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Journal of Asian Studies (1979) 38 (3): 477–497.
Published: 01 May 1979
... Astrologically, it is possible to match the groom's signs to the bride's or the bride's to the groom's. But as a matter of propriety, negotiating a marriage requires the initiative to come from the male side. 15 Marriott and Inden, pp. 982–91. 14 The notions of “substance” and “code for conduct...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1964) 23 (3): 485.
Published: 01 May 1964
...John F. Cady The Burman; His Life and Notions . By Shway Yoe . New York : W. W. Norton Company , 1963 . xxvi , 609 . $2.45. (paper) Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 BOOK REVIEWS 485 The export structure underwent striking tery schools today are fewer...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (1): 252–254.
Published: 01 February 2005
...Christian C. Lentz Women and Households in Indonesia: Cultural Notions and Social Practices . Edited by Juliette Koning , Marleen Nolten , Janet Rodenburg , and Ratna Saptari . NIAS Studies in Asian Topics, no. 27. Richmond, Surrey : Curzon , 2000 . xiii , 354 pp. $124.95 (cloth...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (1): 162–163.
Published: 01 February 1997
...Kidder Smith Notions et perceptions du changement en Chine . Préparés pour la publication Viviane Alleton et Alexeï Volkov . Paris : Collège de France—Institut des Hautes Études Chinoises , 1994 . xxvi, 267 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 162...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1982) 41 (2): 425–426.
Published: 01 February 1982
...Judith L. Ecklund Knowledge and Passion: Ilongot Notions of Self and Social Life . By Michelle Z. Rosaldo . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1980 . xv, 286 pp. Appendixes, Bibliography, Index. $22.50 (cloth); $6.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1982...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (3): 876–878.
Published: 01 August 2010
...Anthony E. Clark Notions of Time in Chinese Historical Thinking . Edited by Chun-chieh Huang and John B. Henderson . Hong Kong : Chinese University Press , 2006 . xix , 223 pp. $42.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 This collection...
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in Constructing the Legitimacy of Governance in Hong Kong: “Prosperity and Stability” Meets “Democracy and Freedom”
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 February 2022
Figure 3. Frequency of the keywords prosperity/stability in the SCMP . ProQuest Historical Newspapers registers the frequency of the paired notions (both “prosperity and stability” and “stability and prosperity”) as they appeared in either headlines or the text of articles.
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in Constructing the Legitimacy of Governance in Hong Kong: “Prosperity and Stability” Meets “Democracy and Freedom”
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 February 2022
Figure 6. Frequency of the keywords democracy/freedom in the SCMP . ProQuest Historical Newspapers registers the frequency of the paired notions (both “democracy and freedom” and “freedom and democracy”) as they appeared in either headlines or the text of articles.
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (2): 493–516.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Kirsten L. Ziomek Abstract This article discusses the 1903 Human Pavilion's Ainu Fushine Kōzō, who advanced a notion of imperial subjecthood, where one could be Ainu and a loyal subject of the Japanese empire. Fushine urged that the Ainu be treated equitably not because all races were equal...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1956) 15 (2): 249–265.
Published: 01 February 1956
...Margaret W. Fisher; Joan V. Bondurant Abstract The notion that democracy, as the West understands democracy, is meeting a crucial test in the conflict of ideas that agitate the minds and emotions of Indians, is everywhere receiving greater attention. It is a notion as commonly understood...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1977) 37 (1): 27–43.
Published: 01 November 1977
... behavior at the festival, and examination of certain astrochronological notions prevalent in popular Hinduism indicate that explanations of the place of the festival in the cult and of its importance for hundreds of thousands of pilgrims each year are to be found not in any aspect of the mythology...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1979) 38 (2): 231–244.
Published: 01 February 1979
... and a somewhat repetitious style, and were recited aloud rather than read in private silence. But if we regard them as mixtures of historical and mythical elements, our understanding of their inner structure and meaning is inevitably compromised, for the notion of a mixture already imposes assumptions about...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1995) 54 (3): 759–780.
Published: 01 August 1995
..., and particularly by the all-powerful western notion of history as the pursuit of “scientific truth.” To break through this constricting frame we need to recognize “that the history of every society or people deserves to be studied not only as a part of world history but also on account of its intrinsic values” (Yu...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (1): 45–66.
Published: 01 February 1994
... India's masses may be attributed, at least in part, to the degree he was able to embody a powerful ideal of sexual self-control that linked his sociopolitical projects to pervasive Hindu notions of renunciation (S. Rudolph 1967). Affecting the persona of a world-renouncer, Gandhi was able to mix political...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1990) 49 (4): 761–786.
Published: 01 November 1990
... 1989). Indeed, since Dumont (1970a,b) forcefully argued that the values of equality and liberty that support the Western notion of the individual were absent from Indian society, the important roles that personal uniqueness, volition, and achievement play in Indian history have been largely overlooked...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (2): 283–302.
Published: 01 May 2015
... that the classroom became the site for a kind of linguistic war, or better yet, the war of translation. Nationalists have routinely denounced the continued use of English as a morbid symptom of colonial mentality. Yet, such a view was deeply tied to the colonial notion of the sheer instrumentality of language...
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in Constructing the Legitimacy of Governance in Hong Kong: “Prosperity and Stability” Meets “Democracy and Freedom”
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 February 2022
Figure 7. Frequency of the keywords democracy/freedom in the TKP and WKYP . The Multimedia Information System of the Hong Kong Public Libraries registers the frequency of the paired notions—民主 democracy and 自由 freedom—in either order as they appeared in the headlines or subtitles
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (4): 1043–1058.
Published: 01 November 2014
... Partha Chatterjee's notion of the inner domain. Chatterjee focused on Bengali cultural nationalism and its complex relation to Western hegemony. He considered Bengal, the metropolis of the British Raj, to be representative of colonized nations. This article reveals that elsewhere in South Asia—Sri Lanka...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (4): 1059–1079.
Published: 01 November 2014
... are the assumptions that central institutions are definitive of authoritarian states, and divides between study of the sacred and secular. I propose the notion of “ritual governance” to address these conceptual issues and illustrate this with an ethnographic case study from a major development project in Laos...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (4): 1041–1048.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Michael Szonyi Abstract The purpose of this JAS roundtable is to reflect on the Cold War in Asia. Even to frame the issue in such terms is to confront the “formidable semantic contradiction that is inherent in the idea” of the Cold War (Kwon 2010, 7). For the very notion of the Cold War—as a “long...
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