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Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (4): 1235–1237.
Published: 01 November 2009
... comprehensive and synthetic account of willful (political and bodily) genocide to date. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009 Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur . By Ben Kiernan . New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press...
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Sons of the Soil: Migration and Ethnic Conflict in India
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Journal of Asian Studies (1981) 40 (2): 415–417.
Published: 01 February 1981
...). A chapter of conclusions would have strengthened the book. Yet it remains an interesting addition to a field whose literature is meager and often mediocre. FRITZ LEHMANN University of British Columbia Sons of the Soil: Migration and Ethnic Conflict in India. By MYRON WEINER. Princeton: Princeton University...
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The Stubborn Earth: American Agriculturalists on Chinese Soil, 1898–1937
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (2): 361–362.
Published: 01 May 1988
...Robert W. Barnett The Stubborn Earth: American Agriculturalists on Chinese Soil, 1898–1937 . By Randall E. Stross . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1986 . xii, 272 pp. $25.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988 1988 BOOK REVIEWS...
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Shifting Ground: The Changing Agricultural Soils of China and Indonesia
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (3): 824–825.
Published: 01 August 2001
...Kenneth Pomeranz Shifting Ground: The Changing Agricultural Soils of China and Indonesia . By Peter H. Lindert . Cambridge, Mass. : The MIT Press , 2000 . 351 pp. $45.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 824 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Southeast Asia...
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The Paleoenvironment of North China—A Review Article
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Journal of Asian Studies (1984) 43 (4): 723–733.
Published: 01 August 1984
...Ping-ti Ho Abstract K. C. Chang has been instrumental in the West in propagating the view that North China in Neolithic times was lush, moist, and densely forested. A close scrutiny of data relating to palynology, soil science, and paleoclimate, however, indicates that the true loess areas of North...
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A Closer View of China's Problems
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1946) 6 (1): 50–64.
Published: 01 November 1946
...Francis L. K. Hsu Abstract The current belief is that China is a country where most land belongs to landlords who do not till their soil but suck the blood of their tenants. Dr. Sun, founder of the Chinese Republic, was under this impression when he specified in his program that “all tillers must...
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The State, Modernity, and the Fate of Liberalism in Prewar Japan
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Journal of Asian Studies (1992) 51 (2): 287–316.
Published: 01 May 1992
... antipathy to the centralized state in its political practice. A more dramatic contrast is afforded by the fragile and short-lived democracy of Weimar Germany, nurtured in soil where G. W. F. Hegel's organic conception of the state and the doctrines of state sovereignty that legitimated the regime of Otto...
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The Intellectual Dimensions of India's Nonalignment
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Journal of Asian Studies (1969) 28 (2): 299–312.
Published: 01 February 1969
...A. P. Rana Abstract Nonalignment today is a protean international phenomenon, accommodating a host of national impulses and identities. This paper, however, is chiefly concerned with this phenomenon as it was nurtured on Indian soil: it seeks to interpret India's nonalignment by probing its...
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Proprietary Mutations and the Mutiny in Rohilkhand
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Journal of Asian Studies (1969) 28 (4): 667–683.
Published: 01 August 1969
..., reported in 1854 that “in no other country in the world probably do landed tenures so certainly, constantly, and extensively change hands. These mutations are effecting a rapid and complete revolution in the position of the ancient proprietors of the soil.” William Edwards, the Collector of Budaun...
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Changing Soviet Views on Mahatma Gandhi
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Journal of Asian Studies (1969) 29 (1): 85–106.
Published: 01 November 1969
... or economic power was spread out and not concentrated as it is today; where a kind of simple democracy prevailed; where the evils of great cities were absent and people lived in contact with the life-giving soil and breathed the pure air of the open spaces. Changing Soviet Views on Mahatma Gandhi HEMEN RAY I...
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Neolithic and Shang Periods
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Journal of Asian Studies (1995) 54 (1): 128–145.
Published: 01 February 1995
... of the soil (Tai Chia-hsiang 1986); the role of sun, bird, and other totems in Neolithic and Shang belief (Hu Hou-hsüan 1977; Allan 1981; Tu Chin-p'eng 1992; Wu Hung 1985; Paper 1986; Ch'ien Chihch'iang 1988; Juyü 1991; Wang Chi-huai 1992; Xiong Chuanxin 1992; Chang Teshui 1993; Chang Wen 1994; Wang Lu-ch'ang...
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Japanese Imperialism and Environmental Disease on a Soy Frontier, 1890–1940
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (4): 809–836.
Published: 01 November 2019
... for reclamation by Chinese migrants put greater pressure on each acre to produce food. With a limited supply of selenium in the soil, the intake of this mineral by crops decreased over time, especially under the extractive conditions of the soybean industry during the Japanese occupation. Japanese theories...
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The Landscape Buddhism of the Fifth-Century Poet Hsieh Ling-yün
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Journal of Asian Studies (1958) 18 (1): 67–79.
Published: 01 November 1958
... painting, which likewise reached its first flowering with Wang Wei, had its roots in the same soil that produced the landscape poetry of Hsieh Ling-yün. 57 See Vimalakīrti-nirdeśa 6 (Taishō XIV, 527a). 58 Ibid. 10 ( Taishō XIV, 532ab). 59 SS 67.25a. 61 The inscription...
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An Outline History of Korean Confucianism: Part II: The Schools of Yi Confucianism
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Journal of Asian Studies (1959) 18 (2): 259–276.
Published: 01 February 1959
..., and their names more so. Korea inherited both the possibility of establishing on its own soil schools modeled after the Chinese and of proliferating native-grown variations. 29 Toege, for example, enjoyed an excellent reputation in Japan. See Kim Ha-t'ae, pp. 27–28, 35, 50. 27 The main buildings...
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Contours of Culture in Indonesia
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1942) 2 (1): 5–14.
Published: 01 November 1942
... of thousands of years ago. Since then, countless waves of migrants have moved into the islands. The ancestors of the primitive Tasmaniane and Australians, the Oceanic Negroes of Melanesia, and the Polynesians of the Pacific all trod the soil of the Indies in long past ages. The texture of history is deep here...
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Early Man in Indonesia
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1942) 2 (1): 58–65.
Published: 01 November 1942
...Franz Weidenreich Abstract The history of the discoveries of Early Man in Indonesia has been marked by bold speculations and surprising successes alternating with frustrated hopes and discouraging lulls from the time when the first explorer in search of his remains set foot on Java's soil...
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Oriental Society in Transition With Special Reference to Pre-Communist and Communist China
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1955) 14 (4): 469–478.
Published: 01 August 1955
... their magnitude or the institutional setting in which they function. For instance, though slaves were present in many societies, in only a few did the institution of slavery become an essential feature. And serfs (peasants attached to the soil or to the village) were present in several societies: they appeared...
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Tanah Sabrang and Java's Population Problem
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1946) 5 (2): 133–142.
Published: 01 February 1946
... For a discussion of the origin of humus in tropical forest areas see: E. C. Jul. Mohr, The soils of equatorial regions with special reference to the Netherlands East Indies . Translated by R. L. Pendleton (Ann Arbor, 1944), p. 475. 7 For an analysis of this right of supreme dominion see C. van...
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The Ruin of Ancient Ceylon
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Journal of Asian Studies (1957) 16 (2): 181–200.
Published: 01 February 1957
..., 1954 , Sessional Paper 2 (Colombo, 1955 ), p. 33
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, “ Ruhuna and Soil Conservation ,” Loris , III , No. 6 ( 1945...
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The Diversity of Indochina's Physical Geography
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1947) 6 (4): 334–344.
Published: 01 August 1947
... on the soils of Indochina in the Annales de gèographie, 47 (1938), 508–09, in which they reviewed two articles, one by Castognol, “Propriétiés et characteres fondamentaux des sols du Tonkin et du nord Annam,” Bulletin économique de l'Indochine (1935), 338–48, and the other by M. B. Tkatchenko, “Remarque...
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