Search Results - "The Journal of Asian Studies (pre-1986)"

Stability and Prosperity in Hong Kong: The Twilight of Laissez-faire Colonialism? — A Review Article by Chan, Ming K.

“…Both Beijing and London have vowed to maintain Hong Kong's stability and prosperity in the uncertainty surrounding the expiration of the New Territories Lease…”
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Review 15 -- No Title by Foust, Clifford M

“…This modest volume represents, we can hope, a fresh start at reassessment and reinterpretation of the long history of Russian-Chinese relations and, even more…”
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Review 21 -- No Title by Goodwin, Janet R

“…The two translations under consideration here are collections of tales that belong to the medieval Japanese literary genre known as setsuwa. The translations…”
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Review 42 -- No Title by Palmer, Norman D

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Review 34 -- No Title by Harshe, Rajen

“…Over the past three decades, research on India's foreign relations has fallen into two broad categories: first, diplomatic history, at the bilateral, regional,…”
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Review 62 -- No Title by Lande, Carl H

“…This volume is a detailed economic and political study of a Philippine village, together with less intensive studies of the municipality and the province…”
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Review 51 -- No Title by Anderson, Benedict R

“…This brief, expensive book, the product of six months of field work undertaken in 1975 in a remote township on the shore of Lake Maninjau, is intended as "an…”
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SOUTHEAST ASIA by ROBERT VAN NIEL

“…The primary aim of this book is to examine the political stance of the Catholic Party of the Netherlands toward the Indonesian question in the twentieth…”
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Review 28 -- No Title by Markus, Andrew L

“…Between about 1620 and 1650, during the dynamic infancy of secular commercial printing in Japan, resourceful Kyoto publishers used brightly colored…”
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Review 12 -- No Title by MARY GARDNER NEILL

“…This substantial, richly illustrated catalogue includes the 167 works of art that comprise the Eli Lilly Collection of Chinese Art in the Indianapolis Museum…”
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Review 27 -- No Title by Ames, Walter L

“…L. Craig Parker has been an observer of the Japanese police for a number of years. I have read his articles on police and crime in Japan on several occasions…”
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Review 30 -- No Title by Baruah, Sanjib

“…Students of South Asia will welcome this scholarly narrative concerning "the way of life which the Assamese people are seeking to preserve." Audrey Cantlie's…”
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Review 31 -- No Title by Smith, Bardwell

“…This book by Michael Carrithers is one of the most informative and reflective works on Sinhalese Buddhism that I have read. It is based on three years…”
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Review 23 -- No Title by Gerstle, C A

“…Bunraku is well known throughout the world as the most sophisticated puppet theater in existence. Although its popularity has waned in postwar Japan, this…”
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Review 18 -- No Title by Kessler, Lawrence D

“…With this book, John E. Wills, Jr., continues his multilingual studies of maritime China and of Sino-Western relations in that frontier zone. The subject is…”
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Review 17 -- No Title by Kroll, Paul W

“…There can be no dispute that Burton Watson is the most prolific translator of Chinese literature into English of this century. The list of his published…”
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Review 53 -- No Title by Pringle, Robert

“…Michael Leifer has written a thorough, detailed survey of Indonesian foreign policy from 1945 to 1982. It is comprised of seven chapters, the first two of…”
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Review 50 -- No Title by Somers Heidhues, Mary F

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Review 16 -- No Title by Bodde, Derk

“…As the earliest and most famous of China's "dynastic histories," Ssu-ma Ch'ien's Shih chi (China's first "universal" history, extending from legendary times to…”
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Review 29 -- No Title by Clark, Alice W

“…This is one of a series of "country reports" issued by the Committee on Population and Demography of the National Academy of Science's National Research…”
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