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Journal of Asian Studies (1986) 45 (5): 1110–1111.
Published: 01 November 1986
...Raj S. Gandhi Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1986 1986 Industrial Transition in Rural India: Artisans, Traders, and Tribals in South Gujarat . By Hein Streefkerk . Bombay : Popular Prakashan , 1985 . xv, 280 pp. Bibliography. Rs. 60. 1110 JOURNAL OF ASIAN...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1983) 42 (2): 447–448.
Published: 01 February 1983
... economic and social articulations of the peasant household. Alas, The North Indian Peasant Goes to Market does not live up to its title. A N AND A. YANG University of Utah The Marwaris: From Traders to Industrialists. By THOMAS A. TIMBERG. New Delhi: Vikas, 1979. vi, 176 pp. Appendixes, Bibliography...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1977) 36 (4): 792–793.
Published: 01 August 1977
...Karl L. Hutterer Rain-Forest Collectors and Traders: A Study of Resource Utilization in Modern and Ancient Malaya . By F. L. Dunn . Kuala Lumpur : Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Monograph No. 5 , 1975 . xii, 151 pp. Tables, Figures, Bibliography. M$20.00 Copyright ©...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (3): 771–772.
Published: 01 August 2000
...Calvin H. Allen, Jr. Hadhrami Traders, Scholars, and Statesmen in the Indian Ocean, 1750s—1960s . Edited by U. Freitag and W. G. Clarence-Smith . Leiden : Brill , 1997 . x, 392 pp. $116.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (2): 796–798.
Published: 01 May 2002
...Hjorleifur Jonsson Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 The Legend of the Golden Boat: Regulation, Trade, and Traders in the Borderlands of Laos, Thailand, China, and Burma . By Andrew Walker . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 1999 . xviii , 232 pp...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (1): 298–301.
Published: 01 February 2008
...Jamsheed K. Choksy Sogdian Traders: A History . By Étienne de la Vaissière . Translated by James Ward . Leiden : Brill , 2005 . xiv , 410 pp. $199.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2008 2008 The Sogdians of late antiquity and the early Middle...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (4): 1288–1290.
Published: 01 November 2010
...Alka Patel Merchants, Traders, Entrepreneurs: Indian Business in the Colonial Era . By Claude Markovits . Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2008 . xii, 292 pp. $90.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 The work under review collects nine...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1987) 46 (2): 431–433.
Published: 01 May 1987
... more China, where it has been fluctuating rather sharply, Indian foreign policy has managed to retain the impression of stability and stolidity" (p. 437). SUDERSHAN CHAWLA California State University, Long Beach Trans-Himalayan Traders: Economy, Society, and Culture in Northwest Nepal. By JAMES F...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1995) 54 (1): 182–184.
Published: 01 February 1995
...Jane Kate Leonard Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 Turbans and Traders: Hong Kong's Indian Communities . By Barbara-Sue White . Hong Kong : Oxford University Press , 1994 . ix, 256 pp. $24.95 182 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES commitment...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (3): 877–879.
Published: 01 August 2011
...Alka Patel Merchants, Traders, Entrepreneurs: Indian Business in the Colonial Era . By Claude Markovits . Basingstoke, UK : Palgrave Macmillan , 2008 . xii, 292 pp. $95.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 The work under review collects...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (2): 398–399.
Published: 01 May 2000
...Dennis Rumley The Legend of the Golden Boat: Regulation, Trade and Traders in the Borderlands of Laos, Thailand, China and Burma . By Andrew Walker . Richmond, U.K. : Curzon , 1999 . xviii, 232 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 398 THE JOURNAL...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1992) 51 (2): 340–363.
Published: 01 May 1992
...Sanjay Subrahmanyam Abstract The idea of trader communities spread across the shores of the Indian Ocean, or along the caravan routes of the Asian heartland, is a familiar one. Once designated as the ubiquitous “pedlars” of the “traditional trade of Asia,” these traders have more recently been...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (1): 5–41.
Published: 01 February 2008
...Ann Marie Leshkowich Abstract In the late 1990s, a marketplace trader in Hồ Chí Minh City reported being plagued by wandering ghosts. The postwar Vietnamese landscape teems with angry spirits who died violently without descendents to honor them, but the trader's wandering ghosts were living: male...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (2): 543–572.
Published: 01 May 2009
... and private trade. Taking a transborder perspective, the essay looks beyond government institutions and probes the mercantile agency of the migrant Yunnanese traders, which contributed to the formation of their socioeconomic mechanisms. The findings suggest that the economic practices of the Yunnanese traders...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1975) 34 (2): 341–360.
Published: 01 February 1975
.... As it grew and developed, its morphological and spatial patterns were dictated by the presence of a western population which at first was exclusively trade-oriented, but over the centuries became involved in banking, business and administration. As the British shifted from their role as traders to rulers...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1977) 36 (2): 303–326.
Published: 01 February 1977
... Kamhaeng, who threw off Khmer domination and invented the Thai script, personally went to China to bring back five hundred artisans. And Chinese traders at Ayutthaya contributed decisively toward its becoming very large and very rich. Then, and later at Thonburi and Bangkok, Chinese skill and labor were...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (3): 575–594.
Published: 01 August 2016
... or familial affinities, and that qiaopi traders used instrumental economic practices to transnationalize their businesses. The essay aims to identify alternatives to modern capitalism that are, at the same time, robustly cosmopolitan, and for which modernity is multiple rather than modular. Ethnicity...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1960) 19 (3): 273–287.
Published: 01 May 1960
...John McMaster Abstract One hundred years ago the patient efforts of Townsend Harris bore fruit and on July 4, 1859, Japan opened her doors to traders from the West. It was a small beginning, for Consul Harris' treaty allowed foreigners to live and trade at only three Japanese ports; two of which...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (3): 753–773.
Published: 01 August 2014
.... It analyzes the impact of the disaster on market transactions, showing that the scale and nature of market disruption went far beyond direct physical destruction; that the collective and individual responses of government, producers, traders, and consumers had the potential to make matters worse, rather than...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (3): 523–540.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Alexander McKinley Abstract This article analyzes stereotypes of Muslims that have recurred in Sinhala literature over the past seven centuries. This temporal span includes (1) a precolonial time when Muslims were a curiosity in Sinhala poetry as rich traders, wild men, and seductive women; (2...