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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (4): 1309–1339.
Published: 01 November 2008
...Suzanne G. O'Brien Abstract This essay examines the changes in hairstyles that have become overdetermined signs of Japan's transition to modernity in histories of the Meiji era (1868–1912). It demonstrates that Japanese men's adoption of short styles, relentlessly cited as a key example...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1976) 35 (2): 330–332.
Published: 01 February 1976
...James A. O'Brien Spring Snow . By Yukio Mishima . Translated by Michael Gallagher . New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1972 . 389 pp. $7.95 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1976 1976 330 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES essay, which contends that the Japanese pre- The number...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (3): 843–844.
Published: 01 August 1999
...James O'Brien The Similitude of Blossoms: A Critical Biography of Izumi Kyōka (1873–1939), Japanese Novelist and Playwright . By Charles Shirō Inouye . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 1998 . $40.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 BOOK...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1987) 46 (1): 168–169.
Published: 01 February 1987
...James O'Brien The Marginal World of Ōe Kenzaburo: A Study in Themes and Techniques . By Michiko N. Wilson . Armonk, N.Y. : M. E. Sharpe , 1986 . viii, 160 pp. Biographical Notes, Notes, Selected Bibliography, Index. $30. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1987 1987 168...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1990) 49 (1): 127–128.
Published: 01 February 1990
...Kevin J. O'Brien BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER ASIA 127 Changes in China: Party, State, and Society. Edited by SHAO-CHUAN LENG. The Miller Center Series on Asian Political Leadership 1. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1989. xviii, 368 pp. $36.50 (cloth); $19.75 (paper). This book...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1980) 39 (4): 817–819.
Published: 01 August 1980
...James O'Brien BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 817 it difficult for me to regard them as expressions of a breakthrough in political philosophy in Japan. My reluctance to view Shigetoki as a major political thinker does not detract from my estimation of the value or interest of this book. The kakun themselves...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1976) 35 (3): 500–502.
Published: 01 May 1976
...Ivan Morris Dazai Osamu . By James A. O'Brien . Boston : Twayne Publishers , 1975 . 179 pp. Notes and References, Selected Bibliography, Index. $8.50 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1976 1976 500 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES in the 1920s and 1930s. Although...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (3): 669–671.
Published: 01 August 1991
...Barrett L. McCormick Reform Without Liberalization: China's National People's Congress and the Politics of Institutional Change . By Kevin J. O'Brien . New York and Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press , 1990 . xii, 263 pp. $42.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (3): 623–624.
Published: 01 August 1989
...David Fahy Akutagawa and Dazai: Instances of Literary Adaptation . By James O'Brien . Tempe : Arizona State University , 1988 . x , 149 pp. $8.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 623 treks through the mountains in South Korea...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (1): 213–215.
Published: 01 February 1997
...Winston Davis To Dream of Dreams: Religious Freedom and Constitutional Politics in Postwar Japan . By David M. O'Brien with Yasuo Ohkoshi . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1996 . 209 pp. $50.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1976) 35 (3): 498–500.
Published: 01 May 1976
... available. In his preface, Professor Skinner states that he hopes to remedy the deficiencies of this volume with subsequent publications; we eagerly await them. Swarthmore College LILLIAN M. LI Dazai Osamu. BY JAMES A. O'BRIEN. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1975. 179 pp. Notes and References, Selected...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (2): 608–609.
Published: 01 May 2009
...John James Kennedy Rightful Resistance in Rural China . By Kevin J. O'Brien and Lianjiang Li . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2006 . xvii , 179 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $27.99 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009 Every year brings...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (1): 45–67.
Published: 01 February 2013
... a multifaceted analysis, we took advantage of the richly available network measures in our survey and focused on the contrast between protest and adaptation—engineering life-changing events through social networks. Informed by the concept of “rightful resistance” (O'Brien 1996 ; O'Brien and Li 2006 ), we...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (1): 261–263.
Published: 01 February 2009
...Weitseng Chen Engaging the Law in China: State, Society, and Possibilities for Justice . Edited by Neil J. Diamant , Stanley B. Lubman , and Kevin J. O'Brien . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 2005 . viii , 256 pp. $52.50 (cloth). Copyright © The Association...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (2): 567–569.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Carrie Liu Currier Popular Protest in China . Edited by Kevin J. O'Brien . Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press , 2008 . x , 277 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 This volume is an insightful collection...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (4): 1139–1144.
Published: 01 November 2008
... and authority than her predecessors. Nationalism and anticolonial sentiment may have motivated some of these critics, but fashion's threat to gender norms played no small role in the drama of modernity in Burma. Like Ikeya, Suzanne G. O'Brien feels that it is more than splitting hairs to insist upon...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1992) 51 (3): 676–678.
Published: 01 August 1992
...Takeshi Kokubo The Japanese American Experience . By David J. O'Brien and Stephen S. Fugita . Bloomington and Indianapolis : Indiana University Press , 1991 . 178 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 676 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES denounce...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (1): 211–213.
Published: 01 February 1997
.... David M. O'Brien's To Dream of Dreams is a comprehensive study of (what in the United States is called) "church-state" litigation in the postwar period. Since most of O'Brien's background information on Japanese law and religion comes from previously published sources in English, specialists in religion...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (1): 249–250.
Published: 01 February 2008
... issues and democracy in the region. This is very evident in the case of China, for example, where works by Neil J. Diamant, Stanley B. Lubman, and Kevin J. O'Brien ( Engaging the Law in China: State, Society and Possibilities for Justice [Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2005]) and Kevin J...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1992) 51 (3): 678–679.
Published: 01 August 1992
... to be a primary source of Japanese Americans' ability to organize. This book is apparently a sister to another book by O'Brien and Fugita, Japanese American Ethnicity: The Persistence of Community (University of Washington Press, 1991), but is much more concise. It is also more comprehensive in that it covers...
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