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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 589–598.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Jaeho Kang Abstract This essay provides a critical observation of the South Korean government's distinctive management of COVID-19 with particular reference to the state of emergency. It reveals that the success of South Korea's handling of the pandemic is largely attributed by a majority...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 609–620.
Published: 01 August 2020
...John Harriss Abstract In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Indian government, led by Narendra Modi, imposed a stringent lockdown with only four hours notice. It paid no attention to the millions of migrants who work on a temporary basis in Indian cities. Most lost their livelihoods as a result...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (2): 246–249.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Abigail E. Coplin The Origins of COVID-19: China and Global Capitalism . By Li Zhang . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2021 . 185 pp. ISBN: 9781503630178 . © 2023 Association for Asian Studies 2023 Pandemics are never purely biological phenomena. They are always...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (3): 518–520.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Sara E. Davies The key message in the first and final chapters of the book—one well worth repeating here—is that the majority of research on COVID-19 has been published by authors based in Europe, North America, Australia, and New Zealand. This book provides an example of what can and should...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (4): 789–791.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Vivian Lin Public Health in Asia during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Global Health Governance, Migrant Labor, and International Health Crises . Edited by Anoma Van Der Veere , Florian Schneider , and Catherine Lo . Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press , 2022 . 272 pp. ISBN...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (2): 490–491.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Aparna Nair Pandemic India: From Cholera to Covid-19 . By David Arnold . New York : Oxford University Press , 2022 . xv, 322 pp. ISBN: 9780197659625 . © 2024 Association for Asian Studies 2024 The COVID-19 pandemic was/is a curious time for historians of medicine and public...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 569–577.
Published: 01 August 2020
...David Arnold Abstract The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has produced two different narratives in India. One, here described as “historical,” looks back to the pandemics of the colonial past—bubonic plague from 1896, influenza in 1918–19—as a source of comparisons, lessons, and dire warnings...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 621–631.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Kenneth Pomeranz Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic is nowhere near over. Some things, however, seem relatively clear. So far, the agendas of the world's most powerful actors seem unchanged—or, indeed, accelerated. Partly as a result, disease mortality and economic losses have fallen largely on poorer...
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Journal of Asian Studies 11493275.
Published: 08 January 2025
... freedom and social justice among socially vulnera ble 308 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES 84:1 February 2025 popu lat ions. These edited collections ill um in ate diff ere nt hist ori c al per iods in mod ern Asia, at least until the recent COVID-19 pand emic. Contributors...
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Journal of Asian Studies 11493315.
Published: 08 January 2025
... Economies of Resilience. Edited by Stephen Noakes and Alexander C. Tan. Boulder, CO: Rienner. ix, 245 pp. ISBN: 9781955055970. The COVID-19 pand emic created unp recedented econ omi c, pol iti c al, and soc ial challenges across Asia and around the world. These challenges were particularly...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 599–608.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Kate McDonald Abstract In March 2020, Prime Minister Abe Shinzō, the Tokyo Olympic Organising Committee, and the International Olympic Committee postponed the 2020 Tokyo Olympics for one year. The delay is the most prominent consequence of the COVID-19 crisis in Japan thus far. But the “Corona...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (4): 841–864.
Published: 01 November 2020
... processes. The parallel with the current COVID-19 crisis is evident, and my remarks do suggest some similarities. Although COVID-19 is not the topic I engage here, my theme alerts us to thinking methodologically about largely invisible or inconspicuous modes of circulation and their consequences, less dire...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (2): 243–244.
Published: 01 May 2023
... to mass gatherings for the Chinese New Year celebration, as they wanted to showcase the city's achievements. They also quickly silenced the early whistleblowers—eight doctors who reported the first cases of COVID-19. The local government's action and inaction typified government behavior for much...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (3): 385–406.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Jingxue Zhang; Charlie Yi Zhang Abstract This article uses the app Health Code, a smartphone-based application for contact tracing and risk assessment that serves as a COVID-19 health passport, as an example to explore how “biometric citizenship,” a new mode of preemptive social regulation...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 567.
Published: 01 August 2020
... Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2020 2020 This issue begins with a forum on COVID-19 titled “The Pandemic: Perspectives on Asia.” It is now evident that we are still in the first phase of this global pandemic, in which millions of individuals have been infected and so...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (2): 273.
Published: 01 May 2020
... Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2020 2020 As this issue of the JAS was going into production, the novel coronavirus disease COVID-19 was responsible for a global pandemic. Its devastation and disruption have affected the entire world's population. It is a global event...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 579–588.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Mary Augusta Brazelton Abstract Public health in China has become a global concern as a consequence of the outbreak and worldwide spread of COVID-19. This article examines the historical place of China in international and global health. Contrary to prevalent narratives in the history of medicine...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (2): 469–470.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Emily Baum Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2021 2021 In the conclusion to Global Medicine in China , Wayne Soon compares the 1911 Manchurian plague with the outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan. At first glance, the two diseases appear to have much in common: both were spread...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (4): 979–980.
Published: 01 November 2020
... was published before the emergence of COVID-19, but there is much within these pages that can illuminate the backstory to China's response to what has become a global public health crisis. Mass Vaccination: Citizens’ Bodies and State Power in Modern China . By Mary Augusta Brazelton . Ithaca, N.Y...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (4): 845–864.
Published: 01 November 2021
... structure reflecting our departure from the normal. For the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), the year of abnormality began with the canceled 2020 Annual Conference in Boston as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, continued with online teaching and meetings, and culminated in a virtual Annual Conference...
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