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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (2): 453–474.
Published: 01 May 2018
... with questions of tradition and modernity in a rapidly modernizing society. Though superficially similar to Chinese state-sponsored modernity—itself centered on Chinese Putonghua—attention to these performances’ juxtaposition of characters, social issues, and linguistic practice reveals the promotion of certain...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (2): 722–724.
Published: 01 May 2008
...Harald Fuess Vicarious Language: Gender and Linguistic Modernity in Japan . By Miyako Inoue . Berkeley and Los Angles : University of California Press , 2006 . xvii, 340 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2008 2008...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1986) 45 (2): 446–448.
Published: 01 February 1986
...Benedict R. Anderson Language and Social Change in Java: Linguistic Reflexes of Modernization in a Traditional Royal Polity . By J. Joseph Errington . Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press , 1985 . (Center for International Studies, Monographs in International Studies, Southeast Asia Series...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1992) 51 (1): 117–118.
Published: 01 February 1992
...Nancy G. Cassels The Life and Mind of Oriental Jones: Sir William Jones, the Father of Modern Linguistics . By Garland Cannon . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1990 . 390 pp. $49.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 Book Reviews ASIA GENERAL...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (3): 611–633.
Published: 01 August 2018
... be organized: linguistic modernity was to be a national modernity, in which all the nation's people would have access to the new official language, and thus increased opportunities for advancement. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2018 2018 China history language standardization...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1986) 45 (2): 329–353.
Published: 01 February 1986
... situation in Jakarta, Indonesia's center and capital, highlights linguistic continuities and discontinuities between that modern speech community and the traditional culture of the dominant Indonesian ethnic group, the Javanese. The speech repertoires of Jakartans do not resemble the well-known Javanese...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1954) 13 (3): 305–327.
Published: 01 May 1954
.... In the Western world, translation is considered more frequently from the linguistic than the cultural point of view, for the West has a common pattern of culture underlying its linguistic variety. The problem of communication between the East and the West is more difficult in that there are not only language...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1947) 6 (4): 379–389.
Published: 01 August 1947
... the more important among them (Annamese, Khmer, Lao) have not yet received adequate modern linguistic treatment. The main outlines are sufficiently clear, however, and afford us data on the cultural history of the country. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1947 1947 1...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (2): 257–271.
Published: 01 May 1989
... . Errington J. Joseph . 1985 . Language and Social Change in Java: Linguistic Reflexes of Modernization in a Traditional Royal Polity . Athens : Ohio University Press . Errington J. Joseph . 1986 . “ Continuity and Discontinuity in Indonesian Language Development .” Journal of Asian Studies 45...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1984) 43 (3): 475–480.
Published: 01 May 1984
...John J. Chew, Jr Abstract Japan's Modern Myth is a scathing attack on those Japanese academics who shape current attitudes toward the Japanese language. They are portrayed as ignorant of linguistic science and as incapable of producing a sound comparison of Japanese with other languages. The book...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1964) 23 (2): 253–267.
Published: 01 February 1964
...-independence India.2 But little has been done on the leadership of minority groups. In many cases (eg., the Armenians, Copts, and Maronites in the Middle East, the Parsis in India, and the Chinese in Southeast Asia), the members of religious and linguistic minorities adapted more rapidly to modern ways than...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1970) 29 (2): 267–287.
Published: 01 February 1970
...Agehananda Bharati Abstract An anthropological and linguistic analysis of the idiom of modern Hindu religious specialists and their followers, an audience which embraces all English speaking Indians and a large segment of the urban populations of India. The highly eclectic, quasi-secular and neo...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1978) 37 (3): 427–443.
Published: 01 May 1978
...Dennis T. Hu Abstract Wei-ch'eng ; (hereafter referred to by the translated title Fortress Besieged ) by Ch'ien Chung-shu (1910?—) has been hailed as the most “carefully wrought novel in modern Chinese literature” and “perhaps also its greatest.” Despite such distinction, however, neither this work...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (3): 339–361.
Published: 01 August 2023
... within the linguistic ecologies of early modern East Asia. The essay prompt originates from a passage in Zhongyong , which describes the transformative effects of “truthfulness” (Ch. cheng 誠, Ma. unenggi ), a virtue understood by Learning of the Way thinkers to reflect a truthful relationship...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1974) 34 (1): 139–149.
Published: 01 November 1974
...J. Gonda Abstract In a long series of important and stimulating publications Georges Dumézil has for almost half a century not only re-established a complex of theories with regard to the comparative study of ancient Indo-European mythology, but also applied a modernized comparative method...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (4): 986–988.
Published: 01 November 2013
... of linguistic modernity. Through cases of Cai Peihuo's proposed romanization of the dominant Taiwanese topolect and Song Zelai's experiment with writing in this mother tongue of most of the local Han population, Tsu brings to light the polymorphous nature of Taiwan's languages, which include less established...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (2): 472–473.
Published: 01 May 2021
... assumption that Chinese languages exist in a natural hierarchy. Replacing that hierarchy with a framework of “linguistic modernity,” Tam illuminates the process over a long historical arc, showing how the national language was repeatedly defined and contested, while fangyan both aided and contradicted...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (2): 291–293.
Published: 01 May 2018
... is by T IMOTHY T HURSTON of Leeds University and titled “A Careful Village: Comedic Dialogues and Linguistic Modernity in China's Tibet.” It focuses on “a series of four comedic dialogues” that were popular in Tibet in the 1990s, in each of which “performances juxtapose urban sophisticates and country...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1977) 36 (3): 573.
Published: 01 May 1977
... that the periodic attempts to reinterpret the concept have become something like a secular ritual. To date, renaissance has been defined as linguistic modernization, literary efflorescence, Hindu revival-nationalism, social reform, westernization, historic consciousness, secular humanism, Brahmo Protestant...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1977) 36 (3): 573–574.
Published: 01 May 1977
... renaissance has so captured the imagination of countless Bengalis that the periodic attempts to reinterpret the concept have become something like a secular ritual. To date, renaissance has been defined as linguistic modernization, literary efflorescence, Hindu revival-nationalism, social reform...
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