Issue No.23, June 2002

CONTENTS

• The Impact of Clearance and Irrigation on the Environment in the Lake Erhai Catchment from the Ninth to the Nineteenth Century - (Mark Elvin, Darren Crook, Shen Ji, Richard Jones, & John Dering)
• Astro-Historiographic Chronologies of Early China are Unfounded - (Douglas J. Keenan)
• Between Heaven and the Deep Sea: the Religious Practice of Chinese Seafarers from the Eleventh to the Mid-Nineteenth Century - (Tsu Yun Hui)
• Buraku Emigration in the Meiji Era - Other Ways to Become "Japanese" - (Noah McCormack)
• Fishing and Fishers in Penghu, Taiwan, 1895-1970 - (Sigrid Schmalzer)

Please note in the acknowledgement for this article, the name Paul Pickovicz, should be spelt Paul Pickowicz.
Also please note the contact details given for Sigrid Schmalzer are incorrect and should be as follows:
UCSD Department of History, 0104
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, California 92093-0104
email: sschmalz@ucsd.edu

• Derivation, Intertextuality and Authority: Narrative and the Problem of Historical Coherence - (Brian Maloughney)
• Falun Gong, Prophesy and Apocalypse - (Benjamin Penny)