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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (1): 49–71.
Published: 01 February 2021
... Research Abroad Fellowship from Boston University, and a National Study Abroad Scholarship from the Taiwan Ministry of Education (Republic of China). The views expressed here as well as any remaining mistakes are, of course, my own. While data presented in this article are about Funeral Reform...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (1): 154–156.
Published: 01 February 2024
..., kinship, and so on were eliminated, and a new political identity—the productive socialist self that served the party-state—was created. Chapter 2 discusses the market governance of death in the reform era in which the state attempted to transform state funeral practitioners into individualist profit...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (4): 961–990.
Published: 01 November 2004
... these funerals to longstanding cultural concerns concerns with status and the morality of remembrance and reciprocity. I also ask how funerals changed during the Maoist period and again in the reform era. And, I consider how much deviation is presently accepted in contemporary Moonshadow Pond. I argue...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (3): 507–522.
Published: 01 August 2022
... Mao's remains or accept cremation. In theory, Mao should have been buried in accordance with the party's universal incineration policy. The funeral reform of the 1950s enforced the work-unit-based “memorial meeting” (追悼會) to replace the onerous Confucian burial rituals. The simplification of mourning...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (1): 133–135.
Published: 01 February 1991
... than that of popular culture). Both Buddhist and Taoist funerals in these two provinces include dramatizations of scenes from the Mu-lien story, emphasizing Mu-lien's filial piety and showing him smashing the gates of hell and, together with mourners, drinking from and then smashing a bowl of wine...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (4): 695–698.
Published: 01 November 2023
... might utilize dead soldier tombs as a basis for patriotic education, in post–economic reform China the state did not promote secular socialist rituals—the kind of memorialization that happened in funeral parlors as described in the funeral of Mr. Wang. Instead, the party sought to promote old age care...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (3): 947–949.
Published: 01 August 2009
... that she had long been interested in “the storytelling and folkloric culture of the lower Yangzi delta” (p. vii) when she learned from Shanghai folklore specialists that substantial records existed of bridal and funeral laments performed by women in nearby Nanhui County. From 1994 through 2004, McLaren...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (1): 256–257.
Published: 01 February 2004
...Clark D. Neher The Funeral Casino: Meditation, Massacre, and Exchange with the Dead in Thailand . By Alan Klima . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 2002 . xii , 317 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $22.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 256 T H E J O...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2006) 65 (3): 624–626.
Published: 01 August 2006
... to align Japanese Buddhist practice with the expectations of meditation and philosophy cast off funerals and other rituals conducted by priests as embarrassing vestiges of a less than pure Buddhism. Another persistence of the Meiji reforms is the government decree that priests marry. The consequences...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (1): 257–259.
Published: 01 February 2004
... to frugal, freely entered, conjugal unions based on emotional attachment between the partners. Despite enormous pressure on residents of Thinh Liet by the state and party members, of cial attempts to reform funeral, death anniversary, and wedding rituals were only partially successful. The government failed...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (4): 887–892.
Published: 01 November 2004
..., of their kinship ties. He concludes that commonly held land is the glue that holds the group together. ELLEN OXFELD s discussion of funeral rituals in a Chinese village that she calls Moonshadow Pond directly confronts the question of ritual persistence and innovation. She concludes that what characterizes all...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (2): 528–531.
Published: 01 May 2021
..., also working at the UN headquarters from 1969 to 1971, would stop by his home (p. 142). In 1974, he attended his grandfather's funeral in Yangon, which resulted in a violent crackdown by the military government when university students demanded a proper state funeral (p. 33). In 1988, as a senior...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (1): 17–41.
Published: 01 February 2014
... of which emphasized state authority over the dead. Writing on stone brought the state and the history of its efforts to reform ritual into the ways people narrated their ascendants' lives. In the late twentieth century, a reinvigorated state renewed its concern with ritual, banning all funerals for a few...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (2): 387–389.
Published: 01 May 1988
... and James Gale, in changing the British government's attitude toward Japan is well documented. Ku concludes that the reform measures of Saito Makoto, the governor-general, "were not powerful enough to replace old practices" (p. 213); objections raised by the Japanese military against his reform policy were...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (2): 542–544.
Published: 01 May 2010
... that deserve careful scholarly consideration. These include the symbolically charged production and use by local people of written charms, documents, stelae, and so on, in what Chau refers to as “text acts.” He also compares funerals and temple festivals to illuminate his notions of “event production” (what...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1990) 49 (4): 835–865.
Published: 01 November 1990
... of Dependence: South German Civic Culture in the Age of Renaissance and Reformation.” In Ozment Steven , ed., Religion and Culture in the Renaissance and Reformation . Kirksville, Mo. : Sixteenth-Century Journal Publishers . Bryant Lawrence M. 1986 . The King and the City in the Parisian Royal...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1995) 54 (1): 274–275.
Published: 01 February 1995
... by these artists encourage student discussion of how market reforms touch the intellectual world: who buys this art, and who supports its production? The video arrived at an opportune moment, allowing me to take it for a test drive by showing it to a hundred students in my class on Chinese politics. They enjoyed...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1949) 9 (1): 42–62.
Published: 01 November 1949
... for eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English reformers, but it seems remarkable to find the principle expounded in tradition-bound China of the later Chou dynasty, when, as afterward, appeal to authority and reverence for the past were strongly embedded. Not only was a utilitarian concept vigorously...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (1): 130–132.
Published: 01 February 1991
... for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 130 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES in 1927. During the depression years, the Nationalist regime promoted sericultural reform and silk exports by cooperating with the private sector. Under government sponsorship, Xue Shouxuan in Wuxi achieved vertical and horizontal...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (4): 899–920.
Published: 01 November 1997
... Beresford . 1988 . Vietnam: Politics, Economics, and Society . London : Pinter . Bui TIN. 1995. Following Ho Chi Minh. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. Central Land Reform Committee. 1954 . “Vì Sao Xóm Mai Hòa Châ;m Tiên” (Why Mai Hoa Neighborhood is Slow to Progress) Tâp San Phát Dông Quân...
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