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Center for East Asian Studies: Recent submissions
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Traditionelles Bauen und Wohnen der Salar in Nordwest-China
(Dietrich-Reimer-Verlag, 2007)This report concerns research on the architectural history of Salar households conducted between 2004 and 2006. The Salars are an Oghuz-Turkic people who in the 13th century migrated with Gengis Khan's troops from the ... -
How Letters of Credit Operate in International Commercial Transactions: An Introduction to the UPC
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International trade law at the close of the century: An update for Kansas lawyers
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International Business and Kansas Lawyers: An Update on International Trade Rules and How They Affect Kansas
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Making International Trade Less Foreign: A "Nutshell" for Nonspecialists on the Changing Rules Governing International Trade
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In Whose “Best Interests”? -- an International and Comparative Assessment of Us Rules on Sentencing of Juveniles
(Howard University School of Law, 2008)According to numerous sources, both at the international level and within the USA, legal standards governing the treatment of children (commonly defined as persons under 18 years old) -- including their treatment at the ... -
Slave Prices, the African Slave Trade, and Productivity in Eighteenth-Century South Carolina: A Reply
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Slave Prices and the South Carolina Economy, 1722–1809
(Cambridge University Press, 2001)Based on data from probate inventories we construct and analyze an annual time series of slave prices for South Carolina from 1722 to 1809. Comparison of South Carolina slave prices with those in other parts of the Western ... -
China's Treatment of Crimes Against the Environment: Using Criminal Sanctions to Fight Environmental Degradation in the PRC
(Center for Chinese Legal Studies, Columbia University School of Law, 1994)Change is coming rapidly to the People's Republic of China (the "PRC" or "China"), especially in three related areas — degradation of its physical environment, transformation of its economic system and modernization of its ... -
Global Implications of the Asian Financial Crisis: Banking, Economic Integration, and Crisis Management in the New Century
(William Mitchell College of Law, 1999)[...] My thesis, in a nutshell, is this: the Asian financial crisis has revealed some deep fault lines in our international economy, and for years to come we shall look back on it as a turning point in economic history. ... -
Evolution of the Governing Law for Loan Agreements of the World Bank and Other Multilateral Development Banks
(American Society of International Law, 1996)What is the governing law for loan agreements entered into by the World Bank and other multilateral development banks (MDBs) in carrying out their public sector lending? That question was first definitively addressed about ... -
Protecting and Supporting Indigenous Peoples in Latin America: Evaluating the Recent World Bank and IDB Policy Initiatives
(Michigan State University College of Law, 2006)In this article, John Head draws on his experience with international financial institutions to offer both descriptive and prescriptive observations about the recent legal initiatives taken by the World Bank and the ... -
Codes, Cultures, Chaos, and Champions: Common Features of Legal Codification Experiences in China, Europe, and North America
(Duke University School of Law, 2003)What are the key conditions and factors that contribute to a successful effort within a political unit to create a new legal code? This article builds of the existing "comparative codification" literature by examining that ... -
Suspension of Debtor Countries' Voting Rights in the IMF: An Assessment of the Third Amendment to the IMF Charter
(University of Virginia School of Law, 1993)Two conclusions emerge from an examination of the Third Amendment to the IMF Charter, which was approved in 1992 to introduce a new form of sanction against countries failing to repay the IMF. First, going to the effort ... -
Consonantalization and Obfuscation
(Harrassowitz Verlag, 2000)The relationship between fortis/lenis consonantal distinctions and historical vowel length in Turkic shows up in a handful of languages on the eastern edge of the Turkic world as a kind of vocalic glottalization. This ... -
The Turkic Languages
(Scribner’s, 2002)This short article surveys the locus and grammar of the Turkic languages: distribution, sound system, morphology and syntax, and relationship to Mongolian and other languages. -
The Minorities of China.
(Routledge, 2005)This encyclopedia article surveys the non-Han Chinese groups of the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China (Taiwan). Ethnic policy and praxis are discussed, as is the relationship between language, ethnicity, ... -
Tools and techniques for endangered-language assessment and revitalization
(2012)A number of tools to assess the degree of language vitality have been developed, tested, and refined in an international collaborative context. This paper explores the uses and limits of these tools through case examples ... -
Dwyer, Arienne M. 1995. From the Northwest China Sprachbund: Xúnhuà Chinese dialect data
(Yuen Ren Society Treasury of Chinese Dialect Data元任學會漢語方言資料寶庫, 1995-03)This paper presents fresh data from a variety of Northwestern Chinese spoken in Xúnhuà county 循化縣 Qīnghăi province. Xúnhuà Chinese is typical of Northwestern Chinese with its massive interference from substrate languages ... -
Review of Central Asian Place-names – Lop nor and Tarim area – An Attempt at Classification and Explanation Based on Sven Hedin’s Diaries and Published Works, by Gunnar Jarring (1997).
(Turkic Languages (Harrassowitz Verlag), 2000)A review of Gunnar Jarring's Uyghur-language toponym dictionary of the Tarim Basin and Lop Nur areas, based on data collected in the early to mid 20th century.