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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (4): 1434–1436.
Published: 01 November 2002
...Janet Yong An Identity Dilemma: A Comparative Study of Primary Education for Ethnic Chinese in the Context of National Identity and Nation-Building in Malaysia and Singapore . By Ingrid Glad . Oslo and Cambridge, Mass. : Scandinavian University Press , 1998 . xvii, 352 pp. NOK 370...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (2): 240–241.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Yegor Grebnev Many Worlds under One Heaven: Material Culture, Identity, and Power in the Northern Frontiers of the Western Zhou, 1045–771 BCE. By Yan Sun . New York : Columbia University Press , 2021 . xxii, 336 pp. ISBN: 9780231198424 . © 2023 Association for Asian Studies...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (1): 99–139.
Published: 01 February 2011
...Shafique N. Virani Abstract The Guptīs of Bhavnagar, India, represent an unexplored case of taqiyya , or precautionary dissimulation, and challenge traditional categories of religious identity in South Asia. Taqiyya is normally practiced by minority or otherwise disadvantaged groups of Muslims who...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (3): 627–653.
Published: 01 August 2012
...Rian Thum Abstract This paper investigates how a regional identity can be maintained in a nonmodern context, focusing on the case of southern Xinjiang in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The argument focuses on one aspect of this identity system, the popular historical tradition...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (4): 919–962.
Published: 01 November 2007
... for such apparent calm was perhaps that “communities” of either Hindus or Muslims were yet to crystallize into definitive and solely religious identities with firm and fixed boundaries. Sumit Sarkar has recently made an important distinction between developed community consciousness and communalism, as one...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1972) 31 (3): 682–683.
Published: 01 May 1972
...H. J. Jones The New Generation in Meiji Japan: Problems of Cultural Identity 1885–1895 . By Kenneth B. Pyle . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1969 . 203 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Index. $7.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972 1972 682 JOURNAL...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1961) 20 (4): 545–546.
Published: 01 August 1961
... to be desired. Ohio University JOHN F. CADY Double Identity: The Chinese in Modern Thailand. By RICHARD J. COUGHLIN. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, i960. Distributed through the Oxford University Press, xi, 222. Maps, Tables, Notes, References, Index. $5.00. Double Identity undoubtedly belongs...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (1): 205–206.
Published: 01 February 2010
...John McLeod African Identity in Asia: Cultural Effects of Forced Migration . By Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya . Princeton, N.J. : Markus Wiener , 2009 . xiv , 164 pp. $88.95 (cloth); $28.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 In African...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (4): 936–939.
Published: 01 November 2019
... the genealogy of new types of architectural spaces such as elite villas and estates, scholars’ studios, and the “nine bends” tradition, and then reads them as surrogate portraitures for socioeconomic conditions and cultural identity. Then Park tackles two types of late Chosŏn painting, genre painting...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (1): 5–20.
Published: 01 February 2013
... at the individual, communal, and even national and transnational levels has taken center stage, but understanding just how these identities are formed through the performance of popular music is quite complex in the current global moment. Through comparison of recent scholarship covering diverse types of popular...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (2): 409–416.
Published: 01 May 2019
... order, its power structures and its norms of legitimacy, were uniquely malleable, amenable to concerted action. Indeed, 1919 was a moment in which the very idea of “Asia”—its spaces, the identities they attached to, and the solidarities that ran across and beyond it—was reimagined in ways that at once...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (3): 757–758.
Published: 01 August 2004
...Anthony Reid Shifting Communities and Identity Formation in Early Modern Asia . Edited by Leonard Blussé and Fernández-Armesto Felipe . Leiden : Research School of Asian, African, and Amerindian Studies, Leiden University , 2003. ii, 2003 . ii, 219 pp. €30.00 (paper). Copyright ©...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (3): 625–647.
Published: 01 August 2004
... Indonesia.” In Indigenous Peoples of Asia , ed. Barnes R. H. , Andrew Gray , and Benedict Kingsbury . Ann Arbor, Mich. : Association for Asian Studies . van Beek Martijn . 2000 . “Dissimulations: Representing Ladakhi Identity.” In Perplexities of Identification: Anthropological...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (2): 513–515.
Published: 01 May 2005
...Sharon A. Carstens Rites of Belonging: Memory, Modernity, and Identity in a Malaysian Chinese Community . By Jean DeBernardi . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 2004 . xiv , 318 pp. $55.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 B O O K R E V I...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2006) 65 (2): 393–394.
Published: 01 May 2006
...Alan Klima Marital Acts: Gender, Sexuality, and Identity among the Chinese Thai Diaspora . By Jiemin Bao . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2004 . xxi , 224 pp. $54.00 (cloth); $23.00 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006 2006 Book Reviews ASIA...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (4): 1296–1298.
Published: 01 November 2009
... Heishichi. While this book will be welcomed by specialists interested in early modern Japan or the history of travel, it is also appropriate for assigning to undergraduates, who should appreciate its witty descriptions of everyday (and non-everyday) life in the Tokugawa period. Excursions in Identity...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (4): 1325–1327.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Arun W. Jones Christian Identity and Dalit Religion in Hindu India, 1868–1947 . By Chad M. Bauman . Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans , 2008 . xvi , 1 pp. $40.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009 Chad M. Bauman's erudite...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (4): 1291–1293.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Laura Lee The Crisis of Identity in Contemporary Japanese Film: Personal, Cultural, National . By Timothy Iles . Leiden : Brill , 2008 . iii , 223 pp. $158.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009 Contemporary social issues in Japan have...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (3): 1058–1060.
Published: 01 August 2008
...John Clark Refracted Modernity: Visual Culture and Identity in Colonial Taiwan . Edited by Yuko Kikuchi . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2007 . ix , 285 pp. $60.00 (cloth) . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2008 2008 This is a substantial...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (4): 1169–1174.
Published: 01 November 2007
...Douglas C. Baynton Deaf in Japan: Signing and the Politics of Identity . By Karen Nakamura . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press , 2006 . 248 pp. $59.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2007 2007 Deaf in Japan: Signing...