...M. N. Pearson The Trading World of the Tamil Merchant: Evolution of Merchant Capitalism in the Coromandel . By Kanakalatha Mukund . Hyderabad : Orient Longman , 1999 . xiv, 206 pp. £15.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH...

...R. P. Dore The Rise of the Merchant Class in Tokugawa Japan 1600–1868 . By Charles David Sheldon . (Monographs of the Association for Asian Studies V). Locust Valley, N. Y. : Published for the Association of Asian Studies by J. J. Augustin Inc. xi, 206 . $5.00. Copyright ©...

... debate featured in the Journal of Asian Studies (61, no. 2 [May 2002]). Isett's excellent study of Manchuria notwithstanding, my guess is that the historiographical debate will continue. Christopher Isett's, State, Peasant, and Merchant in Qing Manchuria, 1644–1862 , analyzes the unraveling...

... Chettiyars). 34 In classical Tamil love poetry, one of the five phases of love is the “lovers' tiff,” in which the lover and beloved quarrel and sulk. 33 Despite the seeming jump in time from Ram Raj to the coming of the European merchants (with only a hasty account of the history...

...Dianne Lewis Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 Gentle Janus, Merchant Prince: The VOC and the Tightrope of Diplomacy in the Malay World, 1740–1800 . By Reinout Vos . Translated by Beverly Jackson . Leiden : KITLV Press , 1993 . vi, 252 pp. $29.00 (paper...

...John E. Wills, Jr The Rise of Merchant Empires: Long-Distance Trade in the Early Modern World, 1350–1730 . Edited by James D. Tracy . Cambridge and New York : Cambridge University Press , 1990 . xviii, 442 pp. $44.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991...

... of a Scottish Tea Merchant . Edited by Hoh-cheung and Lorna H. Mui . Edinburgh : Scottish History Society (T. and A. Constable Ltd.) , 1973 . lxxvii, 301 pp. Index, Facsimiles, n.p.l. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1975 1975 BOOK REVIEWS 1035 a different "summit," can be seen...

...Prasenjit Duara Party, State, and Local Elites in Republican China: Merchant Organizations and Politics in Shanghai, 1890–1930 . By Joseph Fewsmith . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1985 . xii, 275 pp. Map, Notes, Glossary, Selected Bibliography, Index. $25. Copyright ©...

...Cristina Szanton Chinese Merchant Families in Iloilo: Commerce and Kin in a Central Philippine City . By John T. Omohundro . Quezon City : Ateneo de Manila Press, and Athens: Ohio University Press , 1981 . 206 pp. Plates, Bibliography, Index. $16.95 (cloth); $7.95 (paper). Copyright ©...

...John F. Richards Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 The Political Economy of Merchant Empires: State Power and World Trade, 1350–1750 . Edited by James D. Tracy . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1991 . Emporia, Commodities and Entrepreneurs...

...Alvin D. Coox The Japanese Merchant Marine in World War II . By Mark P. Parillo . Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press , 1993 . xx, 308 pp. $28.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 1097 The control of debate and dissent...

...Barbara Hamill Sato Makiko's Diary: A Merchant Wife in 1910 Kyoto . By Nakano Makiko . Translated with an introduction and notes by Kazuko Smith. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 1995 . ill, 304 pp. $45.00(cloth); $15.00(paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian...

... Medieval Merchant Guilds of South India. By MEERA ABRAHAM. New Delhi: Manohar, 1988. xii, 273 pp. There is much to admire in this well-written and well-produced book, number 18 in a series sponsored by the South Asia Institute of Heidelberg University. It is an excellent monograph, drawing on new sources...

...Charles Morrison Entrepreneurship and the Merchant Castes in a Punjabi City . By Leighton W. Hazlehurst . Durham, N. C. : Duke University Program in Comparative Studies on Southern Asia , Monograph and Occasional Papers Series, Number One, 1966 . ix, 151 pp. Map, Tables, Bibliography...

...Herman Ooms Mercantilism in a Japanese Domain: The Merchant Origins of Economic Nationalism in Eighteenth-century Tosa . By Luke S. Roberts . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1998 . xv, 251 pp. $59.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 BOOK...

...Guojun Wang Luxurious Networks: Salt Merchants, Status, and Statecraft in Eighteenth-Century China . By Yulian Wu . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press . 320 pp. ISBN: 9780804798112 (cloth, also available as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2018...

...Fred W. Drake Augustine Heard and Company, 1858–1862: American Merchants in China on the Eve of the Opening of the Yangtze . (H.E.A. Monographs, 37.) By Stephen C. Lockwood . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1971 . 114 pp. Conclusion, Notes, Bibliography. Paperback, $4.50...

... the Silk Roads in Mongol Eurasia: Generals, Merchants, and Intellectuals . Edited by Michal Biran , Jonathan Brack , and Francesca Fiaschetti . Oakland : University of California Press , 2020 . xv. 335 pp. ISBN: 9780520298750 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2021...

...Yue Du Merchants of War and Peace: British Knowledge of China in the Making of the Opium War . By Song-Chuan Chen . Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press , 2017 . xiv, 230 pp. ISBN: 9789888390564 (cloth, also available as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Qitao Guo Part two addresses the literary works produced by Huizhou merchants. Ming-Qing literati, such as Li Mengyang (1473–1529) and Li Dou (1749–1817, in his famous Yangzhou huafang lu ), noted the engagement of Huishang in literary pursuits, overwhelmingly in composing poetry. A number...