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Horse of Karbala: Muslim Devotional Life in India
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (4): 1287–1289.
Published: 01 November 2003
...Megan Reif Horse of Karbala: Muslim Devotional Life in India . By David Pinault . New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2001 . xii, 257 pp. $49.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 1287 during the British occupation prior...
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I Saw a Pale Horse and Selected Poems from Diary of a Vagabond
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (4): 1165–1166.
Published: 01 November 1998
...Joan E. Ericson Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 I Saw a Pale Horse and Selected Poems from Diary of a Vagabond . By Hayashi Fumiko ; translated by Janice Brown . Ithaca, N.Y .: East Asian Program, Cornell University , 1997 . xi, 151 pp. $22.00 (cloth...
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The Horse-Head Fiddle and the Cosmopolitan Reimagination of Tradition in Mongolia
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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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The Dragon and the Iron Horse: The Economics of Railroads in China, 1876–1937
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Journal of Asian Studies (1984) 44 (1): 170–171.
Published: 01 November 1984
...Thomas R. Gottschang The Dragon and the Iron Horse: The Economics of Railroads in China, 1876–1937 . By Ralph William Huenemann . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1984 . xii, 347 pp. Figures, Tables, Maps, Appendixes, Notes, Bibliography, General Glossary, Place-Name Glossary, Index...
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Throwing the Emperor from His Horse: Portrait ofa Village Leader in China, 1923–1995
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (2): 492–493.
Published: 01 May 1997
...Mary G. Mazur Throwing the Emperor from His Horse: Portrait ofa Village Leader in China, 1923–1995 . By Peter J. Seybolt . Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press , 1996 . xxvii, 135 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 492...
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Presidential Address: “I Have Scinde”: Flogging a Dead (White Male Orientalist) Horse
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Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (4): 940–960.
Published: 01 November 1999
... . War Horse and Elephant in the Delhi Sultanate . Oxford : Orient Monographs . Doniger Wendy. 1990 . The Implied Spider: Politics and Theology in Myth . New York : Columbia University Press . Forster E. M. 1978 . A Passage to India . Abinger edition, edited by Stallybrass Oliver...
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Like Cattle and Horses: Nationalism and Labor in Shanghai, 1893–1927
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (1): 259–260.
Published: 01 February 2003
...Tim Wright Like Cattle and Horses: Nationalism and Labor in Shanghai, 1893–1927 . By S. A. Smith . Durham : Duke University Press , 2002 . 366 pp. $64.95 (cloth); $21.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 259 Like Cattle...
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Taxing Heaven's Storehouse: Horses, Bureaucrats, and the Destruction of the Sichuan Tea Industry, 1074–1224
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Journal of Asian Studies (1992) 51 (2): 391–393.
Published: 01 May 1992
... not primarily rely on memoirs written many years after the events. MARILYN LEVINE Lewis-Clark State College Taxing Heaven's Storehouse: Horses, Bureaucrats, and the Destruction of the Sichuan Tea Industry, 1074-1224. By PAUL J . SMITH. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1991. xiii, 489 pp. $32.00...
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Domesticating the Cosmos: History and Structure in a Folktale from India
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Journal of Asian Studies (1986) 45 (3): 527–543.
Published: 01 May 1986
...Stuart H. Blackburn Abstract A folktale about two sisters who make a wager on the color of a white horse has been told in India for at least three thousand years; it is recorded in the oldest Vedic texts, and it is still sung today in a Tamil oral tradition. A survey of this historical depth shows...
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A Question of Breeding: Zootechny and Colonial Attitudes toward the Tropical Environment in the Late Nineteenth-Century Philippines
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (2): 413–437.
Published: 01 May 2001
...Greg Bankoff Abstract “The horse of these islands has arrived at such a state of degeneration,” concludes a report to the Governor-general of the Philippines in 1883, “that it is useless to think of its rejuvenation, it being much easier and more convenient to create a new breed...
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The Rise of the Indo-Afghan Empire c. 1710–1780
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (2): 518–520.
Published: 01 May 1997
... argues for the need to link the history of North India with that of Afghanistan if we are to understand either area fully. Noting, for example, that in the 1770s the value of India's overland horse trade was over three times the combined value of Dutch and English exports from Bengal to Europe, Gommans...
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A Poet with the Northern Expedition
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1943) 3 (1): 5–36.
Published: 01 November 1943
... was by no means wide, and the water was very shallow. I wondered how Ch'ii Yiian17 could have drowned there. The morning sun shone glitteringly on the river's surface. Riding my horse among the low hills along the river bank, I composed the following old-style poem: Where Ch'ii Yiian went sighing by, now pass I...
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Postwar Pines: The Military and the Expansion of State Forests in Post-Imjin Korea, 1598–1684
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (2): 319–332.
Published: 01 May 2018
... and islands during the Manchu invasions of 1627 and 1636. 5 The influx of people gradually overwhelmed the old state ranches. In 1635, an official from the Royal Stables Administration ( Saboksi ) complained that only 46 out of the 119 state ranches were actually raising horses. Most had become overrun...
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Taipei Park: Signs of Occupation
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (1): 159–199.
Published: 01 February 2007
...Figure 2. Bronze horse in Taipei Park. ...
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Animals through Chinese History: Earliest Times to 1911
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (1): 185–187.
Published: 01 February 2022
... and understood their horses’ anatomy and appearance. Aricanli also acknowledges the subjectivity of these sensitive animals, noting that letting horses roam “maintain[ed] their spirit,” allowing the animals “some time and space to exercise their sense of being free horses among other horses” (p. 216...
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To Ho shiki
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1953) 12 (4): 427–429.
Published: 01 August 1953
...) as "Officer Fang's Ferghanian Horse" and "Painting of a Falcon." Of these poems Hung says merely that they "could be assigned to some other period of the poet's life, but they seem to fit best with the days of roaming on horseback and playing with hunting falcons." Read in this light, the two poems may well...
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The Memorial Feast for Kökötöy Khan: A Kirghiz Epic Poem in the Manas Tradition
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (4): 1064–1067.
Published: 01 November 2024
... ash involves horse games in modern Kyrgyzstan. Horse games are organized for the ash of a deceased man who is highly respected in the community and who enjoyed playing or watching horse games during his life. Traditionally, horse games and other manly games are organized for the ash of deceased...
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In This Issue
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (2): 323–327.
Published: 01 May 2001
... in and responded to that construction; Constable and Shih are interested in ethnic identities; and, finally, both Walker and Howland look at the complexities of Tokugawa Japan. G R E G BANKOFF'S article focuses on horses in the Philippines and the responses of the colonial state to what it regarded...
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Woods and Warfare in Korea and the World: A View from China
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (2): 369–373.
Published: 01 May 2018
.... 1 In most other Eurasian states affected by the Military Revolution, simultaneous need for timber and horses endowed forests and grasslands alike with growing importance (McNeill 2004 , 394). In contrast, Lee suggests that while the military significance of Korea's woodlands increased over...
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