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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (2): 525–526.
Published: 01 May 2024
..., racial prejudice, and inclusivity. While there have been numerous books that have applied critical lenses to Black and Latinx comics and graphic novels, characters, and stories, Beyond the Icon: Asian American Graphic Narratives , edited by Eleanor Ty, might be the first such collection to focus...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (1): 246–251.
Published: 01 February 2018
... of a Global Icon . By Christine M. E. Guth . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2015 . xv, 256 pp. ISBN: 9780824839604 (cloth, also available in paper). The Stakes of Exposure: Anxious Bodies in Postwar Japanese Art . By Namiko Kunimoto . Minneapolis...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (3): 621–648.
Published: 01 August 2016
... of conversations were conducted in November 2013. 3 The firm has since merged with another and is now called FTI Consultancy. 2 Here the notion of hyper-icon is invoked to emphasize the recursive nature of an image that doubles as idea, conjured not only as a picture, figure, or form but also...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (4): 1040–1042.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Sarah Thal Mount Fuji: Icon of Japan . By H. ByronEarhart . Columbia : University of South Carolina Press , 2011 . xx, 238 pp. $39.95 (cloth, ISBN 9781611170009 ); $39.95 (e-book, ISBN 9781611171112 ). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015  2015 Mount Fuji...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1995) 54 (2): 565–566.
Published: 01 May 1995
...X. Jie Yang Zenkōji and its Icon . By Donald F. McCallum . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1994 . 88 halftones, 5 maps, 268 pp. $39.50 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 565 more than nations and regional blocs...
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Published: 01 May 2009
Figure 2. Line drawing of the Qufu temple icon of Confucius, titled “Portrait of the Great-Completion Ultimate Sage and Culture-Propagating First Teacher, Master Kong” ( Dacheng zhisheng wenxuan xianshi Kongzi zhi xiang 大 成 至 聖 文 宣 先 師 孔 子 之像), early Qing, c. 1647, woodblock print. Queli zhi More
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Published: 01 May 2009
Figure 3. Sculptural icon of Confucius (now destroyed) in the main sacrificial hall ( Dacheng dian 大 成 殿), Temple of Confucius, Qufu, Shandong. Qing, 1730. Photo by Stéphane Passat, 1913. Source: Chine, 1909–1934 , comp. Musée Albert Kahn (Boulogne-Billancourt: Le Musée, 2001), 1:622. More
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Published: 01 May 2009
Figure 5. Line drawing of the Qufu temple icon of Confucius, entitled “Ultimate Sage and First Teacher, Master Kong” ( Zhisheng xianshi Kongzi 至 聖 先 師 孔子), Qing period, woodblock print. Lü Weiqi 呂 維 祺, Shengxian xiangzan 聖 賢 像 賛, 1837 edition. Source: National Diet Library, Tokyo. More
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (1): 192–194.
Published: 01 February 2021
...Micah L. Auerback Behold the Buddha: Religious Meanings of Japanese Buddhist Icons . By James C. Dobbins . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2020 . xiv, 269 pp. ISBN: 9780824879990 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2021 2021 Across...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (2): 371–411.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Figure 2. Line drawing of the Qufu temple icon of Confucius, titled “Portrait of the Great-Completion Ultimate Sage and Culture-Propagating First Teacher, Master Kong” ( Dacheng zhisheng wenxuan xianshi Kongzi zhi xiang 大 成 至 聖 文 宣 先 師 孔 子 之像), early Qing, c. 1647, woodblock print. Queli zhi...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1961) 21 (1): 112–113.
Published: 01 November 1961
...Katherine Field Caldwell Icons in Bronze. An Introduction to Indian Metal Images . By Lieut.-Gen. D. R. Thapar . New York : Asia Publishing House , 1961 . xx, 171 . Illustrated, Maps, Appendices, Bibliography, Index. $9.25. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1961 1961...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (3): 549–576.
Published: 01 August 2019
...Michael Hutt Abstract On April 25, 2015, central Nepal was struck by a magnitude 7.8 earthquake that killed over 9,000 people and displaced 2.8 million. The image of the Dharahara, a nineteenth-century minaret that collapsed during the quake, quickly became for many Nepalis an iconic representation...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (1): 271–273.
Published: 01 February 2011
..., Cort dismantles any monolithic understanding of icons and iconoclasm and forces us to consider the various interpretive frames that are employed in these narratives. In short, this book is essential for scholars who are interested in image worship and the ways in which religious communities defend...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (2): 606–607.
Published: 01 May 2010
..., and Icons of Seventh-Century Japan , Donald F. McCallum sets himself the restricted yet daring task of asking how the shape and substance of some of the most imposing structures of ancient Japan were brought into being. In so doing, he provides us with a remarkable history of seventh- and early eighth...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (4): 1174–1176.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Daniel A. Jasper Global Icons: Apertures to the Popular . By Bishnupriya Ghosh . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2011 . xiii , 383 pp. $94.95 (cloth); $25.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2012 2012 In Global Icons: Apertures to the Popular...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (2): 360–371.
Published: 01 May 2024
.... Building on C. K. Yang's classic theories of diffused religion, it demonstrates how grassroots religions are diffused with political activism in Hong Kong as an example of what the political scientist and anthropologist James C. Scott refers to as “infrapolitics.” These three iconic deities of diffused...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (2): 269–281.
Published: 01 May 2017
... striking of these was a photograph of hundreds of students stripped to the waist who were lying face down on the soccer field prior to being arrested and taken away. At the edge of the image was the top of the university's iconic dome building, which lined up with the existing building. The organizers...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (3): 539–562.
Published: 01 August 2013
..., and in the process promoted ideas about the purpose of women's education that would later be expressed by an icon of Meiji modernity: the “good wife, wise mother.” The coal-seller's criticism of the “disgusting” geisha might have been a veiled reference to venereal disease, which was another concern of bureaucrats...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (4): 1051–1082.
Published: 01 November 2011
... Bhagat Singh's original ‘hat photograph’ by tracing the portrait's journey from the time it was taken, in 1929, to the early 1930s. The portrait was devised as a tactic of political subversion and intended as revolutionary propaganda, although it became more widely interpreted as an icon of defiant...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (3): 855–879.
Published: 01 August 2008
... narratives of different genres that have become critical sources for a history of the rebel leader Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi and for configuring her as an icon of heroic Indian womanhood. It places each of these sources, ranging from late nineteenth-century Marathi texts to mid-twentieth-century Hindi...