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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 589–598.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Jaeho Kang Abstract This essay provides a critical observation of the South Korean government's distinctive management of COVID-19 with particular reference to the state of emergency. It reveals that the success of South Korea's handling of the pandemic is largely attributed by a majority...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 609–620.
Published: 01 August 2020
...John Harriss Abstract In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Indian government, led by Narendra Modi, imposed a stringent lockdown with only four hours notice. It paid no attention to the millions of migrants who work on a temporary basis in Indian cities. Most lost their livelihoods as a result...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (2): 246–249.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Abigail E. Coplin The Origins of COVID-19: China and Global Capitalism . By Li Zhang . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2021 . 185 pp. ISBN: 9781503630178 . © 2023 Association for Asian Studies 2023 Pandemics are never purely biological phenomena. They are always...
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Journal of Asian Studies 10773227.
Published: 16 August 2023
...Vivian Lin Public Health in Asia during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Global Health Governance, Migrant Labor, and International Health Crises . Edited by Anoma Van Der Veere , Florian Schneider , and Catherine Lo . Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press . 2022 . 272 pp. ISBN...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (3): 518–520.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Sara E. Davies COVID-19 in Southeast Asia: Insights for a Post-pandemic World . Edited by Hyun Bang Shin , Murray Mckenzie , and Do Young Oh . London : London School of Economics Press , 2022 . xxii, 318 pp. ISBN: 9781909890787 . © 2023 Association for Asian Studies 2023...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (4): 841–864.
Published: 01 November 2020
... processes. The parallel with the current COVID-19 crisis is evident, and my remarks do suggest some similarities. Although COVID-19 is not the topic I engage here, my theme alerts us to thinking methodologically about largely invisible or inconspicuous modes of circulation and their consequences, less dire...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 599–608.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Kate McDonald Abstract In March 2020, Prime Minister Abe Shinzō, the Tokyo Olympic Organising Committee, and the International Olympic Committee postponed the 2020 Tokyo Olympics for one year. The delay is the most prominent consequence of the COVID-19 crisis in Japan thus far. But the “Corona...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 621–631.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Kenneth Pomeranz Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic is nowhere near over. Some things, however, seem relatively clear. So far, the agendas of the world's most powerful actors seem unchanged—or, indeed, accelerated. Partly as a result, disease mortality and economic losses have fallen largely on poorer...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 569–577.
Published: 01 August 2020
...David Arnold Abstract The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has produced two different narratives in India. One, here described as “historical,” looks back to the pandemics of the colonial past—bubonic plague from 1896, influenza in 1918–19—as a source of comparisons, lessons, and dire warnings...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (4): 845–864.
Published: 01 November 2021
... structure reflecting our departure from the normal. For the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), the year of abnormality began with the canceled 2020 Annual Conference in Boston as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, continued with online teaching and meetings, and culminated in a virtual Annual Conference...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 579–588.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Mary Augusta Brazelton Abstract Public health in China has become a global concern as a consequence of the outbreak and worldwide spread of COVID-19. This article examines the historical place of China in international and global health. Contrary to prevalent narratives in the history of medicine...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (3): 385–406.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Jingxue Zhang; Charlie Yi Zhang Abstract This article uses the app Health Code, a smartphone-based application for contact tracing and risk assessment that serves as a COVID-19 health passport, as an example to explore how “biometric citizenship,” a new mode of preemptive social regulation...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 567.
Published: 01 August 2020
.... The essays in the forum provide a range of important perspectives on the social, cultural, and political impact of COVID-19 in Asia from scholars in anthropology, history, media studies, and political science. The contributors to “The Pandemic” are D avid A rnold , M ary A ugusta B razelton, J aeho K...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (2): 273.
Published: 01 May 2020
... Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2020 2020 As this issue of the JAS was going into production, the novel coronavirus disease COVID-19 was responsible for a global pandemic. Its devastation and disruption have affected the entire world's population. It is a global event...
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Journal of Asian Studies 10773217.
Published: 16 August 2023
... Sieburth, In Pound We Trust: The Economy of Poetry/The Poetry of Economics, Critical Inquiry 14, no. 1 (1987): 172. 2. Ezra Pound to René Taupin, May 1928, in Letters of Ezra Pound, ed. D. D. Paige (New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World), 218. Public Health in Asia during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Global...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (2): 243–244.
Published: 01 May 2023
... to mass gatherings for the Chinese New Year celebration, as they wanted to showcase the city's achievements. They also quickly silenced the early whistleblowers—eight doctors who reported the first cases of COVID-19. The local government's action and inaction typified government behavior for much...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (4): 979–980.
Published: 01 November 2020
... by Cambridge historian Mary Augusta Brazelton is about infectious disease control in twentieth-century China. Given our current COVID-19 crisis, this topic will no doubt attract a large audience interested in the history of medicine, but specialists in Asian studies will also find many important reasons...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (2): 469–470.
Published: 01 May 2021
... to Global Medicine in China , Wayne Soon compares the 1911 Manchurian plague with the outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan. At first glance, the two diseases appear to have much in common: both were spread through aerosolized transmission, and both were stymied through compulsory quarantine. But whereas the hero...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (2): 451–453.
Published: 01 May 2022
... individual who participates across the bridges. 1 Jyoti Sinha, “Battling Prejudice: A Story of Care and Hate in COVID-19 Times,” Doing Sociology , September 22, 2020, https://doingsociology.org/2020/09/22/battling-prejudice-a-story-of-care-and-hate-in-covid-19-times-jyoti-sinha/ (accessed March...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (4): 839.
Published: 01 November 2020
... for the Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies that was to be held in Boston on March 19, 2020, but, as JAS readers will know, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the entire conference was canceled. I appreciate the patience and efforts of Gail Hershatter, Tamara Loos, Geeta Patel, and Judith...
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