...Macabe Keliher Power for a Price: The Purchase of Official Appointments in Qing China . By Lawrence Zhang . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Asia Center , 2022 . xiii, 305 pp. ISBN: 9780674278288 . © 2024 Association for Asian Studies 2024 Obtaining a government position...

... an apparent scarcity of pan began to replace Russia; and he insisted that solid quantitative evidence concerning com- Britain should restrain her partner's activities in modity price behavior over time. The dearth of order to protect her own interests. When Chi- price data, however, now appears less a matter...

...Walter Edwards Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 The Price of Death: The Funeral Industry in Contemporary Japan . By Hikaru Suzuki . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 2001 . vi , 266 pp. $39.50 (cloth). BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 269 authorize...

... in the systematic study of one such cultural mechanism in Chinese society, Mr. Fried has performed valuable service. Boston, Massachusetts Ai-Li S. CHIN Price Control in Communist China. By RONALD HSIA. With an Introduction by Douglas S. Paauw. New York: International Secretariat, Institute of Pacific Relations...

...Victoria Reyes Returns of War: South Vietnam and the Price of Refugee Memory . By Long T. Bui . New York : New York University Press , 2018 . 256 pp. ISBN: 9781479817061 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2020 2020 The ghosts of the Vietnam War and its...

...Edward Norbeck Kurusu: The Price of Progress in a Japanese Village, 1951–1975 . By Robert J. Smith . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1978 . xiv, 269 pp. Bibliography, Index. $ 15.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1979 1979 38° JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

... : Yunnan renmin chubanshe . Yunnan Sheng zhi jingji zonghe zhi [Economic statistics gazetteer of Yunnan Province]. 1989 –1995. Kunming : Yunnan renmin chubanshe . Zhang Ruhai . 1984 . Nongchan jige wenti yanjiu [Research on some problems of agricultural prices]. Shanghai : Renmin...

...Bertrand Renaud Korean Pricing Policies and Economic Development in the 1960s . By Gilbert T. Brown . Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press , 1973 . xv, 317 pp. Index, Tables, Appendices. $12.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1975 1975 BOOK REVIEWS...

...John W. Mellor Pricing Efficiency in the Indian Wheat Market . By Ralph W. Cummings Jr. , New Delhi : Impex India , 1967 . iv, 203 pp. Tables, Figures, Appendices, Bibliography, Index. $3.75. Rs 20.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968 1968 654 JOURNAL...

.... Rice Prices . Changing Economy in Indonesia: A Selection of Statistical Source Material from the Early Nineteenth Century up to 1940, Vol. 4. Initiated by W. M. F. Mansvelt , re-edited and continued by P. Creutzberg . The Hague : Martinus Nijhoff (for Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam), 1978...

...John Echeverri-Gent Poverty, Inequality, and Prices in Rural India . By Nikhilesh Bhattacharya , Dipankor Coondoo , Pradip Maiti , and Robin Mukherjee . New Delhi : Sage Publications , 1991 . 236 pp. $28.50. Against the Few: Struggles of India's Rural Poor . By Arun Sinha...

...S. H. Chou Abstract This paper will study the nature and behavior of prices in Communist China from the price data available in various government publications. It will seek to answer such pertinent questions as how prices have changed under the Communist regime, and what possible economic...

...Pamela Price C. Rajagopalachari: Gandhi's Southern Commander . By Antony Copley . Madras : Indo-British Historical Society , 1986 . 254 pp. $15.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 421 fives. Finally, the volume also shows...

...Don Price The Making of a Myth: The United States and China, 1897–1912 . By Paul A. Varg . East Lansing, Michigan : The Michigan State University Press , 1968 . 184 pp. Index. $6.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1969 1969 BOOK REVIEWS 403 universe...

...Jane L. Price The Chinese Youth Party, 1923–1945. . By Chan Lau Kit-Ching . Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong Centre of Asian Studies , 1972 . 62 pp. Index, Bibliography. HK $10.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1973 1973 BOOK REVIEWS state refused...

...Jane L. Price Modern China, 1840–1972: An Introduction to Sources and Research Aids . By Andrew J. Nathan . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies . Michigan Papers in Chinese Studies, No. 14, 1973 . vi, 95 pp. Author Index, Title Index. $2.00. Copyright ©...

...Don C. Price Ku Chieh-kang and China's New History: Nationalism and the Quest for Alternative Traditions . By Laurence A. Scheider . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1971 . xiv, 337 pp. Bibliography, Index. $11.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1974...