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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (4): 1282–1284.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Carole Pegg In the final, too-short chapter, “The Persistence of Alternative Music Histories,” we discover the existence of alternative histories that do not involve “progress” and “internationalism,” do not appreciate Europeanized horse-head fiddle music with its mass-produced instruments...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (1): 243–245.
Published: 01 February 2011
... to withdraw. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 A Dragon's Head and a Serpent's Tail: Ming China and the First Great East Asian War, 1592–1598 . By Kenneth M. Swope . Norman, OK : University of Oklahoma Press , 2009 . xxiv, 398 pp. $34.95 (cloth). ...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1983) 42 (3): 720–721.
Published: 01 May 1983
...Daniel S. Lev Breaking the Chains of Oppression of the Indonesian People: Defense Statement at His Trial on Charges of Insulting the Head of State . By Heri Akhmadi . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell Modern Indonesia Project (Translation Series, no. 59), 1981 . viii, 178 pp. Charts, Glossary...
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Published: 01 August 2010
Figure 6. This photograph apparently portrays a decapitated head being surrendered to the police and a policeman's hand being shaken. As this image was only distributed on the Internet, many people in East Java probably did not see it. Some Internet images of violence in Indonesia from
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (2): 537–538.
Published: 01 May 1997
...Janice Leoshko The Two-Headed Deer: Illustrations of the Rāmāyana in Orissa . By Joanna Williams . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1996 . xxiv, 210 pp. 289 plates. $65.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (1): 250–251.
Published: 01 February 1999
...Carol Radcliffe Bolon Many Heads, Arms and Eyes: Origin, Meaning and Form of Multiplicity in Indian Art . By Doris Meth Srinivasan . Studies in Asian Art and Archaeology, volume xx. Leiden : E. J. Brill , 1997 . 355 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (2): 472–473.
Published: 01 May 1999
...Haleh Afshar Poverty, Female-Headed Households, and Sustainable Economic Development . By Nerina Vecchio and Katrik C. Roy . Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press , 1998 . xii, 117 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 472 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...
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Published: 01 August 2012
Figure 4. Yu doing battle with Xiang Liu, the nine-headed dragon.
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (1): 55–100.
Published: 01 February 2009
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (4): 875–887.
Published: 01 November 2015
... for Democracy leaders openly and repeatedly said that “representative democracy is not suitable for Thailand,” calling instead for a form of “democratic” governance appropriate to Thai culture. More recently, in protests that began in late 2013 against an elected government headed by Thaksin's sister, Yingluck...
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in Settler Sensibilities and Environmental Change: Unmaking Malarial Landscapes in Nepal
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Published: 01 November 2023
Figure 2 USAID vehicle crossing Kauralia River near Rajapur, Bardiya, likely headed to or returning from Kailali. Photograph by Richard Darsie, March 4, 1965.
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Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (3): 536–564.
Published: 01 August 1991
... instructive is the absence of real violence: no enemy actually is slain, no human head is taken. Instead, a village sends out a cohort of weaponless headhunters to get a surrogate head—;usually a coconut bought in a nearby market town. Upon the cohort's return, the community launches into a weeklong ceremony...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (1): 23–41.
Published: 01 February 2015
... elections, to take stock once again of how these debates have developed in the last several decades and where they are heading. What gives these controversies particular significance is that they are not just about that singular event, but about the whole trajectory of India's modern history, as interpreted...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1964) 23 (4): 535–536.
Published: 01 August 1964
... be the best way of distinguishing between a Sinology that is indeed not enough (in Mr. Levenson's sense) and a body of learning which should rightly stand at the very head of scholarship. Mr. Skinner tells us that “there is nothing particularly exceptional about Chinese villages when compared to those...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1966) 25 (3): 471–484.
Published: 01 May 1966
... of the status of North Borneo is therefore essential to understanding the nature of the dispute. In January 1878 Sultan Mohammed Jamalul Alam, granted a portion of North Borneo, which he claimed, to an international syndicate headed by Alfred Dent, a London businessman, and the Austrian Baron Gustav von...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1969) 28 (4): 789–802.
Published: 01 August 1969
..., b headed the state called Eastern Wei, in Shansi and Honan, which became the dynasty of Northern Chʻi under his descendants. The other, Yü-wen Tʻai, e ruled Western Wei, in Shensi, later to become Northern Chou. The ensuing half-century witnessed the final victory of Northern Chou over Northern Chʻi...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1972) 31 (4): 793–819.
Published: 01 August 1972
...Marlene J. Mayo Abstract Post-Restoration Japan faced a number of serious problems in its relations with East Asia and the West, all of which came to a head in seikan ronsō , the clash in the Council of State, October 1873, over sending a punitive expedition to Korea. Essentially...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (2): 299–316.
Published: 01 May 2016
... for the Thai People's Committee for Absolute Democracy with the King as Head of State—occupied key street intersections and government offices in Bangkok. The conservative mobilization had demanded the deposition of elected Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and the complete dismissal of “the Thaksin system...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (2): 433–466.
Published: 01 May 2016
... his image not only as the leader of the nation but as the Uncle, the head of the Vietnamese national family. Through an examination of Hồ Chí Minh's first (auto)biography, it explores some of the means employed to achieve these results. Hồ Chí Minh's cult transformed the nation and altered Vietnamese...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1968) 27 (4): 763–776.
Published: 01 August 1968
... for the change. He stated: “Looking back over the past decade, one can see that the Ministry of Education, situated in the midst of the corrupt atmosphere of Peking, was infected by the government agencies around it. There were times when those who headed the Ministry knew nothing about scholarship and education...
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