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...Robert LaPorte, Jr Privatization in Bangladesh: Economic Transition in a Poor Country . By Clare E. Humphrey . Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press , 1990 . xii, 275 pp. $36.50 (paper). The Grameen Bank: Poverty Relief in Bangladesh . Edited by Abu N. M. Wahid . Boulder, Colo...

...Pierre Fuller The History of Famine Relief in China . By Yunte Deng . Translated by Gao Jianwu , with an introduction by Timothy Cheek . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2021 . v, 679 pp. ISBN: 9781108479905 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022...

...Lillian M. Li Famine Relief in Warlord China . By Pierre Fuller . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2019 . 362 pp. ISBN: 9780674241138 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2020 2020 Pierre Fuller's Famine Relief in Warlord China...

..., military imperative, political conflict, economic dislocation, and corruption that caused these famines. But famine mortality is also a function of the effectiveness of the relief system. The famines in China and, to a lesser extent, Vietnam, occurred in times of administrative disruption. During...

... A History of the China International Famine Relief Commission . By Andrew James Nathan . Cambridge : East Asian Research Center, Harvard University , 1965 . Distributed by Harvard University Press. 106 , Index, Glossary, Bibliography, Notes, Appendices, n.p. Copyright ©...

...Nancy Dowling Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 Tantri Reliefs on Ancient Javanese Candi . By Marijke J. Klokke . Leiden : KITLV Press . 1993 . 312 pp. $38.50. BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 635 Tantri Reliefs on Ancient Javanese Candi. By MARIJKE J...

...Paul R. Brass Abstract In the summer of 1966, Bihar and eastern Uttar Pradesh provinces in India experienced one of the worst and most widespread droughts and crop failures in the history of the region during the twentieth century. Massive local, national, and international relief efforts were...

... Abstract In the Harvard University Press advertisement of current publications (Volume xxxi, number 4, August 1972) the subtitle of Paul Richard Bohr's Famine in China and the Missionary should have appeared: Timothy Richard as Relief Advocate of National Reform, 1876–1884 . Copyright ©...

...Arthur L. Rosenbaum Abstract The Changsha rice riot of April 12–16, 1910 was one of the series of popular revolts that racked the Ch'ing dynasty in its closing years.1 Triggered by serious crop failures and peasant demand for relief, it involved over twenty thousand participants and the occupation...

... resettled thousands of refugees who fled war-induced natural disasters in Henan to Huanglongshan to reclaim uncultivated wastelands. Land reclamation reflected an ongoing militarization of China's environment, as political leaders looked to land reclamation to provide relief for refugees, further economic...

...Howard Spodek Abstract The 2002 pogrom in the Indian state of Gujarat, and especially in its largest city, Ahmedabad, left about 1,000 Muslims dead in the city, another 1,000 dead in the state, and about 140,000 homeless, some of them still living in relief camps today. The killing, one...

...Chien-Yu Julia Huang; Robert P. Weller Abstract Thirty years ago the buddhist compassion Relief Foundation (Ciji Gongdehui, hereafter Ciji) was virtually unknown. Lost in the backwater of Taiwan's eastern coast, the group began in 1966 with a nun, five disciples, and thirty housewives who...

...H. Sjaardema Abstract Once more the interest of the world is focused upon Indonesia, and the recent uprisings there are of increasing concern to all who have known this country. During the war our sympathy was with the Indonesians who were under the domination of Japan, and a sigh of relief...

... from Central Asia to the Chinese heartland. Even more unusual than this inscription is the exterior of the sarcophagus, which is carved with a continuous sequence of narrative reliefs. These represent the deceased's multifaceted journey on the Silk Road. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

... of the lockdown, and millions sought to return to their native villages. At the same time, the rural economy confronted its own difficulties caused by the lockdown. The relief that the Modi government offered to the large numbers of poor people who had been adversely affected by its response to COVID-19...

... be viewed differently: as someone who placed in bold relief ideas that emerged in the late Ming period and brought to fruition in writings of enduring value various approaches to scholarship that had been gestating since the latter part of the sixteenth century. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

... in Japan are reliefs from, and not the center of, professional life and activities. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1965 1965 SIR GEORGE SANSOM An Appreciation Sir George Bailey Sansom, who died on March 8 in Tucson, Arizona, at the age of 82, was the last of the great amateurs...

... and that she generally succeeded. On the other hand, others hold that while “Japan played a singularly conscientious role in the allied relief expedition to Peking to rescue the legation staffs in the summer of 1900, … the Tokyo cabinet was certainly not indifferent to its opportunities.” They would argue...

... economic trajectory this disaster can tell us a great deal about the ways in which individuals, organizations, and officialdom respond to a devastating event, and help us better understand the process of transition from immediate relief to longer-term recovery, not just in Japan, but more broadly...