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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (4): 935–941.
Published: 01 November 2017
... in which categories of membership and belonging—especially to states, nations, ethnoracial groups, families/kin, and religious communities—are created, mobilized, embraced, contested, and redefined through such struggles. To grasp the variability, historicity, and contingency of these struggles...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (3): 777–780.
Published: 01 August 2021
...Amanda Weidman India Connected: How the Smartphone Is Transforming the World's Largest Democracy . By Ravi Agrawal . New York : Oxford University Press , 2018 . viii, 230 pp. ISBN: 9780190858650 (cloth). A Village Goes Mobile: Telephony, Mediation, and Social Change in Rural India...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (1): 63–80.
Published: 01 February 2012
...Robin Jeffrey; Assa Doron Abstract We argue that the 2007 state elections in Uttar Pradesh (UP), India's largest state, were the first “mass mobile phone” elections in India. The paper charts the spectacular growth of the cheap cell phone in India and in Uttar Pradesh, documents the organizational...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (1): 255–258.
Published: 01 February 2018
... presidential candidacy that year could not have taken place without the popular support formed through digital activism. It was also in cyberspace that the candlelight vigils protesting the killing of two teenage girls by an American military vehicle were mobilized (chaps. 2 and 3). It was this momentum, when...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (3): 770–771.
Published: 01 August 2015
...Young-a Park Mobile Subjects: Boundaries and Identities in the Modern Korean Diaspora . Edited by Wen-hsin Yeh . Berkeley : Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley , 2013 . 231 pp. $25.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (4): 929–933.
Published: 01 November 2017
... of societies is particularly thorny, and in which essentialized reifications of societies are seemingly implacable: the interpenetration of India and China. Thanks to the efficiency of maritime travel, discussions of mobility tend to focus mainly on examples that involve the sea. But as Ho notes, land-based...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (4): 953–959.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Nicole Constable Abstract I am honored to comment on Engseng Ho's provocative essay through the lens of my own research on inter-Asian connections and mobilities in and beyond Asia. The abstract for the panel, entitled “The Flow of Migration beyond the State,” stated that “much scholarship on Asia...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (4): 943–951.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Emma Teng Abstract Engseng Ho proposes that “the study of Asia, thought of as an Inter-Asian space, and smaller than the whole globe, can provide tractable concepts for a new round of research to shed light on the social shapes of societies that are mobile, spatially expansive, and interactive...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (4): 907–928.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Engseng Ho Abstract This essay proposes that the study of Asia, thought of as an Inter-Asian space, can provide concepts that shed light on the social shapes of societies that are mobile, spatially expansive, and interactive with one other. Inter-Asia, an old world crisscrossed by interactions...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (1): 156–158.
Published: 01 February 1997
...Chalmers Johnson The New Rich in Asia: Mobile Phones, McDonalds and Middle-Class Revolution . Edited by Richard Robison and David S. G. Goodman . London and New York : Routledge , 1996 . xii, 253 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (1): 202–203.
Published: 01 February 1997
...Ulrike Wöhr La Donna è Mobile . Das modan gāru als Erscheinung der modernen Stadtkultur . By Richmond Bollinger . Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag , 1994 . v, 171 pp. DM 48.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 202 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1971) 30 (2): 315–339.
Published: 01 February 1971
.... The Tili movement was accelerated by modern conditions. Apparently the external factors helping social mobility varied from the case of the Sadgopas to that of the Tilis. But there are certain common features of development in both cases. Both the Sadgopas and the Tilis had collectively abandoned...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (2): 526–535.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Bill Mihalopoulos Gender and Law in the Japanese Imperium . Edited by Susan L. Burns and Barbara J. Brooks . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2014 . ix, 301 pp. ISBN: 9780824837150 (cloth, also available as e-book). Modern Girls on the Go: Gender, Mobility, and Labor...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (1): 225–226.
Published: 01 February 2018
...Noel B. Salazar Airport Urbanism: Infrastructure and Mobility in Asia . By Max Hirsh . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . 2016 . vii, 157 pp. ISBN: 9780816696109 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2018  2018 This well-written monograph uses...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1967) 26 (4): 692–693.
Published: 01 August 1967
...Albert Feuerwerker Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1967 1967 Social Mobility in China: Status Careers Among the Gentry in a Chinese Community . By Yang-teh Chow . New York : Atherton Press , 1966 . xvi, 300 pp. Bibliography, Index, Tables, and Illustrations...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (3): 879–880.
Published: 01 August 2016
.... Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2016  2016 The Buddha on Mecca's Verandah: Encounters, Mobilities, and Histories along the Malaysian-Thai Border . By Irving Chan Johnson . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2012 . xxii, 223 pp. ISBN: 9780295992037...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (1): 63–85.
Published: 01 February 2016
...Han Sang Kim Abstract This article examines the cultural logic of mobilization in postcolonial South Korea, promoted through American cinematic representations. In early 1946, the U.S. Army Military Government in Korea started importing and distributing American propaganda films. These audiovisual...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1965) 24 (3): 510–512.
Published: 01 May 1965
...Douglas H. Mendel, Jr Ministers of Modernization: Elite Mobility in the Meiji Restoration, 1868–1873 . By Bernard S. Silberman . Tucson : The University of Arizona Press , 1964 . xi, 135 . Appendix; Bibliography; Maps; Tables. $6.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (4): 1035–1067.
Published: 01 November 2012
... regional variation: Sichuan showed a significant relation between footbinding and marital mobility. Nevertheless, our evidence of the basic economic circumstances of rural women's marriages from several of China's regions, including Sichuan, supports a different cultural belief as relevant to the lives...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1957) 16 (3): 423–425.
Published: 01 May 1957
...Douglas H. Mendel, Jr. Japanese Society and Politics: The Impact of Social Stratification and Mobility on Politics . By Allan B. Cole . Boston University Studies in Political Science, No. 1. Boston : Graduate School of Boston University , 1956 . 158 . Glossary, Bibliography. $1.50 (paper...