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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (1): 226–229.
Published: 01 February 2017
...Gerald Figal A Discipline on Foot: Inventing Japanese Native Ethnography, 1910–1945 . By Alan Christy . Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield , 2012 . ix, 297 pp. ISBN: 9781442216471 (cloth). The Undiscovered Country: Text, Translation, and Modernity in the Work...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1982) 41 (2): 430–432.
Published: 01 February 1982
... in this review are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Department of State.) Memoirs of the Four-foot Colonel. By General SMITH DUN. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University (Department of Asian Studies, Southeast Asia Program, Data Paper, No. 113), 1980. xii, 126 pp. $6 (paper). General...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (2): 640–642.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Simon James Bytheway From Foot Soldier to Finance Minister: Takahashi Korekiyo, Japan's Keynes . By Richard J. Smethurst . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2007 . xiv , 377 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1942) 2 (1): 31–47.
Published: 01 November 1942
..., Curacao and Surinam, of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. As such its nationals are Dutch subjects and stand on an equal footing, legally, with the citizens of other sovereign nations. In the event of legal controversy involving a resident of the Netherlands Indies and a citizen of another nation...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1942) 2 (1): 58–65.
Published: 01 November 1942
...Franz Weidenreich Abstract The history of the discoveries of Early Man in Indonesia has been marked by bold speculations and surprising successes alternating with frustrated hopes and discouraging lulls from the time when the first explorer in search of his remains set foot on Java's soil...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (4): 881–893.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Jeff Kingston Abstract Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's troubles in 2018 owe much to Japan's resilient liberal media. Between 2011 and 2017, the media was mostly on its back foot, losing credibility over its initial coverage about the Fukushima nuclear accident and withstanding heavy-handed efforts...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1964) 24 (1): 109–112.
Published: 01 November 1964
... to have a foot firmly in each world, and to be qualified to make a plea for the unity of Chinese studies. Additionally, the circumstances of British university teaching force my colleagues and myself to face this problem continually, since our undergraduates specialize in Chinese studies to the exclusion...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1995) 54 (3): 689–726.
Published: 01 August 1995
...Alfred W. McCoy Abstract On june 15, 1936, 120 fresh cadets assembled at Manila's Tutuban Station to board a train for the Philippine Military Academy (PMA), recently established in the mountain city of Baguio. At the end of the line, the cadets changed to Benguet Auto Line buses for the 4,000-foot...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1995) 54 (3): 781–795.
Published: 01 August 1995
... bride-price, double burial, and foot binding. The only chance we have of discovering why Chinese culture varies is to see how that variation relates to the location of such likely causes as relations with non-Han peoples, the strength of state control, and the balance of forces in local modes...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (2): 449–451.
Published: 01 May 1997
...Harry Harding The Practice of Power: U.S. Relations with China since 1949 . By Rosemary Foot . Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1995 . ix, 291 pp. $35.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 BOOK REVIEWS ASIA GENERAL 449 region have attempted to forge...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (4): 759–761.
Published: 01 November 2023
... the journey he and his wife undertook in 1985–87, on foot, to visit all the insurgent forces active in Northern Burma (Myanmar)—including what was then the Communist Party of Burma's base camps in today's Wa State. The semiautonomous Wa State is located in the part of the Wa lands that ended up as part...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 589–598.
Published: 01 August 2020
..., facilitating the development of various tracing applications. In particular, partnering with the KT Corporation, Korea's largest telecommunications company, the government provided researchers and app developers with data on levels of foot traffic and international roaming since April 1, 2020, for free. 16...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1944) 4 (1): 27–40.
Published: 01 November 1944
..., but on the 15th morning they managed to effect a crossing unobserved higher 30 THE FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY up the stream, and took possession of a tank near the British position.3 The British encampment was surrounded by a three-foot embankment, and was protected on its right flank by the river; some sixty paces...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1967) 26 (4): 771.
Published: 01 August 1967
... . Dacca : The Asiatic Society of Pakistan , 1966 . xxxvi, 422 pp. Bibliography of Muhammad Shahidullah's works. Rs. 25.00. Studies in Prehistory . Robert Bruce Foote Memorial Volume. Edited by D. Sen and A. K. Ghosh . Calcutta : Firma K. L. Mukhopadhyay , 1966 . viii, 194 pp. Rs. 35.00...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1951) 10 (3): 288–301.
Published: 01 May 1951
... bloom) and 11 blue and white. Bequest of Helen Pratt Dane. [1950.83/ 1-98] T'ang; prancing horse with red, green, and gray pigments; H. 14i/2", L. 19i Bequest of Mrs. John Nicholas Brown. [1950.86] Sung; Ying-ch'ing ware bowl of peony shape on high foot; H. 1^6", D. 4i Gift of C. T. Loo, in memory...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1968) 27 (3): 673–674.
Published: 01 May 1968
... footing with $7-70. European States. He concedes that colonialism Traditional writers insistently maintain that might have been implied in the original char- the law of nations grew up exclusively in the ters of the East India Companies which en- confines of Christian Europe and that, from visaged...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (4): 1219–1221.
Published: 01 November 2003
... by the state and family. For example, footbinding expresses the Confucian virtues of discipline and chastity at the same time as it displays the Confucian sins of sensuality and willful bodily harm. Ko uses bound-foot shoes as her primary sources or texts. She reads these artifacts against the written word...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1949) 9 (1): 66–74.
Published: 01 November 1949
.../6"; W. 597/6"; D. 38 [48.500] China BRONZE. Han; Hen; gilt; painted decorations inside. H. 7u/la"; W. T*/a". [48.372] CALLIGRAPHY. Ch'ing; poem by Emperor Taokuang on gold decorated paper, dated 1824. H. 75"; W. 393 [48.291] CERAMICS. Ming; stem cup on high foot of Hsuan-te era; floral band...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1976) 35 (2): 339.
Published: 01 February 1976
...-away Western World. Trav- Korean poetry most conducive to their under- eling on foot along both the Northern and the standing of Chinese literature, and literature in Southern branches of the Silk Road, he found and general. unearthed the military outposts, the lost caravan- C. H. W A N G University...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (4): 1105–1106.
Published: 01 November 2016
... of society—be they military officials, bureaucrats, scientists, or foot soldiers—simultaneously come into view. The ensuing “Age of Parity” (1550–1700), however, eventually gave way to a gap in gunpowder warfare that yawned over the course of the eighteenth century—the “Great Military Divergence...