... in which the Chinese Communist Party opposed the introduction of new machines, seeds, and chemicals associated with the global “green revolution,” between 1960 and 1980 the Party promoted a variety of “scientific farming” technologies in rural China, from new high-yield wheat varieties to organic...

...Paul Wallace Some Aspects of Cooperative Farming in India, with Special Reference to the Punjab . By S. K. Goyal . New York : Asia Publishing House , 1966 . xiii, 210 pp. Tables, Appendices, Index. $6.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968 1968 BOOK REVIEWS 657...

...Walter C. Neale The Lonely Furrow: Farming in the United States, Japan and India . By Kusum Nair . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , 1969 . xvi, 314 pp. Index. $7.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1971 1971 1 This reviewer feels the guilt...

...Erwin H. Johnson Three Decades in Shiwa: Economic Development and Social Change in a Japanese Farming Community . By Mitsuru Shimpo . Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press , 1976 . xxvi , 141 pp. Maps, Figures, Tables, Appendixes, Notes, Selected Bibliography, Index. $15.00...

...Robert W. Hefner Children of the Colonial State: Population Growth and Economic Development in Java, 1795–1880 . By Peter Boomgaard . Centre for Asian Studies Amsterdam Monographs 1. Amsterdam : Free University Press . 1989 . x, 247 Dfl 49.50. Upland Farming on Java, Indonesia...

...Sharon Carstens Opium to Java: Revenue Farming and Chinese Enterprise in Colonial Indonesia, 1860–1910 . By James R. Rush . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 1990 . 281 pp. $34.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 466 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...R. D. Hill Swamp Rice Farming: The Indigenous Pahang Malay Agricultural System . By Donald H. Lambert . Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press , 1985 . xii, 159 pp. Tables, Figures, Maps, Appendixes, Bibliography, Index. $21.50 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1986...

...Mary Somers Heidhues The Rise and Fall of Revenue Farming: Business Elites and the Emergence of the Modern State . Edited by John Butcher and Howard Dick . New York : St. Martin's Press , 1993 . xviii, 306 pp. $69.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994...

...James F. Eder Abstract T he tenacity of family-farming households in agrarian economies experiencing capitalist penetration has long figured in a debate about the ultimate consequences of such penetration for agrarian social structure. On the one hand are those who argue that, while various forces...

...Sidney D. Gamble Abstract Four hundred farm families were studied in 1927 by the Social Survey Department of the Chinese National Association of the Mass Education Movement in an effort to secure figures that would give a picture of the economic life and activities of the farm families of Tinghsien...

...O. Edmund Clubb Agrarian Reform in Communist China to 1952 . By Shao-er Ong , Chief Contributor. Research Memorandum No. 41. xviii, 61 . Tables, Figure. Chinese Farm Economy after Agrarian Reform . By Shao-er Ong , Chief Contributor. Technical Research Report No. 34. xiii, 32...

...Robert O. Tilman Hill Farms and Padi Fields: Life in Mainland Southeast Asia . By Robbins Burling . Englewood Cliffs, N. J. : Prentice-Hall, Inc. , 1965 . viii, 180 , Map, Appendix, Bibliography, Index, n.p. BOOK REVIEWS 167 The text treating the myriad of racial groups is separated...

...Edward B. Fallon Labour Utilization and Farm Income in Rural Thailand: Results of Case Studies in Rural Villages (1969/1970) . By Friedrich W. Fuhs . In cooperation with Gregory Capellari and Fred V. Goericke. Wiesbaden : Franz Steiner Verlag , 1979 . xvi, 371 pp. Figures, Maps, Glossary...

...Shu-min Huang Farm-Plot Dispersal: Lu-liao Village, Taiwan ., 1967 . By Paul Vander Meer . San Francisco : Chinese Material Center , 1982 . xvii, 295 pp. Maps, Plates, Figures, Tables, Selected Bibliography, Acknowledgments, Index. $25.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies...

...Laurel L. Cornell Haruko's World: A Japanese Farm Woman And Her Community . By Gail Lee Bernstein . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1983 . xvii, 199 pp. Illustrations. $19.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1984 1984 200 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Eugene I. Knez A Korean Village: Between Farm and Sea . By Vincent S. R. Brandt . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1972 . 240 pp. Bibliography, Index. $8.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972 1972 BOOK REVIEWS 163 words. Accordingly, the translation...

...Yhi-Min Ho Farm Information for Modernizing Agriculture: The Taiwan System . By Herbert F. Lionberger , and H. C. Chang . New York : Praeger Publishers , 1970 . 454 pp. Tables, Appendices, Bibliography. $21.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1970 1970 BOOK...

...William J. Richardson The House of Lim: A Study of a Chinese Farm Family . By Margery Wolf . New York : Appleton-Century-Crofts , 1968 . xx, 147 pp. Paper, $2.45. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968 1968 BOOK REVIEWS 169 agricultural productivity...

...Darren C. Zook Farms and Factories: Social Profile of Large Farmers and Rural Industrialists in West India . By Mario Rutten . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1995 . xviii, 396 pp. $29.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 260 THE JOURNAL...