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... own syllabuses? The following essay is an attempt to stimulate discussion of the role of advanced courses in Asian history at the undergraduate level. 15 Muggeridge Malcolm , “25 Propositions at a 75th Birthday,” New York Times , 24 April 1978 , p. A23 . 14 Cf...

... ) ; and Huntington Samuel P. , Political Order in Changing Societies ( New Haven : Yale University Press , 1968 ), Chapter 7 . VOL. XXXIV, No. 4 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES AUGUST 1975 Socio-Economic Indicators of the People's Party Vote in the Punjab: A Study at the Tehsil Level SHAHID JAVED BURKI AND CRAIG...

...Michael C. Shapiro Hindi Structures: Intermediate Level with Drills, Exercises and Key . By Peter Edwin Hook . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies (Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia, No. 16), 1979 . xxi, 338 pp. Hindi-English Glossary...

...Anita Beltran Chen Why People Intend to Move: Individual and Community-Level Factors of Out-Migration in the Philippines . By Sun-Hee Lee . Boulder, Colorado : Westview Press in Cooperation with the Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University , 1986 . xxiv, 115 pp. Figures...

...A. Terry Rambo 802 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Village-Level Modernization in Southeast Asia: The Political Economy of Rice and Water. Edited by GEOFFREY B. HAINSWORTH. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1982. ix, 411 pp. References. $34. Given its origin as the proceedings...

...David C. Buxbaum Abstract This article concerns the Chinese law of the Ch'ing period at the trial level in one locality in China. Through use of a unique archive, namely, the Tanshui and Hsinchu archive, and through statistical studies of the materials in that archive, the article asserts...

... LEVEL IN PRESENT-DAY JAPAN Robert E. Ward* University of Michigan THESE recent years have brought to Japan an array of new political institutions and procedures. If judged by the contents of the statute books alone, there would appear to be small resemblance between the basic legal structure...

...Alexander Woodside Literacy in China: The Effect of the National Development Context and Policy on Literacy Levels, 1949–1979 . By Vilma Seeberg . Bochum : Brockmeyer , 1990 . ix, 352 pp. DM 44.80. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 398 THE JOURNAL...

...C. Paul Dredge The Role of Sociolinguistics in Foreign Language Education with Reference to Korean and English Terms of Address and Levels of Deference . By Juck-Ryoon Hwang . Seoul : Kwangmunsa , 1975 . ix, 222 pp. Tables, Bibliography, Index. 2000 won (U.S. $5.00). Copyright ©...

...John Adams Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1966 1966 Levels of Economic Activity and Public Expenditure in India: A Historical and Quantitative Study . By Kshitimohon Mukerji . (Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics) Poona : Gokhale Institute Studies No. 45...

...Tessa Bartholomeusz Leveling Crowds: Ethnonationalist Conflicts and Collective Violence in South Asia . By Stanley J. Tambiah . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1996 . 395 pp. $50.00 (cloth); $20.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000...

... after 1900, characteristic of both public and private bureaucracies in Japan. In this system of decision-making, policy was and, apparently, still is drafted at lower departmental levels by “specialists” and circulated by document or formal approval, indicated by the affixing of a seal, to successively...

... to obtain local mortality levels and trends over time, seasonal variations in mortality, and, especially, episodes of abnormal or “crisis” mortality. It is observed that the level of mortality increased as the nineteenth century progressed, that this was due in large part to an increase in the intensity...

... not); it is brought about by having people think that they do, think that the territories of the gods correspond level by level to the administrative villages, districts, and provinces. As the relationship between these levels and the state has changed historically, that is, when center-hinterland integration has...

... level than it had reached in the early fourteenth century. During the depression of the fifteenth century, the absolute level of inter-societal trade dropped, currencies were universally debased (a sure sign of decreased wealth and overall productivity), and the arts and crafts were degraded” (Abu...

... importance of a generation of local political activists among Dalits (former untouchables) while also showing that these young men have not been able to effect a broad structural transformation at the local level. The authors use this case to identify a need for further research on South Asian political...

... in this century has been more than the story of Communist Party fortunes. On the national level, it has been the process of casting off politically enervated and/or discredited systems (the imperial, warlord, and Republican) and moving toward the vision of a fundamentally new state and society. The first major...

...T. J. Pempel Abstract There is a significant correlation between the level of industrial development in any country and the percentage of its population attending institutions of higher education. The reasons for this would appear to be obvious: among other things, more people with greater skills...