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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (4): 1088–1089.
Published: 01 November 2017
... Jiahong's Back from the Dead , the reasons for this are manifold. They include a lack of professionalism on the part of the law enforcement and judicial personnel, and the unsavory role of the Party's all-important “political and legal-work committees.” The courts have played only a nominal role (p. 169...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1974) 34 (1): 232–233.
Published: 01 November 1974
...Göran Aijmer The Cult of the Dead in a Chinese Village . By Emily M. Ahern . Stanford, California : Stanford University Press , 1973 . xiv, 80 pp. Illus., Bibliography, Index. $10.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1974 1974 232 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (1): 188–189.
Published: 01 February 2022
...Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang Governing the Dead: Martyrs, Memorials, and Necrocitizenship in Modern China . By Linh D. Vu . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press , 2021 . 294 pp. ISBN: 9781501756504 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 China's...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (1): 69–86.
Published: 01 February 2017
...Lisa J. Arensen Abstract This article explores one Cambodian village's engagement with the remains of the dead encountered during postwar resettlement. For Khmer Buddhists, the correct material transformation of the bodies of the dead is critical, but these processes were often disrupted...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (1): 219–220.
Published: 01 February 2020
...Sumit Ganguly Lord Cornwallis Is Dead: The Struggle for Democracy in the United States and India . By Nico Slate . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 2019 . 372 pp. ISBN: 9780674983441 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2020 2020...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (2): 594–596.
Published: 01 May 2010
...,” and an essay, “Yasukuni and the Loss of Historical Memory.” His introduction notes that Yasukuni was founded in 1868 to propitiate the spirits of those who had died fighting in the brief civil war that accompanied the Meiji Restoration. Yasukuni subsequently enshrined all modern Japanese war dead as kami...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (3): 738–739.
Published: 01 August 2005
...Ramon N. Prats The Hidden History of The Tibetan Book of the Dead . By Bryan J. Cuevas . New York : Oxford University Press , 2003 . xi , 328 pp. $50.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 738 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T U D I E S critical...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (2): 443–467.
Published: 01 May 2003
... (Research on Shiraishi Haruki). Matsuyama : Ehime Daigaku . Takasuke Kobayashi . 1979 . Yasukuni mondai: kenpō to Yasukuni hōan (The Yasukuni problem: The constitution and the laws regulating Yasukuni). Tokyo : Kyoikusha . Krisftof Nicholas D. 1995 . “ Where Japan Deifies its War Dead...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (2): 415–442.
Published: 01 May 2003
...Jahyun Kim Haboush Abstract As katherine verdery notes, dead bodies have had political lives in virtually every civilization since antiquity. They frequently emerge as powerful metaphors of change, especially after a time of crisis when the meaning of political symbols is redefined. This is vividly...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (2): 699–701.
Published: 01 May 2003
...Andrea Katalin Molnar The Potent Dead: Ancestors, Saints, and Heroes in Contemporary Indonesia . Edited by Henri Chambert-Loir and Anthony Reid . Crows Nest, NSW : Asian Studies Association of Australia in association with Allen and Unwin ; Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2002...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (1): 256–257.
Published: 01 February 2004
...Clark D. Neher The Funeral Casino: Meditation, Massacre, and Exchange with the Dead in Thailand . By Alan Klima . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 2002 . xii , 317 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $22.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 256 T H E J O...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (1): 153–154.
Published: 01 February 2000
...Robert Cummings Neville The Democracy of the Dead: Dewey, Confucius, and the Hope for Democracy in China . By David L. Hall and Roger T. Ames . Chicago and Lasalle, Ill .: Open Court , 1999 . xii, 267 pp. $34.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (2): 596–597.
Published: 01 May 1998
...Norman G. Owen Dead Season: A Story of Murder and Revenge on the Philippine Island of Negros . By Alan Berlow . New York : Pantheon Books , 1996 . xvi, 302 pp. $25.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 596 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES traditions...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (4): 940–960.
Published: 01 November 1999
... . Presidential Address: 'I Have Scinde": Flogging a Dead (White Male Orientalist) Horse WENDY DONIGER . L E T ME BEGIN WITH A STORY about General Sir Charles James Fox Napier, who was born in 1782 and in 1839 was made commander of Sind (or Scinde, as it was often spelled at that time, or Sindh), an area...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1982) 41 (3): 485–509.
Published: 01 May 1982
...Toshio Akima Abstract The author reconstructs the religious idea and ritual that lie behind the “Songs of the Dead.” The three songs attributed to Empress Saimei in the Nihonshoki (nos. 119–121) are interpreted as sung by a dead person's spirit sailing to the nether world. They must have been...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1953) 12 (4): 452–454.
Published: 01 August 1953
...Ferdinand D. Lessing The Tibetan Book of the Dead . Or the after-death experiences on the Bardo plane, according to Lāma Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English rendering. By W. Y. Evans-Wentz . Second edition . London : Oxford University Press , 1949 . Copyright © The Association for Asian...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (3): 838–840.
Published: 01 August 2004
...Ulrich Demmer The Living and the Dead: Social Dimensions of Death in South Asian Religions . Edited By Liz Wilson . SUNY Series in Hindu Studies. Albany : University of New York Press , 2003 . xi, 212 pp. $68.50 (cloth); $22.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (2): 473–475.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Raji C. Steineck Bonds of the Dead: Temples, Burial, and the Transformation of Contemporary Japanese Buddhism . By Mark Rowe . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2011 . xv, 258 pp. $91.00 (cloth); $29.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013 2013...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 569–577.
Published: 01 August 2020
... stations, the riots and attacks on doctors and ambulance attendants, the curtailed cremations and lime-splattered corpses, the mounting daily tally of the dead—transposed to India of the recent past. 5 Then, as now, the middle classes could save themselves by self-isolating (in part, in the 1890s...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (1): 17–41.
Published: 01 February 2014
... and the bodies of the dead. Stones became replacements for corpses, doors to the underworld, narratives of lives, and textual diagrams of kinship relations. Yi used stones to create new ways of conceptualizing and reaffirming social relations among living descendants. And they made much of the connection...
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