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Objects, Models, and Exemplary Works: Educating Sentiment in Colonial India
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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (3): 539–566.
Published: 01 August 2005
... . Cambridge, Mass .: Harvard University Press . Ziffren Abbie . 1972 . “Biography of Patrick Geddes.” In Patrick Geddes: Spokesman for Man and the Environment ed. Marshall Stalley . New Brunswick, N. J. : Rutgers University Press . Objects, Models, and Exemplary Works: Educating Sentiment...
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Exemplary Centre, Administrative Periphery: Rural Leadership and the New Order in Java
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Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (1): 259–260.
Published: 01 February 1999
...Robert W. Hefner Exemplary Centre, Administrative Periphery: Rural Leadership and the New Order in Java . By Hans Antlöv . Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series, No. 68. Richmond : Curzon Press , 1995 , 222 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999...
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A True Sino-Japanese Amity? Collaborationism and the Yokohama Chinese (1937–1945)
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (3): 587–609.
Published: 01 August 2013
...Eric Han Abstract Taking the Yokohama Chinese community as an exemplary case, this article delves into linkages between Chinese diasporic identities and collaborationism during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–45). Using published memoirs, Japanese government and police records, and local...
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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
...Karin Zitzewitz Abstract Naiza Khan's The Manora Archive (2007–), the product of her long-term engagement with a small island in Karachi's harbor, is exemplary of both Pakistan's vibrant contemporary art and its burgeoning discourse of urban space. Dominated by a naval base and port rejuvenation...
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Putting the Mandala in its Place: A Practice-based Approach to the Spatialization of Power on the Southeast Asian ‘Periphery’—The Case of the Akha
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (2): 323–358.
Published: 01 May 1996
...Deborah E. Tooker Abstract In this article, I argue that the ‘mandala’ and other spatialized concepts associated with the ‘cosmic polity’ in Southeast Asia (such as ‘exemplary center’ and ‘sinking status’, ‘galactic polity’, ‘concentric circles’, ‘nested emboxment’, etc.) are key concepts...
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Conceptualizing Chinese Diasporas, 1842 to 1949
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Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (2): 306–337.
Published: 01 May 1999
...Adam McKeown Abstract Each of these epigrams is from an exemplary work of primary research. While not entirely exclusive—potential for overlap appears in the ideas of “mutual development” and “transfer” of culture—they each exemplify different research agendas that result in competing narratives...
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Negara: The Theatre State in Nineteenth-Century Bali
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Journal of Asian Studies (1982) 41 (3): 631–633.
Published: 01 May 1982
... that obtains in those cultures of which Bali is exemplary: there it means "palace," "capital," "state," "realm," or "town." The opposite of negara is desa (also a Sanskrit loanword) meaning "countryside," "region," "village," "place," and even "dependency." Much of the book illustrates the form and the content...
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Australia and the Indonesian Revolution
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Journal of Asian Studies (1982) 41 (3): 633–635.
Published: 01 May 1982
... Studies, Inc. 1982 1982 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 633 I would like to conclude with a comment on the relationship between the notion of exemplary center and that of hierarchy. I have noted that the notion of exemplary contains an ambivalence. It is an example o/and an example for. Geertz seems...
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Shifting Communities and Identity Formation in Early Modern Asia
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (3): 757–758.
Published: 01 August 2004
... Wong explicitly points out, presents dif culties for the dominant literature on nationalism. The rst two essays explore how Japanese contested the concept of China as the central kingdom, without doubting its exemplary status as the home of the classic sages. W. J. Boot traces from the seventh...
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The Last Hindu Emperor: Prithviraj Chauhan and the Indian Past, 1200–2000
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (2): 556–559.
Published: 01 May 2017
... as exemplary biographies in the Jain tradition, all provided a cumulative, if not entirely coherent kernel, for the legend of Prithviraj that seems to have emerged in its most elaborate version yet, the Prithviraj Raso , by the late sixteenth century. It was some version of this Raso narrative, which must...
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Rewarding Frugality: Ascetic Nationalism in Developing South Korea
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (4): 883–909.
Published: 01 November 2024
... of a narrative, reflected as a discursive practice of narrating the nominees’ ascetic nationalist identity. 10. The frugality awards were part of the “exemplary civil servant awards.” According to published statistics, the exemplary awards in central agencies were given to a reasonable number of nominees...
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Indian Literature and Popular Cinema: Recasting Classics
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (4): 1492–1494.
Published: 01 November 2008
... of the Hindu chauvinism evident in the 1954 novel, Dharmaputra , to an optimistic vision of “Hindu-Muslim unity” (p. 236). Pauwels nicely concludes this exemplary volume of essays by noting that the “classics” and their filmic reinventions are situated within fluid worlds of narrative, and while a reader...
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What Is Religious Authority? Cultivating Islamic Communities in Indonesia
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (4): 1100–1102.
Published: 01 November 2024
.... What Is Religious Authority? combines an astute historical analysis across two centuries of flows between Yemen and the archipelago with a rich ethnographic portrait of the ordinary life of an extraordinary Sufi figure. Alatas, trained at the University of Michigan's exemplary program in history...
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A Korean Storyteller's Miscellany
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Journal of Asian Studies (1990) 49 (2): 421–422.
Published: 01 May 1990
... the official history, or even the court novel. The miscellany is filled with materials that caught the attention, that intrigued the collector, whereas the official history is deliberate, didactic, uplifting, exemplary, and dull. Much depends, of course, upon the mental and literary qualities...
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Men of the Cliffs and Caves, The Development of the Chinese Eremitic Tradition to the End of the Han Dynasty
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Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (2): 403–404.
Published: 01 May 1991
... and advisers rather than officials. Since recommendations were the key route to high office, a reputation for high personal standards and lack of interest in personal wealth and glory came to be prized by the ambitious. This "exemplary eremitism," certainly a contradiction to a real follower of Chuang-tzu...
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The Legend of Miao-shan
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Journal of Asian Studies (1979) 38 (4): 770–771.
Published: 01 August 1979
... introduces with an investigation of the legend and cult of the Demon-Subduer Chung K'uei (Le roman du pourfendeur des demons, Memoires de l'lnstitut des Hautes Etudes Chinoises, Vol. IV, Paris, 1976). Glen Dudbridge presents a more succinct study, exemplary in its rigorous clarity, of another popular legend...
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Idioms of Improvement: Vidyasagar and Cultural Encounter in Bengal
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (2): 568–569.
Published: 01 May 1998
... exemplary use of secondary as well as primary Bengali materials (pp. 7-8). The first part of his work leads to a description of Vidyasagar's efforts to reform education. Vidyasagar's goal for education was individual and social improvement; the means was to be a supple and grammatically lucid Bengali prose...
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Constructing Commonality: Standardization and Modernization in Chinese Nation-Building
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (3): 731–755.
Published: 01 August 2012
... to the exemplary modernity of China's more central places (see figures 5 and 6 ). For local leaders who have some say in the design of government buildings, a desire for imposing buildings that iterate their power, and the imitation of exemplary centers of power higher up the political hierarchy go hand in hand...
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Growth, Stagnation or Decline? Agricultural Productivity in British India The World of the Rural Labourer in Colonial India
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (2): 502–503.
Published: 01 May 1996
... are available at bargain basement prices. Any half-decent academic library must acquire the series as a whole, and certainly the two exemplary titles cited here. They are exemplary because they meet all of the criteria of quality and critical interpretation that the general editors have set for the project...
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India Votes: Alliance Politics and Minority Governments in the Ninth and Tenth General Elections
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (2): 501–502.
Published: 01 May 1996
... the series as a whole, and certainly the two exemplary titles cited here. They are exemplary because they meet all of the criteria of quality and critical interpretation that the general editors have set for the project. And this is, of course, not an accident. Guha and Prakash are two of the finest younger...
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