect of this bizarre famine that historians really know for sure is that the Hachinohe chroniclers of the day remembered it as the “wild boar famine” ( inoshishi kegachi ) of 1749. From what can be pieced together from the few available sources, thousands...

...: Midnapore, 1870-1920. By C H I T T A P A N D A . Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997. xxi, 231 pp. $24.95 (cloth). Cotton and Famine in Berur, 1850-1900. By LAXMAN D. SATYA. New Delhi: Manohar, 1997. 344 pp. The two books under review are regional studies that address the colonial impact on agrarian India...

...Joseph Tse-Hei Lee Catastrophe and Contention in Rural China: Mao's Great Leap Forward Famine and the Origins of Righteous Resistance in Da Fo Village . By Ralph A. Thaxton Jr . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2008 . xxii , 383 pp. $80.00 (cloth); $27.99 (paper). Copyright...

...Pierre Fuller The History of Famine Relief in China . By Yunte Deng . Translated by Gao Jianwu , with an introduction by Timothy Cheek . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2021 . v, 679 pp. ISBN: 9781108479905 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022...

...Šumit Ganguly Hungry Nation: Food, Famine, and the Making of Modern India . By Benjamin Robert Siegel . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2018 . 280 pp. ISBN: 9781108441964 (paper). Gandhi's Search for the Perfect Diet: Eating with the World in Mind . By Nico Slate...

...Lillian M. Li Famine Relief in Warlord China . By Pierre Fuller . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2019 . 362 pp. ISBN: 9780674241138 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2020 2020 Pierre Fuller's Famine Relief in Warlord China...

..., Rice Wars sheds little new light on the question of who caused the 1944–45 famine. Following Japanese activist-scholars and French propaganda, Gunn lays the blame for the famine most squarely on the shoulders of the Japanese military. There is much evidence to support this interpretation, and Japanese...

... to those in a position to help the people of Bihar, local, state, and national politicians adopted a rhetoric that involved defining the situation as a “crisis” of unprecedented proportions. The Bihar Famine of 1966–1967 illustrates the importance of rhetoric and political definitions in distinguishing...

.... Crooke Wm. , ed. 1903 . Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases by Col. Henry Yule and A.C. Burnell . London : John Murray . Curley David L. 1977 . “ Fair Grain Markets and Mughal Famine Policy in Late 18th Century Bengal .” Calcutta Historical Journal 2...