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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (2): 365–379.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Alice Bethany Susan Baldock Abstract This study examines the revolution of ideas surrounding the body in 1950s Japan from the perspective of two women dancers, Noh dancer Tsumura Kimiko (1902–74) and butoh dancer Motofuji Akiko (1928–2003). By contrasting one mid-twentieth-century view...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1993) 52 (1): 125–126.
Published: 01 February 1993
...Walter G. Neevel, Jr. The Body Divine: The Symbol of the Body in the Works of Teilhard de Chardin and Rāmānuja . By Anne Hunt Overzee . Cambridge Studies in Religious Traditions, No. 2. Cambridge University Press , 1992 . xv, 218 pp. $49.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (2): 332–333.
Published: 01 May 1988
...David K. Reynolds The Body: Toward an Eastern Mind-Body Theory . By Yasuo Yuasa . Translated by Shigenori Nagatomo and T. P. Kasulis . Edited by T. P. Kasulis . SUNY Series in Buddhist Studies. Albany : State University of New York Press , 1987 . viii, 256 pp. $39.50 (cloth); $14.95...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (2): 526–535.
Published: 01 May 2018
... in Japan . Edited by Alisa Freedman , Laura Miller , and Christine R. Yano . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 2013 . xiv, 280 pp. ISBN: 9780804781138 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). Women Adrift: The Literature of Japan's Imperial Body . By Noriko J. Horiguchi...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (3): 790–792.
Published: 01 August 2014
...Emily Wilcox The Body at Stake: Experiments in Chinese Contemporary Art and Theatre . Edited by Jörg Huber and Zhao Chuan . Bielefeld : Transcript Verlag , 2013 . 278 pp. $45.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014 2014 With its one hundred...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1962) 21 (4): 549.
Published: 01 August 1962
...John D. Mitchell Body and Mind in Harmony. T'ai Chi Ch'uan—An Ancient Chinese Way of Exercise to Achieve Health and Tranquility . By Sophia Delza . New York : David McKay , 1961 . vii, 184 . Appendix, Illustrations. $3.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1962...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (4): 992–993.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Claire Edington Translating the Body: Medical Education in Southeast Asia . Edited by Hans Pols , C. Michele Thompson , and John Harley Warner . Singapore : National University of Singapore Press , 2017 . ix, 370 pp. ISBN: 9789814722056 (paper). Copyright © The Association...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (4): 1166–1167.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Joy Sales Queering the Global Filipina Body: Contested Nationalisms in the Filipina/o Diaspora . By Gina K. Velasco . Champaign : University of Illinois Press , 2020 . 176 pp. ISBN: 9780252043475 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 Trafficked...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (1): 237–238.
Published: 01 February 2011
...Robin Tierney The Other Women's Lib: Gender and Body in Japanese Women's Fiction . By Julia C. Bullock . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2010 . 199 pp. $25.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 In The Other Women's Lib: Gender...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (1): 141–170.
Published: 01 February 2011
... of Republican India. The authors argue that imperial geographical discourses invested the colonial Northeast (British Assam) with a new kind of territorial identity. Surveyors and mapmakers objectified the “geo-body” of this borderland in a spatial fix and visualized it as a Northeast-on-the-map. Cartographic...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (3): 950–952.
Published: 01 August 2010
... in the early chapters on Buddhist hagiography, sexuality in the vinaya , and Buddhist theories of the body has already been written about in previous publications by Bernard Faure, Janet Gyatso, Liz Wilson, Frances Garrett, Susanne Mrozik, and others. This redundancy would not be a problem had Powers engaged...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (4): 1112–1114.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Dominic Steavu Copp is to be commended for his bid to redirect and reshape the study of medieval Chinese Buddhism in The Body Incantatory . It is a lofty aspiration for sure, but one that will succeed for two reasons. The first is that Copp is not alone in his endeavor. He stands shoulder...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (1): 178–179.
Published: 01 February 1988
...Terry Abbott On Being Mindless: Buddhist Meditation and the Mind-Body Problem . By Paul Griffiths . La Salle, Ill. : Open Court Publishing Co. , 1986 . xxii , 220 pp. $12.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988 1988 178 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2006) 65 (3): 606–607.
Published: 01 August 2006
...Roel Sterckx Material Virtue: Ethics and the Body in Early China . By Mark Csikszentmihalyi-Halyi . Leiden, Netherlands : E. J. Brill , 2004 . vi , 402 pp. $175 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006 2006 606 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T U D I E S...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1995) 54 (1): 211–212.
Published: 01 February 1995
...Susan Mann Body, Subject, and Power in China . Edited by Angela Zito and Tani E. Barlow . Chicago and London : The University of Chicago Press , 1994 . vii, 307 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $16.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (2): 594–596.
Published: 01 May 1998
...Michael D. Rabe The Alchemical Body: Siddha Traditions in Medieval India . By David Gordon White . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1996 . xviii, 596 pp. $59.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 594 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Jahan's...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (1): 182–183.
Published: 01 February 1999
...Thomas A. Wilson Of Body and Brush: Grand Sacrifice as Text / Performance in Eighteenth-Century China . By Angela R. Zito . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1997 . xix, 311 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (4): 961–991.
Published: 01 November 1999
...Jian Xu Abstract M any asian cultures have rich traditions of self-cultivation that exercise mind and body through physical and meditational training. Research and scholarship with respect to those traditions have focused fruitfully on how the body is cultivated to serve as an agent of resistance...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1995) 54 (4): 1083–1085.
Published: 01 November 1995
...Ellison B. Findly Religious Reflections on the Human Body . Edited by Jane Marie Law . Bloomington and Indianapolis, Ind. : Indiana University Press ., 1995 . xiv, 314 pp. $35.00 (cloth); $15.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 BOOK REVIEWS...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (2): 523–525.
Published: 01 May 1996
...Rita Smith Kipp Bewitching Women, Pious Men: Gender and Body Politics in Southeast Asia . Edited by Aihwa Ong and Michael G. Peletz . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1995 . 309 pp. $16.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 BOOK REVIEWS...
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