...Marshall S. McLennan City of Pines: The Origins of Baguio as a Colonial Hill Station and Regional Capital . By Robert R. Reed . Berkeley : Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California , 1976 . xxi, 189 pp. Maps, Bibliography, n.p.l. Landed Estates...

...Judith Kenny Nuwara Eliya: “Hill Station” und Zentraler Ort im Hochland Der Insel Ceylon (Sri Lanka) . By Monika Bührlein . Stuttgart : Steiner , 1991 . 508 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 950 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES The debates surrounding...

...Dane Kennedy The Great Hill Stations of Asia . By Barbara Crossette . Boulder, Colo .: Westview Press , 1998 . vii, 259 pp. $28.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 Book Reviews ASIA GENERAL The Great Hill Stations of Asia. By BARBARA CROSSETTE. Boulder...

...Vinay Lal The Magic Mountains: Hill Stations and the British Raj . By Dane Kennedy . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1996 . xvi, 264 pp. $38.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 529 their difficult economic...

...Carol J. Ireson-Doolittle The Commercialized Crafts of Thailand: Hill Tribes and Lowland Villages; Collected Articles . By Erik Cohen . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 2002 . xiii , 316 pp. $20.00 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 B O O K R E V...

...Frank M. LeBar Mountain Arbiters: The Changing Life of a Philippine Hill People . By Edward P. Dozier . Tucson : The University of Arizona Press , 1966 . xx, 299 pp. Illustrations, References, Bibliography, Index. $10.00. The Kalinga of Northern Luzon, Philippines . By Edward P...

...F. K. Lehman The Chittagong Hill Tracts: Living in a Borderland . By Willem van Schendel , Wolfgang Mey , and Aditya Kumar Dewan . Bangkok : White Lotus Press , 2000 . 325 pp. $50.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA...

...Dale Riepe The Maler: A Study in Nature-Man-Spirit Complex of a Hill Tribe . By L. P. Vidyarthi . Calcutta : Bookland Private Limited , 1963 . xiii, 261 . 24 plates. Rupees 20. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1965 1965 BOOK REVIEWS 353 the fragmentation of land...

...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. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1965 1965 BOOK...

...Barbara Nimri Aziz Nepali Aama: Portrait of a Nepalese Hill Woman . By Broughton Coburn . Santa Barbara, Calif. : Ross Erikson , 1982 . 165 pp. Illustrations. $9.95. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1984 1984 224 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES associations: women, youths...

...Robin Jared Lewis The Hill of Devi and Other Indian Writings . By E. M. Forster . Edited by Elizabeth Heine . London : Edward Arnold , 1983 . (The Abinger Edition of E. M. Forster 14.) lviii, 419 pp. Appendixes, Source and General Notes, Textual Notes, Index, Illustrations. $55.00...

..., Detroit, Michigan.) Peasants in the Hills: A Study of the Dynamics of Social Change Among the Buhid Swidden Cultivators in the Philippines . By Violeta Lopez-Gonzaga . Diliman, Quezon City : University of the Philippines Press , 1983 . xiv, 226 pp. Maps, Figures, Tables, Appendixes, Glossary...

...A. M. Shah The Black Hills: Kutch in History and Legend: A Study in Indian Local Loyalties . By L. F. Rushbrook Williams . London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson , 1958 . xii, 276 . Maps, Plates. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1961 1961 BOOK REVIEWS 411 The Black...

...Walter Spink Indian Painting from the Punjab Hills . (2 vols.) By W. G. Archer . London : Sotheby Parke Bernet Publications, Limited , 1973 . Vol. 1: xxxiv, 448 pp. Bibliography, Concordance, Index, 2 Color Plates; Vol. 2: v, 335 pp. Nearly 900 Illustrations in black and white, 1 Color...

...John Hay Hills beyond a River: Chinese Painting of the Yüan Dynasty, 1279–1368 . By James Cahill . New York and Tokyo : John Weatherhill , 1976 . xvii, 198 pp. 8 Color Plates, 94 Black and White Plates, Map, Bibliography, Index. $25.00 Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...Geoff Childs Long Lives and Untimely Deaths: Life-Span Concepts and Longevity Practices among Tibetans in the Darjeeling Hills, India . By Barbara Gerke . Leiden : Brill , 2012 . xviii, 362 pp. $144.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013  2013 Long...

...Figure 1. Hill region of the central coast. Data from VMAP0, ESRI Inc., and Open Street Map. Figure by author. ...

..., but this was only part of the story. Equally significant was the little-studied success of members of the Jiangxi hill-country elite who were also in the CCP in using established schools and educational societies, time-honored traditions of local strongman behavior, and existing bandit–secret society gangs to build...

...Brijen K. Gupta Abstract The number of persons who perished in the so-called Black Hole of Calcutta in 1756 has long been a matter of controversy, especially intense since the Indian viceroyalty of Lord Curzon of Kedleston. Two scholars, C. R. Wilson and S. C. Hill, and their patron, Lord Curzon...