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...W. Nathan Green In general, readers new to the development issues within the Mekong Basin will find this book useful because of its rich detail of local communities' livelihoods and adaptive responses to change. More importantly, Santasombat's analysis of how Chinese dams have already impacted...

...Kathlene Baldanza Poetic Transformations: Eighteenth-Century Cultural Projects in the Mekong Plains . By Claudine Ang . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2019 . 308 pp. ISBN: 9780674237230 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2020 2020...

...David Chandler Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 The Mekong: Turbulent Past, Uncertain Future . By Milton Osborne . New York : Grove/Atlantic , 2000 . viii, 283 pp. $30.00 (cloth). 922 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES While more recent researchers have...

...David Hunt The Mekong Delta: Ecology, Economy, and Revolution, 1860–1960 . By Pierre Brocheux . Madison : Monograph No. 12, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison , 1995 . xix, 269 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Jayne Werner The Vietnamese War: Revolution and Social Change in the Mekong Delta, 1930–1975 . By David W. P. Elliott . 2 vols. Armonk, N.Y. : M. E. Sharpe , 2003 . xxii , 1,547 pp. $140.99 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 1196 T H E J O U R N A L O F...

...Thomas R. DeGregori Growth, Employment and Migration in Southeast Asia: Structural Change in the Greater Mekong Countries . By Prema-Chandra Athukorala , Chris Manning , and Piyasiri Wickramasekara . Cheltenham, UK. : Edward Elgar Publishing , 2000 . xiii, 142 pp. $70.00 (cloth...

... explicitly compared the Khmer Krom with other ethnic minorities in Vietnam and elsewhere, something that he is well-positioned to do given his previous study of the Mekong Delta's Muslim Cham. For example, I would have liked to learn what Taylor thinks about how nature gives rise to, and impedes, national...

... . 126 . Pacific Island Bastions of the United States . By Herold J. Wiens . 1962 . 127 . Indonesia: The Crisis of the Millstones . By Benjamin Higgins with Jean Higgins . 1963 . 144 . The Lower Mekong: Challenge to Cooperation in Southeast Asia . By C. Hart Schaaf...

...Charles Wolf, Jr. The Economics of Insurgency in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam . By Robert L. Sansom . Cambridge : The M.I.T. Press , 1970 . xviii, 283 pp. Tables, Figures, Appendices, Bibliography, Index. $12.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1971 1971 508...

...Shawn McHale Abstract This essay argues that to understand twentieth-century Khmer-Vietnamese ethnic antagonism, the contest for the lower Mekong Delta (in today's Vietnam) since the mid-eighteenth century has been key. It argues, however, that while this pre-1945 background can explain antagonism...

...John A. Dixon Land-to-the-Tiller in the Mekong Delta: Economic, Social, and Political Effects of Land Reform in Four Villages of South Vietnam . By Charles Stuart Callison . Lanham, Md. : University Press of America , 1983 . xxv, 391 pp. Tables, Figures, Maps, Bibliography, Index. $26.75...

... provinces in the Saigon area were ceded absolutely to France.4 France believed at that time that the Mekong River, which empties into the China Sea below Saigon, was a navigable river. Furthermore, it was generally believed that the Mekong, which was known to rise in the province of Yunnan, would prove...

...Lawrence Palmer Briggs Abstract Cambodian history begins in the delta of the Mékong. It naturally divides itself into five periods of unequal length and importance: (1) the Funan period, from early in the first century A.D. to near the middle of the sixth century; (2) the Chenla period, from...

... that of the peoples of the Mékong and Ménam valleys since the appearance of the so-called Tai people in the middle Ménam in the eartly part of the twelfth century. THE TREATY OF MARCH 23, 1907 BETWEEN FRANCE AND SIAM AND THE RETURN OF BATTAMBANG AND ANGKOR TO CAMBODIA LAWRENCE PALMER BRIGGS Maroon, Michigan TO HAVE...

... North Korea and an outlet for the social contradictions of Cold War developmentalism in South Korea. Focusing on the embedded novel Wave to the Mekong River (1966–67), this article argues that Sŏnu's expansionist fantasy deviated from official justifications of Vietnam as a war for development...

...Mark J. Hudson Abstract In the nineteenth century, the Mekong, Red, and Chao Phraya river deltas in Southeast Asia underwent a massive expansion in agricultural settlement and engineering (Dao and Molle 2000). Contending with crocodiles and herds of wild elephants in addition to more prosaic insect...

... studies within Thailand. NICOLA TANNENBAUM Lehigh University The Mekong: Turbulent Past, Uncertain Future. By M I L T O N OSBORNE. New York: Grove/Atlantic, 2000. viii, 283 pp. $30.00 (cloth). Milton Osborne's eighth book is a vigorous, congenial study of what the French explorer Francis Gamier once...

... of the most significantly impacted nations in the world from climate change, due to its very long coastline, high dependence on agriculture, and relatively low levels of development in rural areas” (McElwee 2010 , xiii). In particular, the Mekong Delta is predicted to be among the most heavily populated...

... / Nam Kỳ and sometimes the Mekong delta / Miền Tây Nam Bộ alone—experienced a double fracture resulting from, first, the contextual uses of violence and its consequences in terms of social transformations, and then, second, from more deeper conflicts over sovereignty that postcolonial global narratives...