...Mahadev Apte Indian Food: A Historical Companion . By K. T. Achaya . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1994 . xvi, 322 pp. $35.00 (cloth). The Food Industries of British India . By K. T. Achaya . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1994 . vii, 316 pp. $24.95 (cloth...

...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...

... . By Richard Coller . Quezon City : Community Development Research Council, University of the Philippines , Study Series No. 11, 1961 . xi, 94 , mimeo. Bibliog. Food Management Practices of Homemakers in the Rural Areas . By Nena Rola-Bustrillos . Quezon City : Community Development Research...

...Irene B. Taeuber Food in India. An Analysis of the Prospects for Self-sufficiency by 1975–76 . By R. P. Sinha . London : Oxford University Press , 1961 . ii , 200 . Appendix, Bibliography, Index. $3.35. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1963 1963 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Malcolm Caldwell Food and Agriculture in Communist China . By John Lossing Buck , Owen L. Dawson , and Yuan-Li Wu . New York : Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers , 1966 . xiii, 171 pp. Tables, Index. $6.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1967 1967 BOOK...

...Ralph Braibanti Japanese Food Management in World War II . By Bruce F. Johnston . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1953 . xii, 283 . Appendices of tables and index. $7.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1954 1954 BOOK REVIEWS 121 despite its mistakes...

...Lillian M. Li The Food of China . By E. N. Anderson . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1988 . xvi, 263 pp. $23.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 346 T H E J O U R N A L OF A S I A N STUDIES Although these studies do not share a common goal...

...Charles W. Hayford Food in Chinese Culture: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives . Edited By K. C. Chang . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1977 . 429 pp. Illustrations, Notes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $15.00 Chūgoku Shokumotsu Shi . By Osamu Shinoda . Tokyo...

...Charles B. Mehl Food and Population in a Northeast Thai Village . By Hayao Fukui . Translated by Peter Hawkes . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1993 . xxii, 421 pp. $48.00 (cloth), $30.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 898...

... a matter of pride and prestige but a question of survival. The failure to feed civil officials, military supporters, and the urban population that serves them is a visible sign of a government's inadequacy and easily leads to political unrest. For these reasons, all states have tended to favor the food...

...Robert Cribb Food Supply in Java during War and Decolonisation, 1940–1950 . By Pierre van der Eng . Hull : Centre for South-East Asian Studies, University of Hull , 1994 . iii, 87 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 525...

...Norman Uphoff Food, Health, and Survival in India and Developing Countries . By Stuart Gillespie and Geraldine McNeill . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1992 . xiii, 216 pp. $24.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 254 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...K. Sivaramakrishnan Food Insecurity and the Social Environment . By Boudhayan Chattopadhyay , in collaboration with cressida research team. Food Systems and the Human Environment in Eastern India , Volume 1 . Calcultta : K. P. Bagchi and Company , 1991 . xii, 418 pp. $70.00...

...Randolph Barker Increasing Access to Food: The Asian Experience . Edited by D. S. Tyagi and Vijay Shankar Vyas . New Delhi : Sage Publications , 1990 . 455 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 374 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Throughout the volume...

...Ruth S. Freed Food, Society and Culture: Aspects in South Asian Foods Systems . Edited by R. S. Khare and M. S. A. Rao . Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press , 1986 . viii, 336 pp. $34.95. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1987 1987 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 183...

...James E. Nickum Science, Politics, and the Agricultural Revolution in Asia . Edited by Robert S. Anderson , Paul R. Brass , Edwin Levy , and Barrie M. Morrison . Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press , 1982 . xix, 512 pp. $35. Food Security: Theory, Policy, and Perspectives from Asia...

...Lillian M. Li Abstract This article delineates new approaches to the study of food and famine in Chinese history. Drawing primarily from the three other articles in the symposium, the author asks in what ways the Chinese state, primarily in the high Qing period, affected population growth...

... Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1982 1982 VOL. XLI, N O . 4 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES AUGUST 1982 List of Abbreviations: Food, Famine, and the Chinese State In an effort to be consistent in the complicated references of these articles, we have established a series...

...R. Bin Wong Abstract Competition over grain supplies produced conflict when the people controlling large stores of grain failed to sell or lend grain at prices and in quantities demanded by the people needing grain. These conflicts, known generally as food riots, took place within a general...