..., was the grain tribute, which was imposed like the land tax on agricultural land but was levied only in certain areas and was devoted normally to the feeding of the official population of Peking, including the metropolitan garrison, the court, and the metropolitan bureaucracy. The third was the governmental...

... to be mainly extracts from the Ching-shih ta-tien . The Ta-Yüan hai-y¨n chi is in two chüan . The first chüan is a chronological account of grain conveyance from 1282 to 1313, while the second chüan contains a description of the system of maritime transportation down to 1329. For a review of the book...

... Turner ( 1923 ), pp. 190 – 209 . 9 The Maritime Provinces were conquered in 1795–96, the Kandyan Kingdom in 1815, though a stable position was not secured in the latter till the Rebellion of 1817–18 was suppressed. 10 The term “grain taxes” in this study refers to the paddy tax...

...Bruce Glassburner Agricultural Revolution in Southeast Asia: Impact on Grain Production and Trade (Vol. I), Consequences for Development (Vol. II) . SEADAG Rural Development Seminar, New York , 1970 . 323 pp. Illustrations, n.p. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972...

...R. Bin Wong Communities of Grain: Rural Rebellion in Comparative Perspective . By V. Magagna . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 1991 . xii, 277 pp. $42.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 BOOK REVIEWS ASIA GENERAL 129 Government of India Act...

...Ray Huang The Ming Tribute Grain System . By Hoshi Ayao . Translated by Mark Elvin . Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan , 1969 . Michigan Abstracts of Chinese and Japanese Works on Chinese History, No. 1. iii, 112 pp. Maps, Glossary. $2.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

... most recent published work, Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States , 2 reading it as a work of political ecology. Overall, I argue that Scott tacks between generating trenchant insights that are then applied by others in political ecology work, while also engaging key concepts...

... that the Goan clergy were influenced by the Spanish thinkers who so carefully considered the morality of colonization and Christianization in the sixteenth century men like Bartolome de Las Casas and Juan Gines de Septilveda. FRANK H. TUCKER The Colorado College Rice Grains. By AMADO V. HERNANDEZ. New York...

...Derek F. Maher Grains of Gold: Tales of a Cosmopolitan Traveler . By Gendun Chopel . Translated by Thupten Jinpa and Donald S. Lopez Jr . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2014 . vi, 473 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015  2015...

...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...

...Sarah M. Nelson Abstract Recent developments in Korean archaeology, especially the discovery of well-preserved rice grains in clear archaeological contexts, have caused a reassessment of the timing, distribution, causes, and effects of the beginning of rice agriculture in Korea. Kim puts the rice...

.... The former, wholly owned by the state and controlled by governmental departments of commerce, were normally established in cities and central market towns. Each company specialized in certain lines—e.g., grain, edible oils, marine products, stationery supplies—and established branches in nearby market towns...

...Jung-pang Lo Abstract On page 278 of my article, “The Controversy Over Grain Conveyance During the Reign of Qubilai Qaqan, 1260–94,” which appeared in the May 1954 Number of the Far Eastern Quarterly (13.3), I translated Hsing Ch'uan Fu Ssu as the Ambulatory Office for Ch'uan-chou. It should...

... rural credit often entailed interest rates above the ceiling set by law. As early as 1790 b.c. , the Laws of Hammurabi established annual interest ceilings of 33.3 percent for grain loans and 20 percent for cash loans. Any loan charging interest beyond the ceiling was illegal (Sowards 1983, 5). To many...

... and animal products was 14 percent higher than that of 1952. Jones and Poleman also maintain that the official estimates of grain production were underestimates for 1952–54; they accept the 1955–57 figures. Their estimates put the 1957 level about 12 percent higher than that in 1952. Choh-ming Li, though...

... considered “have-nots” with an insatiable lust for Chinese goods, mainly silk, grains, and, later, tea. This stereotype, which developed in the historical sources along with the process of crystallization of the Chinese ethnocultural identity and codification of the written and oral traditions, was regarded...