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Journal of Asian Studies (1985) 44 (3): 678–680.
Published: 01 May 1985
...). Fertility Decline in Indonesia: Analysis and Interpretation . By Geoffrey McNicoll and Masri Singarimbun . Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press , 1983 . (Committee on Population and Demography, report no. 20.) xii, 130 pp. N.p. (paper). An Assessment of Fertility and Contraception in Seven...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (3): 703–704.
Published: 01 August 1988
...Terence H. Hull Thailand's Reproductive Revolution: Rapid Fertility Decline in a Third-World Setting . By John Knodel , Aphichat Chamratrithirong , and Nibhon Debavalya . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 1987 . xi, 251 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Fertility...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1986) 45 (5): 1027–1036.
Published: 01 November 1986
.... London : Croom Helm . Cain Mead . 1981 . “ Risk and Insurance: Perspectives on Fertility and Agrarian Change in India and Bangladesh. ” Population and Development Review 1 , no. 3 : 435 –74. Cain Mead . 1985 . “ On the Relationship between Landholding and Fertility. ” Population...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (1): 102–103.
Published: 01 February 1988
...Irene Tinker Fertility in Asia: Assessing the Impact of Development Projects . Edited by John Stoeckel and Anrudh K. Jain . New York : St. Martin's Press , 1986 . xx , 177 pp. $37.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988 1988 102 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (2): 604–606.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Amy Paris Langenberg The Sun Rises: A Shaman's Chant, Ritual Exchange and Fertility in the Apatani Valley . By Stuart Blackburn . Boston : Brill , 2010 . xvii, 426 pp. $98.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 Tucked away in the eastern...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (4): 1051–1084.
Published: 01 November 2001
... ” ( Nüshu and I). In Qite de nüshu (The unique nüshu) , edited by Liming Zhao et al. Beijing : Beijing yuyan xueyuan chubanshe . The Confrontation between Fidelity and Fertility: Niishu, Nilge, and Peasant Women's Conceptions of Widowhood in Jiangyong County, Hunan Province, China FEI-WEN LIU...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1981) 40 (3): 567–568.
Published: 01 May 1981
...Carl Mosk VOL. XL, No. 3 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES MAY 1981 Book Reviews ASIA GENERAL Fertility Transition of the East Asian Populations. Edited by LEE-JAY CHO and KAZUMASA KOBAYASHI. Honolulu: The University of Hawaii, 1980. vi, 300 pp. N.p. This volume is the product of an international...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (4): 1278–1280.
Published: 01 November 2009
... phenomena, such as the causes and consequences of rapid fertility transitions currently under way in Asia. Childs finds that no single theory is adequate to explain the path that the demographic transition has taken among Tibetan populations, particularly for the TAR, where economic development and the rise...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1984) 43 (4): 767–769.
Published: 01 August 1984
...Ronald Napier Patriarchy and Fertility: Japan and Sweden, 1880–1960 . By Carl Mosk . New York : Academic Press , 1983 . xxii, 320 pp. Illustrations, Tables, References, Index. $41.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1984 1984 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 767 Although...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1986) 45 (4): 905–906.
Published: 01 August 1986
...Benjamin V. Cariño Demographic Responses to Development: Sources of Declining Fertility in the Philippines . By Robert A. Hackenberg and Henry F. Magalit . Boulder, Colo. : Westview , 1985 . xxxviii, 332 pp. Tables, Bibliography. $22 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1992) 51 (4): 923–925.
Published: 01 November 1992
...Susan Orpett Long Fertility Change in Contemporary Japan . By Robert W. Hodge and Naohiro Ogawa . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1991 . xvii, 344 pp. $45.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 923 all examined. One...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1993) 52 (3): 766–768.
Published: 01 August 1993
...Alice W. Clark Dependence and Autonomy: Women's Employment and the Family in Calcutta . By Hilary Standing . London and New York : Routledge , 1991 . x, 198 pp. $16.95. Women and Fertility in Bangladesh . By Alia Ahmed . New Delhi, Newbury Park, and London : Sage Publications...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (2): 571–573.
Published: 01 May 1998
... and Fertility Change in South Asia . Edited by Roger Jeffery and Alaka M. Basu . New Delhi : Sage , 1996 . 339 pp. $38.00 (cloth). BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 571 relating to the textual study of the independence struggle in British and Indian fiction and history. LAWRENCE NEEDHAM Oberlin College Girls...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (2): 674–676.
Published: 01 May 2002
...Mary Beth Mills Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 Borders of Being: Citizenship, Fertility, and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific . Edited by Margaret Jolly and Kalpana Ram . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , 2001 . vii , 326 pp. $59.50...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (4): 1052–1054.
Published: 01 November 1996
... and South Asia. It is the most extensively detailed ethnography on a musical tradition in Nepal published to date, and is a welcome addition to a field of growing interest. KAY NORTON University of Washington Contraceptive Use and Fertility in India: A Case Study of Gujarat. By P R A V I N VISARIA, LEELA...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (1): 273–274.
Published: 01 February 2014
...Cecilia Van Hollen Fertile Disorder: Spirit Possession and Its Provocation of the Modern . By Kalpana Ram . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2013 . xiii, 317 pp. $57.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014  2014 Kalpana Ram's book Fertile...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1972) 31 (2): 470.
Published: 01 February 1972
... China's Fertilizer Economy . By Jung-Chao Liu . Chicago : Aldine Publishing Company . 169 pp. Appendices A, B, C, Bibliography, Index, n.p. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972 1972 470 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES SHORTER NOTICES Asia: A Selected and Annotated...
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Figure 4. “More pigs means more fertilizer and higher grain production” (Yang 1959 ). Thanks to chineseposters.net for permission to use the image of this poster, which is held in a private collection. More
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Journal of Asian Studies (1984) 43 (4): 723–733.
Published: 01 August 1984
... areas is fertility, the crucial problem in the agriculture of the loess areas is moisture, not fertility. The ability of loess soil to retain its fertility under semiarid conditions has accounted for the self-sustaining character of the agriculture of North China. These important issues, and others...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (3): 536–564.
Published: 01 August 1991
... the fertility of their terraces and the prosperity of their households. If such forays appear to be troubling anachronisms in Indonesia's aging New Order, they also display the surprising tenacity of those mythical realities that shape local history. What makes these annual headhunts so unusual and so...