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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (2): 523–525.
Published: 01 May 1997
...Philippa Levine Home and Harem: Nation, Gender, Empire, and the Cultures of Travel . By Inderpal Grewal . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 1996 . x, 286 pp. $45.95 (cloth); $15.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (1): 123–147.
Published: 01 February 2010
... as Told by Its Own Historians , ed. Elliot H. M. and Dowson John , 400 – 438 . New Delhi : Low Price Publications . Peirce Leslie P . 1993 . The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire , New York : Oxford University Press . Schimmel Annemarie . 2004...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1960) 20 (1): 104.
Published: 01 November 1960
...W. Eberhard Harem Favorites of an Illustrious Celestial . By Howard S. Levy . Taichung : Chung-Tʻai Printing Co. , 1958 . 198 . Illustrated. NT $90.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1960 1960 104 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES other works mentioned. Lim's...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1945) 4 (3): 287–288.
Published: 01 May 1945
.... The Claremont Graduate School W . HENRY COOKE Anna and the king of Siam. By MARGARET LANDON. New York: The John Day Company, 1943, 1944. vi, 390 pp. $3.75. Margaret Landon has based her narrative on two books The English governess at the Siamese court and The romance of the harem by a young English widow, Mrs...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (4): 917–936.
Published: 01 November 2013
... in his harem was relatively rare, although widely known about. By the time of the Sui ruler, how to be a polygamist was something that had existed for centuries as a system of principles and beliefs. Besides what could be written down and preached, there was also that which the people around the emperor...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (4): 1091–1093.
Published: 01 November 1999
... harems, the brothers Alexander and Patrick Russell who, as doctors, had privileged access to women in Aleppo presented an entirely different picture of the harem as a refuge of privacy where idyllic scenes of domesticity were the norm and women enjoyed a marital status not inferior to that of European...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1945) 4 (3): 286–287.
Published: 01 May 1945
... Graduate School W . HENRY COOKE Anna and the king of Siam. By MARGARET LANDON. New York: The John Day Company, 1943, 1944. vi, 390 pp. $3.75. Margaret Landon has based her narrative on two books The English governess at the Siamese court and The romance of the harem by a young English widow, Mrs. Anna...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1960) 20 (1): 103–104.
Published: 01 November 1960
... life of the top level of society. What went on in the harem all day? What did the ladies do to entertain the emperor? What were their relations to other people? What type of woman was regarded as beautiful and attractive? Gernet has recently given us a picture of the life in Hang-chou in the thirteenth...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (4): 881–909.
Published: 01 November 2005
... and political power in Thailand2 historically as it manifested in the polygynous institution of the monarch s harem. Tamara Loos ([email protected]) is Associate Professor in the History Department at Cornell University. I am grateful to Evelyn Blackwood, Ellen Gerdts, Peter Jackson, Kallayanee Techapatikul...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1960) 20 (1): 104–106.
Published: 01 November 1960
... in this book which a comparison with the Chinese text reveals. It is, perhaps, more appropriate to ask at this point why this sort of somewhat neglected field. We get some insight into daily life in T'ang times, although it is only the daily life of the top level of society. What went on in the harem all day...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (2): 427–458.
Published: 01 May 1994
..., No. 5. The Hague: Mouton and Co . Cohen Joan Lebold . 1987 . The New Chinese Painting, 1949-1986 . New York : Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Croutier Alev Lytle . 1989 . Harem: The World Behind the Veil . New York : Abbeville Press . Da Qing lichao shilu [Veritable records...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (2): 601–604.
Published: 01 May 2003
... introduced by artists such as Giuseppe Castiglione. Space does not allow the authors of this volume to articulate fully every aspect of their observations. For instance, it is not clear what Richard Barnhart and Catherine Barnhart mean when they say, "[w]omen in the imperial harem were regarded the same way...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (2): 333–353.
Published: 01 May 1998
... rachakan thi ha (The first love of the Fifth Reign). Bangkok : Duangkamol . Leonowens Anna . [1872] 1991 . The Romance of the Harem . Edited and with an introduction by Susan Morgan. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press . McVey Ruth . 1992 . “The Materialisation...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 767–768.
Published: 01 August 2020
... the imperial harem). The things women consumed in large quantities included jewelry, flowers, cosmetics, sweetmeats, and clothing. Evidence from both contemporary fiction and paintings suggests that women did the shopping themselves. As illustrated in a Ming painting of the prosperous shopping streets...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (4): 780–781.
Published: 01 November 2022
... on preexisting ideas about Ottoman harems. Some of the first women to visit and write about Bangladeshi women saw them as different, but no more oppressed than British women were in their own society. As colonial authority is consolidated, a narrative about these societies as primitive and in need of reform...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (1): 213–214.
Published: 01 February 2021
... childhood in the Mughal harem; his youthful activities and his increasing interest in matters of religion and involvement in Sufi circles; his unsuccessful military commanderships and rather more successful intellectual exercises in integrating Hindu and Muslim forms of knowledge; and, finally, his defeat...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1961) 20 (2): 213–218.
Published: 01 February 1961
... Ts'ien, who seems to have guaranteed Li Ling. He did his best in praising Li Ling. But the Emperor was so upset at his own failure that he misunderstood Sz-ma Ts'ien to be praising Li Ling at the expense of another none-too-successful general who was the brother of the Emperor's harem favorite. So Sz-ma...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1945) 4 (3): 288–289.
Published: 01 May 1945
... and unscrupulousness, hoping to rule by reason, but ruling instead by impulse, and motivated often by an ungoverned temper. Her difficulties with him were numerous and discouraging: his failure at the outset to provide her with a suitable house, his wish that she enter his harem, his reception for Lord John Hay, his...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (4): 1220–1222.
Published: 01 November 2007
... assumptions about decent and proper social relationships. This disclosed the possibilities of changing the established rules in the colony. Two illustrations from the book are Komedie Stamboel scenes involving an Arabian harem and affairs between an Arabian princess and a “blackmoor” slave (p. 129...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (1): 264–265.
Published: 01 February 2001
..., Indira Ghose shares a project with other recently published works, specifically, Inderpal Grewal's Home and Harem: Nation, Gender, Empire, and the Cultures of Travel (Durham: Duke University Press, 1996); Deirdre David's Rule Britannia: Women, Empire, and Victorian Writing (Ithaca: Cornell University...