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...Roland L. Kramer An economic survey of the Pacific area. Part II: Transportation and foreign trade . By Katrine R. C. Greene and Joseph D. Phillips . New York : Institute of Pacific Relations , 1942 . xiv , 208 p. $2.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1943...

...Jung-Pang Lo Ming-tai hai-yün chi yün-ho ti yen-chiu (A Study of Transportation by Sea and the Grand Canal in the Ming Dynasty) . By Wu Chi-Hua . Taipei : The Institute of History and Philology, Academica Sinica , 1961 . Special Publication No. 43. 348 . Map. Copyright ©...

...David Arnold Convicts in the Indian Ocean: Transportation from South Asia to Mauritius, 1815–1853 . By Clare Anderson . New York : St. Martin's Press , 2000 . xii, 192 pp. $65.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 250 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Hugh O. Nourse Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968 1968 The Spatial Economy of Communist China: A Study on Industrial Location and Transportation . By Yuan-Li Wu . New York : Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers , 1967 . For The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution...

...Robert G. Varady The Politics of Development: Transportation Policy in Nepal . By Aran Schloss . Berkeley, Calif., and Lanham, Md. : University of California, Center for South and Southeast Asia Studies, and University Press of America , 1983 . 178 pp. Maps, Tables, Index. $21.50 (cloth...

...Robert G. Varady Transport and Communications in India Prior to Steam Locomotion, Volume 1 : Land Transport . In French Studies in South Asian Culture and Society VII . By Jean Deloche , translated by James Walker . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1993 . xvii, 327 pp. $32.00 (cloth...

...Grayson Kirk Air transport in the Pacific area . By Sydney Bernard Smith . New York : Institute of Pacific Relations , 1941 . Mimeographed. 120 p. $1.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1943 1943 218 THE FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY has been estimated." A good many...

...S. A. M. Adshead Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1974 1974 Transport in Transition: The Evolution of Traditional Shipping in China . Translated by Andrew Watson . Ann Arbor , Michigan : The University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies , Michigan Abstracts...

...Howard Dick South-East Asian Transport: Issues in Development . By Thomas R. Leinbach and Chia Lin-Sien . East Asian Social Science Monographs. Singapore : Oxford University Press , 1989 . xx, 265 pp. $29.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990...

...: A Survey of Local Communities in a Hydropower Area . By Jan Ovesen . Uppsala : Uppsala Reports in Cultural Anthropology, No. 13. Uppsala University , 1993 . viii, 80 pp. Road 13: A Socio-Economic Study of Villages, Transport and Use of Road 13 S, Lao P.D.R . By Agneta Håkangård . Stockholm...

...J. Norman Parmer Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1987 1987 Bridge and Barrier: Transport and Communications in Colonial Malaya, 1870–1957 . By Amarjit Kaur . Singapore : Oxford University Press , 1985 . xx, 235 pp. Tables, Maps, Figures, List of Abbreviations...

...Edwin Gerow The Transport of Love: The Meghadūta of Kālidāsa . Translated and introduced by Leonard Nathan . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1976 . ix , 115 pp. Notes, Appendixes. $7.50 (cloth); $2.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1977 1977...

...Rudolf G. Wagner In its combination of bold questions and close reading, in its knowledgeable integration of literary scholarship, intellectual history, and social history, and in the economy of its presentation, Robert Ashmore's Transport of Reading deserves the highest praise. Poetic...

... and labor for transport as part of the ' u-lag corvée. Republican-era governors lacked the resources to do the same. They struggled to develop other ways of controlling the corvée, and attempted to create alternative state transport organizations. Changes in the sources of county government revenue also had...

... transportation. Small though the figures appear to be, they nevertheless represent an increase over those of a decade ago. In 1942 the estimate was 12,036 miles of railways in all of China, including those in Manchuria and the occupied areas; the ratio was then 274 miles of railroads per 100,000 square miles...

... formation, and naval units consisted of fishing vessels that were commandeered for transporting armies within bow-range or sword-reach of the enemy. Thus, all battles, whether on land or at sea, were little more than “monster fencing matches.” But the introduction of the Portuguese arquebus...

...Wesley R. Fishel Abstract A SITUATION which cannot be described as other than bizarre reached its climax on October 14, 1944. On that day, Baron Miyagawa Tada-maro, younger brother of Prince Konoye Fumimaro, alighted at Shanghai from a Japanese army transport plane, ostensibly on business...

.... In the current operations, as in the advance more than 100 years ago, the greatest difficulties are those of transport and supply. These are due to the fact that the entire region is highly malarious, deeply interlaced by a maze of tidal creeks and estuaries, and that it consists of a series of jungle clad...

... to introduce ‘Five-Year Planning.’ But in that year it also tried to collectivize and settle the nomads who formed the bulk of its population. It further ordered the socialization of industry, handicrafts, transport, and trade. Finally it passed measures designed to liquidate the richer Mongols and lamas...

...Richard T. Chang Abstract Often the availability of new sources raises the need for reinvestigation of established historical events. This is true of the events that lead to the failure of the Far Eastern phase of railroad magnate Edward H. Harriman's proposed world-girdling transportation system...