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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (3): 985–986.
Published: 01 August 1994
...Thongchai Winichakul Luang Wichit Wathakan and the Creation of a Thai Identity . By Scott Barmé . Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies , 1993 . xi, 201 pp. $19.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 985 Luang...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (1): 205–207.
Published: 01 February 2002
...Arif Dirlik Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 In the Red: On Contemporary Chinese Culture . By Geremie R. Barme . New York : Columbia University Press , 2000 . xii , 512 pp. $22.50. BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 205 Asian American pan-ethnic literary...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (2): 543–544.
Published: 01 May 2004
...Ligaya Lindio-McGovern Woman, Man, Bangkok: Love, Sex, and Popular Culture in Thailand . By Scot Barmé . Lanham, Md. : Rowman and Littlefield , 2002 . vii, 273 pp. $80.00 (cloth); $27.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 B O O K R E V I E W S S O U T H...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (2): 461–463.
Published: 01 May 1997
...Lucian W. Pye Shades of Mao: The Posthumous Cult of the Great Leader . By Geremie R. Barmé . Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe , 1996 . xii, 321 pp. $62.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER ASIA 461...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (2): 544–545.
Published: 01 May 1994
... papers gathered from the pages of The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs around the theme of the political use of history in the contemporary period. The only new piece is by Geremie Barme, although most of the other papers have been revised. The reader will find here studies (by Tom Fisher...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (2): 541–543.
Published: 01 May 2004
... tool that partially explains economic realities to all readers. K. THIRUMARAN National University of Singapore Woman, Man, Bangkok: Love, Sex, and Popular Culture in Thailand. By SCOT BARME´ . Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Little eld, 2002. vii, 273 pp. $80.00 (cloth); $27.95 (paper). This book offers...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (2): 510–513.
Published: 01 May 2011
... and sleepless Macbeth who murdered reason, and a Lear who turned himself into an heirless and crazed old man” (p. 331). Geremie R. Barmé, original and refreshing as usual, serves up brilliant if episodic reflections on Mao and the imperial tradition. He offers arresting new material on the circumstances...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (4): 1019–1029.
Published: 01 November 2016
... . The Theater and Its Double . New York : Grove Press . Barmé Scot . 1993 . Luang Wichit Wathakan and the Creation of a Thai Identity . Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies . Barmé...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (3): 986–988.
Published: 01 August 1994
... of Pridi Bhanomyong, normally viewed as the liberal opponent but who was part of the regime most of the time (p. 153), and the significance of the concept of "civilization" to Thai nationalism. Barme recognizes that Wichit's concept of Thai identity is not really Thai (p. 116). We may ask if any elements...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (3): 841–843.
Published: 01 August 1998
... such a trajectory in the recent past. Yet the most entertaining, and also the most alarming, commentary on the contemporary scene in the People's Republic is provided by Geremie Barme. Drawing on his reading of works by contemporary Chinese intellectuals, Barme perceptively dissects the latter's impulse to engage...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (2): 543–544.
Published: 01 May 1994
... is by Geremie Barme, although most of the other papers have been revised. The reader will find here studies (by Tom Fisher and Rudolph G. Wagner, respectively) on two plays about Hai Rui and the two playwrights' motivations in writing them; on a novel about the guerrilla fighter Liu Zhidan (David Holm...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (2): 460–461.
Published: 01 May 1997
... aspects of financial systems or in the broader issues of Asian economic development. H. W. ARNDT Australian National University CHINA AND INNER ASIA Shades of Mao: The Posthumous Cult of the Great Leader. By GEREMIE R. BARME. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1996. xii, 321 pp. $62.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (2): 397–424.
Published: 01 May 2011
... Mao Zedong and his regime remade Beijing geographically and architecturally are both legendary and, to the conservation-minded, lamentable. As others have shown, the transformations were as much driven by ideological visions as by the imperative to modernize an ancient city (Barmé 2008 ; Braester...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (4): 899–920.
Published: 01 November 2014
... in April 2011, an official critic complained that Ai's art “confounds the boundary between the artistic and the political; in fact, he uses it to engage in political activities” (Liu Yiheng 2011 ; also see Barmé 2011 ). Actually, art and politics have always had an intimate relation in China...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (1): 203–205.
Published: 01 February 2002
... Chinese Culture. By GEREMIE R. BARME. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. xii, 512 pp. $22.50. Geremie Barme may well be without peer outside the People's Republic of China (PRC) in his grasp of recent cultural developments in that country. He has been not just an observer of these developments...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (2): 463–465.
Published: 01 May 1997
... would hire them so that they could all again work together to "carry out the revolution." There is no single explanation for the MaoCraze for, as Geremie Barme notes, "There was something for everyone in the Mao persona" and thus the craze involved a huge range of positive and negative memories...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (2): 545–547.
Published: 01 May 1994
... he was looking at were not yet ready to look freely at the historiography of the 1930s, which did not have the Marxist imprimatur. The final essay by Barme is an excellent overview of the flourishing popular historiography of the 1980s and the factors that encouraged its diversity...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (1): 234–236.
Published: 01 February 2003
... as building blocks for the development of a "middle way." The rearticulating of the "third way" in the nineties is also one of the many concerns exposed by the final authoritative critic Geremie Barme, who concludes the collection ventriloquizing the sociopolitical trajectories of the previous writers as well...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (3): 507–522.
Published: 01 August 2022
... earthly god in folklore and popular religion (Barmé 1996 ; Chen 2016 , 101–64). While Mao's public image had been carefully orchestrated by the party-state throughout his lifetime, his posthumous cult appeared to be spontaneous and dynamic. For many critics, the ultimate icon of revolution underwent...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (1): 254–255.
Published: 01 February 2003
...), and in shunkouliu sayings containing Maoist lines or parodying "The East is Red" (Link and Zhou, pp. 92, 100). In addition to much of the commercial popular culture much more obviously based on nostalgic rehatches of official culture and not discussed here (but, e.g., in Geremie Barme's In the Red), the prevalence...