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Journal of Asian Studies (1972) 32 (1): 5–37.
Published: 01 November 1972
...James C. Scott Abstract This paper attempts to explain how, in Southeast Asia, the strong patron-client bonds which joined peasants to local elites tended to break down during the colonial period—particularly in directly-ruled low-land areas. By examining the effects of social differentiation...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1980) 39 (2): 400–401.
Published: 01 February 1980
...Eugene F. Irschick The Princes of India in the Twilight of Empire: Dissolution of a Patron-Client System, 1914–1939 . By Barbara N. Ramusack . Columbus : Ohio State University Press for the University of Cincinnati , 1978 . xxii, 322 pp. Glossary, List of Persons, Notes, Bibliography...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (1): 235–240.
Published: 01 February 2022
...Himanshu Jha Clients and Constituents: Political Responsiveness in Patronage Democracies . By Jennifer Bussell . New York : Oxford University Press , 2019 . 367 pp. ISBN: 9780190945404 (paper). Social Justice through Inclusion: The Consequences of Electoral Quotas in India...
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in Red Guards and Salarymen: The Chinese Cultural Revolution and Comic Satire in 1960s Japan
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 November 2015
Figure 2. Title page for the special feature in Shūkan manga Sandee , September 28, 1966 . Courtesy of Jitsugyō no Nihonsha. The title page cartoon by Satō Sanpei shows an armband-toting office Red Guard confiscating gifts from business clients, including wristwatches, belts, and brassieres.
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (4): 962–979.
Published: 01 November 2024
... who hail from vernacular backgrounds and who are employed as fitness trainers in India. The gym floor not only offers an opportunity to make money but also to acquire sociocultural capital through interactions with clients. The upward mobility this facilitates, in which the men's own muscular bodies...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1971) 30 (3): 569–582.
Published: 01 May 1971
... differences lay in Hyderabad's complete reliance on private contractors for revenue collection, the customary treatment of jagirs (land grants) as inheritable, and clear functional distinctions within the mansabdari system. Loosely structured patron-client relationships and the use of vakils or intermediaries...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1979) 38 (2): 283–297.
Published: 01 February 1979
...Ansil Ramsay Abstract Ted Robert Gurr's hypotheses on political violence and James C. Scott's on patron-client relations are used to explain why modernizing policies of the Siamese government provoked rebellions in Chiang Mai in 1889 and in Phrae in 1902. The article suggests that the rebellions...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1983) 43 (1): 51–76.
Published: 01 November 1983
...-client networks linking the Party to selected employees, and the everyday cultivation of personal connections for individual gain. VOL. XLIII, N O . 1 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES NOVEMBER 1983 Organized Dependency and Cultures of Authority in Chinese Industry ANDREW G. WALDER P atterns of leadership...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1978) 37 (4): 637–652.
Published: 01 August 1978
... as shylocks, parasites who—if given half a chance—squeeze clients dry through exorbitant interest rates on loans and on goods-on-credit. In an Indian village, one quickly becomes aware of the sometimes fearful respect they command. One approaches them for credit as a supplicant; for the defaultor...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (4): 1171–1193.
Published: 01 November 2003
...Anirudh Krishna Abstract The role of caste in indian politics is undergoing considerable change. Caste and patron-client links have been regarded traditionally as the building blocks of political organization in India (Brass 1994; Manor 1997; Migdal 1988; Kothari 1988; Weiner 1967), and vertical...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (4): 809–836.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Sakura Christmas Abstract This article focuses on the 1935 discovery of what is now believed to be a selenium deficiency disorder in the Japanese client state of Manchukuo. The epicenter of this disease had served as pasture for Oirat Mongols until the late nineteenth century. Opening up the land...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1972) 31 (2): 309–328.
Published: 01 February 1972
... are prosperous or enjoy much security. Despite his marginal position perhaps partly because of it the munshi contributes significantly although informally to the actual daily working of the legal system by facilitating business between his master (the va\il) and the latter's client (mua\\il) and between...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1986) 45 (3): 637–638.
Published: 01 May 1986
... made a note of the need for serious research on day-to-day interactions in Third World bureaucracies. The quality and texture of relations among minor officials and between them and their clerical staffs and regional clients no less than the cultural intricacies and strategic subtleties embedded...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1964) 23 (S1): 53–69.
Published: 01 June 1964
... welfare of their clients. They perform the annual ceremonies and life-cycle rites as well as many special ceremonies. In addition they perform worship to village gods and they practice astrology and some forms of divination based on written prescriptions of Hinduism. Although Brahmin priests...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1967) 26 (3): 421–432.
Published: 01 May 1967
... as well as because of the discrepancy between cash and real income resulting from the patron-client credit arrangement (to be surveyed below). 12
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Harry W.
, “The Economy Has No Surplus: Critique of a Theory of Development,” Trade and Market in the Early Empires: Economies...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 789–791.
Published: 01 August 2020
... reciprocal relationships between shamans, clients, and gods, however, which do not seem so different from those described for mainland Korea. Her discussion emphasizes the notion of injŏng —sincerity, human-heartedness—over quantity with respect to offerings and other ritual display. This is a common cliché...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1993) 52 (4): 968–970.
Published: 01 November 1993
... history of American efforts to promote reform in three "client" Asian states threatened by Communist insurgencies: Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist China (1946-48); Elpidio Quirino's Philippines (1950-53); and Ngo Dinh Diem's South Vietnam (1961-63). The second, largely based on the lessons deduced from...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1974) 33 (2): 279–288.
Published: 01 February 1974
... to delineate the structural outlines of dependency and discontent in pre-modern Chinese society, at a minimum it must be coupled with a vertical, patron-client model of association and conflict to explain the qualitative dimensions of elite-mass relations. A patron-client model can facilitate an understanding...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (1): 157–159.
Published: 01 February 2024
... on extensive fieldwork across eleven years, including observations of and in-depth interviews, Liu provides a nuanced analysis of the complexities of the practice of commercialized marriage and how it affects all involved, from the perspectives of female clients who seek to marry Western men and vice versa...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1959) 19 (1): 102.
Published: 01 November 1959
... in the University of Illinois, supervised by Professor Oscar Lewis. The author is an anthropologist with field experience in Africa. He has searched the literature for data on systems of hereditary caste service under powerful client families in villages in most areas of India, though he has not used the gazetteers...
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