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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (1): 265–266.
Published: 01 February 1998
...Shahid Amin Clothing Matters: Dress and Identity in India . By Emma Tarlo . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1996 . xxii, 360 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $23.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 265 the ways in which...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (4): 851–880.
Published: 01 November 1996
.... Oxford : Blackwell . Rugh Andrea B. 1986 . Reveal and Conceal: Dress in Contemporary Egypt . Syracuse. N.Y. : Syracuse University Press . Sankoff Gillian. 1980 . The Social Life of Language . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press . Schwartzberg Joseph E. , ed...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (3): 761–764.
Published: 01 August 2004
...Bonnie Adrian Re-Orienting Fashion: The Globalization of Asian Dress . Edited by Sandra Niessen , Ann Marie Leshkowich and Carla Jones . Dress, Body, Culture Series. Oxford and New York : Berg , 2003 . xii, 283 pp. $74.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian...
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in “A Story about Hair”: A Curious Mirror of Lu Xun's Pre-Republican Years
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 May 2007
Figure 5. Photograph of Lu Xun in Western dress, 1909 (Shanghai Lu Xun Museum 1996 , 90).
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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (3): 804–806.
Published: 01 August 2000
...Kenneth M. George Outward Appearances: Dressing State and Society in Indonesia . Edited by Henk Schulte Nordholt . Leiden : KITLV Press, distributed by the Cellar Bookshop , 1998 . viii, 371 pp. $37.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 804...
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Published: 01 February 2013
Figure 5. Informally dressed Australian visitors to the monument, 2010. Photo: Belinda Lewis.
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Published: 01 November 2017
Figure 6. Nat images dressed and coiffed for the Taungbyon Festival, near Mandalay, Myanmar. Photos by Laurel Kendall.
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Published: 01 August 2010
Figure 1. A photograph of a student demonstrator dressed in a ninja-like fashion grasping a soldier's boot, which appeared in the Jawa Pos on October 29, 1998. The accompanying caption reads, “One of the hundreds of student demonstrators at the Youth Oath Day ( Hari Sumpah Pemuda ) yesterday
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in Conflicting Nostalgia: Performing The Tale of Ch'unhyang (春香傳) in the Japanese Empire
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 February 2014
Figure 7. Actress Akaki Ranko cross-dressed as hero Mongyong. Reprinted with permission from the Tsubouchi Shōyō Memorial Museum.
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in “Bite, Bite against the Iron Cage”: The Ambivalent Dreamscape of Zoos in Colonial Seoul and Taipei
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 May 2020
Figure 4. An illustration from “The zoo fox,” 1931. Visitors dressed in Korean-style attire gaze at caged animals, including a fox, presumably the story's narrator (Chōsen sōtokufu 1931 , 72).
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in Conflicting Nostalgia: Performing The Tale of Ch'unhyang (春香傳) in the Japanese Empire
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 February 2014
Figure 9. Drunken evil magistrate heckles Ch'unhyang while cross-dressed servants snicker. Reprinted with permission from the Tsubouchi Shōyō Memorial Museum.
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (2): 345–359.
Published: 01 May 2012
..., and two young daughters were neatly dressed, and their yellow lab was obediently packed into a crate that stood in the middle of their matching suitcases. Each wore a crisp, white mask. Much as I wanted to hear stories of what they had seen, I imagined that they did not want to talk. My son, however...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (4): 1277–1308.
Published: 01 November 2008
... of these criticisms and their motivations, and reveals that the controversy over the dress and comportment of modern women was a complex and multifaceted phenomenon sustained by irreducibly plural interests. It argues that neither the appeal for traditionalism and national sufficiency in the face of multiple modern...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (4): 1045–1054.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Nira Wickramasinghe Abstract On May 19, 2009, the president of Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapaksa, dressed in his traditional white sarong and shirt, solemnly addressed Parliament: “The writ of the state now runs across every inch of our territory … we have completely defeated terrorism.” The same day...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (3): 749–773.
Published: 01 August 1998
...Arjun Guneratne Abstract In the lowlands of nainital district in northwestern Uttar Pradesh, occupying discrete and adjacent territories, live two ethnic groups known as the Tharu and the Buxa.1 Both are indigenous to the area. They have much in common, in their dress, language, and ritual...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1978) 37 (3): 413–425.
Published: 01 May 1978
... around open bonfires, while others were strolling aimlessly through the grove in front of the dormitory, intoning lines from Hamlet or The Sorrows of Young Werther . For Nitobe—the Christian theologian, the international diplomat, the impeccably well-dressed and wellmannered gentleman—the first sight...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (3): 528–549.
Published: 01 August 2000
... the general understanding that wealth, power, territory, monogamy, gender equity, cleanliness, dress, etiquette, or mechanization constituted the notion of siwilai . The meaning was slippery, no matter how anybody tried to claim or use it politically (Bhidayalongkorn 1970). Copyright © The Association...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (2): 427–458.
Published: 01 May 1994
... a portrait of a beautiful East Asian woman in Manchu dress; her expression is enigmatic. The restaurant's advertising describes a Chinese emperor's consort renowned for her miraculous fragrance, and promises equally aromatic culinary delights. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1990) 49 (3): 535–554.
Published: 01 August 1990
... form, at pilgrimage sites. The troupes ( zbentou ) are dramatic elements in the procession in that the performers dress up, portray a story, and try to entertain. What they do may be classified as ritual: forms and content are stereotyped, repetitive, condensed, and conventionalized (Tambiah 1985...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (4): 757–769.
Published: 01 November 1989
... , and the texts they cite are mere window dressing for the interpretations of Hindu law they seek to promulgate. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 List of References Anon. N.d. Why Hindu Code Is Detestable . Calcutta and Allahabad : Shastra Dharma Prachar Sabha...
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