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Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (1): 204–205.
Published: 01 February 1999
...J. Marshall Unger The Book in Japan: A Cultural History from the Beginnings to the Nineteenth Century . By Peter Kornicki . Handbuch der Orientalistik, Abt. 5, Japan; Bd . 7 Leiden, Boston, Küln : Brill , 1998 . xviii, 498 pp. $91.25. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1995) 54 (4): 1115–1117.
Published: 01 November 1995
...Richard M. Eaton The New Cambridge History of India, vol. 1, book 4, Architecture of Mughal India . By Catherine B. Asher . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1992 . xxxi, 368 pp. $84.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 BOOK REVIEWS...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1969) 28 (4): 905–906.
Published: 01 August 1969
...Peter R. Goethals A Source Book of Adat, Chinese Law and the History of Common Law in the Malayan Peninsula . Edited by M. B. Hooker . Singapore : University of Singapore, Malaya Law Review , 1967 . xli , 211 pp. Index, n.p. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1969 1969...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (3): 723–724.
Published: 01 August 2015
...Xiaobing Tang As Mullen reminds us, the Little Red Book should be understood as a metonymy for various processes (p. 263). The real object of the proposed global history, therefore, ought to be the relationship and interaction among such uneven and disparate processes or movements. The ingenuity...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (3): 945–947.
Published: 01 August 2009
...R. Kent Guy The Social History of the Chinese Book: Books and Literati Culture in Late Imperial China . By Joseph R. McDermott . Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press , 2006 . xiv , 294 pp. $57.95 (cloth), $24.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (3): 738–739.
Published: 01 August 2005
...Ramon N. Prats The Hidden History of The Tibetan Book of the Dead . By Bryan J. Cuevas . New York : Oxford University Press , 2003 . xi , 328 pp. $50.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 738 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T U D I E S critical...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1942) 1 (2): 190–191.
Published: 01 February 1942
...E.H.P. A syllabus of the history of Chinese civilization and culture . By L. Carrington Goodrich and Henry C. Fenn . 3rd ed. New York : China Society of America , 1941 . 56 p. $.75. A selected list of books and articles on Japan . Compiled by Hugh Borton , Serge Elisséeff...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (4): 929–955.
Published: 01 November 2016
.... This time Ghosh guides the reader with a light but deft touch through the literature, history, and politics of climate change. In the opening chapter, which comprises half the book, Ghosh declares, “Let us make no mistake: the climate crisis is also a crisis of culture, and thus of the imagination.” 7...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (4): 975–1017.
Published: 01 November 2016
... Drug Trade . New York : Lawrence Hill Books . McGranahan Carole . 2010 . Arrested Histories: Tibet, the CIA, and Memories of a Forgotten War . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (3): 787–817.
Published: 01 August 2007
..., economic, and cultural patterns. They also reveal identities under construction—by readers, writers, publishers, and consumers. This article assesses the expanding field of late imperial Chinese book history in the United States and Japan, with some reference to scholarship in China and Taiwan. It looks...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (1): 187–198.
Published: 01 February 2014
... to for a comprehensive history of the occupation, it has truly inspired “the next generation of occupation scholarship,” which Mark Selden predicted would focus on social and cultural issues. The three books under review here are the latest addition to this literature. 16 Lori Watt, When Empire Comes Home , op...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1976) 35 (2): 203–220.
Published: 01 February 1976
...Craig J. Reynolds Abstract In Thai studies to date there has been little attempt to discuss the changes that took place during the nineteenth century in terms of what Western historiography would call intellectual history. The reasons for the scant attention paid to this subject are various, having...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (4): 927–946.
Published: 01 November 2020
... was not kathoey , which arguably has a long history that predates the adoption of Theravada Buddhism in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, but napungsaka . See Peltier Anatole-Roger Peltier, Pathamamulamuli : The Origin of the World in the Lan Na Tradition (Chiang Mai: Suriwong Book Centre Ltd., 1991), 4...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1972) 31 (4): 905–910.
Published: 01 August 1972
... emphasis on political history. B. Y. Choy's Korea: A History does not compare in scholarship with the other three histories. Its treatment of traditional Korea is shallow and sketchy. Choy does, however, devote more than half of the book to the post-1945 period, but the treatment can not be termed adequate...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1985) 44 (2): 343–348.
Published: 01 February 1985
... of the Vietnam War , tries to cover too much in a short book. Some of the conclusions are not adequately proven. Ronald Spector's Advice and Support: The Early Years, 1941–1960 (the first volume of the United States Army's official history of the Vietnam War) is useful, especially for the periods 1944–1945...
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Writing Confucian History in an Indian Language: The Transimperial Translation of a “Forged Classic”
Journal of Asian Studies 11281041.
Published: 03 September 2024
... 943 It was likew ise the Jamia Millia s publishing house that published the book Anwari titled Sahifa-i Chin ma Mukhtasar Tarikh-i Chin va Halat-i Kanfiyushas (The Documents of China, with a Short History of China and Life of Confucius). Part of the book comprised a translation of the Shujing...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1967) 26 (2): 185–187.
Published: 01 February 1967
... the Opium War that saw the consolidation and the heyday of the Manchu rule in China. In the nineteen thirties American sinology was fascinated by the period. It was then that Pritchard published his books on the early relations between England and China, and Goodrich his study of the literary inquisition...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1972) 31 (3): 605–609.
Published: 01 May 1972
... in the quantitative economic history of Japan, concentrating upon the labor market. The two books overlap to a great extent, and combine to question if not overthrow the anti-economic notion that standard analysis is out of place in dealing with labor problems even in a country with the anti-economic traditions...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1983) 42 (3): 599–606.
Published: 01 May 1983
...Anthony C. Yu Abstract Unquestionably the most comprehensive single study of High T'ang poetry to have appeared in English, Stephen Owens' book surveys a crucial segment of Chinese literary history and attempts to define a period style. Copious notes and translations enhance the analysis of less...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1980) 39 (2): 245–254.
Published: 01 February 1980
... this book possible and gave it a specific orientation. Yet, in so doing, I should say at the outset that I will focus on three large areas of discussion: the construal of history and its function for the discourse on modernization; the problematik informing this construing; and the problem of reading texts...
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