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Journal of Asian Studies (1964) 23 (4): 597–598.
Published: 01 August 1964
...Bernard Barber Clan, Caste, and Club . By F. L. K. Hsu . Princeton, N. J. : D. Van Nostrand Co. , 1963 . xi, 335 . $7.95. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 BOOK REVIEWS 597 crash comes, which he expects, he fears that with his latest book, he will become...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1959) 19 (1): 74–75.
Published: 01 November 1959
...Morton H. Fried The Traditional Chinese Clan Rules . By Huichen Wang Liu . Locust Valley, New York : J. J. Augustin Inc. , 1959 . (Monograph VII of the Association for Asian Studies) x, 264 . Bibliography, Appendix. $5.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1959...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1972) 31 (4): 967–968.
Published: 01 August 1972
...Alan R. Beals Kin, Clan, Raja and Rule: State-Hinterland Relations in Preindustrial India . By Richard G. Fox . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1971 . 187 pp. Bibliography, Index, Illustrations. $8.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972 1972 BOOK...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1985) 44 (2): 395–397.
Published: 01 February 1985
...Thomas B. Lifson Kikkoman: Company, Clan, and Community . By W. Mark Fruin . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1983 . x, 358 pp. Appendixes, Notes, Glossary, Index. $30. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1985 1985 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 395 composing his magnum...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (1): 215–217.
Published: 01 February 1997
...Fujiya Kawashima The Clan Records: Five Stories of Korea . By Kajiyama Toshiyuki , translated by Yoshiko Dykstra , with an introduction by George Akita and Yong-ho Choe. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1995 , 186 pp. $18.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (4): 1041–1043.
Published: 01 November 2005
...Youngshik Bong Great Leader, Dear Leader: Demystifying North Korea under the Kim Clan . By Bertil Lintner . Chiang Mai : Silkworm Books , 2005 . xv, 274 pp. B 625 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 B O O K R E V I E W S K O R E A 1041 Great Leader, Dear...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1962) 21 (2): 235.
Published: 01 February 1962
...Beatrice D. Miller; Robert J. Miller The Mongours of the Kansu-Tibetan Frontier. Part III. Records of the Mongour Clans . By Louis M. J. Schram , C.I.C.M. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, Vol. 51 , Part 3. Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (2): 333–344.
Published: 01 May 2012
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Journal of Asian Studies (1987) 46 (4): 761–790.
Published: 01 November 1987
... of writing something official about it. Much but by no means all of Manchu civilization was derived from Jurchen culture (tenth–seventeenth centuries), which was primarily a folk culture in which oral tradition, shamanic ritual, and clan custom were the mainstays of orderly social life. Inseparable from...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (4): 947–966.
Published: 01 November 1997
... in the Marcos and pre-Marcos periods have won reelection, as have numerous other members of long-entrenched political families (Soriano 1987; Gutierrez 1992). Secondly, most of these politicians and clans have been known to enjoy not only political longevity but also economic preeminence within their respective...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (1): 99–112.
Published: 01 February 2021
...Evan Nicoll-Johnson Abstract In the early fourth century CE, after the escalation of a series of succession disputes among the imperial Sima clan, the Jin dynasty collapsed and its capital city of Luoyang 洛陽 was destroyed. However, the end of the dynasty did not cause the Sima clan to fall from...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1964) 23 (3): 417–423.
Published: 01 May 1964
...; it was a consumer economy; and it was integrated by religious norms. In Boeke's widely known one-line summary, Asian society is essentially a “religious community of food-crop cultivators all belonging to the same clan or social unity.” There is a sort of Gemeinschaft , an organic unity of peasant cultivators, held...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1976) 36 (1): 25–36.
Published: 01 November 1976
..., provides us with a wide variety of monopolies. These groups restrict access to the sacred, just as economic monopolies corner markets. Access to the sacred can be controlled in various ways—e.g., by maintaining an exclusive kinship tie with the gods (clans), by means of a purity-pollution complex (caste...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (1): 149–180.
Published: 01 February 2010
... a significant shift in policy on Tibetan affairs compared to the Mongolian Yuan dynasty (1271–1368). Relative disengagement from Tibet translated into a liberalization of local politics, resulting in a shift from secular politics and clan wealth to ecclesiastical monastic institutions. The Geluk sect formed...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (2): 469–496.
Published: 01 May 2003
... to restore the country's previous democratic regime from between 1946 and the establishment of martial law in 1972 (Anderson 1988; McCoy 1994, 19; Wurfel 1988, 323). In this earlier democratic period, traditional political clans dominated the country's policy-making institutions and successfully blocked...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (1): 57–82.
Published: 01 February 2002
... in China, tended to focus their attention on the life of the author, Cao Xueqin (d. 1763), believing the interpretation of the novel to be—to a large extent—hinged on a successful reconstruction of Cao Xueqin's familial relationships, especially with those members of the Cao clan such as Red Inkstone...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (2): 660–663.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Peter Golden Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 “Tribe,” “subtribe,” and “clan” are troublesome terms, inadequately refracted in our sources. This is widely known, accepted, and noted in my review. David Sneath continues to ignore Kâšgharî, an “insider” who...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1983) 42 (4): 805–829.
Published: 01 August 1983
... settlement history of the lowland villages and their ability to tap the profits of the rice export trade gave them the advantage in this race to achieve the ideal of the closed, clan-dominated village. By contrast, the hill-village Hakkas had (as of 1900) at most seven generations to accumulate collective...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1955) 14 (2): 287–288.
Published: 01 February 1955
... and the history of the Monguor clans. This outstanding work based on material never published before is particularly important, because it is the first detailed description of the social organization of any Mongol tribe. A brief enumeration of the main parts of this work will give a general idea of its contents...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (3): 969–970.
Published: 01 August 2003
...: A Political Biography. By MICHAEL FlNCH. Hawai'i Studies on Korea. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2002. xii, 256 pp. $45.00 (cloth). A scion of the influential Yohung Min clan, Min Yong-hwan (1861 1905) was Choson's first diplomatic representative to Russia and Britain and, later, prime minister...