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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (2): 381–415.
Published: 01 May 2002
... of biological weapon disseminated by American planes that had crossed the Yalu River from the Korean front. By noon the villagers had killed, burned, and buried every vole they could find (ISC 1952, 40–3). Nature, Annihilation, and Modernity: China's Korean War Germ-Warfare Experience Reconsidered RUTH ROGASKI...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (2): 311–344.
Published: 01 May 2007
... the nineteenth century is glossed over without sufficient attention. Pasteurian medicine, especially the idea of germs, was introduced to Siam by the American missionary Dan Beach Bradley. Its introduction spurred a process of negotiation with both pre-Pasteurian Western and traditional Thai medicine. In its pre...
View articletitled, Of <span class="search-highlight">Germs</span>, Public Hygiene, and the Healthy Body: The Making of the Medicalizing State in Thailand
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (3): 954–956.
Published: 01 August 2009
... of colonialism in Chinese studies, a topic that, it is hoped, will be followed up by other scholars. Rogaski ends her book with two episodes of germ warfare. Whereas the management of germs was an integral part of Japanese colonial governance during the Asia-Pacific wars in the 1930s and 1940s, it quickly...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1992) 51 (1): 225–227.
Published: 01 February 1992
... in Japanese-occupied Manchuria. By the end of World War II, Ishii had become a lieutenant-general and his center, code named Unit 731, had grown into an enormous installation with laboratory and germ production facilities, its own arsenal, testing grounds, an airport, and specially equipped germ-dropping...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (1): 202–204.
Published: 01 February 2014
... and urban historians contribute many of the chapters in Imperial Contagions , offering new perspectives on the influence of sanitary measures and germ theories on the design and improvement of cities like Hong Kong, Singapore, Bombay, and Calcutta. Into the twentieth century, older fears of environmental...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1990) 49 (2): 417–418.
Published: 01 May 1990
... and DAVID WALLACE. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1989. xxvii, 366 pp. £14.95. U.S. edition, New York: The Free Press, 1989- xi, 303 pp. $22.95. Japan's biological warfare (BW) project began in the 1930s when Shiro Ishii, a charismatic Japanese Army doctor, convinced his superiors that germs could be turned...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1992) 51 (1): 224–225.
Published: 01 February 1992
... with laboratory and germ production facilities, its own arsenal, testing grounds, an airport, and specially equipped germ-dropping planes. Covert BW attacks were made on Chinese military and civilian targets. Some of these attacks were moderately successful, others were failures. ...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1990) 49 (2): 418–419.
Published: 01 May 1990
...: The Free Press, 1989- xi, 303 pp. $22.95. Japan's biological warfare (BW) project began in the 1930s when Shiro Ishii, a charismatic Japanese Army doctor, convinced his superiors that germs could be turned into cheap and effective weapons. By the war's end Ishii, who had risen to the rank of lieutenant...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (2): 377–379.
Published: 01 May 2002
.... R U T H ROGASKI looks at the ways in which campaigns against pests in China in the 1950s intersected with claims about germ warfare in the Korean War and suggests ways in which these public health campaigns were related to emerging notions of modernity in twentieth-century China. Her article shows...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (1): 21–54.
Published: 01 February 2009
... of a multicellular living being, be it human, animal, plant life, and so on. Not surprisingly, the best-known proponent of this theory at the turn of the century was Ernst Haeckel. Haeckel defines the “life-germ” as an impregnated egg cell. “This new cell,” writes Haeckel, “is the individual stem-cell...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1977) 37 (1): 174.
Published: 01 November 1977
... they did not care to look at me. By the Gulf of Siam they were looking at me with scornful apprehension, the way they would look at a mosquito carrying malaria germs to Europe. When we entered the Indian Ocean, their eyes began to become infected with expressions of gentleness and compassion . . . and when...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1974) 34 (1): 129–137.
Published: 01 November 1974
...,” Kairos II (1960), 87, and anticipated by Bosch, Golden Germ , pp. 86–88. 37 E.g.,
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Garrett Jan
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Bosch
F. D. K.
, The Golden Germ. An Introduction to Indian Symbolism ( 's-Gravenhage...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1977) 36 (3): 550.
Published: 01 May 1977
... of audiences: educated lay people, high school and adult education classes, and freshman university courses. ceived gifts of germ plasm to take back to the United States. This book is a summary of their generally profitable trip. It will do much to acquaint Americans so long deprived of direct contact...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1965) 24 (2): 283–291.
Published: 01 February 1965
... even writes: “People have often, seen souls in a dream; they had the appearance of buffaloes, and were tied to a sacrificial post by their horns.” 12 Condominas (1957). 278. 13
Bosch
F. D. K.
, The Golden Germ ( 's-Gravenhage , 1960 ), 112
. 14 Illustration...
View articletitled, An Interpretation of Agricultural Rites in Southeast Asia, with a Demonstration of Use of Data from both Continental and Insular Areas
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (4): 1132–1133.
Published: 01 November 2014
... the Beriberi Research Council, where elite scientists camouflaged their retreat from the germ hypothesis by continuing to manufacture controversy over causality. With the outbreak of the disease controlled through preventive measures, and no professional incentive to disprove contagion, the confirmation...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (2): 307–309.
Published: 01 May 2007
... practices, and captured the interest of the Siamese court. Ultimately, Pasteurian medicine became an instrument of Siamese state hegemony—the control of germs proved to be yet another means of disciplining the nation's citizens. Just as the queue was an outward symbol of Manchu dominance and hegemony...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (1): 217–219.
Published: 01 February 2012
... translation for the biomedical notion of ‘contagion’ as ‘the communication of disease from one person to another by bodily contact’” (p. 26). Leung argues that the term “facilitated and at the same time distorted” the introduction of germ theory in China (p. 46). Yu Xinzhong explains that the hygiene...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (1): 158–160.
Published: 01 February 2022
... expertise, led to an innovation more in line with Mao's message extending public health to the masses: the use of chicken blood to cure disease and nourish the body. This technique relied on Yu Changshi's discovery that chicken blood at high temperature (43 degrees Celcius) had a capacity to “fight germs...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (4): 979–980.
Published: 01 November 2020
... efficient mass immunization drives, Brazelton points out that military conflict in the 1940s and 1950s spurred vaccination as a mode of national defense. During World War II, vaccination could ward off the impact of Japanese employment of germ warfare, while during the Korean War, allegations of the use...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1971) 30 (3): 623–624.
Published: 01 May 1971
... does not know the languages involved should be very wary of dealing with foreign cultures. The germ of honji suija\u is Indian in the sense that, to borrow Mrs. Matsunaga's own words, "the assimilation of indigenous beliefs has been an essential feature of the (Buddhist) religion." The Mahayana...
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