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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (2): 475–493.
Published: 01 May 2018
... kitchens are where needy clients can come to be served a meal. Food banks serve as central depots to receive food donations to redistribute to soup kitchens and other organizations. Food pantries interface directly with end clients, distributing donated food to the hungry people themselves. Food...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (3): 764–767.
Published: 01 August 2021
...Šumit Ganguly Hungry Nation: Food, Famine, and the Making of Modern India . By Benjamin Robert Siegel . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2018 . 280 pp. ISBN: 9781108441964 (paper). Gandhi's Search for the Perfect Diet: Eating with the World in Mind . By Nico Slate...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2006) 65 (4): 831–833.
Published: 01 November 2006
...C. Kenneth Quinones Hungry for Peace: International Security, Humanitarian Assistance, and Social Change in North Korea . By Hazel Smith . Washington, D.C. : University States Institute of Peace Press , 2005 . xix , 234 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Copyright © Association...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1995) 54 (1): 248–249.
Published: 01 February 1995
...Phillip B. Wagoner The Hungry God: Hindu Tales of Filicide and Devotion . By David Shulman . Chicago : The University of Chicago Press , 1993 . x, 157 pp. $27.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 248 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES repeating...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1993) 52 (4): 987–989.
Published: 01 November 1993
..., 1992 . 208 pp. $20.00. Chinese Almanacs . By Richard J. Smith . Hong Kong : Oxford University Press , 1992 . x, 93 pp. $16.95. Mooncakes and Hungry Ghosts: Festivals of China . By Carol Stepanchuk and Charles Wong . San Francisco : China Books and Periodicals , 1991 . xiv...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (1): 181–183.
Published: 01 February 1998
...Lee Feigon Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine . By Jasper Becker . New York : Free Press , 1996 . xiii, 352 pp. $25.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 181 so is "China" as its mythologized "Other." The People's Republic represents...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (4): 929–955.
Published: 01 November 2016
... Place (2000), The Hungry Tide (2004), and The Ibis trilogy—takes us from Calcutta where he was born in 1956 to the Arabian Sea, Paris, London, and back again to the Indian Ocean, the Bay of Bengal, and beyond. His nonfiction— In an Antique Land (1992), Dancing in Cambodia and at Large in Burma (1998...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1946) 6 (1): 50–64.
Published: 01 November 1946
... of taxation were abolished in the new districts for the first year…. Secondly, they gave land to the land-hungry peasants…. Thirdly, they took land and livestock from the wealthy classes and redistributed among the poor. Redistribution of land was a fundamental of Red policy. Copyright © The Association...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (2): 334–346.
Published: 01 May 2024
... paper offerings. Dating to more than a millennium ago, the Sinitic practice of burning paper offerings represents a method for the living to either placate or seek intervention from departed family members, ancestors, unrelated hungry ghosts, and a wide spectrum of deities (Blake 2011 ; Scott 2007...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1995) 54 (1): 247–248.
Published: 01 February 1995
... and analysis of Symbols of Substance: Court and State in Nayaka Period Tamil Nadu (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1992), which Velcheru Narayana Rao and David Shulman co-authored with Sanjay Subrahmanyam. Nonetheless, the introduction left me hungry for more. Especially after reading the poems, I...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (3): 835–837.
Published: 01 August 2011
... of the Hungry Tigress as in the typeset Uygur script edition of the St. Petersburg manuscript of the Altun yaruq sudur , from the similar tale of the Good and the Bad Prince from a Dunhuang Uygur-script manuscript; the beginning of Tonyukuk's runiform inscription (early 8th century); Alp Urungu's runiform...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (1): 180–181.
Published: 01 February 1998
...) is inadvertently credited with another's deeds, and on page 235 there are "obstacles to gender inequality." These are minor imperfections in a largely well crafted text. ROSITA DELLIOS Bond University CHINA Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine. By JASPER BECKER. New York: Free Press, 1996. xiii, 352 pp. $25.00...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2006) 65 (4): 830–831.
Published: 01 November 2006
.... Her discussions of the development of Dutch studies and of socioeconomic change during the Tokugawa period are well written and concise, making this a useful book for both scholars and the classroom. TERRENCE JACKSON Adrian College KOREA Hungry for Peace: International Security, Humanitarian...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1974) 34 (1): 261–262.
Published: 01 November 1974
...-referencing of ambiguous terms, e.g. ngelih "to be hungry" can also mean "to move" from ng +(a)lih. The following is quite ambiguous: Yen ngelih kudu ditjepa\i duwit (i) "When he is hungry, he must have money." (2) "When he wants to move it, he must have money." Likewise, some derivative forms have become...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1974) 34 (1): 260–261.
Published: 01 November 1974
... of ambiguous terms, e.g. ngelih "to be hungry" can also mean "to move" from ng +(a)lih. The following is quite ambiguous: Yen ngelih kudu ditjepa\i duwit (i) "When he is hungry, he must have money." (2) "When he wants to move it, he must have money." Likewise, some derivative forms have become root words...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1977) 37 (1): 120–121.
Published: 01 November 1977
... (according to his conversation with Snow) derived perhaps his earliest deep political impressions. Esherick's sure handling of the roles of various groups (construction laborers, rice-trading gentry, local or provincial officials, the hungry poor) and of the behavior of the crowds or mobs (galvanized...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1977) 37 (1): 119–120.
Published: 01 November 1977
... disturbance an event from which Mao Tse-tung (according to his conversation with Snow) derived perhaps his earliest deep political impressions. Esherick's sure handling of the roles of various groups (construction laborers, rice-trading gentry, local or provincial officials, the hungry poor...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1980) 40 (1): 155–157.
Published: 01 November 1980
... require "extraordinary intervention to preserve or enhance order and development" (p. 22) and that Gandhi was not a power-hungry, dictatorial person (although other personality traits played a role in her decision). Drawing on interviews with Gandhi and others, and on previous biographies (but missing...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (4): 1225–1226.
Published: 01 November 2007
... Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2007 2007 To the Editor: As I read C. Kenneth Quinones's review of my book, Hungry for Peace: International Security, Humanitarian Assistance, and Social Change in North Korea , in the Journal of Asian Studies (65:4, pp. 831...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1983) 42 (4): 831–850.
Published: 01 August 1983
... moral-economic relations would appear to have arisen not from desperate bargains struck by a starving peasantry, but from the calculations of rent-hungry elites with few cards to play in their efforts to tie down labor. The critical variable in this situation was not crop failure but the fickleness...