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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (4): 1084–1086.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Arianne M. Gaetano Outsourced Children: Orphanage Care and Adoption in Globalizing China . By Leslie K. Wang . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 2016 . 208 pp. ISBN: 9780804799010 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (2): 499–500.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Eleana Kim From Orphan to Adoptee: U.S. Empire and Genealogies of Korean Adoption . By SooJin Pate . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2014 . 210 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015  2015 In five succinct...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (3): 563–585.
Published: 01 August 2021
...Youngeun Koo Abstract This article examines the early development of South Korean intercountry adoption to Sweden. It focuses particularly on two disruptions in the movement of children between the two nations, drawing on archival sources in Sweden, South Korea, and Denmark. The article...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (3): 894–896.
Published: 01 August 2001
...Fujiya Kawashima Korean Adoption and Inheritance: Case Studies in the Creation of a Classic Confucian Society . By Mark A. Peterson . Cornell East Asia Series: 80. Ithaca: N.Y. : Cornell University East Asian Program , 1996 . xii, 267 pp. $23.80 (cloth); $14.45 (paper). Copyright ©...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (4): 1121–1123.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Kim Park Nelson To Save the Children of Korea: The Cold War Origins of International Adoption . By Arissa H. Oh . Stanford, Calif .: Stanford University Press . ISBN: 9780804795326 (paper, also available in cloth and as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian...
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Published: 01 August 2016
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Journal of Asian Studies (1981) 40 (4): 784–787.
Published: 01 August 1981
...Judith Strauch Marriage and Adoption in China, 1845–1945 . By Arthur P. Wolf and Chiehshan Huang . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1980 . xx, 426 pp. Tables, Maps and Figures, Appendixes, Notes, Character List, Index. $18.95 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1970) 29 (3): 617–632.
Published: 01 May 1970
...Ray A. Moore Abstracts Historians have overstated the role of adoption as a channel of upward social mobility for poor but bright young samurai in Tokugawa Japan. An analysis of family histories and public service records of four han shows that adoption helped to preserve both samurai lineages...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1973) 32 (4): 734–737.
Published: 01 August 1973
...Robert McKinley Adoption in Eastern Oceania . Edited by Vern Carrol . Association For Social Anthropology In Oceania, Monograph No. 1. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1970 . 422 pp. References, $10.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1973 1973 734 JOURNAL...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (4): 906.
Published: 01 November 1988
...Larry E. Westphal The Adoption and Diffusion of Imported Technology: The Case of Korea . By J. L. Enos and W. H. Park . London : Croom Helm ; New York: Methuen, 1988 . xvi, 272 pp. $55.00. 906 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES The Adoption and Diffusion of Imported Technology: The Case...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1962) 21 (4): 542.
Published: 01 August 1962
...Kwang-Ching Liu Lin Tse-hsü: Pioneer Promoter of the Adoption of Western Means of Maritime Defense in China ., 65 pp.; Tseng Kuo-fan: Pioneer Promoter of the Steamship in China, 98 pp.; Tso Tsung-t‘ang: Pioneer Promoter of the Modern Dockyard and the Woollen Mill in China , 93 pp. By Gideon...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1992) 51 (3): 642–643.
Published: 01 August 1992
...Edward L. Farmer The Chosen One: Succession and Adoption in the Court of Ming Shizong . By Carney T. Fisher . Sydney : Allen and Unwin , 1990 . x , 230 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 642 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES household registration...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (4): 927–928.
Published: 01 November 1991
...John R. Shepherd Getting an Heir: Adoption and the Construction of Kinship in Late Imperial China . By Ann Waltner . Honolulu, Hawaii : University of Hawaii Press , 1990 . vii, 226 pp. $26.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (4): 1163–1164.
Published: 01 November 2012
...EuyRyung Jun Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging . By Eleana J. Kim . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2010 . xviii , 320 pp. $84.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2012 2012...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (2): 391–409.
Published: 01 May 2015
... by scarcity rather than growth—and thus was experiencing a different level of development from the industrialized West—caused Chinese intellectuals and officials to question the wisdom of adopting Western-style consumerist habits and “extravagant” standard of living. In this context, they struggled to find...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (2): 403–425.
Published: 01 May 2010
... have been adopted by Rmeet (Lamet) uplanders in northern Laos, where the main type of hierarchy is the decentralized superiority of wife-givers over wife-takers. In the process of adoption, title-giving was subordinated to wife-giving, and today the wife-givers are the ritual source of ranks...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1963) 23 (1): 93–101.
Published: 01 November 1963
... attending his first international Communist gathering, eagerly responded to Lenin's request for criticisms. As a result, Lenin invited him to write an alternative thesis. Both theses were modified as a result of discussions within the National and Colonial Commission, and both were subsequently adopted...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1958) 17 (4): 551–566.
Published: 01 August 1958
...Paul W. van der Veur Abstract The dormant political atmosphere, so long characteristic of the colonial society of the Indies, was undergoing an almost imperceptible change at the dawn of the twentieth century. Apart from the official adoption of the “Ethical Policy”—the moral assumption...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1956) 16 (1): 19–30.
Published: 01 November 1956
... an underdeveloped community with the naive assumption that it will enthusiastically adopt superior tools and techniques when they are placed within its reach; instead, considerable emphasis is now laid on adapting modern techniques to the culture and values of the community in which the program has to operate...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1947) 7 (1): 3–21.
Published: 01 November 1947
...Richard L. Walker Abstract The new Chinese constitution which was almost unanimously adopted by the National Assembly and presented to Chiang K'ai-shek on Christmas Day 1946 gives conclusive proof that the Chinese plan to maintain their ancient Censoral system, now the Control Yüan of the Chinese...