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...Phil Kaffen Dialectics without Synthesis: Japanese Film Theory and Realism in a Global Frame . By Naoki Yamamoto . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2020 . 248 pp. ISBN: 9780520351806 . © 2023 Association for Asian Studies 2023 “Film theory is just a pain...

...Murray Leeder Time Frames: Japanese Cinema and the Unfolding of History . By Scott Nygren . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2007 . xxi , 297 pp. $26.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 Scott Nygren's Time Frames: Japanese...

...Gina Marchetti China into Film: Frames of Reference in Contemporary Chinese Cinema . By Jerome Silbergeld . London : Reaktion Books , 1999 . 352 pp. £19.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 1232 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES government...

...Henri Chambert-Loir Indonesian Cinema: Framing the New Order . By Krishna Sen . London and Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Zed Books , 1994 . x, 188 pp. $69.95 (cloth); $25.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 568 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Albert L. Park Abstract This essay supplies brief historical context on the Candlelight Protest movement in South Korea (2016–17) and provides the thematic and theoretical framing for the forum “The South Korean Candlelight Protest Movement and Its Discontents.” It lays the groundwork...

...Young Sun Park Framed by War: Korean Children and Women at the Crossroads of US Empire . By Susie Woo . New York : New York University Press , 2019 . 336 pp. ISBN: 9781479880539 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2020 2020 As a generation of Korean...

..., Cort dismantles any monolithic understanding of icons and iconoclasm and forces us to consider the various interpretive frames that are employed in these narratives. In short, this book is essential for scholars who are interested in image worship and the ways in which religious communities defend...

... on the amount of religious material contained in the Records of Ritual (c. 4th–1st century b.c. ), and then reflect on how little work has been done on this material since he published what remains the only English translation of the Records since the late 19th century. Because the accepted frame...

... that the major variants of the tale reflect developments in Hindu religious thought. But more interesting is the relation between the embedded folktale and its frame text in classical mythology. In each case, the tale echoes the themes of the frame text but reorients them, bringing the cosmic concerns of gods...

... the Chunqiu period in late Western Han (ca. 48 BCE–9 CE). An eschatological prediction in the first century BCE was instrumental in generating this temporal sensibility. Many used the time frame of 242 years with 12 reigns from the Chunqiu , a canonical text purportedly composed by Confucius, to predict...

... dispatch of military labor also promised to ameliorate the problem of mass displacement at home, an ongoing legacy of the Korean War (1950–53). The northern exile writer Sŏnu Hwi (1922–86) was a notable proponent of this vision of the war as a frontier, framing Vietnam as a surrogate for an inaccessible...

... outlining how the system developed in Vietnam offers a point of comparison for understanding how the system developed in other territories occupied by the Japanese Empire. Furthermore, this article employs the analytical frames of race and gender, unpacking how the Japanese Empire's racial ideology...

... by anthropologists who emphasize the concept of self-as-relational-entity extant only within the context of movement between the social frames of inner ( uchi ) and outer ( soto ).” Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 Erratum The third sentence of the second paragraph of John...

... author to start any piece by stating just that. While the articles that comprise this Journal of Asian Studies “mini-forum” on North Korea had already been commissioned, it will surprise no reader to learn that their framing and urgency shifted in response to recent events. As this issue goes to press...

... (PLA) exemplify the dominant mode of symbolic investment of space which not only constitutes the nation as a militarized body politic but also frames the tradition of dissent associated with the Square, most notably the 1989 protest movement. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011...

... on ecological restoration and urban regeneration and how the history of Nanjido was subsequently framed as the undoing of the industrial past of the city, most notably seen in its waste management. This article analyzes this contested space through a careful reading of two documentary sources: The Millennium...

... to that vision offered by constituents and others. The article also explores the role of symbols drawn from the social and natural worlds in fostering the development of an ethnic identity. The article reveals a paradox in the way that ethnicity is framed within the organization—one that invites comparison...

..., leopard, tiger, and other pelts. Outsiders' interpretations of these events have flattened out the complexity of participants' motivations, which included not only religious and national loyalty, but also concerns about inequality wrought by capitalist development, framed through a lens of modern Chinese...

.... When the country makes headlines, the story of events taking place is typically framed in terms of state oppression and direct popular opposition. This leads to a restrictive view of the “political” dimensions of life in Myanmar, an approach to the topic that deals with only a small number...