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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (2): 578–580.
Published: 01 May 2007
...Bernard Bate Fierce Gods: Inequality, Ritual, and the Politics of Dignity in a South Indian Village . By Diane P. Mines . Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 2005 . xi , 247 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $22.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2007 2007...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (1): 3–22.
Published: 01 February 2019
... meant to an audience of largely landless agricultural laborers. Next it examines the changing constellation of caste names and occupational designations for these groups amid the emergence of the Ad Dharm movement and its struggle to impart equality, dignity, and community to Panjabi Dalits. To situate...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (1): 25–43.
Published: 01 February 2023
... to become laborers with dignity, amidst a rising democratic culture of reciprocal equal recognition. pingzhu@ou.edu © 2023 Association for Asian Studies 2023 New Culture Movement manual labor mental labor dignity sympathy On November 16, 1918, a crowd gathered in Beijing's Tiananmen...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (4): 1147–1164.
Published: 01 November 2008
... to serve a variety of personal, political, and pecuniary agendas, the author seeks to recover from its early history the possibility of alternative revolutionary paths, driven less by class struggle and cults of personality than by the quest for human dignity through grassroots organization. Although...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (4): 881–896.
Published: 01 November 2007
... the colonial state in south Asia strengthened and was strengthened by the rising British Empire across the Indian Ocean. The poligars' lives in exile are reconstructed as a story of their struggle for status and dignity in a settlement where they were initially lumped together with convicts brought there from...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (1): 67–91.
Published: 01 February 1994
... the nation by providing the correct leadership that would mobilize patriotic Chinese, push imperialists out of China, and thus permit an independent China to prosper with dignity. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 List of References Anderson Benedict . 1991 [1989...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (2): 367–393.
Published: 01 May 1994
... as elsewhere in the world (Lifton 1979:24). Though it is not common, it is widely revered by Japanese if committed on the basis of authentic moral intentions in relation to societal pressure—that is, to exorcise shame (haji) and to highlight honor, dignity, and integrity. In a culture that esteems the tragic...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (4): 1110–1112.
Published: 01 November 2012
.... Liu is troubled both by the suffering of the victims and the loss of moral dignity suffered by those who perpetrate these offenses. Liu finds China's authoritarian system rather than individual leaders to be source of this corruption. In part, this develops from his earlier project to use Western...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (4): 1114.
Published: 01 November 1996
... Gazey Turner, his granddaughters Kimberly Elin and Catherine Avery Walstad, all of Princeton, N.J.; and his sister, Barbara F. Turner of Columbus, Ohio. Arrangements are private. Contributions, including those of personal time, may be made to organizations that support death with dignity...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (2): 514–516.
Published: 01 May 2004
... strident calls for a reconstructed Confucian family, real people on the ground seek comfort and dignity wherever they can nd it. Leng Leng Thang s portrait of an age-integrated home for the elderly with an attached nursery school offers both an ironic view of the paradoxes of aging and a potential...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (1): 145–149.
Published: 01 February 2022
... claims-making structures within formal politics as labor is increasingly treated as a disposable input. Chun shows that labor's politics of disavowal and refusal are ultimately claims about the right to life and livelihoods, dignity, and justice. What is especially instructive in this shift...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (2): 691–692.
Published: 01 May 2008
... and betrayal by the state,” unrest in southern China arises from “capitalist exploitation and state discrimination” (p. 159). In Guangdong, young migrant workers not only suffer from nonpayment of wages but also from physical abuse, workplace injuries, and assaults on their dignity. Though such treatment has...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1977) 36 (3): 429–442.
Published: 01 May 1977
.... 1 . Pou speculatively suggests a high dignity not dissimilar to knighthood. Im Proum sees in the term a title (like vāp or Ion ); it could mean “hermit.” (Note 18 above.) 33 “CSAC” (VI), p. 147. 34 See BEFEO , XXVIII (1928), p. 68; and BEFEO , XLIII (1943), p. 89. The latter...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (4): 1114–1115.
Published: 01 November 1996
..., all of Princeton, N.J.; and his sister, Barbara F. Turner of Columbus, Ohio. Arrangements are private. Contributions, including those of personal time, may be made to organizations that support death with dignity, such as the Hemlock Society U.S.A., P.O. Box 101810, Denver, Colo. 80250-1810; Americans...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1980) 39 (3): 623–624.
Published: 01 May 1980
... MILLER Barnard College, Columbia University Monolithic Jinas: The Iconography of the Jain Temples of Ellora. By JOSE PEREIRA. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1977. xviii, 186 pp. Appendixes, Plans, Figures, Index. Rs. 40. Jose Pereira begins his volume with a quotation from Bhavabhuti: "Dignity, felicity...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1986) 45 (4): 873–874.
Published: 01 August 1986
... of history, economics, politics, and culture. After demystifying stereotypes and challenging many Western attitudes, Bohm is confident that we will be able to share experiences of hot sun and dusty roads, of myths and rituals, of the anger, frustration, and struggle for survival with dignity...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (4): 1113–1114.
Published: 01 November 1996
..., all of Princeton, N.J.; and his sister, Barbara F. Turner of Columbus, Ohio. Arrangements are private. Contributions, including those of personal time, may be made to organizations that support death with dignity, such as the Hemlock Society U.S.A., P.O. Box 101810, Denver, Colo. 80250-1810; Americans...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (2): 483–484.
Published: 01 May 1999
... in the contemporary world. They do not argue, however, that there existed protohuman rights ideas in traditional China. Instead they are content to identify similarities and thus focus on ideas of human dignity and equality, which they argue are found in Confucianism particularity its Mencian variety and which can...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1980) 39 (3): 622–623.
Published: 01 May 1980
..., 1977. xviii, 186 pp. Appendixes, Plans, Figures, Index. Rs. 40. Jose Pereira begins his volume with a quotation from Bhavabhuti: "Dignity, felicity of expression and depth of meaning if one has these, they alone prove scholarship and genius!" Unfortunately, Pereira cannot match the dignity or felicity...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (1): 210–211.
Published: 01 February 1989
.... The traditional heroic values held such powerful sway at the Scindia court that even a European commander in the service of Daulatrao Scindia committed suicide by slashing his own neck because Daulatrao had wrongly doubted his loyalty. Over the generations the Scindias' pride and dignity continued to shine...
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