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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (2): 548–549.
Published: 01 May 2004
...Michael Kron Familiar Medicine: Everyday Health Knowledge and Practice in Today's Vietnam . By David Craig . Honolulu : University of Hawai Press , 2002 . xv, 287 pp. $55.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 548 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T U D...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (1): 175–177.
Published: 01 February 2001
...Dru C. Gladney Familiar Strangers: A History of Muslims in Northwest China . By Jonathan N. Lipman . Seattle, Wash. : University of Washington Press , 1998 . xxxvi, 266 pp. $22.50 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 175 effort...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (1): 240–241.
Published: 01 February 2022
...Sara Hakeem Grewal Overall, however, The Globally Familiar is an important work in providing an a fully intersectional ethnography of the hip hop subculture in Delhi. This book has broad implications for helping us understand global hip hop outside of the West, as well as the globality...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (3): 565–588.
Published: 01 August 2015
... conceptions of “exotic difference” but instead distinct discourses of “familiarity.” On the one hand, Chinese participants tactically narrate “blood ties” ( xueyuan guanxi 血缘关系 ) to interpret current marriage migration as following relational bonds and thus a “natural” phenomenon. On the other hand, Japanese...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (4): 927–940.
Published: 01 November 2014
... to the Qing Empire's ties to and conflicts with other political and territorial units. Those familiar with Liu's work will find here an essay that complements some arguments in her book; those who have not read it will be introduced to those ideas for the first time. Beyond this, though, all readers will find...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1987) 46 (4): 843–848.
Published: 01 November 1987
...]), the films may be especially rewarding. They put faces to a few familiar names and give us images—of donkeycarts rattling over the tired earth, of bundled babies in bare adobe courtyards—that validate the village Hinton's books have already brought to life in our minds. But for viewers who have not done any...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (2): 332–358.
Published: 01 May 2000
... chaste lives. We will become familiar with many technical terms and foreign (European) words. On the one hand, using technical scientific terminology is unavoidable, and on the other, we use it to avoid making obscene associations … I expect you to be familiar with the textbooks in physics...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (1): 43–64.
Published: 01 February 2014
... targets to the background, and shows how a new approach to a familiar topic can help paint a fuller portrait of some of the most contested episodes of transnational cultural interactions throughout Eurasia. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013 2013 At the tail end...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1975) 34 (2): 313–340.
Published: 01 February 1975
... have disputed previous claims that Japanese workers commit themselves irrevocably to their employers and have shown that familiar economic and non-economic incentives affect marketplace behavior. Moreover, while these studies recognize the importance of paternalistic practices in shaping employment...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (1): 21–54.
Published: 01 February 2009
... narrative fiction “Prayers for Blessing,” which drew extensively on a Buddhist avadāna, the essay seeks to throw some new light on the familiar as well as unfamiliar sources relating to Lu Xun's life and works and to develop a new understanding of how the debates on science and metaphysics have developed...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (2): 363–381.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Satadru Sen Abstract This article examines the writings of the nineteenth-century Indian essayist Bhudeb Mukhopadhyay. Locating the writer within the history of colonial Bengal and a wider world of racial anxieties, it excavates the foundations of Indian conservatism outside the familiar terrain...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1986) 45 (4): 797–805.
Published: 01 August 1986
... common at that time, while others approach familiar subject matter from new perspectives. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1986 1986 List of References Barnes J. A. 1962 . “ African Models in the New Guinea Highlands. ” Man 62 : 5 – 9 . Meggitt M. 1965 . “ Male...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1964) 23 (S1): 53–69.
Published: 01 June 1964
...Gerald D. Berreman Abstract The roles of various castes (jatis) in Hindu religious activities have been of interest to many students of rural Indian society. As a result, we are quite familiar with the patterns of ceremonial activity of Brahmin priests and of other participants in Brahmanical...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1959) 18 (4): 457–474.
Published: 01 August 1959
...Lyman P. van Slyke Abstract The name of Liang Sou-ming is perhaps most familiar in connection with his controversial published lectures of the early 1920's, The Cultures of East and West, and Their Philosophies . It is less well known that Liang had an extensive career in the field of rural...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (4): 953–976.
Published: 01 November 2015
... for such criticism among the rank-and-file “salarymen” of the urban Japanese middle class. Finally, the precisely informed humor found in these comics also suggests that their target audience possessed detailed familiarity with contemporary events on the continent and interpreted those events through a deeply...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (4): 549–569.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Shoufu Yin Abstract During the late sixteenth century, top-tier elites of Ming China wrote mock memorials on behalf of the king of Chosŏn Korea. While the Chinese court developed this prompt to familiarize its officials with the changing geopolitics and test their abilities to elaborate...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1965) 25 (1): 33–50.
Published: 01 November 1965
...Rajni Kothari; Rushikesh Maru Abstract A study of the interactions between the caste system and political democracy in India rejects the familiar theory that there is a dichotomy between a traditional society and a modern polity. On the contrary, it underlines the functional relevance of indigenous...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1971) 30 (2): 281–314.
Published: 01 February 1971
... legislation either as incumbents in fiscal offices or as members of Imperial advisory organs. The financial specialist was seen as possessing a specific body of expertise—administrative ability, talent in mathematics, a knowledge of classical Chinese monetary theory and familiarity with the history...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (4): 1049–1069.
Published: 01 November 2010
... familiar versions of virtue ethics in the West and yet most valuable to contemporary life in a global and pluralistic society. I have explored in this article the possibility of a virtue ethics in the Zhuangzi. My argument is focused on one central theme of virtue ethics: the goodness or wellness...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1972) 31 (4): 841–862.
Published: 01 August 1972
... fundamental revision which would lead to a single, unified, community based system. They insist that such a system would be best for both doctors and patients. While the organization and activities of the JMA have a peculiar Japanese flavor, students of western politics will find much that is familiar...
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