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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (1): 305–307.
Published: 01 February 2009
...Jeffrey W. Alexander The Fable of the “Keiretsu”: Urban Legends of the Japanese Economy . By Yoshio Miwa and J. Mark Ramseyer . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2006 . xiii , 181 pp. $32.50 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (3): 575–602.
Published: 01 August 2000
..., Community . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press . History at Land's End: Lemuria in Tamil Spatial Fables SUMATHI RAMASWAMY The Earth will belong to he who knows it best. (Capel 1994, 72) If there is anything that radically distinguishes the imagination of anti-imperialism, it is the primacy...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1961) 21 (1): 91–92.
Published: 01 November 1961
...Richard Edwards Fables in Ivory. Japanese Netsuke and their Legends . By Adrienne Barbanson . Rutland and Tokyo : Charles E. Tuttle , 1961 . 116 . Illustrated, Bibliography. $7.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1961 1961 BOOK REVIEWS 91 sion they were already...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (4): 1178–1180.
Published: 01 November 2012
...William Elison Mumbai Fables: A History of an Enchanted City . By Gyan Prakash . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 2010 . xi , 396 pp. $29.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2012 2012 Through the twentieth century, Bombay...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1968) 28 (1): 101–110.
Published: 01 November 1968
...Maurice Meisner Abstract The ethical values and norms which are to guide social behavior in Communist China are often conveyed through fables and stories. It thus might not be inappropriate to begin a discussion of these values with a story that is now perhaps as familiar to students...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1968) 27 (4): 791–808.
Published: 01 August 1968
... correspondence of the same period. Of course, there must always have been a flourishing popular oral literature of fables and ghost stories, adaptations of episodes from the Puranas and the Epics, but these were never written down. Even among the well known Sanskrit story collections, only the Pancatantra...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1992) 51 (4): 757–769.
Published: 01 November 1992
.... Hence the quite different fables to which I shall expose you today. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 1 Evelyn Rawski's excellent review of the literature leaves no question about the dynamism of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. See...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (4): 1337–1339.
Published: 01 November 2009
... The Pañcatantra is a widely read and very popular Indian collection of stories and fables of which there are several extant versions. The Fall of the Indigo Jackal concentrates on the compilation made by Pūrṇabhadra at the end of the twelfth century ce , and uses one of its stories, “The Blue Jackal...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (2): 635–636.
Published: 01 May 1994
... . KLOKKE. Leiden: KITLV Press, 1993. 312 pp. $38.50. This work is virtually the only one of its kind in the field of Southeast Asian art history; it presents a detailed analysis of Tantri reliefs that depict the animal fables of Indian Pancatantra texts on the exterior walls of Javanese candi. The author...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1983) 43 (1): 105–127.
Published: 01 November 1983
... in Husain's short story "Kachve" (1981c), where, toward the end, the idea is transformed into a tormenting existentialist question. "Kachve" is a collection of a dozen or so Jataka fables craftily strung together to serve as a backdrop to the intense drama of temptation and doubt slowly unfolding in the lives...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1957) 16 (5): 815–816.
Published: 01 September 1957
..., MIGOT, ANDRE. Histoire de Queue-deChevre (fable tibetaine). France-Asie 1955. 325 p. (Weisheitsbiicher der Menschheit) 12 (Jan. 1956), 584-87. MILLER, ROY ANDREW. The independent Historical and Political Sciences status of the Lhasa dialect in spoken ABRAMOV, K. Vladimir Il'ich Lenin Tibetain. T6h6gaku...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1961) 20 (4): 553–554.
Published: 01 August 1961
..., 109. Tables, Annex, Index (paper). This book is a work of scholarship written primarily for Sanskrit scholars interested in the fable, proverb, and dharmasastra literature. The Hitopadesa is a well-known collection of fables and folk-tales, written in prose and verse mixed, and compiled by a certain...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1961) 20 (4): 554–555.
Published: 01 August 1961
..., 109. Tables, Annex, Index (paper). This book is a work of scholarship written primarily for Sanskrit scholars interested in the fable, proverb, and dharmasastra literature. The Hitopadesa is a well-known collection of fables and folk-tales, written in prose and verse mixed, and compiled by a certain...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1995) 54 (2): 606–608.
Published: 01 May 1995
... (especially in the autobiographical mode), Fictions opens and closes with a fable and a story, both instances of fictional genres. In seeing ethnography as fiction, and vice versa, Fictions both contests ethnography's initial efforts to separate itself from the fictional and conforms with the self...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (1): 217–220.
Published: 01 February 1999
...." Christopher 220 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Rich's rendition admirably recreates the lush imagery and slightly morbid atmosphere of the original. Susanna Fessler has charmingly translated five moral fables by Hayashi Fumiko that feature anthropomorphized animal characters. Written in simple, concrete...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1985) 44 (4): 893.
Published: 01 August 1985
... of culture heroes, and tricksters through etiologies, novellas, and animal fables, to jokes and children's rigmaroles. This skillful narrator also relates another set of tales distinguished from the former on functional rather than thematic grounds, namely, totem tales (designed to keep the clans marrying...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (3): 636.
Published: 01 August 1988
... is essential reading for all who are interested in modern Japan and how it developed. W. DEAN KINZLEY University of South Carolina Understanding Japanese Society. By J O Y H E N D R Y . New York: Croom Helm. 218 pp. $25.00 (cloth); $9.95 (paper). On some books the jacket blurb amounts to a fable of contents...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1957) 16 (5): 812–815.
Published: 01 September 1957
..., 1956. p. eingeleitet von Adolf Friedrich [und] 1118-39.) Georg Buddruss. Munich, O. W. Barth, MIGOT, ANDRE. Histoire de Queue-deChevre (fable tibetaine). France-Asie 1955. 325 p. (Weisheitsbiicher der Menschheit) 12 (Jan. 1956), 584-87. MILLER, ROY ANDREW. The independent Historical and Political...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1960) 19 (4): 445.
Published: 01 August 1960
..., competently done, and convey much Kalidasa with Cambodian and Laotian fables good sense. d creates something of the sense of a living tra- They are introduced by an excellent brief ^ dition that the editor seeks to convey. Unfor- statement in which the editor goes swiftly and tunately, die selections dealing...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1961) 20 (3): 410.
Published: 01 May 1961
... disappointing. Instead of establishing an orderly process of enquiry, it branches off into mythological by-lanes and is lost in a forest of folk-lore and conjecture. The Buddha figure is reduced to a haze of ornamented abstractions. Man's reason has needed a parable to express itself. But the mix-up of fable...
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