Steve --
        To start with: As noted in a previous post, there's the
"Grandiose survey of Chinese alcoholic drinks and beverages",
http://ocean.wxuli.edu.cn/wine/umain.htm -- and Cherrington's Standard
Encyclopedia of the Alcohol Problem, which I remember was quite detailed
on China, for instance. 
        Mac and Leslie Marshall did a nice review of historical studies
of alcohol in Oceania, reprinted in M Marshall, ed., Beliefs, behaviors
& Alcoholic Beverages, U. Michigan Press, 1979.
        Not historical, but maybe a start: "country profiles" on India
and Malaysia in: L. Riley & M. Marshall, eds., Alcohol & Public Health
in 8 Developing Countries. Geneva: WHOWHO/HSC/SAB 99.9, 1999.  And there
are four chapters reviewing material on contemporary patterns in
different parts of Asia in Marcus Grant, ed., Alcohol & Emerging
Markets, Philadelphia: Brunner/Maazel, 1998.  
        For India, there is a lot of history in English in the report of
the central government commission on prohibition from the 1950s (as I
remember; I don't have it handy).  Robin


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Subject: References in Literature to drinking history in Asia


Hello all,

Can advise me of any works referencing drinking history in Asia?

Thanks,

Steve Powell

The History of Brewing in Buffalo
http://www.bluemoon.net/~spowell