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Journal of Asian Studies (1995) 54 (2): 514–516.
Published: 01 May 1995
...Frank B. Gibney Centuries of Economic Endeavor: Parallel Paths in Japan and Europe and Their Contrast with the Third World . By John P. Powelson . Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press , 1994 . xii, 483 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...
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in Magic, Shōjo , and Metamorphosis: Magical Girl Anime and the Challenges of Changing Gender Identities in Japanese Society
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Published: 01 February 2014
Figure 3. A clear contrast staged between the enemy queen as a seductive adult woman and Sailor Moon as shōjo (Takeuchi 1993 ).
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Published: 01 August 2023
FIGURE 5 In contrast to the contentious scene between them, an official news broadcast states that the eagle and bunny are “engaging in a frank conversation.” Year Hare Affair , season 1, episode 6.
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Journal of Asian Studies (1995) 54 (2): 585–588.
Published: 01 May 1995
...Steve Derné Two Faces of Protest: Contrasting Modes of Women's Activism in India . By Amrita Basu . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1992 . xii, 308 pp. $35.00 (cloth); $15.00 (paper). Toward Empowerment: Women and Movement Politics in India . By Leslie J. Calman...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1993) 52 (4): 1069–1070.
Published: 01 November 1993
...Shahid Javed Burki Contrasting Styles of Industrial Reform: China and India in the 1980s . By George Rosen . Chicago : The University of Chicago Press , 1992 . 168 pp. $25.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 1069 gender...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (4): 1101–1104.
Published: 01 November 2021
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in “Affluence of the Heart”: Wastefulness and the Search for Meaning in Millennial Japan
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 February 2014
Figure 3. The caption to these contrasting images of Edo and contemporary Tokyo responds to the brother's question about why the early modern town is so clean: “Even a single nail and scraps of paper are picked up and reused” (Akiyama 2009a , 4–5).
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (3): 714–748.
Published: 01 August 1998
... control keyed to economic conditions, and favorable living standards are contrasted with China's rapid growth, periodic mortality crises, and precarious balance of population and resources. Although there is some variation in approaches and vocabularies reflecting disciplinary divisions, and recognition...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1987) 46 (1): 71–88.
Published: 01 February 1987
...Nancy E. Levine Abstract Models of ethnicity in Nepal stress, on the one hand, unlimited ethnic diversity and, on the other, a rather limited set of ethnic contrasts: Hindu versus Buddhist, tribe versus caste, mountain versus middle hills versus lowland Terai. However, ethnic relations in Humla...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (1): 41–66.
Published: 01 February 2001
... in contexts of unequal power. This trend in scholarly analysis contrasts with assumptions about primordial difference that inspire indigenous rights activists to defend the autonomy of culturally distinct communities from state and market processes intruding on them from the outside . It contrasts also...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1970) 29 (4): 779–798.
Published: 01 August 1970
... to suggest that this earlier opposition expressed a fundamental economic principle: the distinction between castes who held direct or indirect rights in land and those who were primarily dependent on renumeration for specific professional services. This contrast was expressed symbolically by the use...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (2): 295–314.
Published: 01 May 2018
... and to reconceptualize his approach. The article contrasts the history of the North China Plain, culturally rooted in dry-land grain agriculture and from time immemorial deeply intertwined with that of the adjacent grasslands, with that of the south, a culturally and linguistically diverse land of river valleys...
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Journal of Asian Studies 11445271.
Published: 08 January 2025
.... In contrast to a vast majority of transnational chains designed foremost to facilitate the efficient circulation of commodities, people-to-people trade has seen its main thrust as supporting linkage politics against the backdrop of a hacienda- and plantation-dominated economy. Encountering each other...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1980) 39 (2): 255–258.
Published: 01 February 1980
... History”; for, Hegel stated, “as the contrast between objective existence and subjective freedom of movement in it is still wanting, every change is excluded and the fixedness of a character which recurs perpetually takes the place of what we should call the truly historical” (The Philosophy of History, J...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1979) 38 (2): 271–281.
Published: 01 February 1979
...William LaFleur Abstract The anthropologist Victor Turner has proposed a new theory of religious pilgrimage, holding that people on pilgrimage have entered into a social modality that contrasts sharply with the one they ordinarily experience at home; roles, ranks, and social hierarchy have all been...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (3): 691–721.
Published: 01 August 2010
... and beheaded by his followers. Saigō's suicide became an established part of Japanese history only in the early 1900s, with the rise of bushidō as a national ideology. By contrast, in the 1870s and 1880s, the story of Saigō's suicide was just one of many fantastic accounts of his demise, which also included...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1963) 22 (2): 139–153.
Published: 01 February 1963
... tradition” and “great community”; these abstractions are useful for describing the intellectual thought and interests of civilizations, and groups of individuals who promote and further these interests. The little tradition by contrast, we agree with Dumont and Pocock, is the whole culture of the little...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (3): 701–720.
Published: 01 August 2024
... invariably reflected the socioreligious context of their time. An increase in anti-Muslim religious polarization meant that the fate of the essentiality plea differed depending on the religion of litigants. This judicial treatment of cases stands in stark contrast to the cases decided during the initial...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (1): 123–147.
Published: 01 February 2010
... and legitimacy. These ideas and understandings were not abandoned in the dynasty's displacement and reestablishment in India. Among them remained a distinctly Timurid understanding of the rights and roles of elite women—not only with regard to their artistic production or patronage but also, in marked contrast...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1975) 35 (1): 31–47.
Published: 01 November 1975
... bringing out the contrasts between the past and the present, between age and youth—one of the memorable features of this anthology. Inasmuch as “Black Coat Lane” can be read as a tiao-ku (mourning the past) poem, so can Taipei jen be read as an elegy on the final dissolution of an ancient culture. That Pai...
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