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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (2): 391–416.
Published: 01 May 2013
... past. In western India, carpet weaving was centered in jails where convicts produced high-quality rugs using historic designs in prison factories that served as laboratories for redefining penal labor and traditional design under the eyes of the colonial state. For, even as they were poised...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (3): 783–788.
Published: 01 August 2024
... and producing barkcloth to make “fashion bags,” and how this labor is not only an effort to preserve traditional knowledge but also a modern response to markets and a women-centered enterprise designed to build up cash reserves (64). Here are three books that differ widely in scholarly approaches, areas...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1975) 34 (4): 1071–1072.
Published: 01 August 1975
...M. S. A. Rao Village Life in South India: Cultural Design and Environmental Variation . By Alan R. Beals . Chicago : Aldine Publishing Company , 1974 . 183 pp. Tables, Maps, Photographs, Index. $7.50 (cloth), $2.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1975...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (3): 750–752.
Published: 01 August 2021
...Allison Alexy Invisibility by Design is both compelling and frustrating to read because the rich examples and textured analysis describe an exploitative system that many imagine to offer real possibility. Although the dynamics described within it focus on Japan, this book will be of interest...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1965) 24 (3): 504–505.
Published: 01 May 1965
...Lawrence W. Chisolm Epochs of Chinese and Japanese Art; An Outline History of East Asiatic Design . By Ernest F. Fenollosa . Vols. I and II. New York : Dover Publications, Inc. , (rev. ed.) 1963 . xxx, 204 and xii, 235. Illustrations. $2.50 each. Copyright © Association for Asian...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2006) 65 (4): 808–810.
Published: 01 November 2006
...Bruce Dickson Corruption by Design: Building Clean Government in Mainland China and Hong Kong . By Melanie Manion . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 2004 . x , 283 pp. $52.50 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006 2006 808 T H E J O U R N A L O F...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (4): 849–858.
Published: 01 November 2019
... modernity. For in addition to being an attempt to explain how the global crises of the early twentieth century helped to “engender a revival of the parochial” (p. 326) in the present, C. A. Bayly's Remaking the Modern World, 1900–2015 offers a set of design principles for how to imagine that historical...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1951) 11 (1): 51–66.
Published: 01 November 1951
... or recent times in Melanesia and artifacts from the ancient bronze-age art of the Far East. AN ANCIENT CHINESE MIRROR DESIGN 51 Fig. 4 Fig. 5 52 FAR EASTERN QUARTER'LY A MELANESIA /9\ Mft 0VEMB HAH / \ wi* vr v v BC D E ANCIENT CHINA Fig. 6 TX i F i Fig. 7 Fig. 9 Fig. 8 Fig. 10 AN ANCIENT CHINESE MIRROR...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (4): 1054–1055.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Ruel V. Pagunsan Cities and Nationhood: American Imperialism and Urban Design in the Philippines, 1898–1916 . By Ian Morley . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2018 . 260 pp. ISBN: 9780824872922 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2020 2020...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1993) 52 (2): 441–442.
Published: 01 May 1993
...J. C. Y. Watt Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 Scholar Gardens of China: A Study and Analysis of the Spatial Design of the Chinese Private Garden . By R. Stewart Johnston . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1992 . xix, 331 pp. $125.00. BOOK...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (3): 627–628.
Published: 01 August 1989
...Botond Bognar Secret Teachings in the Art of Japanese Gardens: Design Principles, Aesthetic Values . By David A. Slawson . Tokyo : Kodansha International , 1987 . 220 pp. $34.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 627 world should...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (4): 1303–1305.
Published: 01 November 2003
...Salim Rashid Civil Society by Design: Donors, NGOs, and the Intermestic Development Circle in Bangladesh . By Kendall W. Stiles . Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers , 2002 . xii, 178 pp. $62.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 BOOK REVIEWS...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (1): 243–244.
Published: 01 February 1997
...Darren C. Zook Making Farmers' Co-operatives Work: Design, Governance and Management . By Tushaar Shah . New Delhi : Sage , 1995 . 275 pp. $32.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 243 sentiments offers opportunity...
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in Convict Carpets: Jails and the Revival of Historic Carpet Design in Colonial India
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 May 2013
Figure 9. Woolen pile carpet woven at the Thana Jail, copied from a design developed at the Yeraoda Central Jail, Poona (Twigg [1907] 1976 , Plate XXXIX).
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in Remembrance of Nanjido: Space, Archive, and History of the World Cup Park
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 May 2023
FIGURE 5. Design Earth, Trash Peaks , 2017. Reprinted with permission.
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in Revealing What Is Dear: The Post-Earthquake Iconization of the Dharahara, Kathmandu
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 August 2019
Figure 6. The design on a Dharahara T-shirt, purchased by the author in Asan bazaar, Kathmandu, in 2017. The Dharahara itself speaks in the Nepali legend, saying “I shall rise again,” using the verb udaunu , which has the primary meaning “to rise” in the manner of the rising sun at dawn
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Journal of Asian Studies (1957) 16 (3): 468–469.
Published: 01 May 1957
...Leela Row Dayal Textiles and Ornaments of India: A Selection of Designs . Ed. Monroe Wheeler . Texts by Pupul Jayakar and John Irwin. New York : Museum of Modern Art , 1956 . 96 . 110 Plates (16 in color), Bibliography. $4.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1957...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (3): 994–995.
Published: 01 August 1994
...William M. Schneider; Mary Jo Schneider Inside Austronesian Houses: Perspectives on Domestic Designs for Living . Edited by James J. Fox . Canberra : Department of Anthropology, Australian National University , 1993 . x, 237 pp. Aust. $25.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (4): 1067–1068.
Published: 01 November 1997
...Bates Gill BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 1067 will want to read this book for both the material it presents and the questions it raises. ROXANN PRAZNIAK Hampden-Sydney College Nuclear Designs: Great Britain, France and China in the Global Governance of Nuclear Arms. By BRUCE D. L A R K I N . New Brunswick, N...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (3): 693–713.
Published: 01 August 1998
... Volkenkunde 151 ( 4 ): 700 –25. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 Designs on Indonesia's Muslim Communities KENNETH M. GEORGE ' N OCTOBER 15,1991, HAJI MUHAMMAD SOEHARTO, President of Indonesia, became the first official calligrapher for the Al-Qur'an Mushaf Istiqlal...
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