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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (3): 773–774.
Published: 01 August 2012
...Tiantian Zheng Deep China: The Moral Life of the Person . By Arthur Kleinman Berkeley : University of California Press , 2011 . x, 311 pp. $65 (cloth); $26.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2012 2012 A collaboration by six anthropologists, one...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (2): 576–578.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Trent Maxey Chapters 3 and 5 foreground the resistance that these dominant ethical discourses and their epistemic foundations generated, often with surprising results. In chapter 3, for example, Reitan tells us that religious apologists competed with scholars of ethics to define public morality...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (4): 959–960.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Yong Huang Compassion and Moral Guidance . By Steve Bein . Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy Monograph Series 23. Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2013 . xvii, 222 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013  2013...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (4): 1131–1133.
Published: 01 November 2016
...E. Elena Songster Dams and Development in China: The Moral Economy of Water and Power . By Bryan Tilt . New York : Columbia University Press , 2015 . xv, 259 pp. ISBN: 9780231170109 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (4): 1074–1076.
Published: 01 November 2018
... in marshalling critical scholarship from a diverse range of fields and an impressive analytical depth in close-reading a selection of textual and visual materials in their critical contexts. The Stranger and the Chinese Moral Imagination breaks new ground in the field of Chinese studies in its judicious...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1966) 26 (1): 133.
Published: 01 November 1966
...Marguerite J. Fisher Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1966 1966 The Political, Social, and Moral Philosophy of Apolinario Mabini . By Adriano C. Reyno, Jr. Manila : Catholic Trade School , 1964 . (San Carlos Publications, Series A: Humanities, Number Two. Cebu...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (4): 1097–1099.
Published: 01 November 2000
...Arlene Neher Khmer American: Identity and Moral Education in a Diasporic Community . By Nancy J. Smith-Hefner . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1999 . 256 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 BOOK REVIEWS...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (4): 1149–1150.
Published: 01 November 2001
...Steve Angle Moral Vision and Tradition: Essays in Chinese Ethics . By Antonio S. Cua . Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press , 1998 . xiii, 357 pp. $66.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 1149 through...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (1): 175–177.
Published: 01 February 1994
...Melissa Macauley A Chinese Mirror: Moral Reflections on Political Economy and Society . By Henry Rosemont, Jr. . La Salle, Ill. : Open Court , 1991 . x, 130 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER ASIA 175 Chinese...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (3): 577–578.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Yuri Pines Origins of Political-Moral Philosophy in Early China: Contestation of Humaneness, Justice, and Personal Freedom . By Tao Jiang . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2021 . xv , 514 pp. ISBN: 9780197603475 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (1): 304–306.
Published: 01 February 2003
...Kirin Narayan Moral Fictions: Tamil Folktales from Oral Tradition . By Stuart Blackburn . Folklore Fellows' Communications, no. 278. Helsinki : Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia , 2001 . 338 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 304 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (3): 922–923.
Published: 01 August 2003
...Kenneth Pomeranz Manslaughter, Markets, and Moral Economy: Violent Disputes over Property Rights in Eighteenth-Century China . By Thomas Buoye . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2000 . xvi, 283 pp. $65.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (1): 81–102.
Published: 01 February 2012
...John Whittier Treat Abstract Today historians hesitate to judge collaborators with the Axis powers in World War II, citing the impossibility of putting oneself in the often untenable position collaborators found themselves. Nonetheless, contemporary moral philosophy continues to ponder the ethical...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (1): 243–245.
Published: 01 February 2012
... of government and the responsibilities of leaders also helps to explain the shift. The lessons of many of the volume's case studies, though, is that governmentality in contemporary China is fragile and contested. If the quest for adequate lives is to be cemented in Chinese governance and moral experience...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (3): 1112–1113.
Published: 01 August 2008
...Michael Herzfeld Poetics of Conduct: Oral Narrative and Moral Being in a South Indian Town . By Leela Prasad . New York : Columbia University Press , 2006 . xv , 291 pp. $75.50 (cloth); $25.50 (paper) . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2008 2008...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (4): 881–896.
Published: 01 November 2007
... the brutal Poligar Wars and were transported to Penang in Southeast Asia in 1801, an episode that highlights the workings of the coercive power and moral authority of the new regime in early colonial India. The paper illustrates the variety of forms that resistance to the regime took and the extent to which...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (2): 399–422.
Published: 01 May 2012
..., however, statist ideological projects reached out to students at every level of the education system, while placing particular emphasis on middle school and high school students. More so than any other social identity, the South Korean “student” was assigned the moral duty of serving as the vanguard...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (3): 829–830.
Published: 01 August 2007
...Edward Gunn Knight remains alert to the problems associated with Morson's theory, nowhere more so than in her treatment of Mo Yan's novel of magical realism, Shisan bu (Thirteen Steps). Mo Yan employs the kind of sideshadowing through multiple endings that should imply individual moral choice...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (3): 765–767.
Published: 01 August 2015
... with the Chosŏn linguistic ecology is expertly done. But this reviewer has some quibbles. Oh stresses Zhu Xi's oral reading and moral education, but wasn't Zhu Xi primarily concerned with moral education through vocalization so as to encourage readers to internalize the very words of the ancients? The premise...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (3): 615–637.
Published: 01 August 2015
... parts (Scheper-Hughes 1996 ), or the forcible sterilization of women (Bass 2008 ). The sociological literature on “moral panic” (Cohen 1973 ; Goode and Ben-Yehuda 1994 ) also provides a way to understand this episode and describes how the media plays a central role in the construction of “folk...
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