Showing papers on "East Asia published in 1982"

Major ion chemistry of some large Chinese rivers

Abstract: There is very little information available in the western literature on the chemical compositions of the major rivers of the People's Republic of China1,2. Since these include the largest in terms of sediment transport3 (Huang He or Yellow), the third largest in terms of flow4 (Chiang Jiang or Yangtze) and major streams draining the Tibetan plateau, this lack of data represents a significant gap in our knowledge of the chemical denudation rates of the continents as a whole and of south, central and eastern Asia in particular. To begin to rectify this situation, advantage has been taken of recent visits by US scientists to the People's Republic of China to collect suitable samples for analysis. It was found that the chemistry of such rivers is dominated by the weathering of carbonates and evaporites, with no pronounced effects of the degradation of aluminosilicates.

Rice area by type of culture, South, Southeast, and East Asia

Abstract: Rice area by type of culture: South, Southeast, and East Asia , Rice area by type of culture: South, Southeast, and East Asia , مرکز فناوری اطلاعات و اطلاع رسانی کشاورزی

Popular Conceptions of Mental Health in Japan

Abstract: This paper will examine briefly some of the traditional beliefs and medical practices used in East Asian medical systems.1 The relationship of these beliefs to contemporary conceptions of mental health will then be examined by means of a semantic network analysis (Good 1977). These data will then be assessed for their implications for clinical care and the question of the incorporation of traditional medical systems into the official health care systems of large urbanized societies in general.2

Corporatism in North Korea

Abstract: The proud heroic epic recorded in the annals of Juche Korea is the great history which can be created by none other dian the respected and beloved leader Comrade Kim Il Sung possessed of unexcelled extraordinary wisdom and outstanding art of leadership. His steadfast stand of Juche and revolutionary principle and unshakable iron will have been die source of the inexhaustible strengdi that adorned the history of the Korean revolution, most arduous and rigorous ever known, widi heroic events.

Rural development Studies of the modernization of the Republic of Korea: 1945-1975

Abstract: Ban, Sung Hwan; Moon, Pal Yong; Perkins, Dwight H..January, 1982.Rural development,Report,[Cambridge]Harvard University(Council on East Asian Studies),Harvard East Asian Monographs,499

Cross-equator flow from australia and monsoon over china

Abstract: In this paper, we have analysed the wind data and synoptic circulation pattern over West Pacific and Southeast Asia. It is shown that there is a cross-equator jet flow from Australia which prevails the East China and determines the precipitation in China. This flow is defined as cross-equator flow from Australia and low level jet over China.It has very important effect on the summer precipitation over China. The effects on precipitation in China of Southwest monsoon coming from India and southwest monsoon coming from West Pacific have been analysed by some authors. In this paper it is pointed out that the cross-equator flow which lies between these two flows mentioned above and comes from Australia of South Hemisphere effects the summer monsoon rainfall over China.It is noticed that exploration of this flow will help to research in a deep going way on structure of summer monsoon over East Asia and help to change our ideas about this subject.

The Diffusion Route and Chronology of Korean Plant Domestication

Abstract: Problems concerning the emergence and geographical diffusion of food production in East Asia have long interested archaeologists and historians. However, attempts to reconstruct the chronology and diffusion routes from the so-called nuclear zones of both North and South China through the Korean peninsula and Japan have been less than convincing. In North China, the crops involved were millet (Setaria italica) and kaoliang (Sorghum vulgare); in South China, rice (Oryza sativa japonica and indica).

The developmental role of the foreign sector and aid Studies in the modernization of the Republic of Korea: 1945-1975

Abstract: Krueger, Anne O..1982.The developmental role of the foreign sector and aid,Report,[London]Harvard University Press,Harvard East Asian Monographs/87,285

Silks by Sea: Trade, Technology, and Enterprise in China and Japan

Abstract: Although East Asia's silk trade with the West stretched far back into antiquity, the middle and later years of the nineteenth century witnessed a remarkable growth in the European and American demand for silk. This imparted a tremendous impetus to the Chinese and Japanese industries. For some eighty years, from the 1850s through the 1930s, trade flourished until the coming of synthetic fibers and world war curtailed its growth. The rise of so large an international business obviously had a significant impact on these countries, one that was particularly profound in the case of Japan. When the upsurge in trade began, both China and Japan were at roughly comparable stages in their economic development, but when the trade ended with the onset of war, it was Japan, not China, which had emerged as one of the leading industrial nations of the world. While few would contend that silk alone, however important, accounted for this differing course of national development, the dissimilar paths followed by the Chinese and Japanese silk industries not only reflected many themes characteristic of business enterprise in those countries but also typified their divergent national experience during this dramatic era of economic growth.

Reinterpreting Japan's Postwar Growth

Abstract: One of the most outstanding performances in the annals of the economic growth of nations is the high rate of growth of output per capita during the past 3 decades of the post-World War II era among East Asian nations (Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong) and Singapore-all nations with traditions of Confucian ethics-and representing a total population of about 180 million. This rate of about 5?2% per capita is the highest for any group of nations during the 30-year period and is also a sharp acceleration of growth from the prewar decades of less than about 2% per capita. In this paper, we begin the study of East Asia with a historical analysis of the growth of total factor productivity in Japan. By sheer size and technological level Japan dominates the pattern of postwar growth of East Asia, particularly in the latter 1940s and 1950s when there was much surplus labor but rapidly rising (and not constant) wages. If modern economic growth is identified as the sustained increases in real output per capita, the analysis of the growth of real output per unit of input is important because the basic source of the growth of the former in the secular long run lies in the latter. Nor can we confine our attention only to labor productivity (or output per worker) since capital is, in the main, congealed or embodied labor (although it also embodies new knowledge).1 What is being attempted in this paper, is not to partition off the components making up the residual as Denison does, that is, into education, scale economies, knowledge, and other sources; in our view, the re-

Entrepreneurship and the West in East Asian Economic and Business History

Abstract: The nations of East Asia share a common cultural heritage, but there is a marked difference in their adaptation to the modern world. During the past century Japan has been distinguished by enormous economic development, while China has experienced profound political turmoil. East Asian historiography reflects this trend. One can compile an outstanding bibliography on economic growth in Japan, and Japan's recent challenge to American business has prompted scholars to probe more subtly the business organization and managerial practices of that country. As for China, although there are numerous studies on political revolution, there are only a few studies on business history. This special issue of the Business History Review has helped to fill this gap in scholarship.

Urbanization and national development in Asia: a comparative study

Abstract: These are the proceedings of a conference on urbanization and socioeconomic development in Asia held in Tsukuba Japan August 10-12 1981. The conference was held as the initial activity of a comparative urbanization project in selected countries of Southeastern and East Asia. The first part consists of three papers on the relationships among urbanization economic development and policy issues in Japan the Republic of Korea and Taiwan. The second part focuses on Indonesia Malaysia the Philippines and Thailand. A final section is concerned with the situation in Hong Kong Singapore and Tokyo. An appendix includes a description of the comparative urbanization project.

Japan's Advance into Indochina, 1940: The French Response

Abstract: The sudden collapse of France in June 1940 presented Japan with a golden opportunity to exploit French discomfiture and remove several obstacles to its New Order in East Asia. Indeed, the military extremists, who had been temporarily held in check since the humiliation caused by the Nazi–Soviet Pact of August 1939, could no longer be restrained. By seizing Indochina, Japan would be in a strong position to force an end to its interminable struggle with China on its own terms. The large quantity of supplies that had flowed through Indochina to Chinese forces — a situation that had greatly embittered the Japanese and had slowly poisoned Franco–Japanese relations during the past three years — could be brought to a halt. Chiang Kai-shek, further isolated and confronted with the loss of one of his few remaining channels of supply, might be finally forced to give up the fight. Moreover, Indochina could provide Japan with significant supplies of rubber, tin, coal, and rice and thus go a long way toward ending its dependence upon foreign sources for these strategic raw materials. Finally, the strategic location of Indochina meant that it could serve admirably as an advanced base from which the Japanese could strike out against the Far Eastern possessions of the other Western colonial powers — the East Indies, Malaya, Burma, and the Philippines.