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New Worlds, New Lives: Globalization and People of Japanese Descent in the Americas and from Latin America in Japan
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (4): 1080–1082.
Published: 01 November 2004
...Keiko Yamanaka New Worlds, New Lives: Globalization and People of Japanese Descent in the Americas and from Latin America in Japan . Edited by Lane Ryo Hirabayashi , Akemi Kikumura-Yano , and James A. Hirabayashi . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 2002 . xxiii , 358 pp...
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Practicing Kinship: Lineage and Descent in Late Imperial China
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (3): 836–837.
Published: 01 August 2007
...James L. Watson Practicing Kinship: Lineage and Descent in Late Imperial China . By Michael Szonyi . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 2002 . 328 pp. $52.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2007 2007 Patrilineal descent is an ideology...
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The Ancestral Lords: Gender, Descent, and Spirits in a Northern Thai Village
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (3): 790–791.
Published: 01 August 1996
...Nicola Tannenbaum The Ancestral Lords: Gender, Descent, and Spirits in a Northern Thai Village . By Michael R. Rhum . DeKalb : Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Illinois University , 1994 . vi, 202 pp. $15.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996...
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The common descent group in China and its functions
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1951) 10 (3): 326–327.
Published: 01 May 1951
... concern to Americans having to make future decisions on foreign policy. He may also well be proud of having produced a book with a valuable appendix and a bibliography of both Western and Chinese sources. Wayne University HATTIE M. KAWAHARA The common descent group in China and its functions. BY HU HSIEN...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1977) 37 (1): 176–178.
Published: 01 November 1977
...Alfred B. Hudson Kinship, Descent and Alliance among the Karo Batak . By Masri Singarimbun . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1975 . xxii, 246 pp. Appendixes, References, Index. $14.75 Cutlass and Crescent Moon: A Case Study of Social and Political Change in Outer...
View articletitled, Kinship, <span class="search-highlight">Descent</span> and Alliance among the Karo Batak Cutlass and Crescent Moon: A Case Study of Social and Political Change in Outer Indonesia Harvest of the Palm: Ecological Change in Eastern Indonesia
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The Venomous Course of Southwestern Opium: Qing Prohibition in Yunnan, Sichuan, and Guizhou in the Early Nineteenth Century
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (4): 1109–1142.
Published: 01 November 2003
...David Bello Abstract The opium-smuggling trade that britain pursued on the eastern seacoast of China has become the symbol of China's century-long descent into political and social chaos. In the standard historical narratives of both China and Euro-America, opium is the primary medium through which...
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Women, Resistance and the Divided Nation: The Romantic Rhetoric of Korean Reunification
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (1): 3–21.
Published: 01 February 1996
...Sheila Miyoshi Jager Abstract On june 30, 1989, at around one-thirty in the afternoon, a young woman made an emotional descent from the uneven steps of a Soviet passenger airliner towards a crowd of well-wishers who had gathered together to welcome her to Pyŏngyang, North Korea. Rising just above...
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Some Effects of the War upon Japanese Society
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1947) 7 (1): 22–42.
Published: 01 November 1947
...Frederick S. Hulse Abstract Until 1945, the Japanese nation had never suffered a really major defeat. Humiliations, actual as well as imaginary, had been imposed, but never outright and final loss of a war, never invasion and occupation since the descent of the Yamato people themselves from...
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Life in Ruins: Materiality, the City, and the Production of Critique in the Art of Naiza Khan
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (2): 323–346.
Published: 01 May 2015
... project, nearly all of Manora's civilian population was bought out by investors in 2006 for a now-abandoned real estate development. Khan has recorded the island's abandoned architecture in photographs and video, documenting its descent into ruins. Her visual archive, which also includes drawings, prints...
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Manzhou yuanliu kao and the Formalization of the Manchu Heritage
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Journal of Asian Studies (1987) 46 (4): 761–790.
Published: 01 November 1987
... this meant the progressive bureaucratization, regulation, and depersonalization of the state in displacement of the personal, diffused authority that had once been vested by tradition in the clans and confederations. In its cultural and ideological facets, it meant the documentation of descent, myth, clan...
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Traditional Chinese Corporations: Beyond Kinship
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Journal of Asian Studies (1984) 43 (3): 391–415.
Published: 01 May 1984
...P. Steven Sangren Abstract Emphasis on descent and kinship in analysis of traditional Chinese corporations, a legacy of structural-functional theory, mistakes the analyst's theoretical categories for native culture. In this paper, the author attempts to sort out some of the resulting conceptual...
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Eurasian Dilemma in Indonesia
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Journal of Asian Studies (1960) 20 (1): 45–60.
Published: 01 November 1960
... political power. The Eurasians of Indonesia are a group of mixed descent closely tied to the land of their birth, but culturally and politically oriented to a society thousands of miles away along the shores of the North Sea. F. H. de Hoog, charismatic chairman of the powerful Eurasian League from 1928...
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Population Reports in the Ch'ing Dynasty
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Journal of Asian Studies (1960) 19 (4): 403–417.
Published: 01 August 1960
.... The statistics of the Republic of China had lineal descent from both series, but at a level of total population consistent with the limited results of the 1909–1911 survey. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1960 1960 1 Abbreviations used: HPTL— Hu-pu tse-li [Directives...
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The Chain before the Commodity: Turning Transnational Solidarity into Alternative Trade between Japan and the Philippines
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Journal of Asian Studies (2025) 84 (1): 81–101.
Published: 01 February 2025
... on the Philippine sugarcane capital of Negros, a vibrant circuit of activists, laborers, farmers, and housewives came together to build the chain in response to the island's descent into economic and political turmoil. Their trade partnership in a wild banana variety called “Balangon” enabled social relationships...
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The Genealogical Mentality in Modern China
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (1): 101–128.
Published: 01 February 2003
... . The Aristocratic Families of Early Imperial China: A Case Study of the Po-Ling Ts'ui Family . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Ebrey Patricia Buckley . 1986 . “The Early Stages in the Development of Descent Group Organization.” In Kinship Organization in Late Imperial China, 1000–1940 , edited...
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The Origins of the Chosŏn Dynasty
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (3): 886–888.
Published: 01 August 2001
... on the subject. The first two chapters provide descriptions and analyses of the early Koryo's futile efforts at bureaucratic centralization against the Silla aristocratic tradition and the rise of capital-based hereditary descent groups. Noting that Koryo was an agrarian society that witnessed the end...
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Cognation and Social Organization in Southeast Asia
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Journal of Asian Studies (1993) 52 (3): 781–782.
Published: 01 August 1993
... Publications in Anthropology 29), the study of cognation as a mode of descent has largely been preempted by that of lineal descent for this part of the world, and even asymmetric forms of marriage alliance have received more attention. Yet cognation is more widespread than lineal descent, while asymmetric...
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Lineage Organization in North China
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Journal of Asian Studies (1990) 49 (3): 509–534.
Published: 01 August 1990
... . Kinship Organization in Late Imperial China, 1000-1940 . Berkeley : University of California Press . Ebrey Patricia B. 1986 . “The Early Stages in the Development of Descent Group Organization.” In Kinship Organization in Late Imperial China, 1000-1940 , ed. Ebrey Patricia B. and Watson...
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Technology and Productivity: The Korean Way of Learning and Catching Up
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (3): 888–890.
Published: 01 August 2001
... and the ancient style writing with its philosophical syncretism. The book is written with great care, although it may not be an easy read for students who are not familiar with dynastic Korea and East Asia in general. With a few exceptions, Duncan uses the term "descent groups" to designate ssijok throughout...
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Caste in Contemporary India: Beyond Organic Solidarity
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Journal of Asian Studies (1980) 39 (2): 404–405.
Published: 01 February 1980
... importance of hierarchy persist as they have in the past? Chapter one sketches a social anthropological perspective and defines some concepts that are used throughout the book, such as the ideal types "tribe," "caste," and "kin-community." Later we come to understand the last as the "large-scale descent...
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