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Learning from China? Development and Environment in Third World Countries
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (3): 594–595.
Published: 01 August 1988
...Vaclav Smil Learning from China? Development and Environment in Third World Countries . Edited by Bernhard Glaeser . London : Allen and Unwin , 1987 . xviii, 282 pp. $39.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988 1988 594 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES is often...
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China's Environmental Crisis: An Inquiry into the Limits of National Development Megaproject: A Case Study of China's Three Gorges Project
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (1): 179–180.
Published: 01 February 1994
...James Reardon-Anderson China's Environmental Crisis: An Inquiry into the Limits of National Development . By Vaclav Smil . An East Gate Book. Armonk, N.Y., and London : M. E. Sharpe , 1993 . xix, 257 pp. $42.50 (cloth); $16.95 (paper). Megaproject: A Case Study of China's Three...
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Energy in China's Modernization: Advances and Limitations
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (4): 872–873.
Published: 01 November 1988
...Bruce J. Esposito Energy in China's Modernization: Advances and Limitations . By Vaclav Smil . Armonk, N.Y. : M. E. Sharpe , 1988 . xiv, 250 pp. $37.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988 1988 872 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES on labor force is mainly...
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Japan's Dietary Transition and Its Impacts
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (3): 726–728.
Published: 01 August 2013
...Eric C. Rath Japan's Dietary Transition and Its Impacts . By Vaclav Smil and Kazuhiko Kobayashi . Cambridge, Mass. : The MIT Press , 2012 . xiv, 229 pp. $29.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013 2013 Japan's Dietary Transition and Its Impacts...
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The Population Atlas of China
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (4): 871–872.
Published: 01 November 1988
.... Sharpe, 1988. xiv, 250 pp. $37.50. Energy in China's Modernization is the latest in a series of monographs by Vaclav Smil that are insightful additions to our understanding of the Chinese energy picture. The earlier volumes were China's Energy (New "York: Praeger, 1976) and The Bad Earth (Armonk, N.Y.: M...
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Madame Mao: The White-boned Demon
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (1): 180–181.
Published: 01 February 1994
... reliable information and careful studies of few, if any, particular cases. Without questioning the accuracy or utility of this work, I look forward to more thoroughly researched, geographically or topically limited investigations that will help us test the validity of Smil's broad assertions...
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Editor's Note
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Journal of Asian Studies (1982) 41 (4): 685–686.
Published: 01 August 1982
... University), Vaclav Smil (University of Manitoba), Charles Tilly (University of Michigan), and Thomas B. Wiens (The World Bank). The papers published here are noteworthy not only for the substantive content but also for the sources that underpin much of the work. The three historical papers draw on some...
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Traditions of Meditation in Chinese Buddhism
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (3): 595–596.
Published: 01 August 1988
... AND INNER ASIA 595 from China, its anti-Americanism is so shrill that it becomes rather entertaining. But to read material like that one hardly needs to buy a book called Learning from China? I cannot say why anybody would want to buy this book to learn about learning from China. VACLAV SMIL University...
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A History of Pigs in China: From Curious Omnivores to Industrial Pork
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (4): 865–889.
Published: 01 November 2020
... it produced. Fat contains more than twice as much energy as carbohydrates or proteins, and it was often a delicacy in agrarian societies, in which people were more likely to be hungry than obese (Smil 2008 , 121). Many Chinese pork dishes, most famously Mao Zedong's favorite “red braised pork belly,” consist...
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Managing the Chinese Environment
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (2): 694–696.
Published: 01 May 2002
... is increasingly empty. In energy, it is not, as Vaclav Smil argues, because China is running out. With one-third of the world's coal supply and the world's highest potential for hydroelectric power, China is not in bad shape. But the coal industry has a host of problems apart from its polluting the air, among...
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Introduction: Food, Famine, and the Chinese State
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Journal of Asian Studies (1982) 41 (4): 687–707.
Published: 01 August 1982
... for the Symposium on the Social and Economic History of China from the Song Dynasty to 1900, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, October 26 to November 1, 1980, Beijing. Smil Vaclav . 1981 . “ China's Food: Availability, Requirements, Composition, Prospects .” Food Policy 6 , 2 : 67 – 77 . Also...
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Annual Volume Contents
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (4): 956–975.
Published: 01 November 1988
... ROSEN] GATES, Chinese Working-Class Lives: Getting By in Taiwan [JANET W . SALAFF] GLAESER ( e d . ) , Learning from China? Development and Environment in Third World Countries [VACLAV SMIL] GOLDMAN w i t h CHEEK and HAMRIN, China's Intellectuals and the State: In Search of a New Relationship [ J O H N...
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Global Environmental Encounters in Southwest China: Fleeting Intersections and “Transnational Work”
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (2): 427–451.
Published: 01 May 2010
... on Chinese sources, reports, statistics, or study trips (Richardson 1990 ; Smil 1993 ). As China has become a global superpower, there has been a dramatic increase in popular and governmental interest in China's environment. Recent work by Judith Shapiro ( 2001 ) and Elizabeth C. Economy ( 2004 ) crosses...
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Forestry Reform and the Transformation of State Capacity in Fin-de-Siècle China
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (4): 1163–1188.
Published: 01 November 2009
... environmental regulations. These works focus largely on the political and bureaucratic incentives that push local cadres to privilege development over the environment and on the unresolved problem of unclear property rights (Harkness 1998 ; Ho 2001 ; Jahiel 1997 ; Smil 1993 ). And third, because forests...
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Research on the Economy of the People's Republic of China: A Survey of the Field
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Journal of Asian Studies (1983) 42 (2): 345–372.
Published: 01 February 1983
... on East Asian Studies . Smil Vaclav . 1976 . China's Energy: Adjustments, Problems, Prospects . New York : Praeger . Stavis Benedict . 1974 . Making Green Revolution: The Politics of Agricultural Development in China . Ithaca : Rural Development Committee, Cornell University...
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Nature, Annihilation, and Modernity: China's Korean War Germ-Warfare Experience Reconsidered
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (2): 381–415.
Published: 01 May 2002
... reckless attitudes about very dangerous chemicals. Such attitudes, in an era of even greater pesticide availability, are having a tragic impact on contemporary China (Smil 1984, 1993; Edmonds 1994; Shapiro 2001).5 Most importantly, a central feature of the Great Leap Forward the impulse literally to move...
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Communications to the Editor
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (1): 157–187.
Published: 01 February 2003
... . “ Sichuan's Population in the Nineteenth Century: Lessons from Disaggregated Data .” Late Imperial China 8 ( 1 ): 1 – 79 . Smil Vaclav . 1983 . The Bad Earth: Environmental Degradation in China . Armonk, N.Y. : M. E. Sharpe . Walker Kathy Le Mons . 1999 . Chinese Modernity...
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Annual Volume Contents
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (4): 1360–1372.
Published: 01 November 1994
... Study of the Lake Tai Area, 1368-1800 [YEH-CHIEN WANG] S H I R K , The Political Logic of Economic Reform in China [ D A V I D BACHMAN] SMIL, China's Environmental Crisis: An Inquiry into the Limits of National Development [JAMES REARDON-ANDERSON] STROSS, Bulls in the China Shop and Other SinoAmerican...
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Far Eastern Bibliography 1947 - III
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1948) 7 (2): 188–204.
Published: 01 February 1948
.... Landet med de lykkelige smil, en karavenafaerd gennem Burma. Kobenhavn: Gyldendalske boghandel nordisk forlag, 1947. 176 p. OVERDIJKINK, G. C. Het Indonesische probleem. De feiten. 's-Gravenhage, M. Nijhoff, 1946. 123 p. PENDLETON, ROBERT L. Training for agricultral research in humid tropical Asia. New...
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Far Eastern Bibliography 1947-1
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1947) 6 (S1): 3–69.
Published: 01 August 1947
..., Kelly and Walsh, 1946. x, lykkelige smil, en haravenafaerd gennem 87 p. LOBEN SELS, TJAARD MAURITS ADAM VAN. Burma. Kobenhavn: Gyldendalske boghandel nordisk forlag, 1947. 176 p. [let onstaan van de republiek Indonesia. OVERDIJKINK, G. C. Het Indonesische prob- Arnhem, S. Gouda Quint, D. Brouwer en leem...
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