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Published: 01 February 2023
FIGURE 5 (a) Map of Jamaica from the late nineteenth century published by the London-based Edward Stanford atlas company in 1901. I have added marks to the map to indicate reported points of conflict in the 1918 riots. “Jamaica,” David Rumsey Map Collection, https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna More
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (1): 96–119.
Published: 01 February 2023
...FIGURE 5 (a) Map of Jamaica from the late nineteenth century published by the London-based Edward Stanford atlas company in 1901. I have added marks to the map to indicate reported points of conflict in the 1918 riots. “Jamaica,” David Rumsey Map Collection, https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (2): 555–557.
Published: 01 May 2021
... formative figures in Asian North American and African American literature. Particularly revealing are Yang's discussions of Eaton's stories “Ku Yum” (1896), and “Away Down in Jamaica” (1898). Centered on the story of a Chinese woman and her female slave, “Ku Yum” participates in the larger translation...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1966) 25 (3): 524–525.
Published: 01 May 1966
...Otis H. Shao China and the Washington Conference, 1921–1922 . By Wunsz King . New York : St. John's University Press , 1963 . 71 , Notes. $1.25 (Paper). China at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 . By Wunsz King . Jamaica, New York : St. John's University Press , 1961 . 39...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1970) 30 (1): 181–182.
Published: 01 November 1970
...George T. Yu The Kuomintang: Selected Historical Documents, 1894–1969 . By Milton J. T. Shieh . Jamaica, N. Y. : St. John's University Press , 1970 . xxii, 406 pp. Glossary, Index. $10.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1970 1970 BOOK REVIEWS 181 an opportunity...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (4): 1210–1212.
Published: 01 November 1994
... pp. $39.95. This book adopts a carefully designed political economy approach to document the economic policies and performances of five small island economies: Hong Kong, Singapore, Jamaica, Mauritius, and Malta. In standing alone among the eight World Bank volumes in the series to compare more than...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1966) 25 (3): 582–584.
Published: 01 May 1966
... America. Supplement, 1965. New York, by JOHN C. H. W U , edited by PAUL K. T. SIH. New York: American Universities Field Staff, Inc., Jamaica, New York: St. John's University Press, 1965. iii, 80, Indices. $2.00 (paper). 1965. ix, 227, Notes, n.p. (paper). Bulletin of the Institute of Ethnology Academia...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (3): 675–676.
Published: 01 August 2013
... often separated pockets of scholarly focus within early American literary studies—the South, New England, the Caribbean—are brought into dialogue and coherence without eclipsing their differences. Writers in locations as diverse and far away as Georgia, Jamaica, Maryland, Virginia, Massachusetts...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (3): 846–848.
Published: 01 August 2011
... that is played at “Afro-Jamaican social gatherings” (p. 7), where dancers, MCs, and DJs layer their own performances over the background of pre-recorded music; it also refers to the sociality experienced at these events. Roots is a subgenre of reggae, a folk music associated with Jamaica since the 1960s...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1958) 17 (2): 327–328.
Published: 01 February 1958
... pieces which form the book. They represent some of the best work of British geographers on the variety of human and physical problems of the non-white parts of the former empire, from Jamaica to Nigeria to Malaya. There are only two Asian papers, B. H. Farmer on "Rainfall and Water Supply in the Dry Zone...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (4): 1209–1210.
Published: 01 November 1994
... small island economies: Hong Kong, Singapore, Jamaica, Mauritius, and Malta. In standing alone among the eight World Bank volumes in the series to compare more than two countries, the book offers a wide spectrum of policy lessons on primary export versus manufactured export-led growth. With their choice...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1982) 41 (3): 602–603.
Published: 01 May 1982
... JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Indomitable, the only aircraft carrier available, had run aground in Jamaica on November 3, 1941; Phillips's estimate that "no shore-based torpedo attack on ships at sea had been delivered at a greater range than 200 miles" (p. 416; Japan's bombers had an operational radius...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (4): 1201–1203.
Published: 01 November 2007
...: Temple University Press, 2000]; and Tina Ramnarine, Creating Their Own Space: The Development of an Indian-Caribbean Musical Tradition [Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, 2001]). While the ethnographic details are familiar, Niranjana highlights a female singer, Drupatee Ramgoonai...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (3): 1008–1009.
Published: 01 August 2002
..., these volumes in the series are the teaching manuals for our time. The advisory board for the series has selected forty-one authors and includes such writers as Jamaica Kincaid and John Irving. But in addition to some fine authors, the board selects for criticism such writers as Anne Rice, V. C. Andrews, James...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (2): 306–337.
Published: 01 May 1999
... America: A Preliminary Geographical Survey with Special Reference to Cuba and Jamaica.” Ph.D. diss., University of Maryland . Chen, Ifu. n.d. “Chinatown of Chicago.” Ernest Burgess Papers, box 128, file 8. Regenstein Library Special Collections. University of Chicago. Ta Chen . 1923 . Chinese...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1958) 17 (2): 328–330.
Published: 01 February 1958
... empire, from Jamaica to Nigeria to Malaya. There are only two Asian papers, B. H. Farmer on "Rainfall and Water Supply in the Dry Zone of Ceylon," and C. A. Fisher (the co-editor) on "The Problem of Malayan Unity in its Geographical Setting." Both will be of lasting value. Farmer's paper is an exhaustive...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1980) 40 (1): 188–190.
Published: 01 November 1980
..., bauxite in Jamaica, for example. This comparison suggests some interesting conclusions: To note only one of them, the effects of the export sector on the rest of the economy do not simply depend on the product itself but also on the technology involved in production and how it is controlled and used (p...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1982) 41 (3): 600–602.
Published: 01 May 1982
... because HMS 602 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Indomitable, the only aircraft carrier available, had run aground in Jamaica on November 3, 1941; Phillips's estimate that "no shore-based torpedo attack on ships at sea had been delivered at a greater range than 200 miles" (p. 416; Japan's bombers had...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (3): 1006–1008.
Published: 01 August 2002
... literary context" (p. x). Clearly, these volumes in the series are the teaching manuals for our time. The advisory board for the series has selected forty-one authors and includes such writers as Jamaica Kincaid and John Irving. But in addition to some fine authors, the board selects for criticism...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (1): 1–4.
Published: 01 February 2023
... imperialism, are reimagined precisely because they were imaginatively constructed as histories to begin with. The last essay in this issue exemplifies the globalization of Asian studies, both conceptually as well as geographically. Focusing on anti-Chinese riots in Jamaica in 1918, kedon willis invites...