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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (1): 45–74.
Published: 01 February 2019
...Younjung Oh Abstract From the 1920s to the early 1940s, Japanese department stores provided Japanese urban middle-class households with art and artifacts from China, Korea, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia. The department stores not merely sold art and artifacts from Japan's Asian neighbors but also...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1987) 46 (1): 193–195.
Published: 01 February 1987
...Michael W. Graves Artifacts as Categories: A Study of Ceramic Variability in Central India . By Daniel Miller . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1985 . xiv, 253 pp. Appendix, Bibliography, Index. $39.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1987 1987 BOOK REVIEWS...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (4): 1153–1154.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Namita Sugandhi Artefacts of History: Archaeology, Historiography and Indian Pasts . By Sudeshna Guha . New Delhi : Sage Publications , 2015 . xiv, 274 pp. ISBN: 9789351501640 (cloth, also available as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2016...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (3): 871–873.
Published: 01 August 2007
...Mary-Louise Totton Treasure Hunting? Collectors and Collections of Indonesian Artefacts . Edited by Reimar Schefold and Han F. Vermeulen . Leiden : CNWS Publications , 2002 . 324 pp. 荤30.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2007 2007 Treasure...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1951) 11 (1): 51–66.
Published: 01 November 1951
... that they reached Melanesia.10 It is also conceivable that a bronze artifact made in Indonesia in imitation of a Chinese model (namely a Han mirror) found its way eastward as far as Melanesia, where it was copied in shell. While these are definite possibilities, it seems to the writer that the extensive Oceanic...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (2): 367–402.
Published: 01 May 2020
... with the Way's connective powers, the text's extraordinary design might be the result of a literary attempt to create an efficacious, textual artifact that embodies the Way by incorporating the act of weaving in its textual design. As I have shown in this article, the intertextual writing procedure utilized...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (2): 347–367.
Published: 01 May 2015
... sixty years, it traces vicissitudes in attitudes towards history, religion, and the social existence of Muslims in India generally and Allahabad in particular. The article argues for the need to look beyond the narrative of Britain's relationship with architecture as artefact or heritage—a relationship...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1995) 54 (1): 128–145.
Published: 01 February 1995
...—compared to its role in other cultures—it endured? The study of Chinese religion in the Neolithic and Shang periods (ca. 4000–1050 B.C.E.) can contribute to our understanding of such matters, but the bulk of recent scholarship is inevitably and properly focused on technical analyses of sites, artifacts...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (1): 24–44.
Published: 01 February 1994
... Japanese.) This appropriation, what de Certeau calls poaching (1984), is evident in the changed meaning of the relation between artifact and place in Fenollosa's passage quoted at the beginning of this article. Fenollosa describes a different conceptualization of space, from what Robert Sack calls magical...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1982) 41 (3): 545–548.
Published: 01 May 1982
...Chong-pil Choe; Sarah M. Nelson Abstract Since the mid-1970s, Korean archaeologists have turned their interests to sociocultural change in Korean prehistory rather than simply the analysis of stylistic variation of artifacts. Studies on subsistence patterns in both the Chŭlmun and Mumun periods...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (2): 335–365.
Published: 01 May 2020
... commodity-signs, and artifacts of mass visuality. These intermedial accounts succeeded in linking the granular experiences of everyday life to larger historical and geopolitical forces and making visible how the encroachment of mass media products and commodity-signs were transforming the very means...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 806–811.
Published: 01 August 2020
..., or linguistically as Austronesian or Tai. It is extraordinary how much information can be gleaned from a single artifact class, carefully excavated and fully analyzed. Nevertheless, the monographs fuel a desire to see the picture that would emerge from an integrated analysis of metal and ceramics...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2006) 65 (2): 410–411.
Published: 01 May 2006
... in the Ningxia-Gansu area that depicted scenes of animal predation, and of pectorals in the Northern Hebei area. Relying on the spatial patterning of subject matter, artifact style, and technical elements, Bunker also proposes that China s northeast region had closer ties with Mongolia and eastern Siberia than...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (1): 191–193.
Published: 01 February 1997
..., but this reviewer prefers to wait until more examples of verifiably early iron artifacts are excavated under scientific conditions in the southeast region before he will accept it. Chapter 3 provides one of the very few discussions of Wu culture in a Western language and suggests that its political organization...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (1): 193–194.
Published: 01 February 1997
... restaurants, and the formation of Chinatowns. However, there has been little research on the history of Chinese American material culture. Fortunately, there has slowly developed the study of the archaeological remains of Chinese settlements in America which can "yield structural information, artifacts, food...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (2): 461–496.
Published: 01 May 2007
... into clear relief: It is the only place where bronze was used to cast a totally different type of artifact, ones that reflected a local belief system. No other regional culture had yet discovered or used bronze to express their own local traditions in this manner, though many other places where bronze...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1957) 17 (1): 116–118.
Published: 01 November 1957
... archaeology of Szechwan and its bearing on the prehistory of Eastern Asia. To those familiar only with Sinanthmpus Pekinensis, palaeolithic sites in the Ordos region, and the neolithic remains of North China, the second chapter will be a revelation. Beginning with the finds of prehistoric artifacts in 1882...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (2): 240–241.
Published: 01 May 2023
... produced and imported artifacts. The author does not seek to prioritize any one of these features over others, always prepared to observe how the match in one set of features may coincide with a discrepancy in others, testifying to the complex nature of social identities reflected in archaeological...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (4): 965–966.
Published: 01 November 2013
... indication of such vibrancy is the present volume, in which nine essays, by scholars of Chinese (six), Japanese (two), and Tibetan art, all together demonstrate that widely differing perspectives can be brought to bear in the study of a given artifact or group of artifacts. Reasserting the primacy of close...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (3): 967–968.
Published: 01 August 2009
... study of the Sogdians of Inner Mongolia and their eventual merger with the Shatuo, are not included.) The volume is expensive, but the price includes 122 excellent color plates. These include not just the typical artifact photos, but also photos of looters at work, stone turtles shattered by careless...
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