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Far Eastern Quarterly (1944) 3 (2): 177–178.
Published: 01 February 1944
...George H. Danton Father and glorious descendant . By Pardee Lowe . Boston : Little, Brown and Co. , 1943 . 322 p. $2.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1944 1944 BOOK REVIEWS 177 abortive attempts at overthrow, and the ambitions of Yuan Shih-kai and his...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (2): 491–492.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Benno Ryan Weiner A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 3: The Storm Clouds Descend, 1955–1957 . By Melvyn C. Goldstein . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2014 . xli, 547 pp. $75.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015 2015 The Storm Clouds...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (4): 1049–1050.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Mark Peterson A Family of No Prominence: The Descendants of Pak Tŏkhwa and the Birth of Modern Korea . By Eugene Y. Park . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 2014 . xx, 239 pp. $60.00 (cloth, ISBN 9780804788762 ); $60.00 (e-book, ISBN 9780804790864 ). Copyright ©...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (4): 1183–1186.
Published: 01 November 1998
...Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi The Descendants of Cain . By Hwang Sun-won Translated by Suh Ji-moom and Julie Pickering . Armonk, N.Y .: M. E. Sharpe/UNESCO Publishing , 1997 . 181 pp. $52.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 BOOK...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (3): 559–584.
Published: 01 August 1996
... expand the scope of this problem to consider the role of ritual in reproducing orthodoxy by focusing on the uneasy convergence of the state cult of Kongzi—known in the West as Confucius—with the family cult of his flesh-and-blood descendants. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1957) 16 (2): 237–250.
Published: 01 February 1957
...G. William Skinner Abstract Chinese have been immigrating to Siam for at least six centuries. We are concerned here with the process whereby the descendants of Chinese immigrants become full members of Thai society. Assimilation is, of course, a social process. For the descendants of a given...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1955) 14 (3): 355–363.
Published: 01 May 1955
... into the middle of a world power struggle, mythology was called upon to endow the nation with one kind of greatness: the emperor was descended by unbroken lineage from divine ancestors, and he was father of a nation conceived as an extended family: what other nation could make that claim? A nation unique...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1949) 9 (1): 42–62.
Published: 01 November 1949
... system with power and initiative descending from above, although Mo's conceptions were more authoritarian and theocratic than those of the Confucians; both regarded politics and ethics as synonymous and believed that the creation of the good society would go hand in hand with the improvement...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1948) 8 (1): 64–71.
Published: 01 November 1948
..., corps of economists, engineers, and military technicians descended upon the remains of the German and Japanese economies for their autopsies. The results of their work have been incorporated in a series of technical papers and two major reports of particular interest to economists, published by the Over...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1964) 24 (1): 91–99.
Published: 01 November 1964
... to their own environment and at specific synchronic levels, such levels being but points on the continuum of the historical process. Thus to consider Javanese culture exclusively as a linear (and corrupt) descendant of Indian culture on the one hand, or as perpetually conditioned by a hypothetical indigenous...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (1): 96–119.
Published: 01 February 2023
...Kedon Willis Abstract The 1918 anti-Chinese riots, which saw scores of Chinese-owned stores destroyed by largely Afro-descended peasant community members, are popularly remembered as one of the worst acts of interracial violence in Jamaica's postemancipation history. However, by examining...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1993) 52 (1): 3–21.
Published: 01 February 1993
.... At the center of my inquiry is a puzzling cultural fact, the seemingly paradoxical claim by many nonviolent Jains to be descended from warlike Rājpūts. Despite its extreme emphasis on ascetic withdrawal from the world, Jainism is, as I hope to show, deeply implicated in the worldly identity of certain social...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (3): 843–867.
Published: 01 August 2010
...Shawn Bender Abstract In a performance of Ōdaiko, arguably the most iconic and widely performed piece in Japanese taiko drumming, a loincloth-clad man pounds furiously on a huge Japanese drum to the point of near exhaustion. Although this piece often is assumed to descend from Japan's rich heritage...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1961) 20 (3): 343–351.
Published: 01 May 1961
..., were most mobile. Because of the continuity of family roles over long periods, records of, say, the late seventeenth century still had some relevance for descendants in the mid-nineteenth century, and so they tended to be preserved. Particularly in cities and towns, the rapid changes associated...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (1): 123–147.
Published: 01 February 2010
...Lisa Balabanlilar Abstract The founders of India's Mughal Empire were the last surviving remnants of the Timurid-Mongol ruling elite, descendants of Timur and Chingis Khan, for whom the traditions and institutions of Central Asia were universally recognized and potent symbols of cultural prowess...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1987) 46 (3): 555–582.
Published: 01 August 1987
... to the Malaysian constitution, a Malay is a person who was born locally, habitually speaks Malay, follows Malay custom, and professes Islam (Mohammed Suffian bin Hashim 1976:291). The Chinese and Indian communities are supposed to consist of the descendants of immigrants from China and the Indian subcontinent...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (1): 5–41.
Published: 01 February 2008
...Ann Marie Leshkowich Abstract In the late 1990s, a marketplace trader in Hồ Chí Minh City reported being plagued by wandering ghosts. The postwar Vietnamese landscape teems with angry spirits who died violently without descendents to honor them, but the trader's wandering ghosts were living: male...
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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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Journal of Asian Studies (1969) 28 (4): 789–802.
Published: 01 August 1969
..., b headed the state called Eastern Wei, in Shansi and Honan, which became the dynasty of Northern Chʻi under his descendants. The other, Yü-wen Tʻai, e ruled Western Wei, in Shensi, later to become Northern Chou. The ensuing half-century witnessed the final victory of Northern Chou over Northern Chʻi...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1968) 27 (2): 253–267.
Published: 01 February 1968
...Andrew L. March Abstract Chinese geomancy ( feng shui ) holds that if a man is buried in a properly sited grave, his descendants will prosper; and that the siting of houses, cities, and whole regions similarly works good or ill for their inhabitants. Although taken seriously by many eminent...
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