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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (3): 955–956.
Published: 01 August 2003
...Cheryl Crowley The Chrysanthemum and the Fish: Japanese Humor Since the Age of the Shoguns . By Howard Hibbett . Tokyo and London : Kodansha International , 2002 . 208 pp. $28.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 955 general...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (2): 481–482.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Barend Jan Terwiel Of Beggars and Buddhas: The Politics of Humor in the Vessantara Jātaka in Thailand . By Katherine A. Bowie . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 2017 . xvi, 357 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019  2019 The Vessantara Jātaka tells...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1972) 31 (2): 468–469.
Published: 01 February 1972
...Richard W. Lieban Bisayan Filipino and Malayan Humoral Pathologies: Folk Medicine and Ethnohistory in Southeast Asia . By Donn V. Hart . Ithaca : Cornell University , Southeast Asia Program, 1969 . x. 96 pp. Appendices. Index. $3.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (4): 1042–1067.
Published: 01 November 1998
.... 1983 . Action in Late Ming Thought: The Reorientation of LüK'un and Other Scholar-Officials . Berkeley : University of California Press . Christoph Harbsmeier . 1990 . “ Confucius Ridens : Humor in the Analects .” HJAS 50 ( 1 ): 136 –61. Hsiao-lin p'ing [preface dated 1611]. 1985...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (4): 965–997.
Published: 01 November 2001
...Peter Duus Abstract I Approach my topic—the development of the modern Japanese political cartoon—with some trepidation. Humor is a fragile product that can easily be damaged by academic scrutiny. As Evelyn Waugh once remarked, analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog—much is learned but in the end...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (4): 953–976.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Erik Esselstrom Abstract This article explores how Japanese comic artists represented the early years of the Chinese Cultural Revolution in popular print culture, especially lowbrow comic magazines. It posits that Japanese cartoonists in their role as both purveyors of everyday humor and keenly...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (3): 890–891.
Published: 01 August 1998
.... By M A R G U E R I T E WELLS. New York and London: St. Martin's Press, 1997. xi, 196 pp. $55.00. Certainly there is a great need for more Western language work on Japanese humor. The problem is, what kind of work? Depending upon their interests and expectations, readers will react quite differently...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (1): 275–277.
Published: 01 February 2018
... Hindi and north Indian journals restricts her conceptualization of the regional. The politics of humor in India went beyond binaries of anti-colonial critique, or liberal critiques of Nehru. One wonders if the cartoonists interviewed, or the genres explored, could have been prodded more to tease out...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (3): 891–893.
Published: 01 August 1998
... would indeed lead to Wells's goal, but her route is far more circuitous, and her destination ends up being quite different. Chapter 2, on the Ethics of Humour, which addresses Western notions about humor and the appropriate uses to which it may be put, is meant to lay the groundwork for what is to come...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (3): 888–890.
Published: 01 August 1998
... floating exchange rates are not convincing. JAMES VESTAL San Francisco, California Japanese Humour. By M A R G U E R I T E WELLS. New York and London: St. Martin's Press, 1997. xi, 196 pp. $55.00. Certainly there is a great need for more Western language work on Japanese humor. The problem is, what kind...
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Journal of Asian Studies 10872780.
Published: 01 December 2023
... to the first International Conference on Humor and Laughter, in Cardiff, Wales, in 1976 . . . w ith the numb­ er of hu­mor re­ search pub­lic­ at­ions nearly tripl[ing] in the 1970s comp­ ared to the prev­ i­ous dec­ ade. 1 At around the same time, nat­ ional hum­ or ass­ o­ci­at­ ions such as the Amer­ic­...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (3): 953–955.
Published: 01 August 2003
... a good supplementary textbook for introductory courses on Japanese politics or political economy. It has a much more extensive discussion of the role of business than typical texts. It is also very readable and concise. MARK ELDER Michigan State University The Chrysanthemum and the Fish: Japanese Humor...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1962) 21 (4): 559.
Published: 01 August 1962
... to the wing or the tail of the bird he swallowed whole. Mr. Kaemmerer has written an informative text with a great sense of humor. One cannot help laughing over album no. 17 entitled A Ma\er of Straw and Rush Mats (p. 48). "The delightful odor and pleasant feel of new tatami gave rise to the Japanese saying...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (4): 1302–1305.
Published: 01 November 2009
... described as a pervasive sense of liberation in the immediate postwar period. As Riggs notes in her afterword, Shishi Bunroku's novels “captured the hearts of readers starved for light or humorous topics with writing that touches the comic lode in the serious stuff of history and the realities of ordinary...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1990) 49 (1): 190–191.
Published: 01 February 1990
... objects and characterized by degrading vulgarities in which comic laughter arises out of a sudden perception of the ridiculousness of what has been traditionally idealized" (p. 57); (3) a section on humor, which is less clearly defined, but we are told that humor "gazes in unfocused wonder at the nonsense...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1985) 44 (4): 892–893.
Published: 01 August 1985
... the logic underlying food beliefs and behavior, the Malay humoral system, and the qualities the Malay attend to in their food choices. The next four chapters take the reader through the stages of conception, pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum recovery; here Carol Laderman makes extensive use of case...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1962) 21 (4): 558–559.
Published: 01 August 1962
... very sure, too, that it was not a hair but a feather that protruded from the old man's navel (p. 208). It must have belonged to the wing or the tail of the bird he swallowed whole. Mr. Kaemmerer has written an informative text with a great sense of humor. One cannot help laughing over album no. 17...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (4): 1117–1119.
Published: 01 November 2021
... builds a compelling case that the modernization of traditional medicines does not lead to inevitable biomedicalization and standardization. The six chapters of Unani Medicine in the Making address Unani's enactments, including as secular Indian medicine, humoral medicine, and Islamic medicine...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1990) 49 (1): 195–196.
Published: 01 February 1990
.... $30.00. Francis Zimmermann elucidates a complex web of interrelationships in classical Hindu medicine, linking humoral traditions and schemata for classifying environments, animals, and medicines. At the outset he challenges stereotyped ideas about the jungle, imploring the reader, "Let us please forget...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (1): 304–305.
Published: 01 February 2002
... personality as well as his puckish sense of humor have been of interest to Urdu textbook compilers and teachers for a long time. Most know the legendary poet through his attributes and this book is the authoritative account for us to gauge those attributes. The purview of the book ranges from mystical morals...