...Penny Van Esterik Ban Chiang, Northeast Thailand, Volume 2A: Background to the Study of the Metal Remains . Edited by Joyce C. White and Elizabeth G. Hamilton . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2018 . 296 pp. ISBN: 9781931707213 (cloth). Ban Chiang, Northeast...

...Katherine Field Caldwell Icons in Bronze. An Introduction to Indian Metal Images . By Lieut.-Gen. D. R. Thapar . New York : Asia Publishing House , 1961 . xx, 171 . Illustrated, Maps, Appendices, Bibliography, Index. $9.25. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1961 1961...

...Bethany J. Collier Making Scenes: Reggae, Punk, and Death Metal in 1990s Bali . By Emma Baulch . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press . 2007 . xiii , 226 pp. $79.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 Emma Baulch's detailed...

...Robert S. Wicks Precious Metals in Early South East Asia: Proceedings of the Second Seminar on Gold Studies . Edited by Wilhemina H. Kal . Amsterdam : Royal Tropical Institute, Tropenmuseum , 1999 . 112 pp. $26.50 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001...

...Frank Perlin Abstract Precious Metals in the Later Medieval and Early Modern Worlds , edited by J. F. Richards, is a courageous attempt to survey late medieval and early modern monetary history on an appropriately global scale, while simultaneously representing the fragmentation of the present...

..., and resolve the question: Under which of the five alternating powers (wood, fire, earth, metal, water) should the Chin dynasty conduct its rule? Because Chin means "metal," metal seems an obvious answer. A quick headcount shows that a majority of officials did favor metal, but one argument was made for wood...

.... These illustrate the earliest Korean wood-block prints (Dharani 704-751), an early Buddhist text (Diamond Sutra) embossed on gold-foil leaves, the Korean BOOK REVIEWS KOREA 853 edition of a Sung classic (1204-1220), and Yi dynasty galley proofs. Typefaces in clay, wood, gourd, metal, and their imprints...

... . 2001 . Blue Nippon: Authenticating Jazz in Japan . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press . Baulch Emma . 2007 . Making Scenes: Reggae, Punk, and Death Metal in 1990s Bali . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press . Bennett Andy , and Richard A. Peterson . 2004 . Music Scenes...

... Dynasties ), 527–528, the tax on private production of the base metals was ten per cent, and on the precious metals, twenty per cent. The total output of private industry would then equal the “mountain and marsh tax” multiplied by ten. The rate of taxation on officially regulated iron production seems...

... government, however, were copper, zinc, and lead copper in particular the metals needed for coinage. Here the government's role was preponderant and many of the characteristics of its relationship with the enterprises were the most pronounced. In the following pages two contrasting cases of the eighteenth...

..., locality, and nation. The book's biographical persons are robustly creative and resourceful at these tasks and prove to be anything but victims of some seamlessly hegemonic New Order state or globalizing economy. SUSAN RODGERS College of the Holy Cross Precious Metals in Early South East Asia: Proceedings...

... themselves visa-vis art, modernity, locality, and nation. The book's biographical persons are robustly creative and resourceful at these tasks and prove to be anything but victims of some seamlessly hegemonic New Order state or globalizing economy. SUSAN RODGERS College of the Holy Cross Precious Metals...

..., neither full understanding of their dynamics nor workable policies will eventuate. ABSTRACTS 931 Monetary Revolution and Societal Change in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Times A Review Article FRANK PERLIN Pages 1037-1049 Precious Metals in the Later Medieval and Early Modern Worlds, edited by J. F...

... économique de l'Indochine , 16 ( 1938 ), 1245 –338 . The article contains a good discussion of the growth of the metallic mineral production. 18 A discussion of the Tin Producers Association is found in Elliott William Y. , May Elizabeth S. , and others, International control...

... regularly worried the government. The loss of tax revenues was a common complaint, and thus imperial permission was in theory required for every ordination. However, there were many abuses and private ordination was common. The government was also concerned with the Buddhist accumulation of precious metals...

...," National Bureau of Economic Research, Occasional Paper 41 (1954), Table 2. 172 FAR EASTERN-QUARTERLY Railroad construction expenditures, further, create an especially heavy demand for the products of the metal and metal-working industries. To the longterm advantage of some countries, this leads...

... and observant of the dying social mores and customs of a changing Korea, he writes of his bus ride to Sogwipo, on the southern shore of Chejudo, where he noted that "a scrap-metal BOOK REVIEWS KOREA 1107 collector pushed his cart down the road. Koreans doing the rounds associate themselves with distinctive...

... to view the earliest metal objects from Gansu (which include some personal ornaments) as indicating the introduction of metallurgy from the West, followed, however, by "independent development." Both scholars are also concerned with the question of possible Chinese use of metallurgical techniques other...

... as it is put by Mr. Barnard. On the basis of his study of some 350 chemical analyses of bronze objects (23 of which Mr. Barnard declares to be "fully attested bronzes he has concluded that in pre-Ch'in times founders were definitely aware that tin and lead are different metals, and that when they were employed...

... (primarily for blasting new channels for rivers), (2) metals (precious metals for mercantilistic importation and base metals as a substitute for wood), (3) shipping (prosperity through foreign trade), and (4) colonization (overseas expansion to and exploitation of the Kuriles, Bonins, Kamchatka...