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Private Lives: A detailed second volume of Doris Lessing's memoirs; an absorbing childhood memoir by J. M. Coetzee [Review of Doris Lessing's Walking in the Shade and J. M. Coetzee's Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life] (1997)
Journal Article
Easton, K. (1997). Private Lives: A detailed second volume of Doris Lessing's memoirs; an absorbing childhood memoir by J. M. Coetzee [Review of Doris Lessing's Walking in the Shade and J. M. Coetzee's Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life]. The Boston globe, N1, N4

A Tonal Analysis of Gurung, with Separate Systems for Register and Contour Pitch Features (1997)
Journal Article
Sprigg, R. K. (1997). A Tonal Analysis of Gurung, with Separate Systems for Register and Contour Pitch Features. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 60(3), 448-454. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X00032493

An earlier analysis of Gurung, by Burton-Page in BSOAS, 17/1, 1955, put forward a single system, of two terms, for the word unit in the dialect spoken in Ghandrung: tones 1 and 2; the present analysis of the Gurung of a speaker from the centre of the... Read More about A Tonal Analysis of Gurung, with Separate Systems for Register and Contour Pitch Features.

Forced migration land-use change and political economy in the forest region of Guinea (1997)
Journal Article
Black, R., & Sessay, M. (1997). Forced migration land-use change and political economy in the forest region of Guinea. African Affairs, 96(385), 587-605. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a007885

This paper examines the impact of forced migration on land use change in Yomou prefecture in the forest region of Guinea from a broadly 'political economy' perspective. Focusing on the period since 1989, when over 500,000 refugees from Liberia and Si... Read More about Forced migration land-use change and political economy in the forest region of Guinea.

The Burmese (1997)
Book Chapter
Charney, M. W. (1997). The Burmese. In D. Levinson, & M. Ember (Eds.), American Immigrant Cultures: Builders of a Nation (115-118). Macmillan Reference

Living Standards in Prewar Japan and Maoist China (1997)
Journal Article
Bramall, C. (1997). Living Standards in Prewar Japan and Maoist China. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 21(5), 551-570. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.cje.a013686

Previous comparisons of living standards in Japan (1868–1941) and China (1949–78) have been hampered by the limited data. New materials published over the last decade have now filled many of the gaps on Japanese income distribution and China's famine... Read More about Living Standards in Prewar Japan and Maoist China.