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Published: 01 November 2014
Figure 12. Concluding portrait page of 1900 directory, Taiwan shishō meikan : Civic leader Huang Yujie, Tamsui resident Saitō Shigetomo, businessman Wang Zhitang, and businessman Rong Qinian (clockwise from upper left). Courtesy of National Taiwan Library.
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (4): 1136–1138.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Denis Gainty Marathon Japan: Distance Racing and Civic Culture . By Thomas R. Havens . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2015 . 227 pp. ISBN: 9780824841010 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2016 2016 From the Meiji period (1868...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1977) 36 (2): 267–282.
Published: 01 February 1977
... in Siam ( Bangkok : Siam Society , 1965 ), p. 20 ff. 10 In this paper I use the term “orthodox,” in relation to civic religion, simply to designate those forms of the tradition that, through the course of Thai history, were generally fostered by the established ecclesiastical...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (3): 991–993.
Published: 01 August 2003
...Lelah Dushkin Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life: Hindus and Muslims in India . By Ashutosh Varshney . New Haven : Yale University Press , 2002 . ix, 382 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 991 The variety...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (1): 319–322.
Published: 01 February 2003
...Alf Hiltebeitel Landscapes of Urban Memory: The Sacred and the Civic in India's High-Tech City . By Smriti Srinivas . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2001 . 376 pp. $57.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 BOOK...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2006) 65 (1): 221–222.
Published: 01 February 2006
...Manish Kumar Thakur Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life: Hindus and Muslims in India . By Ashutosh Varshney . New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press , 2002 . xi , 382 pp. $50.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006 2006 B O O K R E V I E W S S O...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (1): 260–261.
Published: 01 February 2009
...Timothy Weston Articulating Citizenship: Civic Education and Student Politics in Southeastern China, 1912–1940 . By Robert Culp . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2007 . xx , 382 pp. $49.50 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (2): 522–524.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Christian Sorace The Politics of Compassion: The Sichuan Earthquake and Civic Engagement in China . By Bin Xu . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 2017 . xiii, 256 pp. ISBN: 9781503602106 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). Copyright © The Association...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (3): 539–562.
Published: 01 August 2013
...Amy Stanley Abstract During the mid-1870s, fearing the legal innovations of a “civilized” state, geisha and their employers recast Tokugawa-era practices of civic engagement and educational attainment in the language of enlightenment. Proprietors built schools intended to transform geisha...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1961) 20 (3): 265–266.
Published: 01 May 1961
...Milton Singer Abstract Civilization, it has been said, is the management of complexity. One ingredient of complexity is the plurality of social groups divided by language, race, religion, caste, and class. The political arrangements that enable plural groups to live together is one aspect of civic...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (1): 33–56.
Published: 01 February 2010
...Mary Alice Haddad Abstract How do undemocratic civic organizations become compatible with democratic civil society? How do local organizations merge older patriarchal, hierarchical values and practices with newer more egalitarian, democratic ones? This article tells the story of how volunteer fire...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1971) 30 (2): 361–372.
Published: 01 February 1971
...; a press; efficient, nationalistic civic leadership; and caste-based agrarian groups chafing under British land policies. Gandhi's innovative use of various Gujarati and bania heritages won many supporters across India, but is also alienated important groups: many Bengalis favored violence; Marxists called...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (3): 673–702.
Published: 01 August 2016
.... Despite the challenges that this discursive space encountered in interacting with the authorities and the public at large, it represented an unfinished attempt to build a new civic culture among Hong Kong's younger generation. 1 For a detailed chronological account of the movement and an initial...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1987) 46 (2): 309–337.
Published: 01 May 1987
... toward a moral society, merchants justified their wealth. Highly visible and tolerated by the state, the benevolent societies expressed social alliances based on money and a spirit of civic pride. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1987 1987 List of References An-fu-hsien chih...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1987) 46 (3): 491–493.
Published: 01 August 1987
.... The emergence of such an expanded civic sense, it was hoped, would be paralleled by the development of economic, educational, and even religious institutions similarly premised on a broader, more socially accommodative, and self-consciously sustained concept of community. The expansion of political and economic...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (2): 379–396.
Published: 01 May 1998
... is the largest civic organization in Taiwan, claiming 4 million members worldwide in 1994, and nearly 20 percent of Taiwan's population. It gives away well over US $20 million in chanty each year, runs a state-of-the-art hospital, and has branches in fourteen countries. Copyright © The Association for Asian...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1978) 37 (3): 413–425.
Published: 01 May 1978
... of the Ichikō students was something of a shock. How strange it was that those young men destined to become the leaders of an emerging world power should be conducting themselves in a way that seemed, on the surface at least, to be in proud defiance of the codes of civic responsibility and social acceptability...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (4): 1023–1041.
Published: 01 November 2011
... to be considered alongside the Chinese internet's potential for creating new forms of civic activism and socio-political change. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 With 457 million users today and an estimated 650 million by 2015, the Sinophone internet is now the world's...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (2): 435–464.
Published: 01 May 2009
... Malerkotla's pacific civic identity. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009 In the central Punjab town of Malerkotla, the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 is remembered as the community's finest hour and evidence of the moral fiber and secular values of the citizenry. 1...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1946) 6 (1): 44–49.
Published: 01 November 1946
...Donn V. Hart Abstract More than one hundred textbooks in American and world history, geography, modern problems and civics were examined recently by social studies and Asiatic specialists to evaluate the accuracy and adequacy of the material included on the Far East. Their report, Treatment of Asia...
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