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Journal of Asian Studies (1984) 43 (2): 327–329.
Published: 01 February 1984
...Sharon H. Nolte Emperor Hirohito and His Chief Aide-de-Camp: The Honjo Diary, 1933–1936 . Translated and Introduced by Mikiso Hane . Tokyo : University of Tokyo Press , 1983 . (Distributed by Columbia University Press.) ix, 263 pp. Notes, Index. $24.50. Copyright © Association...
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Published: 01 November 2014
Figure 7. Portraits of president, editor-in-chief, reporter, and editor of the Taiwan nichinichi shimpō (clockwise from upper left). Source: Shashin kurabu ( 1901 ). Courtesy of National Taiwan Library. More
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Published: 01 May 2012
Figure 1. Narendra Singh Negi, Meena Rana, and the impersonated Chief Minister Narayan Datt Tiwari on the Uttarakhandi Video CD Nauchami Narayana . More
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1952) 11 (3): 428–429.
Published: 01 May 1952
... WILLIAM LEONARD SCHWARTZ Report to the Combined Chiefs of Staff by the Supreme Allied Commander, South-East Asia, 1943-1945. By VICE-ADMIRAL, THE EARL MOUNTBATTEN OF BURMA. New York: Philosophical Library, 1951. xi, 280 p. with 39 maps. $12.00. This extensive report includes a political and military...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (2): 351–363.
Published: 01 May 2018
... all three periods, became the chief target for such projects. All three administrative regimes desired increased agricultural productivity and introduced strategies based on modern (that is, foreign) farming technologies and techniques. During the late Chosŏn, officials established an agricultural...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1987) 46 (2): 467–468.
Published: 01 May 1987
... of rice fields. She notes that her informants are multidialectal and speak, in the current media parlance, "on condition of anonymity." In Taunngyi there is quite a colony of Mau Shans, including a few scholars whom the reviewer has consulted and who know Young's chief informant. As for the new Tai Mau...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1962) 21 (4): 555.
Published: 01 August 1962
... tracing the de- Office, Chief of Military History, velopment of Japanese policy from the assault Department of the Army on China in 1937 down through the 1941 decision for war. He concludes that the "immediate causes" (p. 244) of this decision were Japan's insistence on remaining in China and America's...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1995) 54 (2): 447–473.
Published: 01 May 1995
... (Hiltebeitel {1976} 1990:245–360; 1988a:394–435). One is the cult of Draupadī (the epic's chief heroine); the other that of Kuttantavar, son of Arjuna (the epic's chief hero) and the serpent-woman UlupT. I will focus here primarily on the latter. Kuttantavar is a Tamil deity whose myths and rituals orchestrate...
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Published: 01 November 2014
Figure 10. Portraits of colonial leaders: Civil Administrator Gotō Shimpei, Governor-General Kodama Gentarō, Taihoku District Chief Kinoshita Shū'ichi, and Taichū District Chief Murakami Giyū; by photographers Endo, Asai, Era, Nakashima (clockwise from upper left). Source: Shashin kurabu More
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Journal of Asian Studies (1967) 26 (4): 559–574.
Published: 01 August 1967
... K'ang-nien (1860–1911) in Shih-wu pao (“The Chinese Progress”), a newspaper which he founded in August 1896 with Liang Chʻi-chʻao as chief editor. In one of his editorials (1896) Wang listed the components of China's national sovereignty that had been whittled away by the West and implored his...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1968) 27 (4): 809–834.
Published: 01 August 1968
... and was obligatory to any transferee. In some cases, this service was rendered to the king's chiefs and nominees or to the temples, for the kings distributed largesse in the form of lands and the services attached to them; these were known as nindagam, viharegam or devalegam as distinct from the king's villages...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1964) 23 (4): 581–590.
Published: 01 August 1964
..., under the chief editorship of Liang Ch'i-ch'ao. Since that time, there have been numerous other periodicals, the most recent being Wen Shih , first published in October 1962, in Peking. Little effort seems to have been made to study the development of these historical journals. There have been many...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1943) 3 (1): 5–36.
Published: 01 November 1943
.... When the Northern Expedition began he held the position of Chief of the Propaganda Division of the Political Department of the expedition and concurrently Secretary-General of the Provisional Headquarters. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1943 1943 1 Sources differ...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1966) 25 (2): 213–227.
Published: 01 February 1966
...Masaru Ikei Abstract The revolution that erupted in China in 1911 came as a shock to Japan. The Japanese had taken advantage of the opportunity created by their victory over Russia in 1905 to annex Korea and extend their influence into China. Their chief aim was to use the Korean peninsula...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1954) 13 (3): 251–260.
Published: 01 May 1954
... be the rendering of by “he styled himself T' ai-shang-huang ,” and of the latter, the rendering of by “he was made Chancellor.” I oppose such procedures on the general grounds that the chief if not the sole responsibility of the scholarly translator is fidelity to his text. In other words it is to convey...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1955) 14 (3): 365–371.
Published: 01 May 1955
... Assistant and a year later became Interpreter. This made him, in modern parlance, the chief British intelligence officer at the leading treaty port. After a stretch of seven and one-half years at Canton, during which he reported the beginning in Kwangsi of the great domestic uprising later known...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1955) 14 (3): 389–391.
Published: 01 May 1955
... reveals significant discrepancies of a theoretical nature, chief of which concerns Sun's widely quoted comparison of min sheng or “people's livelihood” with socialism and communism. A NEW VERSION OF SAN MIN CHU 1 ALLEN S. WHITING A FTER thirty years in obscurity a complete manuscript of San Min Chu I...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1966) 26 (1): 3–4.
Published: 01 November 1966
...W. Norman Brown Abstract Horace Irvin Poleman, Chief of the Orientalia Division of the Library of Congress, died on November 6,1965, in the Georgetown University Hospital in Washington. He was born in Philadelphia on September 5, 1905, graduated from the College of the University of Pennsylvania...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1941) 1 (1): 25–42.
Published: 01 November 1941
...Kenneth Perry Landon Abstract The colonialism of Richelieu first brought the French to the Indo-Malayan peninsula in the seventeenth century. Ayuthia, which was then the capital of Siam, was the chief entrepôt of the area and as such naturally attracted the French. But their efforts to establish...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1942) 1 (4): 348–363.
Published: 01 August 1942
... chief detractor, was the Russian explorer, Prjevalsky, whose vindictive attempts to disprove Huc's statements caused many people to doubt that he and Father Gabet had ever entered Tibet. It was some forty years after the book first appeared before Huc found a champion in the American traveller, W. W...