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Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (1): 264–265.
Published: 01 February 1999
...Nancy J. Smith-Hefner Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields: Memoirs by Survivors . Compiled by Dith Pran . Introduction by Ben Kiernan . Edited by Kim DePaul . New Haven, Conn. and London : Yale University Press , 1997 . xvii, 199 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (2): 665–666.
Published: 01 May 1994
...John Van Esterik Beyond the Killing Fields: Voices of Nine Cambodian Survivors in America . By Usha Welaratna . Standford : Standford University Press . 1993 . xxi, 285 pp. $22.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 665 S...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1993) 52 (3): 773–775.
Published: 01 August 1993
...John Badgley Burma: The Next Killing Fields? . By Alan Clements . Berkeley : Odonian Press , 1992 . 95 pp. $5.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 BOQK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 773 and the narrative refined, the cumulative effect is about...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (1): 286–288.
Published: 01 February 2014
.... €20.00 (paper). The Elimination: A Survivor of the Khmer Rouge Confronts His Past and the Commandant of the Killing Fields . By Rithy Panh with Christophe Bataille . New York : Other Press , 2012 . 271 pp. $22.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014  2014...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (4): 1198–1200.
Published: 01 November 2004
...Robert Wessing Killing a Buffalo for the Ancestors: A Zhuang Cosmological Text from Southwest China . By David Holm . Northern Illinois University Monograph Series on Southeast Asia, no. 5. DeKalb : Southeast Asia Publications, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Illinois...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (3): 923–925.
Published: 01 August 2001
...Gerald W. Fry Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields: Memoirs by Survivors . Compiled by Dith Pran and edited by Kim DePaul . New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press , 1997 . xvii, 199 pp. $27.50 (cloth); $14.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (1): 93–122.
Published: 01 February 1998
...Alexander Laban Hinton Abstract Why did you kill? From the first day I arrived in Cambodia to conduct ethnographic research, I had wanted to pose this question to a Khmer Rouge who had executed people during the genocidal Democratic Kampuchea regime (April 1975 to January 1979)- When the Khmer...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (3): 774–785.
Published: 01 August 1998
... , 1993 . xxviii, 358 pp. The Indonesian Killings 1965–1966: Studies from Java and Bali . Edited by Robert Cribb . Clayton : Monash Papers on Southeast Asia no. 21. Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University , 1990 . xix, 279 pp. $25.00. Surviving Indonesia's Gulag...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1992) 51 (2): 451–452.
Published: 01 May 1992
...R. William Liddle The Indonesian Killings: Studies from Java and Bali . Monash Papers on Southeast Asia No. 21. Edited by Robert Cribb . Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University , 1990 . xx, 279 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 BOOK...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (4): 1059–1086.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Siddharth Chandra Abstract The anti-communist killings of 1965–66 comprised the single most traumatic political event in independent Indonesia, with a consensus estimate of approximately 500,000 deaths. However, these estimates, along with a geographic and political characterization of the killings...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (2): 479–481.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Marvin D. Sterling 24 Bars to Kill: Hip Hop, Aspiration, and Japan's Social Margins . By Andrew B. Armstrong . New York : Berghahn Books , 2019 . viii, 204 pp. ISBN: 9781789202670 (cloth, also available as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2021 2021...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1964) 23 (2): 195–207.
Published: 01 February 1964
.... The champion was to win'the title of the Supreme Rebel, to whom would be accorded the honors due a king. The plot was to let the rebels kill each other with their own hands, and the survivors would then be killed by mines set off soon after the contest was over. If there were still some survivors left, a gate...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (1): 104–125.
Published: 01 February 1999
...Ross Mallick Abstract W hile boating down the ganges delta on a visit to the Reserve Forest Tiger Sanctuary, I noticed on the bank some idols overlooking the river. When I asked about their significance, it was explained that a tiger had killed and carried off a girl; these idols were meant to ward...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (4): 1033–1058.
Published: 01 November 1999
... be good enough for his dog. This insult, as much as the loss of income, lay behind the killing. Although the hit was typical in many ways, two things, beyond the tragic death of a good man, make this killing academically interesting. First, the alleged mastermind was not a godfather but a godmother...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1968) 27 (3): 503–521.
Published: 01 May 1968
... it is merely to read the. plain lines themselves also seem unable to agree even on the basic meaning of what they are reading. We are informed, for instance, that “eight Red Guards and a member of the Pioneers … had been killed by ‘class enemies,’ according to a Red Guard announcement.” Later we are told...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (2): 337–356.
Published: 01 May 2011
... 23 in a contested maritime zone, a South Korean military exercise was challenged by a North Korean artillery unit, which escalated the confrontation by shelling a South Korean island—killing four South Koreans including two civilians. In the artillery exchange that followed between the two sides...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (2): 281–297.
Published: 01 May 2016
...John Roosa Abstract In a scene in the genre-bending documentary film The Act of Killing (2012), a journalist, Soaduon Siregar, claims to have a sudden insight while standing in a film studio. Having just watched two executioners reenact their deeds of 1965–66 before a camera, he realizes why he had...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (2): 347–369.
Published: 07 April 2010
...Rosalind C. Morris Abstract Gertrude Stein once remarked that history must be understood not as the passage of time, but as the killing of centuries. This killing of centuries takes a very long time, she added, and she discerned the final death throes of the nineteenth century—a period in thrall...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (3): 723–748.
Published: 01 August 2010
... contact between people, have more subversive potential. The author analyzes rumors spread in the press and by word of mouth during October and November 1998 in East Java, Indonesia. Conspirators and ninjas were suspected of killing many alleged sorcerers and persecuting the traditionalist Muslim majority...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (3): 835–871.
Published: 01 August 2003
...Pika Ghosh Abstract Two and a half thousand years ago, long before Lakshman Sena ruled Bengal, there was a monster who came out of its cave every night and ate people. The people could not kill him because they feared him so much. They finally put a plan together and made a mirror. When the monster...