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... of lumpen proletariat digging the mines, manning the pumps, and running the railway that carried the coal to market. Told with the skill that readers of Perry's studies of North China rural rebels and Shanghai labor strikes have come to expect, the narrative offers a nuanced picture of how these young...

...Ramon H. Myers Chia-wu chan-ch'ien chih T'ai-wan mei-wu (Coal Mining in Taiwan Prior to the Sino-Japanese War of 1895) . By Huang Chia-Mu . Taiwan : Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica , May 1961 . Map. $0.80 (paper, $0.50). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...En-Han Lee Abstract One of the most striking phenomena in early twentieth-century China is her rapid adaptability to modern nationalism. Viewed from the events of the period 1902 to 1911, this newly emerged spirit was expressed in many ways, and China's response to foreign investment in her mining...

...E-tu Zen Sun Wan-Chʻing Ti Shou-Hui K'uang-Ch'üan Yün- Tung (The Late Chʻing Movement for the Restoration of Mining Rights) . By Li En-han . Monograph No. 8 of the Institute of Modern History; Academia Sinica. Taipei : 1963 . 371 pp. n.p. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...Ellsworth C. Carlson Chung-ying Kʻai-pʻing, Kʻuang-chʻuan Chiao-she (Sino-British negotiations on the Kaiping mining rights) . By Wang Hsi . Monograph No. 6 of the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica , Taipei , 1963 . 243 pp. n.p. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies...

...P.H.C. Labour and Tin Mining in Malaya . By Nim Chee Siew . Data paper: No. 7. Southeast Asia Program, Department of Far Eastern Studies, Cornell University. Issued in cooperation with the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations . Ithaca : 1953 . 48. Map, tables...

...William C. Kirby Coal Mining in China's Economy and Society, 1895–1937 . By Tim Wright . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1985 . x, 249 pp. Map, Tables, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $59.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1986 1986 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA...

... honest assessment of subject matter. By comparison, Singapore Studies seems insular. CHEW SOCK FOON The University of Maryland Stepchildren of Progress: The Political Economy of Development in an Indonesian Mining Town. By KATHRYN M. ROBINSON. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1986. xvi, 315 pp...

...Christine E. Gray Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 Family and State: The Formation of a Sino-Thai Tin-Mining Dynasty, 1797–1932 . By Jennifer W. Cushman . Edited by Craig J. Reynolds . New York : Oxford University Press , 1991 , xxviii, 172 pp. $39–95...

... initiated new policies in 1909 that extended the state's political and economic influence in northern Manchuria. This was accomplished by establishing new counties and prefectures, developing infrastructure for urbanization and commerce, and investing in modern industries such as banking, mining...

...Yongguang Hu All Mine! Happiness, Ownership, and Naming in Eleventh-Century China. By Stephen Owen . New York : Columbia University Press , 2021 . viii, 197 pp. ISBN: 9780231203111 . © 2023 Association for Asian Studies 2023 The Tang-Song transition theory is one...

...Grant A. Olson Me and Mine: Selected Essays of Bhikkhu Buddhadāsa . Edited by Donald K. Swearer . Albany : State University of New York Press , 1989 . x, 235 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 713 will do little...

...James R. Hagen Zamindars, Mines and Peasants: Studies in the History of an Indian Coalfield and its Rural Hinterland . Edited by Dietmar Rothermund and D. C. Wahdwa . New Delhi : Manohar Publications (South Asia Interdisciplinary Regional Research Programme, Heidelberg University, South...

...Albert Feuerwerker Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1959 1959 The Kaiping Mines (1877–1912) . By Ellsworth C. Carlson . Harvard University, Chinese Economic and Political Studies, Special Series. Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1957 . vii, 174. $3.00. 286...

... of fieldwork for visiting researchers in China? RANDY STROSS Colorado School of Mines Mainland China, Taiwan, and U.S. Policy. Edited by HUNG-MAO TIEN. Cambridge, Mass.: Oelgeschlager, Gunn & Hain, 1983. xvii, 270 pp. Appendixes, Notes on the Contributors. N.p. This volume gathers together the scholarly...

... economy must take such issues into account. GAYE CHRISTOFFERSEN Colorado School of Mines Searches for an Imaginary Kingdom: The Legend of the Kingdom of Prester John. By L. N . GUMILEV. Translated by R. E. F. SMITH. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xx, 403 pp. $54.50. This work, the concluding...

...E-Tu Zen Sun Abstract There were mines and smelters located in all the provinces of Ch'ing China before the nineteenth century. Their sizes varied greatly, as did their role in the local as well as national economy. Government policy regarding these industries was not based on a uniform code...

.... The champion was to win'the title of the Supreme Rebel, to whom would be accorded the honors due a king. The plot was to let the rebels kill each other with their own hands, and the survivors would then be killed by mines set off soon after the contest was over. If there were still some survivors left, a gate...

... life, it apparently was not a happy one. Shi left his wife in 1748, never to return, and drifted southwestward toward the Burmese frontier to engage in commerce between the booming Munai mining region and the Tai polity of Keng Tung (now part of Burma). Shi eventually remarried, this time...

...Tim Wright Abstract The weakening of Japan's position in China following the Washington Conference led to the establishment of the Sino-Japanese Luda Company to run the Zichuan coal mines, operated by the Japanese army since 1915. The inability of the Chinese promoters to raise sufficient funds...