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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (4): 1136–1138.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Denis Gainty Marathon Japan: Distance Racing and Civic Culture . By Thomas R. Havens . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2015 . 227 pp. ISBN: 9780824841010 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2016 2016 From the Meiji period (1868...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (3): 656–657.
Published: 01 August 1991
...John E. Wills, Jr The Rise of Merchant Empires: Long-Distance Trade in the Early Modern World, 1350–1730 . Edited by James D. Tracy . Cambridge and New York : Cambridge University Press , 1990 . xviii, 442 pp. $44.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (2): 468–470.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Taku Suzuki Intimate Distance: Andean Music in Japan . By Michelle Bigenho . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2012 . xii, 248 pp. $79.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013 2013 Michelle Bigenho's ambitious and valuable new...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1944) 4 (1): 61–62.
Published: 01 November 1944
...Dan Stanislawski The Pacific world: Its vast distances, its lands and the life upon them, and its peoples . Edited by Fairfield Osborn . New York : W. W. Norton and Company, Inc. , 1944 . 218 pp. $3.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1944 1944 BOOK REVIEWS 61...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1973) 32 (3): 457–475.
Published: 01 May 1973
... ideological systems encompassing a reinterpretation of the past and present, plus a new vision of the future. Elaboration, defense, and dissemination of these ideologies produced both group consciousness and a heightened awareness of separation, of distance between those who accepted the new beliefs and all...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (4): 963–974.
Published: 01 November 2012
.... To be sure, more-hidden body parts may lurk below the surface that signal our membership in certain social categories—gender, to give a prime example. In practical terms, however, when we see strangers walking toward us from a distance, we are in the habit of assuming they are a man or a woman not because we...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (4): 620–638.
Published: 01 November 2023
... the novel as a postmemory generation's struggle over the question of how postmemory generations of a former perpetrator country would be able to ethically respond to a temporally distanced, shameful, and traumatic past. Murakami's postmemory protagonist archives scattered pieces of the wartime and postwar...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 659–683.
Published: 01 August 2020
... missionary writings. It also distanced itself from the popular “spiritual Orientalism” advocated by the Theosophical Society and from the philologically inclined “academic Orientalism” pursued in the Sanskrit departments of Western universities. The interest of the series’ authors in the region's present...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1942) 2 (1): 66–76.
Published: 01 November 1942
... Guinea the distance is approximately 3,000 miles and the land area of the region designated herein as Malaysia is somewhat in excess of 1,200,000 square miles. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1942 1942 THE VEGETATION OF MALAYSIA E. D. MERRILL Harvard University THE Malay...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (4): 953–970.
Published: 01 November 2018
... numbers of Chinese international students as financial and symbolic capital. The shift between 2001 and 2016 from maximizing to distancing shows that Korean universities were straddling a line between the desire to become global institutions and the realization that they are a second-choice destination...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (3): 457–459.
Published: 01 August 2023
... “individual and collective attempts at gradually eradicating the social and practical significance of a significant Other—even when this Other might continue to greatly impact one's everyday life” (136). The authors explore the manifestation and mechanisms of intimate distances in the upgrading...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (2): 398–399.
Published: 01 May 2000
... the Mekong, a short distance downstream from the Lao port town of Houayxay, is a stone stupa which protects a golden boat made from a monk's golden strands of hair and robe. The golden boat has remained safe to this day. The developmental hope for the Economic Quadrangle region, occupying the Upper Mekong...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1976) 35 (3): 524–525.
Published: 01 May 1976
...' is a marked/unmarked, and concepts of proximate rather broad one. . . . I have not been concerned and remote distance. This last is the most signifi- to discover Levi-Straussian oppositions." cant and the most difficult, for it implies a con- In other words, apart from S. Hanchett's gen- stant, "distance...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (3): 810–812.
Published: 01 August 1998
... is sharp and provocative: "In the period from 1850 to World War II, Asians entered the United States along the economic axis, while the state has simultaneously distinguished Asian immigrants along racial and citizenship lines, accordingly distancing Asian Americans even as citizens from the terrain...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1976) 35 (3): 523–524.
Published: 01 May 1976
... and remote distance. This last is the most signifi- to discover Levi-Straussian oppositions." cant and the most difficult, for it implies a con- In other words, apart from S. Hanchett's gen- stant, "distance" across the domains of space, eral paper on structuralism, this is simply a collec- time, position...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1993) 52 (1): 126–130.
Published: 01 February 1993
... lost control of long-distance largevessel traffic. Indigenous traders became small freighters on either European ships or on the great royal trading vessels given special treatment by the Europeans. In response, a new, coastal trading system permitted indigenous merchants in the Indian Ocean to prosper...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1981) 40 (2): 420–421.
Published: 01 February 1981
... "minimum house-garden distance," "minimum garden-village distance," etc. (pp. 158-60), which collectively generate the clustering. Yet such integrative factors oppose "disintegrative" ones such as "maximization of garden-village distance" (each such factor having its advantages and disadvantages) which...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (1): 193–195.
Published: 01 February 2012
... differences but of the relative scale of transactions. Formal institutions worked better at short distances, whereas informal institutions worked better at long distances, since it was costly to travel to court. The large scale of the Chinese empire, compared to the smaller European states, meant that more...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (2): 401–403.
Published: 01 May 2000
... of Chinese reality. The most important lesson the literature conveyed was "the necessity of maintaining distance between Britons and Chinese" (p. 60): social distance, sexual distance, even distance from Chinese food and the Chinese language. For the settlers, living in China heightened rather than...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1990) 49 (1): 3–25.
Published: 01 February 1990
... of China, this does not affect estimates of structural parameters (e.g., the effects of covariates on economic performance). For example, we are interested in whether or not access to urban markets has an impact on the rate of economic growth at the village level, not in whether the mean distance from...
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