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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (4): 1136–1138.
Published: 01 November 2017
...), as it is about Persian, Rekhta, and English, given the multilingual vocabularies of texts and contexts and an ever multilingual society out of which lexicographical works emerged. (The first mono lingual dictionary of Urdu is dated to the year 1849.) Negotiating Languages: Urdu, Hindi, and the Definition...
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in Cosmopolitan Capitalism: Local State-Society Relations in China and India
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Published: 01 May 2016
Figure 1. Dual definitional stretch in state-society relations.
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Journal of Asian Studies (1967) 26 (4): 575–587.
Published: 01 August 1967
...Richard G. Fox Abstract Lack of agreement on basic definitions has often bedeviled the anthropological study of Indian society. A case in point is “caste,” which has enjoyed almost as many definitions as there are students involved in its study. This multiplicity undoubtedly promotes a broadened...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1978) 37 (2): 201–219.
Published: 01 February 1978
...M. B. Hooker Abstract The aim of this paper is to outline the characteristics of one very important class of Southeast Asian law texts—the “Indian-derived.” In the process, it may be possible to throw light on some basic questions such as the nature of State, and the definition of sovereignty...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1979) 39 (1): 39–63.
Published: 01 November 1979
...Miles Fletcher Abstract Using the concept of fascism for analyzing political developments in early Shōwa Japan has become a controversial topic, and a lively debate about a general definition of fascism has raged among scholars of modern European history. This article presents a new interpretation...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1946) 5 (3): 272–288.
Published: 01 May 1946
...Shannon McCune Abstract Korea is well recognized as a distinct political unit. The country has a definite area on the surface of the earth and is delimited from the surrounding areas by definite boundaries. These boundaries of water and land have certain characteristics and functions which merit...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1968) 27 (3): 541–550.
Published: 01 May 1968
...Hans-Dieter Evers Abstract Theravāda Buddhism has during the past century been an annoyance to scholars who tried to find a general and crossculturally valid definition of religion. Durkheim refuted Frazer's minimal definition of religion being “the belief in Spiritual Beings” solely on the grounds...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (2): 335–361.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Figure 1. Dual definitional stretch in state-society relations. ...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (2): 365–394.
Published: 01 May 2008
...Julia Adeney Thomas Abstract Despite the impact of the Allied occupation (1945–52), Japanese photography in the immediate postwar period was neither “art” nor “documentary” by American definitions. Instead, as the vigorous 1953 debate over “realism” shows, photographers such as Domon Ken...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1967) 26 (4): 627–648.
Published: 01 August 1967
... tradition. It was often closely associated with the revolt of youth against their fathers, with the younger generation seeking a more rapid modernization than the older generation. Little wonder, then, that student movements punctuate the definition of nationalism and provide exclamation points in its...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 685–706.
Published: 01 August 2020
... argue that the term “empire” should be (re)understood as a global co-production, emerging from multiple intersecting histories and scholarly debates about those histories. Doing so challenges influential definitions of empire that rely on a distinction between empires and nation-states, highlighting...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1971) 31 (1): 17–30.
Published: 01 November 1971
... it is conceptually irrational, more akin to a “religion,” as Carleton Hayes once noted, than to a definable conceptual construct. Lacking precise definition, it is subject to manipulation and to being used as justification for a bewildering variety of often contradictory forms of political and social action. Despite...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1964) 23 (2): 253–267.
Published: 01 February 1964
... leadership for nationalist movements, until the mobilization of broader and lower levels of the population around neo-traditional religious symbols began to exclude them from the national self-definition. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 1 This work stems from...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1957) 16 (2): 201–211.
Published: 01 February 1957
... definition. The evasive spirit which hovers beyond the immediate satire engraves the image of Ah Q on the memory of the reader. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1957 1957 1
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, Lu Hsün yü Chung-kuo wen-hsüeh ( Shanghai : P'ing-min ch'u-pan she , 1952...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1957) 16 (4): 549–564.
Published: 01 August 1957
... and the maldistribution of landholdings which in 1924 finally prompted Sun publicly to declare a “land to the tiller” policy. During this formative period for Kuomintang ideology, Sun's use of “equalization of land rights,” and the Western doctrines from which it was derived, indicate a definite preoccupation...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (4): 1035–1058.
Published: 01 November 2017
... bureaucrat and international law expert, Shinoda Jisaku, asserted that a vast region north of the China-Korea border should be regarded as a “no man's land.” Employing Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and European materials, this article traces the origin and evolution of such a definition. It demonstrates...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (1): 89–111.
Published: 01 February 2014
... the place and definition of the family, and related issues such as inheritance, divorce, and visible social actions, including ritual purity, fasting, almsgiving, and criminal punishments. Explanations of the transmission of Islamic knowledge have long relied upon the assumption of a pure center...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (4): 1059–1079.
Published: 01 November 2014
... are the assumptions that central institutions are definitive of authoritarian states, and divides between study of the sacred and secular. I propose the notion of “ritual governance” to address these conceptual issues and illustrate this with an ethnographic case study from a major development project in Laos...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1953) 12 (2): 123–132.
Published: 01 February 1953
... and revelation, then raging in England and America was fought again in the Japanese press and lecture hall. This controversy involved intimately only a small minority of the Japanese people, principally students and intellectuals, and was definitely secondary to the broader conflict between conservative...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (4): 1143–1166.
Published: 01 November 2010
..., a project to create a definitive set of guidelines for the practice of Islam in outer space, specifically on board the International Space Station. What may on the surface appear to be a practical exercise in clarifying religious practice reveals upon closer examination to be a complex restructuring...
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