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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (2): 303–322.
Published: 01 May 2015
... of legibility and presence as a new means of redefining publics and broadening the domain of political participation in Indonesia. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015 2015 In June 2011, I visited the city of Yogyakarta in Central Java with my research assistant Usman to explore its...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (4): 975–990.
Published: 01 November 2012
...-same thing wherever it is to be found.” Each of the stories she told illustrated a complex landscape of political change that was only partially visible or legible from inside the “house of gender,” hard-won though it has been. “Perhaps,” she commented wryly, “we need to get out of the house...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (4): 809–836.
Published: 01 November 2019
... on climate and hygiene made legible the consequences of transforming this nomadic borderland into an agrarian heartland on colonized bodies. By bringing attention to the understudied Mongol territories in Manchukuo, this essay goes beyond environmental histories bound by the nation-state to reveal...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (4): 997–1009.
Published: 01 November 2021
... as an epistemological project, Global Asias encourages scholars to acknowledge the institutional designs and disciplinary practices that currently organize and make legible work on Asia and its diasporas while simultaneously highlighting the limits of, and points of noncontact between, the broader infrastructures...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (4): 1009–1010.
Published: 01 November 2015
... ideologies, and administrative texts) needing the legibility of census and land register to generate wealth. Wang does note that Scott, Anderson, and Weber were all explicitly describing historical processes that led to modern nation-states out of previous political forms, but argues against their modern...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (3): 611–629.
Published: 01 August 2021
... urbanizing society, I argue, have brought about a “technological turn” of secularism in China, which will have a far-reaching impact on religious life. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2021 2021 bureaucratization China governance legibility new technology religion secularism...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (2): 502–504.
Published: 01 May 2016
... netizens. The greatest contribution the book makes to an audience interested in media culture in China is its eloquent demonstration that the Chinese Internet is not just about repression, but also features an erraticism and unpredictability not legible in the framework of censorship. Focused...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (4): 1124–1126.
Published: 01 November 2024
... because it challenges imposed social orders. Chapter 1 situates the project in existing scholarship on displacement and political speech practice. Witteborn argues that strategic visibility is crucial for Uyghurs to make themselves legible relative to international legal discourses and Western mass...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (2): 407–413.
Published: 01 May 2021
... investigations of how power shapes environmental relations and how politics plays a role in the co-constitution of nature and society. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2021 2021 activism cultural ecology environment epidemics legibility Mesopotamia Neolithic political ecology...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (2): 403–405.
Published: 01 May 2022
... would help us “hesitate” from the “normative,” “legible,” “proper,” and “major” ways that non-Western arts and artists are imagined, labeled, and transfixed within the “overdetermined” Western context and frame. “This book thus uses the minor to rethink this dominant condition for transnational analysis...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (2): 415–422.
Published: 01 May 2021
... the facts indispensable for “improving the human condition.” Is climate change a hoax? Almost unimaginable threats make a state that can see, plan, and act seem more urgent than ominous. The social scientist is then obligated to get it right through methods that respect the less legible aspects of life...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1967) 26 (4): 695–696.
Published: 01 August 1967
... clarity and legibility but, except for correction of a few obvious errors, have not tampered with Herrmann's scholarship. On the other hand, Professor Paul Wheatley's detailed analytical review "draws attention to instances in which the passage of time has rendered some of the information that does appear...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1967) 26 (4): 696–697.
Published: 01 August 1967
..., bibliography and index. Use of "completely new cartographic techniques" in redrafting all maps have made for greater clarity and legibility but, except for correction of a few obvious errors, have not tampered with Herrmann's scholarship. On the other hand, Professor Paul Wheatley's detailed analytical review...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (4): 1093–1095.
Published: 01 November 1999
... subjects have failed in the modern world, Scott introduces a number of key concepts. States have attempted to make societies legible, that is, introduce standardized systems of measurement and recording which have greatly simplified the administrative ordering of nature and society. State simplifications...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (1): 41–66.
Published: 01 February 2001
... "state space" in the cities and rice-producing lowlands of Southeast Asia, where people and places are rendered "legible," or bureaucratically visible, through technologies such as maps and census, and "nonstate space" in the interior. In the latter, governing regimes from the pre- to the postcolonial...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1964) 23 (2): 298–301.
Published: 01 February 1964
... the hallmark of a faithful copy of an original Ming or early Ch'ing impression." (Quotations taken from the bibliographical note on the novel in van Gulik, Erotic Colour Prints of the Ming Period (Tokyo, 1951), Vol. 1, pp. 139-140.) But because of its greater legibility and ampler text, Dr. Kuhn prefers...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1975) 34 (4): 1080.
Published: 01 August 1975
... way to meeting this need. It is compiled by a noted authority on Cambodian language and culture, is conveniently arranged, well-edited, legibly printed, and useful in size (some 7,000 entries). Offsetting these positive qualities, its relatively high price ($48) may place it beyond the reach of many...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1966) 25 (3): 547.
Published: 01 May 1966
... the Natural Economy and the Rural and Urban Economies in separate divisions of the book makes some repetitions inevitable. Also, the reader may sometimes get the impression of not seeing the forest for the trees. This book could also be improved and made more legible especially for the reader who knows little...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1963) 22 (4): 501.
Published: 01 August 1963
... of the common people to great personages of the present and past interpretation of "things Indian" by both indigenous and foreign artists. Eight maps clarify the visual image, although accuracy of detail is sacrificed for legibility at the small scale of reproduction. Here indeed is a work to view with the best...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (4): 703–705.
Published: 01 November 2023
... way of thinking about translation and language learning. This thread of coming together and coming apart runs throughout the book. We see it in the Yongle emperor's attempts to make the empire legible through a Siamese-Chinese topical glossary, mapping Siamese concepts onto a fundamentally Chinese...
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