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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (2): 433–435.
Published: 01 May 2000
...Kathleen Uno Bicycle Citizens: The Political World of the Japanese Housewife . By Robin Leblanc . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1999 . $40.00 (cloth); $14.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 433 the series...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (3): 789–793.
Published: 01 August 2016
... by these essays, Japan was a far more marginal presence, with only some industrial goods—such as textiles, bicycles, or umbrella fittings—finding a market there by the mid-1930s. At their height in 1933–34, some 17,000 Japanese bicycles were imported into India (out of nearly 90,000 overall), and in 1934–35...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (2): 435–437.
Published: 01 May 2000
... twentieth century, then earlier female notions of citizenship and public may have differed from "bicycle politics." Could the activism of socialist or communist women's organizations or movements reflect an alternative ethos or display different organizational or behavior patterns? LeBlanc's findings can...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (2): 691–692.
Published: 01 May 2002
... of urban transport in China and the role of the bicycle. This chapter emphasizes the pivotal transportation role of the bicycle for many of China's major cities. With ever-improving urban incomes and lifestyles, however, pressure upon China's cities from the automobile will be inevitable. Richard Sanders...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (2): 432–433.
Published: 01 May 2000
... HOCKLEY Dartmouth College Bicycle Citizens: The Political World of the Japanese Housewife. By R O B I N LEBLANC. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999- $40.00 (cloth); $14.95 (paper). In Bicycle Citizens Robin LeBlanc seeks to expand the boundaries and methodologies of political science...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (2): 692–694.
Published: 01 May 2002
... to energy conservation and emissions reduction and their outcomes in China. Andrew Spencer is concerned with the issue of urban transport in China and the role of the bicycle. This chapter emphasizes the pivotal transportation role of the bicycle for many of China's major cities. With ever-improving urban...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (1): 63–80.
Published: 01 February 2012
... have had difficulty in moving freely out of their villages. Ideology and technology proved a potent combination. The organizational capacity of the BSP had been created over 20 years of bicycle-powered network-building. Placed in the hands of thousands of diligent workers, the mobile phone proved...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (3): 714–716.
Published: 01 August 2021
... trends that developed around three luxury goods: wristwatches, bicycles, and sewing machines. Chapter 2 discusses the Communist state's choice to prioritize capital accumulation after 1949. Chapter 3 explores the influence of the Soviet model of “state consumerism” and consumption trends linked to Soviet...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1992) 51 (4): 1007–1008.
Published: 01 November 1992
... paper, which went to the university museum. Friends and colleagues knew Leon as a man of great enthusiasms, including challenges to himself. As a graduate student, and long before bicycles developed to the point where they could be easily used for touring, he cycled from Seattle to 1007 1008 THE JOURNAL...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (2): 604–605.
Published: 01 May 2010
... Sōseki's rhetoric of melancholy through the retelling of his experiences in England, such as Jitensha nikki (Bicycle Diary, 1903), Rondontō (The Tower of London, 1905), and the famous preface to his literary treaties, Bungakuron (Theory of Literature, 1907). Chapter 2 discusses Sōseki's youthful days...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (4): 1448–1450.
Published: 01 November 2008
.... Subsequent chapters explore the well-known films The Devils on the Doorstep , Beijing Bicycle , and Suzhou River and the works of Jia Zhangke. In each instance, Xu embeds narrative about the film with discussions of the directors' intentions and sophisticated theoretical discussion. Chapter 2 discusses...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (3): 631–632.
Published: 01 August 2022
... building “with an outstretched hand, not a clenched fist” (p. 155), exemplified by his own practice of “diplomacy from a bicycle seat” to interact directly with Vietnamese (p. 108). As signaled by the subtitle, the focus is squarely on America's efforts at reconciliation, at times becoming confused...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (2): 662–664.
Published: 01 May 2009
... Early in March 1996, the anthropologist Margaret Trawick, for the first time, pedaled an old bicycle across a bridge in Sri Lanka's eastern Batticaloa District to do fieldwork, as she puts it, beyond enemy lines. The enemy in question is the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a ruthlessly...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (1): 309–310.
Published: 01 February 2011
... the streets on bicycles, adults toured in gleaming cars. “Native” Indonesian, Chinese, and European elites socialized across ethnic borders without anxiety; more troubling were disorderly mixed-race “Indos,” stigmatized as brawlers and illicit lovers. Dutch-language schools instilled work discipline...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (3): 726–728.
Published: 01 August 2019
... such as the automobile, bicycle, and airplane all depended on rubber. Scientific knowledge was used to further rationalize the work of producing rubber, and Aso describes in detail the cross-fertilization that occurred between agronomy, medical science (particularly the study and treatment of malaria), scientific...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (1): 269–271.
Published: 01 February 2010
... with bicycles, international markets, public schools, and new political officers in many cases sooner and more directly than did villagers in places more distant from Tokyo. Northern Kantō Plain villagers also differed from their counterparts elsewhere in relying on silk instead of rice (or fishing, logging...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (4): 1234–1236.
Published: 01 November 2010
... phrase “the transportation equation” (pp. 5, 85). As the national government passed road development laws at the beginning of the 1920s, motorcycles and other motor vehicles competed on urban roadways in noisy confusion with horse-drawn stagecoaches, oxcarts, bicycles, and rickshaws. Japanese noted...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (1): 250–252.
Published: 01 February 2016
... branched out from the trunk lines into the surrounding countryside. Electrified light rail, augmented by bicycles and automobiles, forever linked regional villages to their expanding urban centers. In some ways the rapidly growing provincial cities were more closely connected to the Tokyo metropole...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (3): 698–699.
Published: 01 August 1988
..., 1986. xii, 523 pp. $24.95. James William Gibson sets out to examine the defeat of the world's most technologically advanced fighting power by a society of bicycles and bamboo. His analysis is eminently more satisfying than the decade-old cries that impugn the press, the antiwar movement, "self-imposed...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (3): 697–698.
Published: 01 August 1988
... sets out to examine the defeat of the world's most technologically advanced fighting power by a society of bicycles and bamboo. His analysis is eminently more satisfying than the decade-old cries that impugn the press, the antiwar movement, "self-imposed limits," or "mistakes" by policymakers...
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