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Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (3): 862–863.
Published: 01 August 1999
...Barbara D. Metcalf Arguing Sainthood: Modernity, Psychoanalysis, and Islam . By Katherine Pratt Ewing . Durham, N.C. and London : Duke University Press , 1997 . xiv, 312 pp. $17.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 862 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1993) 52 (4): 1067–1069.
Published: 01 November 1993
...Joanna Kirkpatrick Gender Transformation, Power and Resistance among Women in Sri Lanka: Fish Don't Talk About the Water . By Carla Risseeuw . New Delhi : Manohar , 1991 . xvi, 399 pp. Rs. 350. Arguing with the Crocodile: Gender and Class in Bangladesh . By Sarah C. White...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1980) 39 (3): 465–480.
Published: 01 May 1980
...Lee H. Yearley Abstract Using contemporary Western philosophic ideas, this essay examines Hsün Tzu's view of the mind as both a director of action and a spectator of action. In analyzing the mind as director, Hsün Tzu argues against Mencius's idea that the mind simply extends one's natural...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (4): 727–746.
Published: 01 November 2022
... of considerable neglect and confusion. It argues, first, that the university functioned as a social, intellectual, and political space that allowed Uyghurs to develop their ethno-national identity, build shared grievances, and mobilize politically. Second, it argues that the December 1985 Uyghur student movement...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1985) 44 (4): 755–763.
Published: 01 August 1985
... constraints shapes the thematic structure of the story. The author argues that, unlike its narrative structure, which is bound by the linearity of time, the thematic structure, of “Surabaya” is denned by a hierarchy of “heavier” and “lighter” themes, the “heavier” themes being evoked more often than...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (2): 367–390.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Shawn McHale Abstract This essay argues that to understand twentieth-century Khmer-Vietnamese ethnic antagonism, the contest for the lower Mekong Delta (in today's Vietnam) since the mid-eighteenth century has been key. It argues, however, that while this pre-1945 background can explain antagonism...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (1): 103–114.
Published: 01 February 2012
... hegemony of the discourse of nationalism. Both inhibitors encourage the condemnation of collaboration rather than its historicization. Reflecting briefly on the 1946 trial of Liang Hongzhi, China's first head of state under the Japanese, this essay argues that the historian's task is not to create moral...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (1): 63–80.
Published: 01 February 2012
...Robin Jeffrey; Assa Doron Abstract We argue that the 2007 state elections in Uttar Pradesh (UP), India's largest state, were the first “mass mobile phone” elections in India. The paper charts the spectacular growth of the cheap cell phone in India and in Uttar Pradesh, documents the organizational...
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Journal of Asian Studies 11445151.
Published: 08 January 2025
... of Chinese Muslim intellectuals was the Ahmadiyya of India, which was considered “heterodox” by the majority of “orthodox” Muslims. This article explores how and why these prominent Chinese Muslims were attracted to the Ahmadiyya movement. It argues that Ahmadiyya, despite its marginal nature, offered...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (1): 65–87.
Published: 01 February 2014
..., this paper argues for a historicist analysis of the process of “retro-botanizing.” In so doing, it also distinguishes between two different forms of “tradition,” the “factualized” and “embedded.” Finally, it blurs the allegedly watertight distinction between historical and mythic pasts. Instead of trying...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (2): 423–446.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Chris Vasantkumar Abstract This essay argues that to adequately answer the question its title poses, anthropological approaches to national and transnational China(s) must be grounded in the history of Qing imperial expansion. To this end, it compares and explores the connections between three...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1961) 20 (4): 449–461.
Published: 01 August 1961
...I. H. Nish Abstract Japan's actions during the Boxer crisis which resulted in the siege of. The foreign legations in Peking from June 20 to August 14, 1900, are the subject of debate among historians. Some argue that Japan's actions were “generally sound in dealing with the difficult international...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1970) 30 (1): 95–119.
Published: 01 November 1970
...Arthur A. Stahnke Abstract The Sino-Indian boundary dispute provides an interesting test case to determine the willingness of mainland China, a revolutionary regime, to argue its position within the framework of traditional international law. Judging by Peking's official rationale for its claims...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1975) 34 (3): 581–591.
Published: 01 May 1975
...Conrad Totman Abstract In Treasures among Men; the Fudai Daimyo in Tokugawa Japan (Yale, 1974), Harold Bolitho has discussed the role of the fudai daimyo in the functioning and collapse of the Tokugawa polity, arguing in fine that their conduct during the 1860's was dictated by their concern...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (2): 593–620.
Published: 01 May 2008
...Kuei-Fen Chiu Abstract This paper begins with an examination of the burgeoning interest in literatures in Chinese. It argues that studies in literatures in Chinese map out a terrain where complex negotiations and interventions for different purposes are carried out. As studies in literatures...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 685–706.
Published: 01 August 2020
... based in the People's Republic of China, continue to resist this interpretation. They argue that dynastic expansion in the Ming and Qing periods was simply a form of nation-state building, akin to similar processes in Europe. Rather than rejecting their claims as a product of Chinese nationalism, we...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (2): 333–353.
Published: 01 May 1998
...Hong Lysa Abstract This essay is an exploration of one aspect of the politics of gender representation in Thailand, namely, how the portrayals of Siamese women in Thai popular histories form part of the present-day shaping of gender relations. I argue that moving in tandem with developments...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1979) 39 (1): 39–63.
Published: 01 November 1979
... of Japanese fascism and a modification of Ernst Nolte's definition of fascism as anti-modernism. The author argues that while Japan was not fascist during the 1930s, the original New Order Movement, which was planned by the Shōwa Research Association and promoted by Premier Konoe Fumimaro in 1940, did...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (1): 137–156.
Published: 01 February 2016
...Benjamin Schonthal Abstract This article uses an important Sri Lankan Supreme Court case concerning religious sound as a starting point for thinking about the intersections of Islam, law, politics, and Buddhism in Sri Lanka. It argues that Sri Lankan Muslims find themselves in three interlacing...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (2): 467–494.
Published: 01 May 2016
... framework of social development, but it also described a system that departed from Weber's narrative of liberalization and rationalization in important ways. Bellah argued that in early modern Japan, the profit motive was contained by social obligations and ethical rules. Through his explorations of Japan...
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