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...Elya J. Zhang 6 Elizabeth Economy , The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China's Future ( Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press , [2004] 2010 ) . 5...

... experimenting with different materials to produce the right cement for the frigid winter climate—since normal cement cracked in the −30 degrees Celsius temperatures, and low-temperature cement lost strength in other seasons. They continued to struggle to produce a cement to withstand the river's unpredictable...

...W. E. Willmott Treacherous River: A Study of Rural Chinese in North Malaya . By William H. Newell . New York : Oxford University Press , 1963 . xix, 233 . Appendices, Plates. $6.40. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1965 1965 168 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES though...

... T'ing-k'ai Chao , “Ho-kung li-hsiao liu-pi shuo,” in Huang-ch'ao ching-shih-wen hsü-pien ( 1898 ), 105: 18a . 8 Yuan Wei , Ku-wei-t'ang wai-chi , 4: 13b – 14 a. 7 For figures of river personnel on various levels, see Ta-ch'ing hui-tien , 47: 2 – 7...

...Michael Lindsay BOOK REVIEWS The Other Side of the River: Red China To- day. By EDGAR SNOW. New York: Random House, 1962. xvi, 810. $10.00. In 1936, when Mr. Snow was the first Western journalist to visit the Chinese Communists' base area, he could produce an important and interesting book simply...

...Ruth Barraclough River of Fire and Other Stories . By O Chŏng-hŭi . Translated by Bruce Fulton and Ju-Chan Fulton . New York : Columbia University Press , 2012 . 224 pp. $27.50 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013  2013 River of Fire is only...

...Abdul Jamil Urfi On the Banks of the Gangā: When Wastewater Meets a Sacred River . By Kelly D. Alley . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , 2002 . xiii , 296 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 B O O K R E V I E W S S O...

...Clinton Seely Padma River Boatman . By Manik Bandopadhyaya , translated by Barbara Painter and Yann Lovelock . St. Lucia (Australia) and New York : University of Queensland Press , 1973 . xii , 142 pp. Glossary, Select Bibliography. $9.30 (cloth); $4.25 (paper). Copyright ©...

...Lucille Chia Portrait of a Community: Society, Culture, and the Structures of Kinship in the Mulan River Valley (Fujian) from the Late Tang through the Song . By Hugh R. Clark . Hong Kong : Chinese University Press , 2007 . xiv , 473 pp. $55.00 (cloth). Copyright ©...

...Kelly Sims Gallagher The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China's Future . By Elizabeth C. Economy . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press , 2005 . 337 pp. $17.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006 2006 B O O K R E V I E W S C H I N A 403...

...Yan Gao 1 Ling Zhang , The River, the Plain, and the State: An Environmental Drama in Northern Song China (1048–1128) ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2016 ) ; David Pietz , The Yellow River: The Problem of Water in Modern China ( Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard...

...Stephen Graw The Vietnamese Family in Change: The Case of the Red River Delta . By Pham van Bich . Richmond, Surrey : Curzon Press for the Nordic Institute for Asian Studies , 1999 . v , 270 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 BOOK...

...Dileep M. Wagle China's Last Steps across the River: Enterprise and Banking Reforms . By Yiping Huang . Canberra : Asia Pacific Press, Australian National University , 2001 . 236 pp. $35.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 1346 THE JOURNAL...

...David P. Chandler River Road to China . By Milton Osborne . New York : Liveright , 1975 . xx, 249 pp. Illustrations, Maps, Bibliography, Index. $8.95 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1976 1976 356 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES nation's economic system on a sound track...

...John Hay Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1978 1978 Hills beyond a River: Chinese Painting of the Yüan Dynasty, 1279–1368 . By James Cahill . New York and Tokyo : John Weatherhill , 1976 . xvii, 198 pp. 8 Color Plates, 94 Black and White Plates, Map, Bibliography...

...Lyman P. Van Slyke Deathsong of the River: A Reader's Guide to the Chinese TV Series “He Shang.” . By Su Xiaokang Wang Luxiang . et al. Translated by Richard W. Bodman and Pin P. Wan Ithaca : Cornell University East Asia Program , 1991 . xi, 349 pp. $15.00. Copyright ©...

...Grant K. Goodman River Kwai Railroad: The Story of the Burma-Siam Railroad . By Clifford Kinvig . London : Brassey's Press , 1992 . 226 pp. $29.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 789 government-owned Manila Railroad...

...Jonathan K. Ocko Yangtze: Nature, History , and the River . By Lyman P. Van Slyke . Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Publishing Company , 1988 . xii, 211 pp. $14.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER ASIA 845 several...

...Anne-Sophie Pratte Making Borders in Modern East Asia: The Tumen River Demarcation . By Nianshen Song . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2019 . 324 pp. ISBN: 9781316626290 (paper). Beyond the Steppe Frontier: A History of the Sino-Russian Border . By Sören Urbansky...

... transnational enclosures, The River of Life helps to keep the spotlight on the communities most impacted by this development, which is crucial for understanding and responding to social and environmental injustices in the Mekong Basin. The River of Life: Changing Ecosystems of the Mekong Region...