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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (1): 249–252.
Published: 01 February 2019
...Radha S. Hegde Neutral Accent: How Language, Labor, and Life Become Global . By A. Aneesh . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2015 . x, 154 pp. ISBN: 9780822358466 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). Answer the Call: Virtual Migration in Indian Call Centers...
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Published: 01 August 2014
Figure 6. Converted Dalit woman and unconverted Dalit fish seller. (One has become a madam-lady, the other a fish seller. Blessed be the religion of Christ, which is all powerful.) Source: Chand ( 1929b ). More
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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (1): 103–126.
Published: 01 February 2005
... . Wikan Unni . 1990 . Managing Turbulent Hearts: A Balinese Formula for Living . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Yuval-Davis Nira . 1997 . Gender and Nation . London : Sage Publications . We Will Become Jijabai : Historical Tales of Hindu Nationalist Women in India KALYANI...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (3): 938–940.
Published: 01 August 2003
...Griet Vankeerberghen To Become a God: Cosmology, Sacrifice, and Self-Divinization in Early China . By Michael J. Puett . Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series, no. 57. Cambridge : Harvard University Asia Center , 2002 . xv, 358 pp. $49.50 (cloth). Copyright © The Association...
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Published: 01 August 2010
Figure 1. A drummer prepares to play Ōdaiko in a pose that has become emblematic of contemporary Japanese taiko drumming. Photograph by Mark Coutts-Smith. More
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Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (2): 411–412.
Published: 01 May 1989
...Don Baker To Become a Sage . By Michael C. Kalton . New York : Columbia University Press , 1988 . xviii 278 pp. $32.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 BOOK REVIEWS KOREA 411 five mask-dance dramas range from the older rural drama Hahoe Pyolsin-kut...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (4): 888–889.
Published: 01 November 2019
... that contributed directly to Jilong becoming “the whole island's crown” (p. 146). The details of those efforts reveal, however, how such social groups worked both with and against each other in establishing the “territory” of their identities. Chapter 2 explores the various ways that Taiwanese built their new...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (4): 1090–1092.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Vivian Shaw Becoming One: Religion, Development, and Environmentalism in a Japanese NGO in Myanmar . By Chika Watanabe . Honolulu : University Hawai‘i Press , 2019 . xiv, 239 pp. ISBN: 9780824875268 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2020 2020...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (2): 547–551.
Published: 01 May 2017
...SherAli Tareen Secularizing Islamists? Jama'at-e-Islami and Jama'at-ud-Da'wa in Urban Pakistan . By Humeira Iqtidar . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2011 . xiv, 216 pp. ISBN: 9780226384689 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). Muslim Becoming...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (2): 531–533.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Hendrik Maier Islam and Colonialism: Becoming Modern in Indonesia and Malaya . By Muhamad Ali . Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press , 2016 . 335 pp. ISBN: 978147440920 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2020 2020 Islam and Colonialism: Becoming...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (1): 255–257.
Published: 01 February 2020
...Mengyang Zhao Becoming Activists in Global China: Social Movements in the Chinese Diaspora . By Andrew Junker . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2019 . x, 220 pp. ISBN: 9781108482998 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2020 2020 Andrew Junker's...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (2): 486–488.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Shawn McHale The Divine Eye and the Diaspora: Vietnamese Syncretism Becomes Transpacific Caodaism . By Janet Alison Hoskins . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2015 . xv, 282 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019  2019 In books mentioning the Cao Đài...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (1): 243–244.
Published: 01 February 2019
... the moral aspirations and anxieties of contemporary Acehnese. The former emphasis on moral failure is an especially important contribution to research in the anthropology of Islam and religious studies more broadly. As such, Becoming Better Muslims offers important correctives to scholarly understandings...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (3): 831.
Published: 01 August 2017
.... Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2017  2017 Reference Tareen , SherAli . 2017 . Review of Muslim Becoming: Aspiration and Skepticism in Pakistan , by Naveeda Khan , Duke University Press , 2012. ...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (1): 25–43.
Published: 01 February 2023
... to become laborers with dignity, amidst a rising democratic culture of reciprocal equal recognition. Through an examination of a series of cultural and literary texts, this article shows that the New Culture intellectuals did not simply enact a reversal of preexisting social hierarchy that placed...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (3): 725–727.
Published: 01 August 2021
...Beata Grant Becoming Guanyin: Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial China . By Yuhang Li . New York : Columbia University Press , 2019 . 299 pp. ISBN: 9780231190121 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2021 2021 In chapter 2, devoted...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (2): 612–614.
Published: 01 May 2003
...Ming-cheng Miriam Lo Becoming “Japanese”: Colonial Taiwan and the Politics of Identity Formation . By Leo T. S. Ching . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 2001 . xii , 251 pp. $48.00 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (1): 150–152.
Published: 01 February 2024
...Megan Bryson Becoming Guanyin: Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial China . By Yuhang Li . New York : Columbia University Press , 2020 . xii, 299 pp. ISBN: 9780231190121 . © 2024 Association for Asian Studies 2024 Becoming Guanyin is a book about...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (1): 198–200.
Published: 01 February 2024
...Danilyn Rutherford Chao ends the book with her own dream, in which she stands next to and becomes a sago palm—and is chopped down, limb by bleeding limb. I'm not surprised Chao suffered nightmares. You'd have to search long and hard for a book that better captures the ineluctable violence of our...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (4): 1047–1048.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Chloe Estep Literary Representations of “Mainlanders” in Taiwan: Becoming Sinophone . By Phyllis Yu-Ting Huang . Abingdon, UK : Routledge , 2021 . 165 pp. ISBN: 9780367458317 . © 2024 Association for Asian Studies 2024 What can literature tell us about the ways “mainlander...