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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (3): 836–839.
Published: 01 August 2016
... of National Reconstruction in Japan . By J. Charles Schencking . New York : Columbia University Press , 2013 . xxii, 374 pp. ISBN: 9780231162180 (cloth; also available as e-book). Imaging Disaster: Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan's Great Earthquake of 1923 . By Gennifer...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (2): 447–469.
Published: 01 May 2014
... victims as heroes sacrificing for the nation mark departures from late-imperial responses to disaster, but foreshadow features of the devastating Mao-era Great Leap Famine of 1958–62. The Yellow River flood of 1938 provides an instructive mid-way point between late-Qing and Maoist responses...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 599–608.
Published: 01 August 2020
... 2011 Triple Disaster parcel delivery tourism Abenomics cultural diplomacy national disaster recovery On March 24, 2020, Prime Minister Abe Shinzō, the Tokyo Olympic Organising Committee, and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) agreed to postpone the 2020 Tokyo Olympics for one year...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (1): 95–114.
Published: 01 February 2019
...-stricken city while rescuing other survivors. The article argues that the game makes visible the marginal victims and narratives of survival often erased under the collective rhetoric of national trauma. This is explored in relation to disaster photography and artistic representations of 3.11. The article...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (3): 549–576.
Published: 01 August 2019
... not only of the disaster but also of a national determination to recover and rebuild. Drawing upon media and literary discourse in the Nepali language, this article asks why the Dharahara tower, rather than the country's severely damaged World Heritage sites, loomed so large in the Nepali imagination...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1971) 30 (3): 728–729.
Published: 01 May 1971
... pattern on the development of Thai history. He explains this in terms of the ebb and flow of phrai from the king to the princes or the nobles, postulating that, after a national disaster, most phrai tended to be king's men (phrai luang) but, as the situation stabilized, there was a tendency for them...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (2): 453–478.
Published: 26 March 2010
.... As Li explained in another petition to Shaanxi's provincial government in 1937, For years the nation has had many difficulties, and hardships have multiplied. Natural disasters and man-made calamities have frequently appeared. As a result, agricultural villages are bankrupt and society is unstable...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (2): 457–480.
Published: 01 May 2017
... continent, with the greatest number of events occurring in the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna basin (M. Bakker 2009 ). In counterpoint, several Nepalese with extensive experience in national water policy and development have complicated standard explanations for disasters like the 2014 floods in the lower...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1952) 11 (4): 447–451.
Published: 01 August 1952
... in the China of their day; they traced disaster, however, not to the flouting of fixed ideals but to blind and slavish respect for them, to the fixity itself. A seventeenth-century world, a t'ien-hsia , in which traditional values claimed authority, had become a twentieth-century nation, a kuo , in which...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1971) 30 (3): 726–728.
Published: 01 May 1971
... or the nobles, postulating that, after a national disaster, most phrai tended to be king's men (phrai luang) but, as the situation stabilized, there was a tendency for them to join the households of princes or nobles as private servants (phrai som) or even as slaves (that). This was understandable in view...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1993) 52 (1): 175–176.
Published: 01 February 1993
... in which the political and the social were inextricably combined. To understand them, one usually needs to stick close to actual historical processes. In his third and final chapter, reassessing his various dimensions of population size, pressure, density, urbanism and crisis or national disaster White...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1978) 37 (3): 603–604.
Published: 01 May 1978
... dominance that followed were a disaster in every field. Even national identity, which most observers see as the principal permanent achievement of these years, receives no mention; Indonesian unity is portrayed as a purely negative phenomenon (pp. 34). At least these Indonesian failings are not unique...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (1): 131–144.
Published: 01 February 2022
... with the Korean Bar Association (KBA) on May 15, 2014, to prepare the legislation known as the Sewŏl Special Act, which would establish an independent investigation panel (later named the 416 Commission). In that same month, more than 850 civil society organizations formed the Sewŏl Ferry Disaster National...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1993) 52 (1): 176–177.
Published: 01 February 1993
... processes. In his third and final chapter, reassessing his various dimensions of population size, pressure, density, urbanism and crisis or national disaster White discovers that, on the national level, they bear no significant relationship to any form of conflict. Rather than dismissing "population change...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (1): 287–288.
Published: 01 February 2002
..., ordered that miniature copies of the Chagai test site mound be constructed throughout the country, which now has the dubious distinction of being the first nation to commemorate a self-imposed national disaster by replicating a lump of earth contaminated by nuclear radiation. In India, also, the ultra...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (4): 1093–1095.
Published: 01 November 2021
... in the aftermath of the 2011 Triple Disaster. “Mobilizing Paradise: Hawai‘i in Post-Disaster National Imagination” is perhaps the most unexpected and intriguing chapter. Here, Koikari disrupts depoliticized ties between the marginalized people of the Tōhoku region and indigenous Hawaiians, critiquing...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (4): 763–782.
Published: 01 November 2013
... will become another national occasion for annual drills and awareness. 9 We know disasters and catastrophes through history, and through science, as suggested by a 2003 poster for an exhibition at the National Museum of Science in Tokyo, commemorating the eightieth anniversary of the 1923 Great Kantō...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (3): 753–773.
Published: 01 August 2014
... it was difficult to imagine a scenario more likely to jeopardize the hard-won economic gains of previous decades. “The disaster . . . apparently arrested, as was apprehended at the time, the progress of national development” (Bureau of Social Affairs 1926 , preface, n.p.). This profound concern was strongly...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (2): 313–318.
Published: 01 May 2012
... on television (and in the same stroke “collectivize” the disaster, as Dudden remarks), only contributed to the uncomfortable reminder of the last great disaster that had prompted calls for “national unity,” as well as of the many unresolved issues around the political character of the postwar nation-state...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1982) 41 (4): 687–707.
Published: 01 August 1982
... various degrees of food food and other aid (New York Times, April 25, shortages in at least nine provinces," and 21 mil- 1981). Some foreign analysts interpret this request lion were said to be "seriously affected." A United for relief more as a sign of China's new willingness Nations Disaster Relief...
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