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Journal of Asian Studies (1980) 40 (1): 107–108.
Published: 01 November 1980
...Gordon Bennett Ten Mile Inn: Mass Movement in a Chinese Village . By Isabel and David Crook . Pantheon Books , 1979 . ix, 291 pp. Photos. $6.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1980 1980 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 107 Ten Mile Inn: Mass Movement in a Chinese...
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in The Soundproofed Superpower: American Bases and Japanese Communities, 1945–1972
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 February 2016
Figure 3. Total area of American bases on Japanese main islands in square miles, 1952–70. Based on data in Umebayashi ( 2002 , 108).
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in Resisting the Global in Buddhist Nationalism: Venerable Soma's Discourse of Decline and Reform
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 February 2008
Figure 5. Several miles outside Colombo near the town of Piliyandala, one finds a statue of Venerable Soma that has been recently added to a roadside shrine originally built to honor the Buddha and to protect a bodhi tree. Although the proliferation of Buddha statues around the island's
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Journal of Asian Studies (1972) 31 (3): 733–734.
Published: 01 May 1972
...Douglas Miles Tracks of an Intruder . By Gordon Young , New York : Winchester Press , 1971 . 191 pp. Illustrations. $5.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972 1972 BOOK REVIEWS 733 strong identities still with the Chinese community. One would expect such men...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (2): 575–576.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Steven B. Miles Dry Spells: State Rainmaking and Local Governance in Late Imperial China . By Jeffrey Snyder-Reinke . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2009 . xii , 314 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 Some...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (3): 787–789.
Published: 01 August 2014
...Steven B. Miles The Southern Garden Poetry Society: Literary Culture and Social Memory in Guangdong . By David B. Honey . Hong Kong : Chinese University Press , 2013 . xiv, 258 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014 2014 On one level, David...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1955) 14 (2): 179–199.
Published: 01 February 1955
... construction is regarded even now as an indispensable part of the economic development of China. Measured by the potential demands of the country the existing railway facilities are small indeed. Recent data indicate that at the end of 1952 the Chinese railway system consisted of some 17,570 miles of tracks...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1942) 2 (1): 66–76.
Published: 01 November 1942
... Guinea the distance is approximately 3,000 miles and the land area of the region designated herein as Malaysia is somewhat in excess of 1,200,000 square miles. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1942 1942 THE VEGETATION OF MALAYSIA E. D. MERRILL Harvard University THE Malay...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1956) 15 (2): 215–227.
Published: 01 February 1956
... the residential units have expanded and coalesced into large blocks and strips of several square miles, alternating with large uninterrupted areas of irrigated land. Under these conditions, village units have expanded far beyond the daily interaction group, and vaguely denned neighborhoods ( barisan or lingkungan...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1948) 7 (3): 227–235.
Published: 01 May 1948
... Guinea, but such connections are lacking with the Australian continent to the south. The island is long and narrow, approximately 350 miles in length and 60 miles in average width. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1948 1948 1
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1955) 14 (2): 201–216.
Published: 01 February 1955
... dynamo of the Industrial Revolution. It has had no such effect in India, even though the country's network by 1947 was 40,500 miles long, counting only first-line main track, or 57,000 miles long, counting just about everything. I propose to sketch the setting in which railways were brought to India...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1969) 28 (3): 469–488.
Published: 01 May 1969
...John W. Haeger Abstract Six hundred miles west of Hang-chou the Yangtze River emerges from a mountain corridor onto the lowland plain of south-central China. Here the river bed widens sharply and loses depth; the Yangtze winds a snake-like path across a thousand miles of rich, flat, water-laced...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1963) 22 (3): 277–291.
Published: 01 May 1963
...James B. Crowley Abstract On July 7, 1937 a handful of Chinese and Japanese soldiers exchanged rifle-fire in the vicinity of the Marco Polo Bridge about thirty miles from Peking. This, minor fracas precipitated a sequence of events that soon propelled Japan into full-scale hostilities...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1957) 16 (2): 221–236.
Published: 01 February 1957
...Franklyn D. Holzman Abstract The Mongolian People's Republic, or Outer Mongolia as it is more commonly known, is a country of some 600,000 square mile area which is bounded on the north by Soviet Siberia, on the south by China, with Manchuria to the east and Sinkiang to the west. Many centuries ago...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1960) 20 (1): 45–60.
Published: 01 November 1960
... political power. The Eurasians of Indonesia are a group of mixed descent closely tied to the land of their birth, but culturally and politically oriented to a society thousands of miles away along the shores of the North Sea. F. H. de Hoog, charismatic chairman of the powerful Eurasian League from 1928...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1947) 7 (1): 43–65.
Published: 01 November 1947
...George McT. Kahin Abstract Until June 26, 1946, the ihabitants of the State of North Borneo could claim the distinction of being the only population in the world still, subject to chartered company rule. On that date an area of nearly 30,000 square miles inhabited by over 300,000 people ceased...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1944) 3 (4): 309–312.
Published: 01 August 1944
...John LeRoy Christian Abstract Some 130 miles by sea down the west coast of India, south from Bombay, lies the little district headquarters of Ratnagiri. The name means “the hill of jewels.” On the highest point of land, within the civil station proper, there is an imposing stone residence of some...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1946) 6 (1): 5–11.
Published: 01 November 1946
... square miles has been the meeting place of many diverse influences from the Old World, the Americas, the Orient and the Pacific. It became a port of call for early European trans-Pacific voyagers, for the Manila galleon, and for whalers in the nineteenth century. Thus, due to certain accidents of history...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1974) 34 (1): 159–167.
Published: 01 November 1974
... earth scientist would have maintained the idèa that the Himalayan massif was created by a wayward “India” crunching into central “Asia” after a multithousand-mile journey from the loins of South Africa. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1974 1974 * Gerald J. Larson (ed...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (4): 851–880.
Published: 01 November 1996
... of the enduring axioms of Vijayanagara historiography. From their capital on the banks of the Tungabhadra river, the kings of Vijayanagara ruled over a territory of more than 140,000 square miles, and their state survived three changes of dynasty to endure for a period of nearly three hundred years, from the mid...
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