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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (1): 154–156.
Published: 01 February 2024
...Yan Zhang Governing Death, Making Persons: The New Chinese Way of Death . By Huwy-min Lucia Liu . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press , 2022 . xviii, 252 pp. ISBN: 9781501767210 . © 2024 Association for Asian Studies 2024 Huwy-min Lucia Liu's book Governing Death, Making...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (2): 337–346.
Published: 01 May 2010
...David T. Johnson Abstract For most cultures and most of human history, the death penalty was taken for granted and directed at a wide range of offenders. In ancient Israel, death was prescribed for everything from murder and magic to blasphemy, bestiality, and cursing one's parents. In eighteenth...
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Published: 01 May 2010
Figure 1. Status of the death penalty in 29 Asian Jurisdictions. As of November 2009, the jurisdictions are as follows. Abolition for all crimes: Australia (abolished in 1985), Bhutan (2004), Cambodia (1989), East Timor (1999), Hong Kong (1993), Macao (n.a.), Nepal (1997), New Zealand (1989
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Journal of Asian Studies (1980) 39 (3): 550–552.
Published: 01 May 1980
...Victoria B. Cass The Death of Woman Wang . By Jonathan Spence . New York : The Viking Press , 1978 . xx, 169 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Map. $10.95 (cloth); $2.95 (paper; New York: Penguin Books). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1980 1980 550 JOURNAL OF ASIAN...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (3): 793–794.
Published: 01 August 2004
... a few). Moreover, the use of both terms Ko¨kekhota and Hohhot may engender confusion (p. 186, lines 251 52). This reader would like to have had a more detailed map localizing the different efdoms (see the map on p. ix) and the dates of the life and death of the protagonists within the introductory...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (4): 1294–1295.
Published: 01 November 1994
... that are likely to stimulate further inquiry. MAYA CHADDA William Paterson College Ghosts: Life and Death in North India. By R U T H S. F R E E D and STANLEY A. FREED. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, No. 72. Seattle: American Museum of National History, 1993- 396 pp. $40.00...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1972) 31 (3): 734–736.
Published: 01 May 1972
...Gayl D. Ness May 13: Before and After . By Tunku Abdul Rahman . Kuala Lumpur : Utusan Melayu Press Limited , 1969 . 207 pp. n.p. Malaysia: Death of a Democracy . By John Slimming . London : John Murray , 1969 , ix, 82 pp. Maps. n.p. The May 13 Tragedy: A Report...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (2): 644–647.
Published: 01 May 2010
... in Jakarta on the Balinese death thrash scene. Baulch outlines the path of postriot death thrash identity, moving from compliance with “an official youth ideal” (p. 145) to eventual identification with the national underground scene—all the while maintaining control of physical territories and modes...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1983) 43 (1): 139–140.
Published: 01 November 1983
...Roger T. Ames Chinese Ideas of Life and Death: Faith, Myth, and Reason in the Han Period (202 B.C. – A.D. 220) . By Michael Loewe . London : George Allen & Unwin , 1982 . x, 226 pp. References and Notes for Further Reading, Glossary, Table: Emperors of the Han Dynasty, Index. $25...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (2): 544–545.
Published: 01 May 1999
...Ali S. Asani Death Before Dying: The Sufi Poems of Sultan Babu . Edited and translated by Jamal J. Elias . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1998 . ix, 145 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $14.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 544 THE JOURNAL...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1993) 52 (3): 744–745.
Published: 01 August 1993
...Mary Hancock Singing of Birth and Death: Texts in Performance . By Stuart H. Blackburn . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 1988 . xxiv, 263 pp. $37.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 744 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Dhas find...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (3): 507–522.
Published: 01 August 2022
... and Death in Contemporary Russia . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press . Breckman Warren . 1999 . Marx, the Young Hegelians, and the Origins of Radical Social Theory . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Cao Hong . 2010 . Tiananmen wangshi zhuizong baogao 天安門往事追蹤報告...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (4): 1009–1034.
Published: 01 November 2017
.... The purpose has not been to give an exhaustive account of the history of anatomy in China, or to adjudicate between Chinese and Western conceptions of the body, but rather to establish that dissection-based anatomy became the basis of new modes of power over life and death for the medical profession...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (1): 269–271.
Published: 01 February 2002
...Walter Edwards The Price of Death: The Funeral Industry in Contemporary Japan . By Hikaru Suzuki . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 2001 . vi , 266 pp. $39.50 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 269 authorize...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (3): 859–861.
Published: 01 August 2011
... of householder disciples (p. 97) …no one would deny that his power was great and his reforms far-reaching” (p. 100). Barrett's account of a particular healing sequence as a rite of “symbolic self-cremation” (p. 77) is plausible, but implausibly he tries to extend this idea to the “social deaths experienced...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (2): 300–301.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Timothy Ong Death and Life of Nature in Asian Cities . Edited by Anne Rademacher and K. Sivaramakrishnan . Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press , 2021 . 213 pp. ISBN: 9789888528684. © 2023 Association for Asian Studies 2023 In Death and Life of Nature in Asian Cities...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (4): 1210–1211.
Published: 01 November 2007
... Politics from Sivaram: The Life and Death of a Revolutionary Tamil Journalist in Sri Lanka . By Mark P. Whitaker . Ann Arbor, Mich. : Pluto Press , 2006 . xiv , 251 pp. $90.00 (cloth); $28.95 (paper). ...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (2): 569–570.
Published: 01 May 1994
...Eiji Sekine Voluntary Death in Japan . By Maurice Pinguet . Cambridge : Basil Blackwell , 1993 . 365 pp. $27.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 569 Voluntary Death in Japan. By M A U R I C E P I N G U E T . Cambridge: Basil...
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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 (1997) 56 (2): 452–454.
Published: 01 May 1997
...Deborah P. Britzman The Body of this Death: Historicity and Sociality in the Time of AIDS . By William Haver . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 1996 . 221 pp. $15.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 452 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...
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