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Warlord Colonialism: State Fragmentation and Chinese Rule in Kham, 1911–1949
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (2): 299–318.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Joseph D. Lawson Abstract This article investigates Chinese warlord authority in the east of the Kham Tibetan region between 1911 and 1949. The colonial government established by the Qing Empire in Kham during the five years before the end of dynastic rule relied on central government funding...
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Vietnamese Legends Adapted from the Vietnamese
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Journal of Asian Studies (1966) 26 (1): 135–136.
Published: 01 November 1966
...Nguyen Khac-Kham BOOK REVIEWS 135 cepted as the enemy of the Buddhist state ideal partly because it was, in Burma, under alien British, Indian, or Chinese control. The term "strike" was translated into Burmese as signifying the monk's rejection of alms by turning over his begging bowl. The goal...
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China's Last Imperial Frontier: Late Qing Expansion in Sichuan's Tibetan Borderlands
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (3): 716–718.
Published: 01 August 2013
... the Kham region has been treated as merely a throughway to Central Tibet, an area of little importance. Xiuyu Wang's book seeks to place Kham at the center of Sino-Tibetan relations. In his introductory chapter, Wang sets to outline the book in three interrelated themes dealing with the late Qing. First...
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Frontier Tibet: Patterns of Change in the Sino-Tibetan Borderland
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (4): 984–986.
Published: 01 November 2020
... novelty, longitudinal lens (mostly nineteenth to twenty-first century), and interdisciplinary cross-fertilization (mostly between history and anthropology). Largely for that reason, I see this volume as both an encyclopedic handbook and an original monograph on Kham and Sino-Tibetan borderlands, or even...
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Frontier Fieldwork: Building a Nation in China's Borderlands, 1919–45
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (1): 161–163.
Published: 01 February 2024
... regions in Kham. However, the place name is given in Chinese as “Shiqu” without identifying it as Sershul. As such, few people will be able to understand the implications for the travelogue about this Tibetan location. The sense of high altitude and difficult access are lost to most readers (86). Also...
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A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 3: The Storm Clouds Descend, 1955–1957
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (2): 491–492.
Published: 01 May 2015
... with the Dalai Lama again returning to Lhasa, this time from India, the Communist Party's policies toward Tibet now at a precipice. In between, Goldstein tells a remarkably detailed and at times riveting story that winds from Central Tibet to Beijing, through Kham and Kalimpong, Delhi and Bhutan. His self...
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A Tibetan Revolutionary: The Political Life and Times of Bapa Phüntso Wangye
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Journal of Asian Studies (2006) 65 (3): 615–617.
Published: 01 August 2006
... of the story in his own words. Phu¨ nwang was born in 1922 in Batang, an administrative center in a part of Kham under the control of a Chinese warlord. Batang at the time had both a Chinese government school and an American missionary school. At the age of fourteen Phu¨ nwang was sent to the Guomindang...
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The Promise and Perils of Native Anthropology in the PRC - In the Land of the Eastern Queendom: The Politics of Gender and Ethnicity on the Sino-Tibetan Border
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (4): 1081–1084.
Published: 01 November 2014
... to claim an erstwhile sovereign polity, ennobling (masculinizing?) Tibetan femininity and sidestepping a more recent history of fiercely autonomous Khampa masculinity. (Kham Tibetan guerrilla fighters famously organized armed resistance against Chinese Communist occupation in the 1950s.) Tenzin Jinba thus...
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The Sichuan Frontier and Tibet: Imperial Strategy in the Early Qing
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (4): 1224–1226.
Published: 01 November 2010
... that warrant further consideration. One of these gets close to a conceptually underdeveloped area of the book. The strategic significance of central Tibet and Sichuan's western Kham borderland, which the author suggests was the driving force behind Sichuan's rise in profile, receives rather episodic treatment...
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Tibetan Buddhists in the Making of Modern China
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (1): 246–247.
Published: 01 February 2007
..., even with the use of Buddhism as a common ground. In much of the earlier twentieth century, both in central Tibet and Kham, the dominant demand was for autonomy from China. The rhetoric was “Kham for Khampas,” and in central Tibet under the thirteenth Dalai Lama, Tibet sought outright independence...
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When the Iron Bird Flies: China's Secret War in Tibet
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (2): 241–243.
Published: 01 May 2023
... and devastating account of the brutal military operations conducted by the People's Liberation Army in Tibetan regions of China from 1956 to 1962. Translated from Chinese by Stacey Mosher, parts of the story—such as the 1956 revolt in Kham (mostly western Sichuan), the Battle of Lhasa in 1959, and the activities...
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Worry for the Dai Nation: Sipsongpannā, Chinese Modernity, and the Problems of Buddhist Modernism
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (1): 107–142.
Published: 01 February 2008
... with the ways in which modernity has intruded into this picture of “traditional” Buddhism. Questions about the nature of Buddhist modernity in Sipsongpannā first arose while I accompanied a monk, Dubi Kham, 1 to his home near the Chinese border with Burma. Over a two-day period, Dubi Kham and I visited...
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Images of Tibet in the 19th and 20th Centuries
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (2): 587–589.
Published: 01 May 2010
... in the context of modern China, dealing with portraits of the Panchen Lamas, revelation in contemporary Kham, and reincarnate masters in, again, Kham, respectively. A final essay explores the notion of a “Tibetan Tibetology.” The volumes incorporate fifty-three images, including photographs, documents, art...
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Vote Buying and Village Outrage in an Election in Northern Thailand: Recent Legal Reforms in Historical Context
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (2): 469–511.
Published: 01 May 2008
... was known throughout the tambon because he had served as deputy kamnan for some ten years, his father had headed the very successful district agricultural cooperative, and his brother was a respected police officer. In addition to newly elected Headman Kaew, there were two other candidates: Headman Kham...
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A Clear Differentiation of the Three Codes: Essential Distinctions among the Individual Liberation, Great Vehicle, and Tantric Systems
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (2): 607–608.
Published: 01 May 2003
... The translation is of a very high standard, although the complexity of the material covered by Sapan makes such a comment basically an act of faith. In the translation of verses 121 through 130, the Tibetan word khams has been incorrectly construed as rendering the dhdtu that is grouped together with skandha...
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Tibet in Agony: Lhasa 1959
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (3): 796–798.
Published: 01 August 2018
... are necessarily speculative, since most of the principals involved are long deceased and no documentary evidence of their decision-making processes is available. One useful contribution Li makes to the history of modern Tibet is a detailed presentation of Chinese oppression in the eastern provinces of Kham...
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Editorial Foreword 72.2 (May 2013)
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (2): 229–232.
Published: 01 May 2013
... . Starting off the research articles that make up the core middle section of the JAS is “Warlord Colonialism: State Fragmentation and Chinese Rule in Kham, 1911–1949,” a nuanced work of historical scholarship by J oseph D. L awson , a New Zealand-trained scholar now based at Academia Sinica. His essay...
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Beyond Great Walls: Environment, Identity, and Development on the Chinese Grasslands of Inner Mongolia
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (2): 608–610.
Published: 01 May 2003
... 608 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES The translation is of a very high standard, although the complexity of the material covered by Sapan makes such a comment basically an act of faith. In the translation of verses 121 through 130, the Tibetan word khams has been incorrectly construed as rendering...
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In Search of Vietnam's Comfort Women: New Materials and Directions in Studies on Japanese Military Sexual Slavery
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (3): 619–645.
Published: 01 August 2024
... French and Japanese soldiers who had no lack of contempt for one another. They were especially concentrated in Khâm Thiên, a Hanoi suburb nicknamed “Good Times Street” for its concentration of not only businesses related to the sex industry but also casinos and opium dens (Firpo 2020 : 40). There, one...
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The Challenges of Writing Vietnamese History - A History of the Vietnamese
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (2): 449–452.
Published: 01 May 2015
... the king a son, Tran Hoang, who became the crown prince. In order to knit the two sides of the family together, a daughter that Thuan Thien bore Tran Lieu, Princess Thien Cam, became the queen of Tran Hoang, her half-brother. She subsequently became the mother of the next king, Tran Kham. Tran Kham's queen...
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