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...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...

..., 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...

...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 Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1978 1978 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...

...David Biggs Abstract A recent trend of regreening formerly bare hills in central Vietnam is often described in the media as a form of recovery from 1960s wartime destruction. However, this modern framework of wartime “wasting” and regreening obscures a longer history of bare hills. Colonial...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...Robin Jared Lewis 434 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES 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...

...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...

...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...

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

...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...

...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...

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

..., 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...