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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (4): 1099–1101.
Published: 01 November 2004
... nascent consumer culture, and this combination of nationalism and consumerism became a basis for what it meant to live in modern China (p. 355). ANDREA MCELDERRY University of Louisville Social Connections in China: Institutions, Culture, and the Changing Nature of Guanxi. Edited by THOMAS GOLD, DOUG...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (3): 575–576.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Alexa Alice Joubin The Art of Useless: Fashion, Media, and Consumer Culture in Contemporary China . By Calvin Hui . New York : Columbia University Press , 2021 . 280 pp. ISBN: 9780231192491 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 “In the morning...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2006) 65 (3): 645–646.
Published: 01 August 2006
...Sara Shneiderman Suitably Modern: Making Middle-Class Culture in a New Consumer Society . By Mark Liechty . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 2003 . xviii , 292 pp. $21.95 (paper), $60.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006 2006 B O O K R E V I E...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (1): 75–93.
Published: 01 February 2019
... consumer and media culture as a source of docility and atomization, it sees the collective spectatorship of mass entertainment as generating the potential for self-transcendence and revolution. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019 2019 capitalism cities consumption media...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (1): 149–170.
Published: 01 February 2012
..., women could be viewed as producers and consumers of political culture and practice. This does not translate into a simple gendered déjà vu of low castes ‘reproducing’ upper-caste cultures and practices however: BSP women appropriate and re-enact gender idioms and models coined in colonial India while...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (1): 193–195.
Published: 01 February 2004
... on ukiyo-e virtually since people began writing about it. Moreover, he cites critical writings on museology, consumerism, Japonisme, and popular culture. Perusing this formidable arsenal was suf cient to assure me that The Prints of Isoda Koryu¯sai: Floating World Culture and Its Consumers in Eighteenth...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (3): 493–506.
Published: 01 August 2022
... generally been understood to be the most influential of lifestyle guides, containing essays about the theater, everyday life, and material culture. This article argues that price and quality differentiation when it comes to a variety of consumer goods forms a central organizing principle for the volume...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (2): 335–365.
Published: 01 May 2020
... are the effects of foreign consumer goods on the minds and bodies of the people and the nation's sovereignty? The article shows how South Korean cultural actors responded to the increasing commodification of everyday life by bringing critical attention to the uneasy relationship between the body, foreign...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (3): 804–806.
Published: 01 August 2011
...Katherine Frith Gerth asserts that the rising consumer culture in China is based on Western consumer culture. Yet, one might argue that there are other Asian societies that have implemented consumer society quite successfully and that these might very well have been the models upon which the CCP...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (3): 339–361.
Published: 01 August 2023
... of literary-intellectual values among members of the Eight Banners. This article demonstrates how it contributed to the emergence of a multiethnic population of Manchu, Mongol, and Chinese bannermen possessing high levels of Manchu literacy who would become consumers and producers of Manchu literature...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (1): 21–43.
Published: 01 February 2013
... in Bali's integration into the globalizing economy of pleasure. This paper examines the ways in which the monument is being articulated and “consumed” as a social and cultural marker for the island's tourism geography. The paper pays particular attention to the increasing diversity of Bali's visitors...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (3): 787–817.
Published: 01 August 2007
..., economic, and cultural patterns. They also reveal identities under construction—by readers, writers, publishers, and consumers. This article assesses the expanding field of late imperial Chinese book history in the United States and Japan, with some reference to scholarship in China and Taiwan. It looks...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (3): 789–793.
Published: 01 August 2016
...David Arnold Abstract As studies of technology in modern Asia move from production to consumption, and from big machines to small, so they confront increasingly complex and nuanced issues about the relationship between the local, the regional, and the global; between political economy and culture...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1964) 23 (3): 417–423.
Published: 01 May 1964
... and culture, the dual society, based on the following major features: it was governed by tradition, and its people were spatially immobile; it was a rural society based on a corporate land tenure system; it was a consumer economy; and it was integrated by religious norms. In Boeke's widely known one-line...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (4): 1101–1102.
Published: 01 November 2004
... the movement did not instill product nationality as the preeminent attribute of a commodity, it did insinuate nationalism into countless aspects of China s nascent consumer culture, and this combination of nationalism and consumerism became a basis for what it meant to live in modern China (p. 355). ANDREA...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (1): 211–213.
Published: 01 February 2002
... of the past on the present, to identify the present as a reaction to the past, or to demonstrate a degree of continuity in the midst of radical change. This edited collection is divided into four parts: 1, Xia Hai: Ethnographies of Work and Leisure; 2, Gender, Bodies, and Consumer Culture; 3, Negotiating...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (3): 761–763.
Published: 01 August 2012
...—snuff, water pipe tobacco, or manufactured cigarette—was never inevitable or natural. Instead, tobacco's spread in China was inextricably linked to domestic production patterns, intricate consumer cultures that were at once stratified and inclusive, the acquired appreciation of smoking practices...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (3): 792–794.
Published: 01 August 2018
... nature of Manchu rule, consumer culture, lineage, and female chastity. Using salt merchants as an entry point, Wu aims to reveal a new network between Manchu court and Han Chinese, to analyze the merchants’ role in High Qing consumer society, to challenge the conventional understanding of literati...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (1): 231–233.
Published: 01 February 2015
... are frequently used tactics to perpetuate the hierarchies of caste, gender, and class. She suggests that the projected freedom of India's new generation is mostly a marketing gimmick, a strategy of neoliberal capital to attract laborers and consumers. The advertising and culture industry continuously goads young...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (1): 276–278.
Published: 01 February 2002
... political, economic, and cultural systems. Composed of six substantial case studies (all well over forty pages) that focus on such diverse aspects of current consumer culture as blue jeans, health clubs, and art galleries, the book aims to contribute to a richer, more nuanced understanding of the nation...
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