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Journal of Asian Studies (1986) 45 (4): 903–904.
Published: 01 August 1986
...Peter F. Laird An Anthropology of Curing in Multiethnic Thailand . By Louis Golomb . Urbana and Chicago : University of Illinois Press , 1985 . (Illinois Studies in Anthropology, no. 15.) xiv, 314 pp. Map, Photographs, Figures, Bibliography, Index. $23.95 (paper). Copyright ©...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (1): 261–262.
Published: 01 February 1997
...Jocelyn Armstrong Meanings of Multiethnicity: A Case-Study of Ethnicity and Ethnic Relations in Singapore . By Lai Ah Eng . Kuala Lumpur : Oxford University Press , 1995 . xvii, 233 pp. $69.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (2): 423–446.
Published: 01 May 2012
... examples of the “sojourn work” that has gone into making mobile, multiethnic populations abroad into Overseas Chinese. The first example deals with recent official attempts to project the People's Republic of China's multiethnic vision of Chinese-ness beyond its national borders. The second highlights...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (1): 26–61.
Published: 01 February 2000
... in the political arena is being transformed. The key aspect of this transformation is not, as it is usually understood, the replacement of a single multiethnic party with a collection of monoethnic parties. Many of the smaller parties are in themselves multiethnic, although the coalitions that they seek to build...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (3): 339–361.
Published: 01 August 2023
... of literary-intellectual values among members of the Eight Banners. This article demonstrates how it contributed to the emergence of a multiethnic population of Manchu, Mongol, and Chinese bannermen possessing high levels of Manchu literacy who would become consumers and producers of Manchu literature...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (4): 849–871.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi Abstract This paper focuses on the majority population in the People's Republic of China—the Han—and their various collective identities. The Han play a pivotal role in consolidating the Chinese territory and the multiethnic Chinese nation. Therefore, the governments...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1982) 42 (1): 122–123.
Published: 01 November 1982
... and Monetary Exchange Rates, Glossary of Chinese Words, References Cited, Index. $10.50. For 100 years, Sai Kung has been a multiethnic market town and region in the bays north of Kowloon. By I960, however, with the dislocations in South China and a new road, Sai Kung's ethnic mix proliferated, to become...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (2): 600–601.
Published: 01 May 1998
... in the other states. Some of the East Malaysian parties openly proclaim their multiethnic orientation, as opposed to the mostly communalbased parties in Malaya. But the scholarly literature on East Malaysian politics has been relatively thin, especially for developments during the past decade. James Chin Ung...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (3): 725–727.
Published: 01 August 2024
... historians of the Soviet Union, responding to the largely unforeseen rise of ethnic nationalism that facilitated the Soviet collapse, sought a better understanding of the Soviet Union as a multiethnic empire by focusing on the previously peripheral topic of Soviet nationalities policy. While Cold War–era...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (4): 831–832.
Published: 01 November 2000
... as something of a shock to local Japanese. A M Y G U R O W I T Z looks at the ways in which the complicated multiethnic setting in Malaysia provides possibilities and constraints for contemporary activists interested in working for migrant rights. Her essay provides us with tools to think about multiethnic...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (4): 863–888.
Published: 01 November 2000
... and the 27 October 1987 Crackdown in Malaysia . Kuala Lumpur : Dicetak di Malaysia . “ The Case for Multiethnic Politics .” 1995 . Aliran Monthly 15 ( 9 ): 33 . Chan Joseph . 1988 . “ An Alternative View .” Journal of Democracy 8 ( 2 ): 35 – 48 . Muzaffar Chandra . 1994 . “ Rights...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1982) 41 (2): 385.
Published: 01 February 1982
.... $15. Mary Fainsod Katzenstein's study adds to the growing literature of the interrelationships between migration, ethnicity, and political conflict in developing societies. It is a case study of ethnic politics practiced by the Shiv Sena, an exponent of "sons-of-the-soil" demands in the multiethnic...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (3): 798–800.
Published: 01 August 1998
... in multiethnic (multilinguistic) societies. Successful government policies establish a politically neutral language, limiting the likelihood that one ethnic group (the majority or at least politically dominant) will secure unfair advantage in government, education, or commerce. The essays include examples...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (4): 1078–1079.
Published: 01 November 2024
... encouraging to policymakers that the fertility rate among multicultural families is higher than the birth rate among “Korean” families. But as different chapters show, the increasing proportion of biracial and multiethnic children in Korea is related to the rise of new social challenges. Motherhood...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (2): 742–743.
Published: 01 May 2008
... formation of postcolonial Malay nationalism in Malaysia. “Indigenous” Malays not only retain political control in this multiethnic state, they also enjoy many other economic and social advantages over Malaysian citizens descended from South Asian and Chinese ancestors. Access to university education...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (2): 571–573.
Published: 01 May 2014
... the seemingly fragmented regions and periods of art history. What are the continuities and what are the key disruptions in the evolution of Vietnamese art? Can one properly locate silk painting in a past-to-present continuum? If the origins of Vietnamese art are multicultural, multiethnic, and multifocal, can...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (1): 5–29.
Published: 01 February 2004
... for the protection of former aborigines). 1935 . Hokkaidō shakai jigyō , no. 42:2–70. Lie John . 2001 . Multiethnic Japan . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press . Maher John C. 1995 . “Ainu in Japan: Language Loss, Language Recovery.” In Nihon no kindaika to datsukindaika / La...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (4): 1222–1224.
Published: 01 November 2007
... an array of Europeans, Asians, and multiethnic individuals whose diverse perspectives and motivations cannot be reduced to the opposition between “French” and “Vietnamese” that was later constructed under colonialism. The remainder of the book is organized into three sections, each focusing...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (4): 1052–1054.
Published: 01 November 2020
... and ambiguity surrounding blood's animated qualities, which Carsten believes lie at the heart of blood's power. One of Carsten's most impressive achievements is how she deals with blood's role in racial and ethnic categories within a multiethnic context while avoiding taking them for granted. Irrespective...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1982) 42 (1): 121–122.
Published: 01 November 1982
... BLAKE. Honolulu: University of Hawaii (Asian Studies at Hawaii No. 27), 1981. xviii, 180 pp. Plates, Maps, Figures, Table, Weights, Measures and Monetary Exchange Rates, Glossary of Chinese Words, References Cited, Index. $10.50. For 100 years, Sai Kung has been a multiethnic market town and region...