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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (2): 405–428.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Jeremy Jammes; David A. Palmer Abstract This article takes the case of the Vietnamese Cao Dai religion to examine how Asian religious leaders and translators, in a context of colonial modernity, invested a European language with their own cosmologies and discourses, building both a national...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (2): 527–530.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Janet Poole Intimate Empire: Collaboration and Colonial Modernity in Korea and Japan . By Nayoung Aimee Kwon . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2015 . xi, 277 pp. ISBN: 9780822359104 (cloth; also available in paper). Women Pre-scripted: Forging Modern Roles through Korean...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (2): 576–578.
Published: 01 May 2001
...Koen De Ceuster Colonial Modernity in Korea . Edited by Gi-Wook Shin and Michael Robinson . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 1999 . Harvard East Asian Monographs: 184/Harvard-Hallym Series on Korean Studies, xiii, 466 pp. $49.50 (cloth). Copyright © The Association...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (2): 458–459.
Published: 01 May 1998
...Arif Dirlik Formations of Colonial Modernity in East Asia . Edited by Tani E. Barlow . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 1997 . vi, 453 pp. $54.95 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 Book Reviews ASIA GENERAL Formations...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (3): 1036–1038.
Published: 01 August 2009
...Judith Henchy The theoretical considerations that place this work within the historiographic traditions of postcolonial analysis are treated with a light touch; Loos resists the temptation to be distracted by the semantics of the colonial “modernity” that she challenges. Her references to Michel...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (1): 202–203.
Published: 01 February 2015
...Emily Wilcox Performing Hybridity in Colonial-Modern China . By Siyuan Liu . New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2013 . xii, 245 pp. $90.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015 2015 It is a great pleasure to read a book so thoroughly researched...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (3): 941–942.
Published: 01 August 2010
...Varuni Bhatia Marriage and Modernity: Family Values in Colonial Bengal . By Rochona Majumdar . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2009 . xii , 343 pp. $84.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 The South Asian...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (3): 1058–1060.
Published: 01 August 2008
...John Clark Refracted Modernity: Visual Culture and Identity in Colonial Taiwan . Edited by Yuko Kikuchi . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2007 . ix , 285 pp. $60.00 (cloth) . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2008 2008 This is a substantial...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (3): 659–691.
Published: 01 August 2018
... later collaboration with the colonial state. This article attempts a new, spatialized reading of the much-studied work to reconsider alterity (Japan-Korea, city-hometown) as a precondition of modernity itself. The ancient seat of the Chosŏn dynasty (1392–1910), Seoul in the 1910s was swiftly...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (3): 627–654.
Published: 01 August 2017
... nationalism modernity translation văn minh vernacularization Vietnam It would be hard to overstate the significance of the term văn minh or “civilization” in colonial Vietnam between the 1900s and 1920s. It first appeared in Vietnam through the Duy Tân Reform Movement ( Phong trào Duy Tân...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (4): 996–998.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Henri-Simon Blanc-Hoang The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Empire, Disease, and Modernity in French Colonial Vietnam . By Michael G. Vann and Liz Clarke . New York : Oxford University Press , 2019 . xvi, 263 pp. ISBN: 9780190602697 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (1): 211–213.
Published: 01 February 2022
...Jee-Yeon Song Gender Politics at Home and Abroad: Protestant Modernity in Colonial-Era Korea . By Hyaeweol Choi . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2020 . xiv, 237 pp. ISBN: 9781108487436 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 Hyaeweol Choi...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (3): 1123–1127.
Published: 01 August 2008
... obscured or misrepresented the agency and role of locals in the production of modernity, and both of these books contribute to the salutary destruction of categories that perpetuate this distortion. That they do so without denying the importance of studying the colonial project or policy indicates...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2006) 65 (2): 440–442.
Published: 01 May 2006
...Rochona Majumdar Fractured Modernity: Making of a Middle Class in Colonial North India . By Sanjay Joshi . New Delhi : Oxford University Press , 2001 . ix , 209 pp. $45.00 (cloth); 2005, $19.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006 2006 440 T H E J O U R N A L...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (2): 633–634.
Published: 01 May 1994
...Rita Smith Kipp Constituting the Minangkabau: Peasants, Culture and Modernity in Colonial Indonesia . By Joel S. Kahn . Providence : Berg Publishers . 1993 . xi, 314 pp. $49.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 BOQK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 633...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (4): 1139–1140.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Serk-Bae Suh The Real Modern: Literary Modernism and the Crisis of Representation in Colonial Korea . By Christopher P. Hanscom . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2013 . ix, 235 pp. $39.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014 2014...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (4): 1104–1112.
Published: 01 November 2017
... its citizenry”—the authors seek to add to the growing body of work highlighting the dynamic and active contribution of Japanese civil society in the making of Japan's colonial modernity. Where Hoffman focuses on discourses produced mainly by elite intellectuals and politicians, the emphasis here...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (2): 583–585.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Tani Barlow Refiguring Women, Colonialism, and Modernity in Burma . By Chie Ikeya . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2011 . xii, 239 pp. $45.50 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2012 2012 Chapter 1 of this useful, informative book efficiently...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (2): 531–533.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Hendrik Maier Islam and Colonialism: Becoming Modern in Indonesia and Malaya . By Muhamad Ali . Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press , 2016 . 335 pp. ISBN: 978147440920 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2020 2020 Islam and Colonialism: Becoming...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (2): 493–501.
Published: 01 May 2020
... under review is how they collectively amplify calls for a reconsideration of state formation in modern Japan to more meaningfully engage the impacts of imperial expansion and the colonies in Japanese historical development. Ambaras catalogs how Japan's emergence as a “nation-empire” in the nineteenth...
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