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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (2): 487–488.
Published: 01 May 2004
...Charles Wheeler Like Froth Floating on the Sea: The World of Pirates and Seafarers in Late Imperial South China . By Robert J. Antony . Berkeley : Institute for East Asian Studies, University of California , 2003 . xiii, 198 pp. $16.00 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (1): 316–317.
Published: 01 February 2008
...Noell Wilson Thinking Like a Man: Tadano Makuzu (1763–1825) . By Bettina Gramlich-Oka . Leiden : Brill , 2006 . xiv , 319 pp. $125.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2008 2008 Bettina Gramlich-Oka's biography of Tadano Makuzu, Thinking Like...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (4): 1093–1095.
Published: 01 November 1999
...Akhil Gupta Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed . By James C. Scott . New Haven, Conn, and London : Yale University Press , 1998 . xiv, 445 pp. $35.00 (cloth); $16.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1993) 52 (4): 983–984.
Published: 01 November 1993
...Gregory B. Lee Like a Knife: Ideology and Genre in Contemporary Chinese Popular Music . By Andrew F. Jones . Ithaca : Cornell East Asia Series , East Asia Program, 1992 . viii, 180 pp. $9.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (4): 1378–1380.
Published: 01 November 2002
...Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr Acting Like a Woman in Modern Japan: Theater, Gender, and Nationalism . By Ayako Kano . New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2001 . xi, 322 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 1378 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (1): 259–260.
Published: 01 February 2003
...Tim Wright Like Cattle and Horses: Nationalism and Labor in Shanghai, 1893–1927 . By S. A. Smith . Durham : Duke University Press , 2002 . 366 pp. $64.95 (cloth); $21.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 259 Like Cattle...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (1): 7–34.
Published: 01 February 2005
... and Diaries], ed. Yamanaka Yutaka . Kyoto : Shibunkaku . Writing Like a Man: Poetic Literacy, Textual Property, and Gender in the Tosa Diary GUSTAV HELDT Introduction Ki no Tsurayuki s Tosa Diary (Tosa nikki, ca. 934) looms large in modern Japanese literary history as the mother of the memoir...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (1): 44–65.
Published: 01 February 2023
... “correction” of what really happened might just read like a humorous fictitious story, but it truly challenges how mighty the British really were. According to “Mugaloṃ ne,” as the rubber tent got pulled further and further from Calcutta, locals panicked at seeing the British expand their territory...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (2): 431–437.
Published: 01 May 2021
... who does what and what they do, much like an agency or law. We might trace this pseudo-structural, largely mechanical reading of human agency to political scientists of an earlier era: the behavioralists of the 1950s and 1960s. James C. Scott began his career as just such a scholar. For his...
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Published: 01 August 2010
Figure 1. A photograph of a student demonstrator dressed in a ninja-like fashion grasping a soldier's boot, which appeared in the Jawa Pos on October 29, 1998. The accompanying caption reads, “One of the hundreds of student demonstrators at the Youth Oath Day ( Hari Sumpah Pemuda ) yesterday More
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Published: 01 August 2012
Figure 9. Corporate headquarters designed to look like government headquarters with plaza in front. More
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Published: 01 November 2017
Figure 2. “Renti hoaxing gongchang” [The human body is like a factory], 1933. Shanghai: Shanghai Xueyou Tushu Meishu She Yinxing. Courtesy of US National Library of Medicine. More
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Published: 01 May 2008
Figure 3. Caption reads, “Caw Mii, don't defecate in the bushes like this! Learn to make a privy like other villagers” (Anonymous 1962 , 26). More
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (2): 561–563.
Published: 01 May 2001
...Edward R. Beauchamp Learning in Likely Places: Varieties of Apprenticeship in Japan . Edited by John Singleton . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1998 . xvi, 376 pp. $64.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 56l...
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Published: 01 August 2007
Figure 2. A Bugis pilgrim from Sulawesi with an Arab companion—most likely his guide—as photographed by C. Snouck Hurgronje in Jeddah in 1884. From the collection of Leiden University Library, L. Or. 12. 288. More
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Published: 01 August 2010
Figure 6. Performing masculinity: a female taiko player plays Ōdaiko on a massive taiko drum. Her costume emphasizes the musculature of her back, much like her male counterpart in figure 1 . Photo courtesy of Asano Taiko. More
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Published: 01 May 2020
Figure 2. The impact of the 2.28 Incident. From March to June, there was a drop in the number of publications (edges) and the publications concentrated mainly around periodicals like Jianguo yuekan (bottom, orange) and Haifeng (top, green) which did not challenge the regime and its cultural More
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Published: 01 February 2007
Figure 1. This record advertisement comically depicts a typical performance of a Tamil stage drama, during which an interactive crowd makes competing musical demands for songs to be repeated, stopped, sung with more feeling, and the like. Source: Saraswati Stores, Odeon Record Catalogue, August More
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Journal of Asian Studies (1959) 19 (1): 33–51.
Published: 01 November 1959
... of Gitanjali is no impersonal, imperturbable absolute of Hindu philosophy, but…whether He be explicitly Christ or not, He is at least a Christ-like God, and the experience of His suppliant and lover is one with the deepest core of all Christian experience.” “The ideas of Rabindranath, like those of so many...
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Published: 01 November 2012
Figure 3. Percentage of Women Ever Bound in Four Central and Three Southwestern Counties, by Birth Cohort Source: Brown-Bossen-Gates project data. Note: The 1915–19 birth cohort has extremely small samples (0 < n < 7), so rates for this cohort are not likely to be representative More