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Journal of Asian Studies (1995) 54 (1): 205–206.
Published: 01 February 1995
...James V. Feinerman Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 The Economic Contract Law of China: Legitimation and Contract Autonomy in the PRC . By Pitman B. Potter . Seattle and London : University of Washington Press , 1992 . x, 246 pp. $50.00. BOOK REVIEWS...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (1): 168–169.
Published: 01 February 2020
...Joe Ellis Lars Højer's The Anti-Social Contract makes an important contribution to the growing ethnographic record of Mongolia and an invaluable and exciting intervention into historical and contemporary theoretical trends that have dominated anthropology. Ethnographically, it provides...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (4): 1100–1102.
Published: 01 November 1997
...Susan Orpett Long The Gift of Generations: Japanese and American Perspectives on Aging and the Social Contract . By Akiko Hashimoto . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1996 . xv, 226 pp. $49.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 1100 THE JOURNAL...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (2): 507–508.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Emily Baum Painting the City Red: Chinese Cinema and the Urban Contract . By Yomi Braester . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2010 . ix, 451 pp. $89.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 Painting the City Red traces...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1977) 36 (2): 356–357.
Published: 01 February 1977
...William B. Hauser Village “Contracts” in Tokugawa Japan: Fifty Specimens with English Translations and Comments . By Dan Fenno Henderson . Seattle : University of Washington Press , Asian Law Series 2, 1975 . xi, 234 pp. Notes, Appendixes, Glossary. $10.00 Copyright © The Association...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (4): 975–976.
Published: 01 November 2005
...Quadir Fahimul Civil Society and Political Change in Asia: Expanding and Contracting Democratic Space . Edited by Muthiah Alagappa . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 2004 . xxii , 528 pp. $85.00 (cloth); $34.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (3): 718–719.
Published: 01 August 1996
...Jennifer W. Jay Negotiating Daily Life in Traditional China: How Ordinary People Used Contracts, 600–1400 . By Valerie Hansen . New Haven, Conn, and London : Yale University Press , 1995 . xiv, 285 pp. $30.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 718...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (4): 941–942.
Published: 01 November 1989
...Jean-Paul Dumont Contracting Colonialism: Translation and Christian Conversion in Tagalog Society Under Spanish Rule . By Vicente L. Rafael . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 1988 . xiv, 230 pp. $28.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 BOOK REVIEWS...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1946) 5 (2): 176–188.
Published: 01 February 1946
..., commercial and industrial economy, protecting at the same time the conflicting interests of the diverse elements of the population. The result has been a growth from simple contract law to a complexity of provisions respecting labor relations that were only beginning to be fashioned into a unified whole...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1985) 44 (4): 785–792.
Published: 01 August 1985
...Norma Diamond Abstract Since 1979, China has changed its rural policies from emphasis on the collective economy to the support of a variety of household and individual contract systems. The forms of economic organization introduced between 1954 and the late 1970s have been criticized in the Chinese...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (4): 821–832.
Published: 01 November 1988
..., and negotiated rental contracts to their own liking with accommodating landlords? (Wakeman 1977:202) Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988 1988 List of References Allinson Gary D. 1977 . “ Japanese Social History. ” Correspondence, Journal of Asian Studies 36 , no. 2...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (3): 511–535.
Published: 01 August 1991
... contraction on important segments of the economy and society of metropolitan Manila, the capital and major port-city of the Philippines. In particular, this article focuses on the depression experience of the large Filipino bureaucratic middle class, of Filipino manual workers in commodities handling...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1992) 51 (2): 287–316.
Published: 01 May 1992
... dedicated to the pursuit of a liberal polity. The social contract theory of John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the constitutionalism of Baron Charles de Montesquieu, the laissez-faire economics of Adam Smith, and the reflections of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton on the challenges...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1967) 26 (4): 776.
Published: 01 August 1967
... 1966. 400 pp. Bibliography. $7.25. The publisher of the above wishes to correct the impression of the reviewer (JAS, Vol. XXVI, No. 2: February 1967, pp. 312–14) that this is a “machine-translated edition.” In fact, the translation was done by one of the many contract translators of the Joint...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (3): 575–594.
Published: 01 August 2016
..., and their associated cultural values can be shown, at least in some periods and contexts, to have assisted economic development in Chinese societies at home and abroad, by enabling social mobility, furthering family interests, building partnerships, facilitating contracts, and promoting other practices proper...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (1): 55–100.
Published: 01 February 2009
... society; and the role of law in defining an economic and social order based on contract, property, and rights. A fourth section considers the implications of these findings for the historical trajectories of China and India in the twentieth century. Taking law as an instrument of power and an imagined...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1971) 30 (4): 875–877.
Published: 01 August 1971
... from value judgments. The body of this Ph.D. thesis is 28 sale contracts from the fifth to the nineteenth centuries. Von Senger indicates that such contracts seem to have existed already in much earlier centuries (there is a mention of a contract in Shih-chi 75), but regards a contract from the year...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1983) 42 (4): 769–789.
Published: 01 August 1983
.... Allen Franklin . N.d. “A Theory of Share Contracts.” University of Pennsylvania. Mimeo. Alston Lee J. , and Robert Higgs . 1982 . “ Contractual Mix in Southern Agriculture since the Civil War: Facts, Hypotheses, and Tests .” Journal of Economic History 42 , no. 2 : 327 –53. Aye...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (3): 716–718.
Published: 01 August 1996
... lucid translations and analysis of Wu Li's poetry give us a vivid insight into Wu Li's religious sensibility. ROBERT ENTENMANN St. Olaf College Negotiating Daily Life in Traditional China: How Ordinary People Used Contracts, 600-1400. By VALERIE H A N S E N . New Haven, Conn, and London: Yale University...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1981) 40 (2): 368–369.
Published: 01 February 1981
... language sources. He relies most heavily on British government documents appropriately enough, given Hong Kong's special position in the emigrant trade and other British involvement. Wang's book focuses on the contract labor system, although he has one chapter on free emigration. Contract laborers...