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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (2): 753–755.
Published: 01 May 2002
...R. Thomas Rosin Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 Sharing Water: Irrigation and Water Management in the Hindukush–Karakoram–Himalaya . Edited by Hermann Kreutzmann . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2000 . xxii , 283 pp. $35.00 (cloth). BOOK REVIEWS...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (3): 631–633.
Published: 01 August 1989
...Matthew Mizenko Pools of Water, Pillars of Fire: The Literature of Ibuse Masuji . By John Whittier Treat . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 1988 . x , 294 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 631 did not favor livestock...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1963) 22 (3): 293–303.
Published: 01 May 1963
... of Lhasa. Harrer (
Seven Years in Tibet , London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1953 , pp. 150 , 210 – 213
) did a lot of work in the environs of Lhasa with regard to control and use of water, but never mentions ponds as part of an irrigation system. 8 As statistics by recall, all the measurements...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (3): 812–813.
Published: 01 August 1997
...Paul B. Courtright Water and Womanhood: Religious Meanings of Rivers in Maharashtra . By Anne Feldhaus . New York : Oxford University Press , 1995 . viii, 250 pp. $49.00 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 812 THE JOURNAL...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (3): 873–874.
Published: 01 August 1997
...Leo Howe Mantras Between Fire and Water: Reflections on a Balinese Rite . By Frits Staal . Amsterdam : Monograph No. 166, Koninklijke Nederlandse van Wetenschappen, 1995 . viii, 112 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 873...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1975) 34 (3): 824–826.
Published: 01 May 1975
...Ramon H. Myers Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1975 1975 Shindai suirishi kenkyū (A study of the history of water utilization during the Ch'ing period) . By Morita Akira . Tokyo : Aki Shobō , 1974 . pp. 566 . 10 Glossy Maps, and Postscript. ¥8000. 824 JOURNAL...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (1): 272–274.
Published: 01 February 2018
...Kelly D. Alley BITS of Belonging: Information Technology, Water, and Neoliberal Governance in India . By Simanti Dasgupta . Philadelphia : Temple University Press , 2015 . 232 pp. ISBN: 9781439912584 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). Copyright ©...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (4): 1125–1127.
Published: 01 November 2016
... monograph on the Huai River, represents a concerted effort to create a field of water studies in Chinese history. 4 Scholarship on China's seven major river systems—the Songhua, Liao, Hai, Yellow, Huai, Yangzi, and Pearl rivers—has been limited. After Lyman P. Van Slyke's masterful book Yangtze...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (4): 1131–1133.
Published: 01 November 2016
...E. Elena Songster Dams and Development in China: The Moral Economy of Water and Power . By Bryan Tilt . New York : Columbia University Press , 2015 . xv, 259 pp. ISBN: 9780231170109 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (3): 762–764.
Published: 01 August 2021
...Andrew de la Garza Climate of Conquest: War, Environment, and Empire in Mughal North India . By Pratyay Nath . New Delhi : Oxford University Press , 2019 . xli, 325 pp. ISBN: 9780199495559 (cloth). Water and the Environmental History of Modern India . By Velayutham Saravanan...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (3): 683–704.
Published: 01 August 2021
... this filmic remaking of Ip's life story builds an alternative embodiment that unsettles musculature as the ground of colonialist/nationalist dominance and lays the basis for a new horizon of justice encapsulated by the flexible and elastic “Be Water” sensibility. As human beings are facing the common threat...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (2): 522–524.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Radhika Govindrajan Mountain, Water, Rock, God: Understanding Kedarnath in the Twenty-First Century . By Luke Whitmore . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2018 . 278 pp. ISBN: 9780520298026 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2021 2021 In June...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (2): 529–535.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Aaron Skabelund Environment and Society in the Japanese Islands: From Prehistory to the Present . Edited by Bruce L. Batten and Philip C. Brown . Corvallis : Oregon State University Press , 2015 . 291 pp. ISBN: 9780870718014 (paper). Bad Water...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (2): 457–480.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Alāna M. Wilson; Sierra Gladfelter; Mark W. Williams; Sonika Shahi; Prashant Baral; Richard Armstrong; Adina Racoviteanu Abstract Asia, a region grappling with the impacts of climate change, increasing natural disasters, and transboundary water issues, faces major challenges to water security...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (3): 777–778.
Published: 01 August 2014
...Stephen Castles Wind over Water: Migration in an East Asian Context . Edited by David W. Haines , Keiko Yamanaka , and Shinji Yamashita . New York : Berghahn Books , 2012 . 284 pp. $90.00/£60.00 (cloth); $90.00/£60.00 (e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (4): 1092–1100.
Published: 01 November 2017
... data. Tom Cliff's ethnographic study, Oil and Water: Being Han in Xinjiang , is located in Korla, capital of the Bayingguoleng Mongol Autonomous Prefecture in Southern Xinjiang. Described by Cliff as a “‘palimpsest’ of post-Han settlement in Xinjiang” (p. 4) and with 70 percent of its total...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (1): 229–230.
Published: 01 February 2004
...Ebba Koch Water Architecture in South Asia: A Study of Types, Development, and Meanings . By Julia A. B. Hegewald . Studies in Asian Art and Archaeology, no. 24. Leiden : Brill , 2002 . xiii , 266 pp. $124.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 B O O K R...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (1): 227–229.
Published: 01 February 2004
...Richard P. Tucker Water in Nepal . By Dipak Gyawali . Lalitpur : Himal Books and Panos South Asia, with Nepal Water Conservation Foundation , 2001 . xiv , 280 pp. $25.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 B O O K R E V I E W S S O U T H A S I A 227...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (4): 961–990.
Published: 01 November 2004
... . Gifts, Favors, and Banquets: The Art of Social Relationships in China . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press . When You Drink Water, Think of Its Source : Morality, Status, and Reinvention in Rural Chinese Funerals ELLEN OXFELD In the old society, people could not afford to complete a burial...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1982) 41 (4): 747–765.
Published: 01 August 1982
... into conflict with the efforts of Qing officials to prevent floods by supervising dike repairs and preventing overbuilding of dikes. Although local landowners accepted state subsidies to restore damaged dikes in the early Qing period, their power to resist state authority over water control increased through...
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