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...Wen Fong The Existence of Intangible Content in Architectonic Form Based upon the Practicality of Laotzu's Philosophy . By Amos Ih Tiao Chang . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1956 . vii, 72 . Illustrations. $3.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1957...

...Emerald L. King Cosplay: The Fictional Mode of Existence . By Frenchy Lunning . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2022 . xii, 224 pages. ISBN: 9781517912147 . © 2024 Association for Asian Studies 2024 In many ways, Cosplay: The Fictional Mode of Existence...

... the paradigms of existing ‘pure’ literature, or to offer some kind of antithesis to it…. I don't think I worried about whether existing types of works would go on existing, so long as I could write what I wanted, how I wanted” (Kawamoto 1985, 39–40). Such a statement might be taken as a reflection...

...E-tu Zen Sun Abstract After three-quarters of a century of fluctuating efforts, the development of railways in China remains an unfinished task today. In contrast to industrially more advanced countries, which had built most of their existing lines by the turn of the present century, railway...

... aggression by which Japan acquired hegemony over Formosa, Korea, and Manchuria. Few realized that the population pressure within Japan was minimal in comparison with that which already existed in the conquered areas; that, furthermore, Japanese imperial policy tended toward an increasing imbalance between...

...W. G. Beasley Abstract Despite the existence of an enormous literature dealing with the Meiji Restoration and its origins, it is still surprisingly difficult to acquire precise information about some aspects of Japanese society in the middle of the nineteenth century. One such difficulty...

...Jungwon Kim Abstract As existing scholarship demonstrates, although the Chosŏn state (1392–1910) aimed to be a society “without litigation,” people understood the use of law and employed it to resolve various disputes in the local community. At the same time, a plethora of legal cases reveal...

...Sayaka Chatani Abstract Korean shantytowns existed in every large Japanese city from the postwar years through the late 1960s. Japanese people recall them as secluded, dirty, impoverished, and dangerous. To many scholars, their existence confirms the transwar continuity of Japanese oppression...

..., the equalization of classes, and the establishment of a conscript army, the need for a hereditary military class ceased to exist. Certainly, the presence of a samurai class, numbering approximately 1,800,000, or 400,000 families, stranded in a society in process of divesting itself of all feudal fetters...

... between two minority communities, concerned more with their own sense of identity than with questions of power and dominance. Attempts among Punjabi Hindus to create a new, modernized and respectable religious tradition could not be contained within their community but inevitably altered existing...

...Harumi Befu Abstract When village communities exist in the context of a larger political system, understanding of the system of control at the village level requires analysis both of the system of control imposed on the village by the state and also of that which has evolved within the community...

...Kenneth W. Jones Abstract Few features of modern South Asian history have received more comment than communalism, its impact on the development of nationalism and its threat to the continued existence of a secular Indian state. For many supporters of Indian nationalism, communalism was the result...

... extensively by Max Weber who asked himself whether a system of “ethics without God” and “with absolute indifference towards the question whether gods do exist or not and how they exist” could be called a “religion.” Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968 1968 1 Durkheim...

...Freek Colombijn Abstract The communis opinio of historians is that early modern, or precolonial, states in Southeast Asia tended to lead precarious existences. The states were volatile in the sense that the size of individual states changed quickly, a ruler forced by circumstances moved his state...

..., perhaps, in the early existence of this group of materialists, that the seemingly stable, traditionalistic Chinese society had the capacity to develop under its own power, without a catalytic intrusion of Western industrialism, into a society with a scientific temper? THE ABORTIVENF.SS OF EMPIRICISM...

... it instituted a radical change in the political system which existed for more than two thousand years, and brought about economic, social, cultural, and religious reforms over the greater part of Central and South China between 1851 and 1864. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1954 1954 1...

... be translated as the Ambulatory Money Bureau, inasmuch as it was a branch of the Ch'uan Fu Ssu or the Money Bureau which was in existence from 1281 to 1311. (Cf. Yang Lien-sheng, Money and Credit in China , [Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1952], 97.) Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

... and the pioneer Protestant missionary, Robert Morrison. Yet there is no lack of interesting characters connected with the “City of the Name of God” during its three and a half centuries of existence, and the present article deals with the story of one of them. Its perusal may help to recall those picturesque days...

... grouped under the title of “The Ever-Normal Granary” had been inspired by ancient Chinese practice. Because of the importance of Wang An-shih (1021–86) in Chinese economic thought, and because of the existence of a considerable literature on Wang in English, I had supposed that it was he who might have...